#1 of 30 Things To Do in Houston
Christ Church Cathedral
Houston TX
~0.07 miles from Houston city center
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Cathedral Church of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas, founded in 1839; includes Worship Schedule, details of clergy, events calendar, news, ...
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#2 of 30 Things To Do in Houston
Houston JPMorgan Chase Tower
Houston TX
~0.14 miles from Houston city center
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The 75-story, 1,049-foot (319 m) tall JPMorgan Chase Tower of Houston, Texas, formerly the Texas Commerce Tower, is the tallest building in Texas, the tallest five-sided building in the world, and is the 45th tallest building in the world.
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The tower was built in downtown Houston at 600 Travis Street in 1981 as the Texas Commerce Tower. It was designed by noted architects I. M. Pei & Partners. The local architect and architect of record is 3D/International. In some early plans, the building reached up to 80 stories; however, the FAA expressed concern that additional height was a risk for aircraft going into and out of nearby William P. Hobby Airport. Nonetheless, when it was completed, it was the eighth tallest building in the world. The building was developed as part of a partnership between Texas Commerce Bank and Khalid bin Mahfouz.
Upon its completion, the building surpassed Aon Center in Los Angeles to become the tallest building in the United States west of the Mississippi River, a title it held until Los Angeles' Library Tower, now known as the U.S. Bank Tower, was built in 1990.[citation needed]
JPMorgan Chase Tower is also connected to the Houston Downtown Tunnel System. This system forms a network of subterranean, climate-controlled, pedestrian walkways that link twenty-five full city blocks. The lobby of JPMorgan Chase Tower has been designed to harmonize not only with the height of the structure, but also with the portico of Jones Hall. For that reason, a five story glass wall supported by a stainless steel space frame spans the entire 85 foot width of the front entrance, making the lobby area light and airy, and opening up the space to the plaza outside.[citation needed]
The sky lobby, aka "observation deck", of this building is located on the 60th floor. The sky lobby acts as a transfer point for persons traveling to the upper (61-75) floors, but also as an observation deck for the public during the working hours of 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Monday-Friday. One can take the express elevator, providing a panoramic view of the city of Houston thanks to the use of wide glass spans and thirteen-foot ceilings. At the entrance of the building is a multi-colored sculpture designed by Joan Miró.[citation needed]
While the tower's name reflects the bank JPMorgan Chase, the only space designated to Chase is a single branch office on the bottom floor. The tower is managed by Hines (its original owner) and owned by Prime Asset Management. The adjacent J.P. Morgan Center & Garage is also owned by Hines.
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#3 of 30 Things To Do in Houston
Downtown Houston (Neighborhood)
Houston TX
~0.22 miles from Houston city center
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#4 of 30 Things To Do in Houston
Alley Theater
Houston TX
~0.23 miles from Houston city center
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#5 of 30 Things To Do in Houston
Wortham Center
Houston TX
~0.29 miles from Houston city center
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The Wortham Theater Center is a performing arts center located in downtown Houston, Texas, United States. The Wortham was designed by Eugene Aubrey of Morris Architects and built entirely with $66 million in private funds. The City of Houston owns the theater, and the city's Convention & Entertainment Facilities Department operates the facility. It officially opened on May 9, 1987 with one of the inaugural performances being a modern dance program, Tango Argentino, in the Brown Theater and Robert Wilson and David Byrne's The Knee Plays, presented by the Society for the Performing Arts in the Cullen Theater.
A significant portion of the funding, needed to build the center, came from the estate of the late Gus S. Wortham (1891–1976), a local philanthropist and founder of American General Insurance Company. The Wortham Foundation contributed $20 million for the construction of the new Theater Center, which was named for him. In spite of the late 1980s banking and oil recession, more than 3,500 donors committed funds for the new facility in a major community effort with nearly 2,200 individuals donating $100 or less to the capital campaign. Additionally, the Cullen Foundation contributed $7.5 million, and the Brown Foundation gave $6 million to the building fund.
