The southern area of downtown is considered an exciting emerging neighborhood with nine new residential properties open, under construction or in the planning stages. In addition, Houston’s first hospital, St. Joseph Medical Center (founded in 1887), offers an extensive list of medical and surgical services in multiple health areas.  Southern Downtown is also home to the stunning Sacred Heart Co-Cathedral campus.

 

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The Salvation Army Greater Houston Area Command

The Salvation Army of Greater Houston provides a broad range of social services and compassion for thousands of individuals and families, serving Harris, Fort Bend and Montgomery counties at 17 ...
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Segway Tours of Houston

Segway Tours of Houston is a fun way get to know our city. Like the rest of Texas, downtown Houston is a pretty big place to walk around. There are a lot ...
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Learn Central

The inner looper's guide to finding the right school! Access to quality education is a central value to Houstonians. And now, so is the desire to live a walkable, urban ...

The Salvation Army Greater Houston Area Command

The Salvation Army of Greater Houston provides a broad range of social services and compassion for thousands of individuals and families, serving Harris, Fort Bend and Montgomery counties at 17 locations. Area Command is the administrative office of The Salvation Army located in Downtown Houston.
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This is Downtown

The Future of the Workplace

For the past century, communication and the means by which we communicate have shaped how we work together and the places where people work. From telegraphs to telephones, typewriters to ...
Art Abounds

Houston has a long tradition as being a place where artists of all stripes come to create and thrive. More and more, the city core is proving a place for ...
Lifting the City’s Spirits

It’s no secret that Hurricane Harvey pummeled Houston’s Theater District: 270 million gallons of water in the parking garages, theaters wrecked, administrative offices out of commission, and all around catastrophic ...
Q&A with Karin Rabe

Alley Theatre suffered some of the worst damage in the Theater District during Hurricane Harvey. The building took on more than 31 million pounds of water in the Neuhaus Theatre ...
Luxury rising

Imagine being suspended in water, hanging 500 feet above the ground in the tallest pool in Texas with the Downtown skyline as a backdrop. Visible from almost every vantage point, ...
In His Court

They begin arriving early, nearly an hour before the event is scheduled to start, on what turns out to be the first crisp day of October. Reporters with notebooks in ...
The Power of 10

Without a doubt, Discovery Green has set a new standard for parks in our city. It has become such a rich and vibrant part of Houston’s culture that today it’s ...
Who is Dan Knechtges?

In August, Theatre Under The Stars welcomed the Tony-nominated director and choreographer as its new artistic director. You came to TUTS last year as a guest director of How to ...
Main Street Reimagined

At the turn of the century, Downtown’s Main Street was the most prestigious address in the city. But sadly, by the 90s it had deteriorated into a glorified bus corridor ...
Astros Opening Day Fever

The Astros 2018 Opening Day celebrations are right around the corner and if you’re half as excited as we are, you’ve either secured your tickets to the nearly SOLD OUT ...
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