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NRG Stadium This photograph highlights the NRG Park area of Houston's “inner loop,” the part of the city located within Interstate Highway 610. NRG Park, formerly Reliant Park and Astrodomain, is a complex in Houston, named after the energy company NRG Energy. It is located on Kirby Drive at the South Loop West Freeway .
The original Third Ward district extended south of Congress Street and east of Main Street and ended at the north shore of the Brays Bayou; what was then the district includes what is today portions of Downtown Houston and Midtown Houston in addition to residential African-American area currently identified as Third Ward, which is located ...
Spring is a census-designated place (CDP) within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of Houston in Harris County, Texas, United States, part of the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area. [4] The population was 62,559 at the 2020 census. [2]
“A Biltmore Christmas,” starring Hallmark movie favorites Bethany Joy Lenz and Kristoffer Polaha, will debut on the network at 8 p.m. Nov. 26, as a part of its 2023 Countdown to Christmas ...
Construction of restrooms and locker rooms with east side stands and pavilion West side stands. In March 2017, local rugby organization and predecessor to the Houston SaberCats, the Houston Strikers publicly announced their plans to build a stadium at the Houston Sports Park located roughly three miles from NRG Park and eight miles from Downtown Houston along the South Freeway. [8]
The Kennedy Center as seen from the air on January 8, 2006 (before construction of the REACH expansion). A portion of the Watergate complex can be seen at the left. The idea for a national cultural center dates to 1933 when First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt discussed ideas for the Emergency Relief and Civil Works Administration to create employment for unemployed actors during the Great Depression. [3]
Space Center Houston is a science museum that serves as the official visitor center of NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. It was designated a Smithsonian Affiliate museum in 2014. The organization is owned by NASA, and operated under a contract by the nonprofit Manned Spaceflight Education Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization.
In the Houston area, 28% of U.S.-born whites have university degrees, and 16% have postgraduate degrees. [45] In 2012, the total trade between Houston and Africa was $19.7 billion. Houston is Africa's largest U.S. trade partner. [46] In 2016 the city had about 60,000 people of recent African immigrant origin. [47]