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#6 of 30 Things To Do in Houston
Houston Grand Opera
Houston TX
~0.29 miles from Houston city center
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Houston Grand Opera (HGO) was founded in 1955 through the joint efforts of Maestro Walter Herbert and Houston cultural leaders Mrs. Louis G. Lobit and Edward Bing. With a current operating budget of $20 million, the company is based in downtown Houston at the Wortham Theater Center, a 437,500-square-foot (40,650 m2) facility.
Regarded as one of the world’s principal commissioners and producers of new operas, HGO has given thirty-nine world premieres and six American premieres since 1973. It has received a Tony Award, two Grammy Awards, two Emmy Awards, and a Grand Prix du Disque — the only opera company in the world to have won all four honors. HGO cultivates a varied repertoire of traditional, rare, contemporary, and new opera.
HGO was among the first companies in the world to use supertitles: starting in 1984, HGO adopted them for all foreign-language operas, later extending the practice to works in English as well. HGO was also the first American opera company, in 1995, to simultaneously project a live performance onto a giant screen outside the theater, dubbing the event a "Plazacast": the public was invited free of charge to Ray C. Fish Plaza, just outside the Wortham Theater Center, to view the simulcast of a sold-out performance of Rossini’s La Cenerentola, starring Cecilia Bartoli.
Houston Grand Opera’s mission is to contribute to the cultural enrichment of Houston and the nation by producing and performing opera; and by creating a diverse, innovative, and balanced program of performances, events, and community and education projects that reach the widest possible public. The HGO Board meets three times each year and is broken into three parts: an Executive Committee, a Board of Governors, and a Board of Trustees. Anthony Freud became HGO's third general director and the company’s first CEO in March 2006. He was general director of Welsh National Opera from 1994 to 2005. At HGO, he heads an executive management team that includes music director Patrick Summers and executive director Ann Owens.
The Houston Grand Opera Studio program, which marked its 30th anniversary in 2007, trains singers and pianist/coaches with extraordinary potential for professional careers in opera. Co-founded in 1977 by David Gockley, HGO’s general director from 1972 to 2005, and composer Carlisle Floyd, the program remains one of the most prestigious artist-in-training programs worldwide. Singers Joyce DiDonato, Bruce Ford, Denyce Graves, Greer Grimsley, Eric Halfvarson, Ana María Martínez, and Susanne Mentzer all attended the HGO Studio before establishing successful careers.
To broaden the company’s presence in the community, HGO in 2007 established HGOco, an initiative designed to break down barriers to the arts by creating opportunities for observation, participation and creation. The “co” in HGOco represents a focus on company, community, connection and collaboration. With the combined resources of the entire company, HGOco extends HGO’s reach through partnerships with kindred organizations. These efforts include all of HGO’s education and community-focused activities. On average, HGO’s education and outreach programs yearly reach more than 175,000 students, families, and community members. HGOco’s touring group, Opera to Go!, presents shortened versions of traditional and new repertoire for more than 50,000 children and families at schools and community centers throughout greater Houston . At the Wortham Theater Center, HGOco offers local elementary, middle, and high school students the opportunity to enjoy mainstage presentations through its Student Matinee and High School Night performances. Training and development for young voices is offered through four programs including the High School Voice Studio, the Children’s Chorus, and Opera Camp. Through Song of Houston, an ongoing project of HGOco, the company partners with community leaders and organizations to offer a series of workshops, projects and events that promote the telling of stories about Houston and Houstonians in words and music. The first new work to result from Song of Houston was "The Refuge," a large-scale piece of musical theater that drew national attention.
HGO reaches more than 5,000,000 people each year through a variety of performances, community activities, special events, broadcasts, and recordings. The company has toured extensively, including trips to Europe and Asia.
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#7 of 30 Things To Do in Houston
Verizon Wireless Theatre
Houston TX
~0.32 miles from Houston city center
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#8 of 30 Things To Do in Houston
Downtown (Neighborhood)
Houston TX
~0.32 miles from Houston city center
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Downtown Houston is the largest business district of Houston, Texas, United States.
Downtown Houston contains the headquarters of many prominent companies. There is an extensive network of pedestrian tunnels and skywalks connecting the buildings of the district. The tunnel system is home to many fast food restaurants, shops and services.
