Your super neighborhood at-a-glance:

Downtown is the birthplace of Houston. The construction of a ring of freeways in the 1960s and 1970s created the modern boundaries of downtown. The area extends into a transitional warehouse and light industrial area to the southeast, a part of which was included in the Third Ward before the Gulf Freeway was built in the 1950s. This area includes state of art performing art facility, major government, banking and energy interests and Houston’s first Chinatown. Downtown was once the city’s retail hub, but suburban development in the 1970s and 1980s reduced its importance, even as millions of square feet of new office space added tens of thousands of new workers. Loft conversions in older, often vacant office/commercial buildings are adding a new and welcome residential element to downtown along with a thriving nightlife, restaurant and club scene. Two sports stadiums, the Minute Maid Park and the Toyota Center give the downtown area additional interest.

• Houston City Council Districts H & I
• Houston Independent School District (1 public school; 1 private school)
• 1,733 acres (2.71 sq. miles)
• Super Neighborhood's demographics
• Land Use Map for this Super Neighborhood