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The city of Houston, Texas, contains many neighborhoods, ranging from planned communities to historic wards. There is no uniform standard for what constitutes an individual neighborhood within the city; however, the city of Houston does recognize a list of 88 super neighborhoods which encompass broadly recognized regions. According to the city ...
Downtown Houston. The geographic areas of Houston are generally classified as either being inside or outside Interstate 610, colloquially called "the Loop".The Loop generally encircles the central business district and the "island cities" of West University Place (West U.), Southside Place, and a portion of Bellaire.
The Downtown Houston business occupancy rate of all office space increased from 75.8% at the end of 1987 to 77.2% at the end of 1988. [20] By the late 1980s, 35% of Downtown Houston's land area consisted of surface parking. [18] In the early 1990s Downtown Houston still had more than 20% vacant office space. [21]
A true-color image of Greater Houston. Astronaut photograph of Houston at night. Map of the Houston city limits. Houston, the most populous city in the Southern United States, is located along the upper Texas Gulf Coast, approximately 50 miles (80 km) northwest of the Gulf of Mexico at Galveston.
In 2015 the Westchase Super Neighborhood, defined by the City of Houston and with boundaries different from that of the Westchase Management District, had 29,149 residents in 2015. 33% of them were non-Hispanic black, 26% were Hispanic, 25% were non-Hispanic white, 13% were non-Hispanic Asians, and 2% were non-Hispanic others.
A "white pages" telephone directory. A telephone directory, commonly called a telephone book, telephone address book, phonebook, or the white and yellow pages, is a listing of telephone subscribers in a geographical area or subscribers to services provided by the organization that publishes the directory. Its purpose is to allow the telephone ...
[16] By the 1980s area residents were concerned that gentrification from white people and property acquisitions from area universities and the Texas Medical Center may affect their community. [ 10 ] Riverside Terrace house sales did not follow the general housing slump in the United States of the late 2000s. [ 11 ]
Originally settled by German farmers in the late 1800s, the area was the site of a major oil discovery in the 1930s known as "Eureka." Reminders of that remain in a nearby railroad yard, still called the Eureka Yard, and St. John's German Lutheran Church, one of the original churches built by early settlers in 1891 which has been moved to Sam Houston Park.