Most of the residential units in downtown are conversions of older buildings into modern loft spaces. The lofts are located around the performance halls of the theatre district and near Main Street in the Historic District. Downtown will be adding another 346 apartment units in the 2000s and 2010s with the development of Marvey Finger's One Park Place.
Developers have invested more than 4 billion USD in the last decade to transform downtown into an active city center with residential housing, a nightlife scene and new transportation. The Cotswold Project, a $62 million project started in 1998, has helped to rebuild the streets and transform 90 downtown blocks into a pedestrian-friendly environment by adding greenery, trees and public art. The resurgence of downtown is the result of careful urban planning and local foresight. The baseball, basketball, and hockey teams have moved into downtown facilities. January 1, 2004 marked the opening of the "new" Main Street, a plaza with many eateries, bars and nightclubs, which brings many visitors to a newly renovated locale.
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#9 of 30 Things To Do in Houston
Sesquicentennial Park
Houston TX
~0.38 miles from Houston city center
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Sesquicentennial Park is an urban park in downtown Houston, Texas. Established in 1989 along the banks of Buffalo Bayou, the 22.5-acre (91,000 m2) park was established in 1986 to commemorate the 150 year founding anniversary of the city of Houston and of Texas statehood in 1986.
Built in two phases, the 2.2-acre (8,900 m2) entrance to the park and a 10.4-acre (42,000 m2) site that flanks Buffalo Bayou as it flows past Wortham Theater Center and the northern section of the Houston Theater District was completed in August 1989. The 8.2-acre (33,000 m2) second phase was completed in May 1998, ending the $19 million project that took 14 years to complete.
The park features "Seven Wonders", a set of seven pillars illuminated from within by Houston native Mel Chin and several sculptures titled "The Big Bubble", "Site Seeing" and "Sounds from the Past", by artist Dean Ruck, who also lives and works in Houston.
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#10 of 30 Things To Do in Houston
Bayou Place
Houston TX
~0.38 miles from Houston city center
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Located in the heart of the downtown's theatre district, Bayou Place boasts the finest in dining experience Houston has to offer.
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#11 of 30 Things To Do in Houston
Minute Maid Field Park
Houston TX
~0.39 miles from Houston city center
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Minute Maid Park (also The Ballpark at Union Station, Enron Field, and Astros Field) is a ballpark in Houston, Texas, United States that opened in 2000 to house the MLB Houston Astros.
The ballpark was Houston's first retractable-roofed stadium, protecting fans and athletes from Houston's notoriously humid weather as its predecessor, the Astrodome, did, but allowing fans to also enjoy outdoor baseball during favorable weather; something they couldn't do in the Astrodome. The ballpark also features a grass field, compared to the Astrodome's artificial AstroTurf, which was generally disliked by professional baseball players. The largest entrance to the park is inside what was once Houston's Union Station, and the left-field side of the stadium features a train as homage to the site's history. The train moves along a track on top of the length of the exterior wall beyond left field whenever an Astros player hits a home run, or when the Astros win a game. The engine's tender, traditionally used to carry coal, is filled with giant oranges in tribute to Minute Maid's most famous product, orange juice.
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#12 of 30 Things To Do in Houston
Downtown Aquarium (Neighborhood)
Houston TX
~0.39 miles from Houston city center
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#13 of 30 Things To Do in Houston
University of Houston
4800 Calhoun Rd. Houston TX - 713-743-2255
~0.40 miles from Houston city center
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The University of Houston (informally referred to as UH) is a public research university located in Houston. Founded in 1927, it is the oldest and largest institution in the University of Houston System. UH is the third-largest university in Texas with an enrollment of 37,000 students. The institution was formerly known as University of Houston–University Park from 1983 to 1991.
The university serves students in 12 academic colleges and in the interdisciplinary Honors College on a 667-acre (2.70 km2) campus in southeast Houston. UH offers nearly 320 degree programs: 120 bachelors, 139 masters, 54 research doctorates, and three professional doctorate degrees—law, optometry, and pharmacy. Awarding more than 7,100 degrees annually, the university's alumni base is the largest in the Houston area. Also known for its diverse student population, it perennially ranks as the second most ethnically diverse national university in the country by U.S. News and World Report.
