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The new Chinatown is located within a residential area of single-family houses and apartments, and its spread-out nature differs from the East Downtown Chinatown, which was in a relatively compact area. Many of the surrounding residential areas and office developments were built in the 1990s and 2000s.
Chinatown on Bellaire Boulevard in Southwest Houston. The Houston area population includes a large number of people with Chinese ancestral backgrounds. According to the American Community Survey, as of 2013, Greater Houston (Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown metropolitan area) has 72,320 residents of Chinese origin. [1]
As of the 2010 U.S. Census there were 22,575 ethnic Filipinos in Harris County, making up 8.1% of the county's Asian population, the third largest Asian American group in the Houston area. [ 25 ] Relatively few persons of Filipino origin had come to Houston by 1960, [ 45 ] and around 1970 the entire State of Texas had about 50,000 people of ...
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There have been attempts by business leaders to reverse the decline of Chinatown in East Downtown, [135] but many new residents have sought to rebrand the area to reflect the current cultural shift. [134] The new Houston Chinatown in Southwest Houston can trace its beginnings to several businesses that opened in 1983. [136]
The Old Chinatown, an area within East Downtown bounded by Interstate 69/U.S. Route 59, Preston Street, St. Joseph Parkway, and Dowling Street (now Emancipation Avenue), is the older of the two Houston Chinatowns. [2] [4] The East Downtown Chinatown is not the same as the Chinatown in southwestern Houston. [5]