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The Energy Corridor is a business district in Houston, Texas, located on the west side of the metropolitan area between Beltway 8 and the Grand Parkway.The district straddles a 7-mile (11 km) stretch of Interstate 10 (the Katy Freeway) from Kirkwood Road westward to Barker Cypress Road and extends south along Eldridge Parkway to Briar Forest Drive.
The economy of Houston is based primarily on the energy industry, particularly oil.However, health care, biomedical research, and aerospace also constitute large sectors. In 2021, the gross domestic product (GDP) of the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan statistical area (MSA) was 537 U.S. dollars billion, the fourth-largest of any metro area in the United States. [1]
The TC Energy Center is a highrise that represents one of the first significant examples of postmodern architecture construction in downtown Houston, Texas.The building has been formerly known as the RepublicBank Center, the NCNB Center, the NationsBank Center, and the Bank of America Center.
The purchase of the Two Westlake Park gave the firm a total of 1,700,000 square feet (160,000 m 2) of Class A office space in Houston. [2] The 20 story Three Westlake Park, which contains 428,000 square feet (39,800 m 2) of space, was completed in 1983. A 1,247 car parking garage is located next door to Three Westlake Park. [1]
The Ion building (pictured in December 2020) was converted from a former Sears store and serves as the Ion District's central hub.. The Ion is a 266,000-square-foot (24,700 m 2), six-level building on Main Street in what was formerly a four-story Sears department store built in 1939 and closed in 2018. [12]
Founded by John Harris, for whom Harris County is named, Harrisburg was initially considered by the Allen brothers for the initial development of Houston. [2] East End Houston was a primary area for relocation for Germans, Italians and Mexican Americans that settled in areas near the port of Houston.
The TTC was hoped to be a multi-use, statewide system that would have included new and existing highways, railways, and utility rights-of-way.According to the Houston Chronicle, on January 6, 2009, "In response to public outcry, the ambitious proposal to create the Trans-Texas Corridor network has been dropped and will be replaced with a plan to carry out road projects at an incremental ...
The Park Towers. Park Towers is a complex of two office buildings along the 610 Loop in Houston, Texas, United States.It consists of two 18 story office towers, Park Towers North and Park Towers South, which each have 272,621 square feet (25,327.3 m 2) of rentable space, [1] and one six story parking garage. [2]