The University of Houston conducts research in each academic department and operates more than 40 research centers and institutes on campus. Interdisciplinary research conducted at UH includes superconductivity, space commercialization, biomedical engineering, economics, education, petroleum exploration, and virtual technology.
The university hosts a variety of theatrical performances, concerts, lectures, and intercollegiate athletic events. Its varsity athletics teams—known as the Houston Cougars—are members of Conference USA and compete in the NCAA's Division I in all sports . The football team regularly makes bowl game appearances, and the men's basketball team has made sixteen appearances in the NCAA Division I Tournament, including five Final Four appearances. The men's golf team has won sixteen national championships, the second most of any NCAA golf program.
http://www.uh.edu
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#14 of 30 Things To Do in Houston
Tranquility Park
Houston TX
~0.41 miles from Houston city center
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Tranquility Park is a park in Downtown Houston, Texas, between Walker and Rusk Streets, and west of Smith Street, with the United States federal courts building for the Southern District of Texas on one side and Houston City Hall on the other. It takes its name from the Sea of Tranquility, where man first landed on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969.
First opening to visitors in the summer of 1979, Tranquility Park was officially dedicated on the tenth anniversary of the historic lunar landing. On bronze plaques placed along the main entrance, the first words transmitted by Neil Armstrong from the moon, "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed," are written in 15 languages. A replica of one of the footprints left on the moon by Neil Armstrong is also on display inside the park.
A two-block-long oasis of water and walkways, the mounds and depressions throughout the park are meant to represent the cratered lunar surface, and the park's 32-level Wortham Fountain features towering stainless steel cylinders designed to resemble the Apollo's rocket boosters.
Each year, Tranquility Park becomes home to many city functions, art shows, and events such as the Children's Festival and the Houston International Festival. The park is also popular with downtown office workers seeking a shady spot to picnic during their lunch hours.
In the northern part of the park, actually a smaller park across the street, there are two memorials, one for each shuttle disaster.
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#15 of 30 Things To Do in Houston
Theater Under the Stars
Houston TX
~0.41 miles from Houston city center
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Address: 800 Bagby St.
Hobby Center for the Performing Arts
Houston TX, 77002
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Phone: 713-558-2600
Link: http://www.tuts.com
Theatre Under the Stars (TUTS), founded in 1968, is one of the largest producers of musical theater in the U.S.
TUTS’ name originates from performing in its first venue, the Miller Outdoor Theatre in Hermann Park. This outdoor setting truly provided spectators "theatre under the stars." TUTS was the first theatrical organization in Houston to perform free to the public at the Miller and has since performed there each summer, giving Houston 42 lavish musicals.
TUTS was chosen by The Walt Disney Company in 1993 to help mount the pre-Broadway World Premiere production of Beauty and the Beast in Houston. At that time, Disney’s CEO Michael Eisner said, "We chose TUTS because of Frank (Young)’s long history with doing musicals." In 1995, TUTS together with the Alley Theatre in Houston and the 5th Avenue Musical Theatre Company in Seattle mounted a revised production of Frank Wildhorn’s Jekyll & Hyde, which went on tour before having a successful run on Broadway.
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#16 of 30 Things To Do in Houston
Hobby Center for Performing Arts
Houston TX
~0.41 miles from Houston city center
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The mission of the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts is to serve the community as a privately operated and maintained institution that will provide premier venues for resident companies and other professional and community attractions; to broaden the range, quality and accessibility of cultural fare available to the public; to encourage distinctive arts education and outreach programs; to contribute to the cultural quality of life in Houston, Harris County and the region.
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#17 of 30 Things To Do in Houston
Houston City Hall
Houston TX
~0.44 miles from Houston city center
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The Houston City Hall building, constructed in 1938-1939, is surrounded by skyscrapers and very similar to dozens of other city halls built in the southwest United States during the same time period. It is flanked by Tranquility Park and the Houston Public Library. The simply designed structure featured many construction details that have helped to make this building an architectural classic.
