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Hess Tower is a 30-story skyscraper located adjacent to Discovery Green park in downtown Houston, Texas. It was formerly called Discovery Tower until Hess Corporation leased the entire tower in January 2009. It will be the 30th tallest building in Houston. Occupation of the building should begin in June 2010.[citation needed] At the time of completion, it was the tallest building to be built in Houston in 7 years, after the Reliant Energy Plaza was completed in 2003
The Fulbright Tower is a 52 story skyscraper originally known as 3 Houston Center. A part of the downtown Houston Center complex, the tower has 1247061sqft of Class A office space. The bottom seven levels were designed for four trading floors for commodities like electricity and natural gas. The building at one point was owned by ChevronTexaco. As of 2005, Crescent owns the tower in a joint venture with the affiliates of GE Asset Management and J.P. Morgan Asset Management. Fulbright & Jaworski has its headquarters in the Fulbright Tower, in Suite 5100.HistoryConstruction on the tower was scheduled to begin in November 1980. The building was built in 1982. The tower property was developed in 1985. Fulbright & Jaworski became a tenant during that year. The original name of the structure was the Gulf Tower. Chevron became the building's main tenant, and its name became the Chevron Tower. Fulbright & Jaworski renegotiated and extended its lease in 2003 and retained the possibility of naming rights; as of 2005, the firm occupies 350000sqft of space. On February 24, 2005, Crescent completed the joint venture agreement involving the Fulbright Tower; a pension fund investor advised by JPMorgan Asset Management bought a 60% ownership interest in the building and an affiliate of GE Asset Management bought a 16.15% ownership interest. In 2004, ChevronTexaco sold the building to Crescent. During that year the tower was 49% occupied. By March 2005, ChevronTexaco planned to move its operations out of the tower after buying 1500 Louisiana Street in Downtown Houston. Fulbright & Jaworski used their naming rights, and in 2005 the building gained the name Fulbright Tower. In 2005, the Fulbright Tower was 57% occupied. In 2006, Chevron Corporation still occupied three floors at the Fulbright Tower. In 2009 Conway MacKenzie leased 4619sqft at the Fulbright Tower.
The Federal Detention Center, Houston is a United States federal prison in Downtown Houston, Texas which holds male and female inmates prior to and during court proceedings, as well an inmates serving short sentences. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. It is in proximity to Minute Maid Park.The facility, opened in October 1999, has space for 1,118 prisoners and was built for $35 million. The 11 story facility serves people awaiting trial in the Southern District of Texas.Notable incidentsIn March 2008 a fistfight between two inmates grew into a disturbance which resulted in minor injuries for three employees and eight prisoners.In April 2008, inmate Joel Lopez was indicted for conspiring to commit kidnapping and murder-for-hire for plotting to kill US District Judge Ricardo Hinojosa from FDC Houston. Hinojosa had sentenced Lopez to life in prison for a February 2006 drug conviction. The indictment alleged that Lopez approached a fellow inmate, who was affiliated with the Latin Kings street gang and was due to be released shortly, and offered to pay the inmate $2 million to kill Hinojosa and an unidentified woman who owed Lopez a drug debt. Lopez instructed the inmate to contact his wife, Aracely Lopez-Gonzalez, and provided him with her contact information. Lopez thought that Hinojosa's death would help the pending appeal of Lopez's sentence.
The Houston region is home to more than 228,000 businesses with less than 100 employees. According to the U.S. Small Business Administration our economy has seen lots of small businesses come and, unfortunately, go. According to the SBA, over 50% of small businesses fail in the first five years. Every business will face some type of problem as it opens. Creating a business plan will help relieve some startup business problems before opening a business by helping to identify and budget the costs involved in solving these issues. Some common startup business problems most business face include environmental issues, labor, financing, business zoning, licensing and permits. The general client population of the HAUL Entrepreneurship Center lacks access to the business knowledge, resources, network, and capital that would allow them to start, grow, and increase the scale of operations for their businesses. Through our service delivery we will assist our clients in meeting these challenges.
The Annunciation Church is a Catholic church located at the corner of Texas and Crawford in downtown Houston, Texas.Annunciation Church sprung from the congregation at St. Vincent's, Houston's first Catholic church. In 1866, Father Joseph Querat and Galveston Bishop Claude M. Debuis believed the congregation was outgrowing the old building and started planning for a new one. The congregation chose the name for the planned building, "Church of the Annunciation." Nicholas Clayton designed the building that was dedicated on September 10, 1871. The bell tower was added later in 1871 and the twin towers were added in 1884.The property is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.The church remains Houston's oldest existing church and, as such, the property was eventually faced with a foundation problem. A large void had developed underneath the church’s southwest corner and, symptomatically, the foundation subsided. Through a polymer injection process work at Annunciation Catholic Church was completed in two days with minimal disruption to mass and parishioners.
Last year we invited you to Love Local. This year, journey with us to HOUTOPIA, as you wind your way through beautiful Market Square Park and taste, touch, hear, and experience all that makes Houston such a fantastic place to live work and play. All at the 2013 Sustainable Living Fest! Enjoy the best local eats, amazing local talent, interactive demonstrations, recycled art workshops, eco-games and lots of activities for kids of all ages, a farmers market and back-to-back main stage entertainment including: 1PM The Wheel Workers 2PM Fest Awards 3PM The Journey Agents 4PM Walk of the Town Up-Cycled Fashion Show 5PM Craig Kinsey Band Additional Scheduled Activities: March 13: Movie Screening at Market Square Park | 8PM | FREE Come out to watch this beautiful and inspiring documentary about the endurance of the human spirit. Watch for the Sustainable Living Fest Trailer before the show! *Sustainable Living Fest 2012, a near zero-waste event (NZW), is a collaborative effort between KWIRX Creative, Houston Green Scene, and the Houston Downtown Management District in conjunction with local businesses, environmental non-profit agencies, community groups, government and educational agencies- and people like you!
