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A post office opened in 1929. Highlands incorporated in 1930, but its charter was voided, leaving Highlands as unincorporated again. In the 1930s, Highlands had 20 businesses and its population decreased from 350 to 200. The 1936 Harris County highway map indicated two churches, a factory, a school, and a sawmill in Highlands.
Highland Village Shopping Center is a mixed-use shopping center on Westheimer Road in Houston, Texas. Highland Village was built in the mid-1940s by S.N. Adams and has been owned by Haidar Barbouti's Highland Village Holdings since 1991. [1] Barbouti is the center's property manager and broker. [1]
Highland Village is a neighborhood in Houston, Texas, United States. Highland Village is located inside the 610 Loop in the triangle formed by Greenway Plaza, Uptown, and River Oaks. Highland Village is in the 77027 ZIP code. The first homes in Highland Village were built in the early 1950s; some of the older homes were torn down and replaced ...
Highland Park and River Oaks: The Origins of Garden Suburban Community Planning in Texas is a 2014 book by Cheryl Caldwell Ferguson, published by the University of Texas Press. It discusses the development of two " garden suburbs " in Texas , the River Oaks neighborhood in Houston and the Dallas–Fort Worth municipality of Highland Park ...
Greenspoint is serviced by a special management district, the North Houston District, which was created by the Texas Legislature in 1991 to fund infrastructure, public safety, branding, and planning initiatives. [45]
Highland Park Village is an upscale shopping plaza located at the southwest corner of Mockingbird Lane and Preston Road in Highland Park, Texas and was the first self-contained shopping center in America. The Highland Park Village was declared a National Historic Landmark in 2000. [3] [4]
The Houston Heights, one of the earliest planned communities in Texas, is located 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Downtown Houston.A National Geographic article says "stroll the area's broad, tree-canopied esplanades and side streets dotted with homes dating from the early 1900s and you may think you've landed in a small town."
Greater Houston, designated by the United States Office of Management and Budget as Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land, [4] [5] [6] is the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States, [7] [8] [9] encompassing nine counties along the Gulf Coast in Southeast Texas.