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#18 of 30 Things To Do in Houston
Discovery Green
Houston TX
~0.48 miles from Houston city center
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Discovery Green is a public park in Downtown Houston, Texas, United States. Opened in 2008, Discovery Green 11.78-acre (47,700 m2) is located on Avenida de las Americas across from the George R. Brown Convention Center and the Hilton Americas Hotel, adjacent to Toyota Center. The park includes a lake, bandstands and venues for public performances, two dog runs, a children's area and multiple recreational areas. The park was principally designed by the landscape architecture firm Hargreaves Associates.
The first event held at the park was Houston Mayor Bill White's 2008 inauguration. The park officially opened to the public on April 13, 2008. It is estimated that almost a quarter-million people visited the park between opening day and June 30, 2008. The estimates were made by comparing the size of crowds with the Houston Police Department's estimate of 30,000 people who went to the park on opening day.
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#19 of 30 Things To Do in Houston
Toyota Center - Houston Rockets
Houston TX
~0.55 miles from Houston city center
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The Toyota Center is located downtown Houston and is home to the Houston Rockets, Comets and Aeros.
The Houston Sports Authority is the owner of the building, the Architects Morris Architects, HOK Architects, John Chase Architects did an outstanding job of designing this beautify stadium.
It has been estimated at 750,000 square feet and seats 18,300 for basketball and 19,000 for concerts, with an additional 2,900 club seats, and 92 luxury seats, a work force of 2,500 help keep things running smoothly.
There are 2,500 parking spaces in the garage adjacent to the arena and 10,000 total spaces within a few blocks.
For more images and information about the Toyota Center
www.HoustonToyotaCenter.com
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#20 of 30 Things To Do in Houston
Sam Houston Park
Houston TX
~0.56 miles from Houston city center
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Sam Houston Park is a park located in downtown Houston, Texas, and is dedicated to the buildings and culture of Houston's historic past. The park, which was the first to be established in the city, was developed on land purchased by former Mayor Sam Brashier in 1900.
Mayor Brashear appointed Houston’s first park committee to oversee the establishment of a city park in 1899. The 20 acres (81,000 m2) chosen for the park was landscaped into a Victorian-styled village, with footpaths leading past an old mill and across a bridge that traversed a small stream. At that time, the park also included a 52-year old house that had long been used as a school.
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#21 of 30 Things To Do in Houston
Houston Convention Center (George R Brown)
Houston TX
~0.57 miles from Houston city center
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The George R. Brown Convention Center opened on September 26, 1987 on the east side of Downtown Houston, Texas, United States.
The center was named for the prominent Houstonian George R. Brown, an entrepreneur, civic leader and philanthropist. Brown’s Texas Eastern Corporation donated six of the 11 blocks required to build the convention center. The Center is owned and operated by the City of Houston, Convention & Entertainment Facilities Department. The facility was completed with a price tag of $104.9 million, requiring 30 months and more than 1,200 workers. The sleek 100 foot (30 m) high red-white-and-blue building replaced the obsolete Albert Thomas Convention Center, which was later redeveloped into the Bayou Place entertainment complex in the downtown Houston Theater District.
The first convention held in the George R. Brown Convention Center began on October 11, 1987 for the American Society of Travel Agents. Renovations began on July 28, 2001 to expand the convention center and build an adjacent 1,200 room convention headquarters hotel at a cost of $165 million and requiring 27 months of construction. The adjacent hotel is the Hilton Americas-Houston and is connected to the convention center via several skywalks. The project expanded the center from 1,150,000 square feet (107,000 m2) to 1,800,000 square feet (107,000 to 167,000 m²). Three exhibit halls were added to increase exhibition space from 451,500 square feet (41,950 m2) to 853,500 square feet (42,000 to 79,000 m²) and sixty-two meeting rooms were added for a total of 105. Completion of the project concluded in September 2003 a few months before Super Bowl XXXVIII.
At the same time, METRORail was completed on schedule, and what is deemed a revived Downtown Houston has opened doors to future conventions (in Summer 2004, the Texas Democratic Convention was held within the GRB). With the new improvements, the George R. Brown Convention Center is now one of the 10 largest in the nation.
After Hurricane Katrina, approximately 7,000 refugees went to the convention center, due to the Astrodome being at its full capacity.
In 2009, a televised audition of the show America's Got Talent was filmed at the convention center.
