table of contents - Greater East End Management District

TABLE OF CONTENTS
A City Within a City: The East End
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Strategic Vision Project
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Education: Opportunity, Success and Information
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Image: Bright, Celebrated and Vibrant
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Economic Development: Attract, Build and Promote
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Parks and Open Spaces: Green and Linked
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Infrastructure: Evaluate, Prioritize and Rebuild
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Neighborhoods: Affordable Housing and Healthy Neighborhoods
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History: Preserve and Treasure
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Implementation
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Sponsors and Participants
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HOUSTON’S EAST END:
A City Within A City
Historic,
culturally diverse and immediately adja-
cent to downtown Houston, the East End is the next
great place to live, work and play.
New families and businesses are discovering what
generations of East Enders have known all along—
Houston’s East End is a vibrant, inviting community.
The renaissance has begun. Renovations and new development are going on all over the East End. Streets
and infrastructure are being repaired or rebuilt.
Historic sites are being preserved, marked, promoted
and recognized as significant East End assets. East
End businesses, including some of Houston’s most
popular and decades-old restaurants, are being celebrated and appreciated in new ways. New trees have
been planted in esplanades and rights-of-way, and
many more will be planted, enhancing streetscapes
and neighborhoods. New parks, hike and bike trails,
picnic areas and other amenities are being planned,
which will provide additional green space, beauty and
recreational opportunities for East End residents and
visitors. Both Buffalo and Brays Bayous wind through
the heart of the East End past the site of Old Harrisburg,
an early Texas trading post and seat of government for
the Republic of Texas in 1836, founded by John Harris
after whom Harris County is named.
Today, the East End is home to 100,000 people and
more than 2,500 businesses. Its parks, bayous and
open spaces, and broad mix of uses, including industry, business, distinctive neighborhoods, historic sites,
public art and cultural facilities, give the East End a
feeling of being a “City within a City”. Strong urban
patterns, continuous street grids, mature trees, ample
front porches and historic housing create a small town
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feel with close proximity to the amenities of a major
city. Downtown, the Texas Medical Center, Hobby
Airport, sports and cultural facilities, and major
transportation corridors and universities are just
minutes away. Over one hundred new East End
projects, including residential, retail, commercial
and educational facilities, are under development or
have been completed within the last five years. This
rebirth of Houston’s East End is an exciting journey
into a future reminiscent of its unique and dynamic
past as the birthplace of Houston.
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BUSINESS IS BOOMING
If you put the East End on a list of cities with the
greatest employment numbers, it ranks number
twenty-eight in the United States, above
San Antonio, Fort Worth, Miami and Salt Lake City.
Businesses ranging from neighborhood
refresquerias to industry giants are prospering—
nearly 80,000 people work in the East End every
day. Three of the country’s major coffee companies send the scent of freshly roasted coffee beans
wafting through Houston’s East End, and two of
only four coffee decaffeination plants in the United
States call the area home. The Port of Houston is
one of only four “green coffee ports” in the U.S.
and the only one west of the Mississippi. Twenty
million consumers live and work within 500 miles
of the East End, so Houston stands ready for new
coffee business.
Other key economic engines in the East End include food processing companies and suppliers for
the Port and the oil and gas industry. A growing
niche transportation industry is burgeoning in the
East End with two dozen private bus lines carrying
Canada with the Port of Houston and Mexico.
850,000 passengers per year to and from Mexico
Hobby Airport, which served as Houston’s only
and other destinations in Latin America and the
airport until 1969, is today one of the forty busiest
Midwest and Southeast United States, generating
airports in the country. Major highways frame the
$42 million annually in sales.
East End on four sides, providing easy accessibil-
Many East End businesses are adding
ity to the greater Houston region, and more than
manufacturing and warehouse space, or buying
twenty METRO bus lines and three transit centers
adjacent property for future expansion, and many
serve residents. METRO’s Harrisburg Rail Cor-
family-owned companies are thriving in their
ridor will be in place by 2010, bringing even more
second and third generations. Gulfgate Center,
connectivity between the East End and Downtown,
which opened in 1956 to huge fanfare as Houston’s
the Texas Medical Center and other employment,
first mall, has undergone a $50 million redevelop-
educational and entertainment centers throughout
ment by Wulfe & Co. and now includes tenants
the Houston region.
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Supermarket, Marshall’s and Old Navy.
