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One Park Place is a 501 ft (153 m) tall apartment building located adjacent to Discovery Green park in downtown Houston, Texas.Completed by The Finger Companies in May 2009, the building has 340 units on 30 floors with a total height of 501 feet (153 m) and 37 floors.
The chain has 84 stores throughout the United States, operated variously as H Mart, H Mart Northwest, and H Mart Colorado. [3] There are two stores in the Pacific Northwest that operate as "G Mart" that are associated with H Mart. [4] H Mart also has stores in Canada and two in the United Kingdom. H Mart is the largest U.S.-based grocery store ...
A. J. Gerland founded the Gerland's Food Fair chain in 1967. [2] The first store was located in the Spring Branch area in northwest Houston. [citation needed]Following the success of the Weingarten's and Randall's supermarket chains in Houston, Gerland's added bakery and delicatessen departments to its stores in the late 1970s.
Hersch Harris Weingarten, a poor Jewish immigrant from Łańcut (what was then Austria-Hungary) and his son, Joseph, opened a grocery store in Downtown Houston in 1901. [4] [5] A second store opened in 1920. Advertising "Better Food for Less," Joseph Joe Weingarten pioneered self-service and cash-and-carry shopping.
Houston's first Japanese grocery store, the Nippan Daido (大道日本食料品店 Daidō Nihon Shokuryōhinden [17]) at Westheimer Road at Wilcrest, [18] in the Westchase district. [19] [20] It opened in 1978. [21] As of 1998 Japanese is the predominant language and most items are marked in Japanese and English. [22]
Houston Community College Alief Campus, opened in 2007, is located along Westheimer in Westchase. [58] In 2017, the West Houston Institute, a STEM-focused facility, opened adjacent to HCC Alief. [59] American InterContinental University, a for-profit institution, operates its Houston campus in the district. [60]
Mykawa is located south of the Sims Bayou.The center of the Mykawa area is the intersection of Mykawa Road and Almeda-Genoa Road. As of 1951 the Mykawa School and the Mykawa Railroad Station were located there, and the Pearland water tower and Houston Municipal Airport (William P. Hobby Airport) were visible from this location.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places in downtown Houston, Texas. It is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the Downtown Houston neighborhood, defined as the area enclosed by Interstate 10 , Interstate 45 , and Interstate 69 .