The Houston Press ranked the building as one of the ten least photogenic buildings in Downtown Houston. John Nova Lomax, the author of the list, commented "They say that architecture is frozen music. If you melted the George R. Brown, you’d hear Baby Jane singing “The Good Ship Lollipop.”" Houston Press. 10. Retrieved on October 7, 2009.
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#22 of 30 Things To Do in Houston
George R. Brown Convention Center
1001 Avenida de las Americas Houston TX
~0.61 miles from Houston city center
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The George R. Brown Convention Center is located in downtown Houston, Texas. The Convention Center offers a variety of banquet halls and meeting rooms perfect for any occasion.
The George R. Brown Convention Center opened on September 26, 1987 on the east side of Downtown Houston, Texas, United States.
The center was named for the prominent Houstonian George R. Brown, an entrepreneur, civic leader and philanthropist. Brown’s Texas Eastern Corporation donated six of the 11 blocks required to build the convention center. The Center is owned and operated by the City of Houston, Convention & Entertainment Facilities Department. The facility was completed with a price tag of $104.9 million, requiring 30 months and more than 1,200 workers. The sleek 100 foot (30 m) high red-white-and-blue building replaced the obsolete Albert Thomas Convention Center, which was later redeveloped into the Bayou Place entertainment complex in the downtown Houston Theater District.
The first convention held in the George R. Brown Convention Center began on October 11, 1987 for the American Society of Travel Agents. Renovations began on July 28, 2001 to expand the convention center and build an adjacent 1,200 room convention headquarters hotel at a cost of $165 million and requiring 27 months of construction. The adjacent hotel is the Hilton Americas-Houston and is connected to the convention center via several skywalks. The project expanded the center from 1,150,000 square feet (107,000 m2) to 1,800,000 square feet (107,000 to 167,000 m²). Three exhibit halls were added to increase exhibition space from 451,500 square feet (41,950 m2) to 853,500 square feet (42,000 to 79,000 m²) and sixty-two meeting rooms were added for a total of 105. Completion of the project concluded in September 2003 a few months before Super Bowl XXXVIII.
At the same time, METRORail was completed on schedule, and what is deemed a revived Downtown Houston has opened doors to future conventions (in Summer 2004, the Texas Democratic Convention was held within the GRB). With the new improvements, the George R. Brown Convention Center is now one of the 10 largest in the nation.
After Hurricane Katrina, approximately 7,000 refugees went to the convention center, due to the Astrodome being at its full capacity.
In 2009, a televised audition of the show America's Got Talent was filmed at the convention center
http://www.houstonconventionctr.com/
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#23 of 30 Things To Do in Houston
Diverse Works
Houston TX
~0.74 miles from Houston city center
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DiverseWorks is a non-profit art center dedicated to presenting new visual, performing, and literary art. DiverseWorks is a place where the process of creating art is valued and where artists can test new ideas in the public arena. By encouraging the investigation of current artistic, cultural and social issues, DiverseWorks builds, educates, and sustains audiences for contemporary art.
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#24 of 30 Things To Do in Houston
Sixth Ward (Neighborhood)
Houston TX
~1.04 miles from Houston city center
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The Sixth Ward is a community in Houston, Texas, United States.
The Sixth Ward was created out of the northern part of the Fourth Ward in 1876, and is the only ward that does not extend into downtown Houston's historical center, although a fraction of what used to be the ward is considered to be within the boundaries of downtown.
From the 1980 U.S. Census to the 1990 Census, the population of the Sixth Ward declined by more than 1,000 people per square mile.
The Sixth Ward is zoned to Houston ISD schools, which include Crockett Elementary School, Hogg Middle School, and Reagan High School.
Dow Elementary School moved to its Old Sixth Ward location at 1900 Kane Street in 1912 and closed in 1991-1993. Brock Elementary School served a portion of the Sixth Ward area until its closing in 2006 and repurposing as an early childhood center.
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#25 of 30 Things To Do in Houston
Fourth Ward (Neighborhood)
Houston TX
~1.10 miles from Houston city center
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Fourth Ward is one of the historic six wards of Houston, Texas, United States. The Fourth Ward is located inside the 610 Loop directly west of and adjacent to Downtown Houston.