This redevelopment created as many as 2,000 new
Distinctive neighborhoods are the heart of the
retail jobs and is expected to generate $170 million
East End. Second Ward and Magnolia Park are
annually in sales. Weingarten Realty Investors
two of Houston’s oldest Hispanic neighborhoods.
acquired and redeveloped a shopping complex at
Eastwood, one of the first master-planned com-
Telephone Road and I-45, and new retail centers
munities in Houston along with Montrose and
along Harrisburg Boulevard, Telephone at
the Heights, remains one of the most beautiful
Lockwood and Lawndale at 75th Street offer
neighborhoods in the city. Young professionals and
additional shopping alternatives to East End
empty nesters are beginning to restore the vintage
residents. The East End remains, however,
homes in Eastwood and other neighborhoods
significantly underserved by retail businesses.
throughout the East End. Concentrated between
Residents often must go outside the area for many
the Eastex Freeway and Dowling Street, just under
of their shopping needs, spending millions of
$100 million in new loft apartments and town homes
dollars annually outside the community.
are under construction. Trammel Crow Residential
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such as Lowe’s Home Improvement, an HEB
recently redeveloped the old Myers Spalti Manu-
hub. Its infrastructure sustains the growth of
facturing Company (El Mercado Del Sol) as the
area businesses and industries. One of the ten
Alexan Lofts with 250 rental apartments, now fully
busiest ports in the world, the Port of Houston
leased. Perry Homes bought the adjacent park-
generates nearly eight billion dollars in annual
ing lot for the construction of seventy-two town
revenues. Railroads criss-cross the area, link-
homes. Other new town home developments are
ing the industrialized centers of the U.S. and
being built along Clinton Drive, an area the Buffalo
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Bayou Partnership envisions as a future mixed-use
residential community, “Waterview District East,”
Neighborhood Centers, Inc., the Cossaboom
on the northern banks of Buffalo Bayou. The value
YMCA, the Association for the Advancement of
of housing in the East End has risen steadily over
Mexican Americans, the Community Family
the last five years, but is still very affordable com-
Center, El Centro Del Corazon, the Latino
pared to other parts of the City. Loft apartments,
Learning Center and others strengthen the fabric
new town houses, single family homes, renova-
of the community. Cultural diversity, historic sites,
tions and affordable housing are creating attractive
public amenities, beautiful residential neighbor-
new residential options for East Enders.
hoods, thriving retail and industry, and popular
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LIFE’S RICH IN THE EAST END
one-of-a-kind locales, art and events give it its
unique character, charm and attraction. The East
Families are the core of East End life. The many
End is home to The Orange Show, an internation-
parks, open spaces, schools, recreation and
ally recognized folk art environment, and the
community centers serve as focal points for family
historic Sociedad Mutalista Benito Juárez Casino
activities and gatherings. Both Buffalo and Brays
Hall—the first public institution constructed in the
Bayous are increasingly viewed as quality of life
East End by Mexican-Americans. East End Latino
assets and provide enhanced recreational
culture is celebrated at Talento Bilingue de Hous-
amenities. There are many small neighborhood
ton, the largest cultural arts center of its kind in the
and community parks, as well as two regional
United States, now with a full season of performing
parks and the much-used Sunset Hike and Bike
and visual arts.
Trail. Education is centered around the East End’s
Community centers such as Ripley House-
The East End also has the largest concentra-
three public high schools, six middle schools,
tion of community murals in the city, including
twenty-three elementary schools and numerous
a historically significant Chicano mural by artist
parochial and charter schools, including AAMA’s
Leo Tanguma on Canal Street, and many historic
33-year-old George I. Sanchez High School, the
places of interest such as Our Lady of Guadalupe
first minority charter school in the United States.
Church, Villa de Matel and Asbury Memorial
Houston Community College Southeast is in the
United Methodist Church, founded just after the
East End and nearby is Texas Southern University,
Civil War. The Glendale Cemetery is a historically
Rice University and the University of Houston’s
designated burial place of Texas heroes and
main and downtown campuses. HCC South-
pioneers including Jane Birdsall Harris, the wid-
east has proposed a new facility on the City of
ow of John R. Harris who founded Harrisburg,
Houston’s Milby bus barn property and other
Charles H. Milby and his father, William Polk
educational organizations have also expanded
Milby, after whom Milby High School is named,
their facilities.
and General Sidney Sherman who fought at the
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Battle of San Jacinto and successfully started the
first railroad in Texas—the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos
& Colorado (BBB&C) Railroad—at Harrisburg.
The Harrisburg-Jackson Cemetery, another historically significant cemetery in the East End, is
the burial place of freed slaves, Buffalo soldiers,
and Tom Blue, Sam Houston’s slave valet and
trusted friend.