The Capitol Lofts is a building located at 711 Main Street in downtown Houston, Texas. Constructed in 1908, the building was originally used for office space and was converted to residential lofts in the 1990s. The building was the tallest building in Houston and Texas until being surpassed by the Praetorian Building in Dallas, Texas as the tallest building in Texas in 1909. It remained the tallest in Houston until 1915 when surpassed by the Texas Company Annex.Designed by architect Alfred C. Finn, the building's original facade was covered with granite and glass in the 1980s.Zoned schoolsFranklin Lofts is within the Houston Independent School District. As of 2015 the building is assigned to Gregory Lincoln Education Center (Grades K-8), and Davis High School.The building was previously zoned to Bruce Elementary School, and E. O. Smith Education Center (for middle school).
The Marriott Marquis Houston is a 1000-room Marriott hotel in Houston, Texas. It is the second large hotel located near the George R. Brown Convention Center, to which is connected by a pedestrian sky bridge. It includes five restaurants and a 40,000-square-foot ballroom, the largest in Houston. The hotel is the sixth Marriott Marquis Hotel.
The Jesse H. Jones Hall for the Performing Arts (commonly known as Jones Hall) is a performance venue in Houston, Texas, and the permanent home of the Houston Symphony Orchestra and the Houston Society for the Performing Arts. Jones Hall is also frequently rented as a venue for contemporary pop musicians and other performers and is estimated to draw over 400,000 audience members yearly.HistoryOfficially completed on October 2, 1966, at the cost of $7.4 million, it is named after Jesse H. Jones, a former United States Secretary of Commerce and Houstonian. (For the Hall's opening concert a special work was commissioned of the American composer Alan Hovhaness, the appropriately titled 'Ode to the Temple of Sound'). Construction of the hall was underwritten by Houston Endowment, Inc., a foundation endowed by Jones and his wife. Upon completion, the hall was donated to the city, and today is operated by the Houston First Corporation.Designed by the Houston-based architectural firm Caudill Rowlett Scott, the hall, which occupies an entire city block, features a white Italian marble exterior with eight-story tall columns. The interior includes a basement and a sub-basement which houses a rehearsal room. The lobby is dominated by a 60ft high ceiling featuring a massive hanging bronze sculpture by Richard Lippold entitled "Gemini II". The inside of the concert hall itself is unique in that the ceiling is made of 800 hexagonal segments which can be raised or lowered to change the acoustics of the hall. The segments can actually be lowered enough to close the upper balcony, so the seating capacity therefore fluctuates from about 2,300 with the balcony covered to 2,911 with the balcony open. The building won the 1967 American Institute of Architects' Honor Award, which is bestowed on only one building annually.
Discovery Green is a 12 acre park located in the heart of Downtown Houston that opened in April 2008. Our mission is to operate an urban park that serves as a village green, a source of health and happiness for our citizens, and a window into the diverse talents and traditions that enrich life in Houston.
Houston is an Amtrak intercity train station in Houston.HistoryThe present Houston station, which opened on October 26, 1959, was built by the Southern Pacific Railroad to replace Grand Central Station, which was just east of the present station. That station operated from September 1, 1934 until the property was sold to the U.S. Government in 1959 to become the site of the Houston main post office. Grand Central Station had replaced the original Houston & Texas Central depot of 1886. When Amtrak was created it was one of two stations in Houston that served Amtrak trains, the other being Union Station, now part of Minute Maid Park. All Amtrak trains moved to Southern Pacific Station by the end of July 1974, and all trains were canceled or rerouted out of Houston except the Sunset Limited. This station continued to be owned and operated by the Southern Pacific Railroad after the creation of Amtrak, and has been owned and operated by the Union Pacific Railroad since the merger of Southern Pacific and Union Pacific.A third station, the Katy Railroad Depot, was at the top of the Main Street viaduct, next to the campus of the (UHD). It was no longer an active passenger station by the end of 1958 and never served Amtrak. It was demolished, save for a section of platform under the Main Street viaduct.Intermodal Transit CenterWhenever the funding would become available, the current Amtrak station was to be replaced by the Houston Intermodal Transit Center, just north of downtown, on the Union Pacific main line. It was planned to be a much larger facility with the tracks underground, similar to Penn Station in New York. The project was cancelled in 2010.
The Houston Police Officer Memorial is a piece of public art erected in Houston in 1991 to recognize the sacrifices made by city police officers and to honor those who have lost their lives in the line of duty. The monument is a large-scale granite sculpture by artist Jesús Bautista Moroles.MemorialThe piece is set as a 120' by 120' Greek cross with a stepped pyramid and sunken courtyard at its center. The apex of the center pyramid is 12.5' above ground level. The top of the pyramid contains a pink granite reflecting pool engraved with the names of over 100 officers killed in the line of duty. The stepped pyramid is surrounded by four inverted stepped pyramids. The memorial is continuously guarded by police officers. There is an annual ceremony held at the memorial to honor the fallen police officers.HistoryFundraising for the sculpture began in 1985. Numerous patrons contributed to the sculpture fund, including the Knox Foundation, the Cullen Foundation, the Fayez Sarofim and Company, the Rockwell Fund, the Brown Foundation, the M.D. Anderson Foundation, the Scurlock Foundation, the Neva and Wesley West Foundation, and Albert and Margaret Alkek.
Bayou City Bike Tours is a social enterprise with the goal of promoting Houston as a destination for everyone. Our tours are fun for all ages, informative and affordable. Our professional guides are veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who are now attending college in the Houston area. Their enthusiasm for this city combined with their knowledge of local history means you will see a side of Houston that many don't even know exists.