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#26 of 30 Things To Do in Houston
Midtown (Neighborhood)
Houston TX
~1.37 miles from Houston city center
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Midtown is Houston’s pedestrian-oriented urban community uniquely positioned in the heart of the city. The Midtown boundaries can be roughly defined as the properties south of I-45 (Pierce Elevated), west of SH 288, north of US 59 and east of Bagby Street. The northwest segment of this area is less easily defined and may incorporate property west of Bagby. Being geographically surrounded by freeways not only gives it easily identifiable borders, but also makes Midtown readily accessible from any part of Houston. Additionally, with three METRORail station located within its boundaries, Midtown has access to every transit option in Houston at its front door.
Location is Midtown's chief asset. Situated directly between Downtown and the Texas Medical Center, Midtown Houston is a logical choice for a residential area to serve the two largest employment centers in the region with more than 200,000 jobs. There are also five colleges and universities nearby with combined enrollments of over 50,000. Midtown is a good location for faculty, staff, and student housing for these institutions.
Midtown currently includes approximately 617 acres of land within its boundaries, 365 of which are developable. Midtown's 22.9 miles of streets and approximately 325 city blocks identify it as an obvious extension of what is now Downtown.
Midtown continues to thrive and grow with both new construction and restoration of historical structures. The growth and improvements in the community are overseen by the Midtown Redevelopment Authority and the Midtown Management District with the support of city government agencies and public utility entities.
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#27 of 30 Things To Do in Houston
Houston Central Business District Heliport (JDX) (Neighborhood)
Houston TX
~1.85 miles from Houston city center
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#28 of 30 Things To Do in Houston
Fifth Ward (Neighborhood)
Houston TX
~2.06 miles from Houston city center
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The Fifth Ward is a historical political district (ward) and a community of Houston, Texas, United States, northeast of Downtown. It is bounded by the Buffalo Bayou, Jensen Drive, Liberty Road, and Lockwood Drive.
The Fifth Ward, one of the six wards of Houston, was created partly from two other wards, the First Ward, which ceded the area to the north and east of White Oak Bayou and Little White Oak Bayou, and the Second Ward, which ceded all land within the Houston city limits to the north of Buffalo Bayou.
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#29 of 30 Things To Do in Houston
Second Ward (Neighborhood)
Houston TX
~2.08 miles from Houston city center
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Second Ward is a historical political district ward in Houston, Texas. It was one of the four original wards of the city in the nineteenth century. The community known as the Second Ward today is roughly bounded by Buffalo Bayou to the north, Lockwood Avenue to the east, and railroad tracks to the south and west, although the City of Houston's "Super Neighborhood" program includes a section east of Lockwood.
The Second Ward today has mainly Hispanic residents, primarily Mexican Americans who moved into the area following World War II and the subsequent white flight from the area. One of Houston's first master-planned communities, Eastwood, where Howard Hughes lived as a child, is located in this ward. The northern end of the community is largely industrial, leading to massive warehouse complexes along the Bayou. There are also many industrial buildings, some of which have found new life as lofts, on the western edge of the neighborhood nearest to Downtown and Minute Maid Park.
Many buildings in the community, including the local high school, Stephen F. Austin High School, were constructed in the 1920s and bear the art deco style. While perceived as rundown and neglected in the 1970s and 1980s, recent years have seen major civic improvements including new street lights and pavement, as well as the beginnings of gentrification as professionals and others move from both the far-flung suburbs and other, more expensive Inner Loop neighborhoods. The area attracts artistic talent through venues such as Talento Bilingüe de Houston, and residents of all ages frequent the Ripley House Community Center.
The Second Ward is in the early stages of revitalization, drawing new residents with its proximity to downtown.
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#30 of 30 Things To Do in Houston
Museum of Printery
Houston TX
~2.09 miles from Houston city center
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The Museum of Printing History displays a dynamic collection of historical documents, fine art prints, and antique printing equipment. Our Museum is more, though, than its permanent collection. It is alive with exhibitions, lectures, workshops, and demonstrations. In our galleries and working studios, we demonstrate the traditional processes of stone lithography, letterpress printing, papermaking, and bookbinding.
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