Celebrating and preserving the unique
character and history of the East End, and retaining and strengthening its existing businesses and
neighborhoods while attracting new development
as the community grows and changes, is the
foundation of the East End Strategic Vision Project.
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Because the East End is growing and changing in new ways, the Greater East End Management
District and the Houston East End Chamber of Commerce brought together nearly 300 East End
stakeholders, representing business, industry, residents, non-profit organizations, religious
institutions, public agencies, governmental entities and others, to develop a strategic vision that
will shape the future of the East End, seek and create new opportunities and possibilities for this
unique area of Houston, preserve its history and mobilize its resources. This 18-month effort
started in 2005 and resulted in a 10-year vision that builds on the existing strengths and qualities
of the East End, reflects the intent of the stakeholders, and establishes seven major goals and an
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implementation strategy that will guide the community as it works together to achieve its goals.
• Education
EDUCATION
• Image
• Economic Development
HISTORY
IMAGE
• Parks and Open Spaces
• Infrastructure
• Neighborhoods
ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT
NEIGHBORHOODS
• History
INFRASTRUCTURE
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PARKS
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FULL BLEED IMAGE
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EDUCATION: OPPORTUNITYSUCCESSINFORMATION
Paving a New Road to Achievement in the East End
Excellence in education and effective community programs
and services build healthy and strong communities. Educational
attainment in the East End is far below the City of Houston’s
averages. By strengthening educational resources, enhancing
information about and access to available programs and services,
and expanding opportunities for East End residents, a new road to
achievement and success can be paved. Building these resources
requires broad partnerships between institutions, organizations
and businesses working together to address the challenges vital
to the long-term success of the East End and our residents. Highquality schools, excellent education and a strong workforce will
encourage business and residential development and ensure a
viable, strong and inviting community.
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Education
$16 million project to expand the George I. Sanchez
High School campus to upgrade the current eduearly childhood center, community health clinic, and
space for organized and supervised sports and other
activities. AAMA services are free.
• A KIPP Charter School for grades K-8 is
planned for the East End on 21 acres between
Telephone Road and Lawndale. KIPP schools are
free, open enrollment college-preparatory public
schools.
• Houston East End Chamber of Commerce
established an Education Task Force to
identify challenges and develop partnerships to
meet them. To date successes include:
• “Project Lead the Way,” a nationally recognized
in fall 2006 at HISD’s Chavez High School and will
expand to Austin and Milby High Schools.
• Mentoring and tutoring programs for middle
school students will begin in fall 2006.
• A new website was launched to assist East
End students in locating and applying for jobs
and learning about college.
•The Greater East End District spends 3%
of total annual assessments on workforce
development programs that provide employees training in soft skills and computers, ESL
and GED courses for residents, and a Reserve
Deputy Reimbursement Program to attract
reserve deputies to serve in the community.
It is important to note that stakeholders also
identified health as a primary concern, and it is
recommended that a comprehensive survey
of public health and social services be conducted
for the East End; however, this task is outside
the scope of this project.
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• Establish an Education Task Force to identify the
challenges of education in the East End and develop
partnerships to address these challenges
• Assist parents and youth in preparing for college
• Build partnerships with businesses and organizations
to develop and fund programs in schools that support
student success and assist students in fulfilling their
commitment to higher education
• Promote excellent education by supporting the
development of additional magnet or other innovative
education programs in area schools
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math, science and engineering curriculum, will begin
SUCCESS
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cational facilities and adding services to include an
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Mexican Americans (AAMA) announced a
• Survey all East End organizations to develop a
comprehensive list of programs and services available
to residents
• Publish a comprehensive directory of community
programs and services both in paper and web-based
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• The Association for the Advancement of
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EDUCATION PROGRESS
• Survey business and industry to identify workforce
education needs
• Expand and augment existing job training programs
with the goal of developing a district-wide workforce
development program
• Work in partnership with area job training programs,
business, industry and education partners to develop a
“One-Stop Career Center” in the East End
Association for the Advancement of Mexican Americans (AAMA)
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IMAGE: BRIGHTCELEBRATEDVIBRANT
Over the last decade, the East End has grown, many of its businesses have prospered, many of its neighborhoods have flourished
and crime has steadily declined. Ensuring the continued growth and
prosperity of the East End is dependent on keeping the community
clean and its streets safe, developing beautiful, well-maintained
public areas, and celebrating the history, culture and commerce of the
area through innovative and creative promotional campaigns and
public art. By building on the distinctive qualities of the East End, we
will enhance the image of the area and increase its attractiveness as a
destination—a wonderful and inviting place to live, work and play.
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mercial property owners in partnership with
Central City Industrial Park and Precinct 6.
• The District’s Law Enforcement Coordination Team meets monthly to exchange information with more than a dozen law enforcement
entities serving the community.
• In five years time, the District has abated
making the East End more graffiti-free than
any other area of the city.
• The District collects one ton of street
trash from 29 miles of major thoroughfares
each week.
Great Streets
• East End Streetscapes, a $3.2 million enhancement project undertaken by the Greater East End
District in partnership with the Texas Department
of Transportation begins construction in late 2006.
Public Art
• Through a partnership between METRO and
the Greater East End District, 30 transit shelters
adjacent to East End Streetscapes sites will be
enhanced with public art.
• The Orange Show and the Greater East End
District partnered to fund a new mural at Rex
Supply by artist Jesse Sifuentes.
Building Façade Improvements
• Older commercial buildings on Telephone Road
name—Tlaquepaque Market.
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• Encourage balanced and accurate media coverage of
the community
• Develop a broad-based promotional campaign to
focus on East End assets such as authentic Mexican
food, the collection of community murals, cultural arts
centers, unique history, affordable neighborhoods, new
housing, growing green spaces and recreational amenities, employment opportunities, easy access to all
freeways and proximity to Downtown
• Create a web-based East End Calendar of Events
• Link the websites of East End organizations
• Design a product line to celebrate the area’s commerce, history and culture
• Support the distribution and ongoing development of
the East End guidebook, a self-guided tour brochure of
key destinations
• Publish a companion web-based guidebook
• Develop tours and events to draw visitors to the area
• Develop a proposal for an annual East End festival
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east of Lockwood are getting a facelift and a new
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over 3,500 graffiti sites within its boundaries,
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provides an 11-officer security patrol for com-
• Ensure that the East End is clean and attractive, with
well maintained public areas
• Develop an educational campaign to end illegal
dumping and street littering
• Expand existing partnerships with law enforcement
agencies to identify additional ways to establish a feeling
of safety within our boundaries and change the perception
of high crime
• Develop additional neighborhood watch and citizen
patrol programs in collaboration with civic leaders
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• Expand the successful East End Streetscapes project to
other commercial corridors in the community, developing
landscaping plans, public art and improved pedestrian
and public amenities
• Develop design guidelines for the improvement of
building facades along major commercial corridors in
collaboration with area businesses
• Develop a Public Art Plan that is linked to the spines
of the future Harrisburg Rail Corridor, bayous and
major commercial streets, and weave these public art
programs into the neighborhoods as a connective tissue
that ties the East End together while
celebrating its diversity
•Develop plans for the inclusion of
public art along the proposed METRO
Harrisburg Rail Corridor
• Develop and implement a Bus Shelter
Public Art Project to improve area
streets and transit
• Work in partnership with Buffalo
Bayou Partnership and Project Brays to
develop and implement public art in
coordination with the proposed bayou
and trail improvements
Graffiti Abatement
Bus Shelter Art Project
Mural: (Ventana de Oportunidad)
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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: ATTRACTBUILDPROMOTE
Reviving the Economic Engines in the East End
The East End has a strong economic foundation of business, industry,
retail and employment. However, the East End is changing and one
element of that change is a loss of a number of important employers
and industries. Some businesses are being lured to other parts of the
Houston region, often outside of the city limits, where infrastructure
is newer, development is streamlined and economic incentives are
provided. Securing the economic vitality of the East End can be
accomplished by identifying and developing incentives for retaining
existing businesses, new development and redevelopment, attracting
new building programs and projects, and promoting area businesses.
A targeted set of economic development strategies should be developed including incentives and planning for continued industrial,
retail, mixed-use and transit-oriented development to serve businesses, residents and newcomers to the community.
It is also imperative that East End neighborhoods and educational
opportunities are strengthened, its streets and parks are expanded
and well maintained, and its infrastructure is updated and made
adequate to attract investment.
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• Identify opportunity sites potentially ripe for
redevelopment
• Create a toolbox of economic incentives that can be
applied to attract new business and industry to the East
End and retain and provide for the expansion of
existing businesses
• Survey area residents and businesses to assess and
evaluate the market opportunities and needs for
economic development
• Create and publish a report of opportunities, incentives
and needs to further promote and encourage
economic development
• Develop a targeted campaign to attract new businesses
that build on the existing economic engines in the East
End, including food processing, coffee, transportation and
international trade
Progress Since 2001
New Construction:
• Canal Street Apartments, New Hope Housing
• CenterPoint Energy Service Center
• Enterprise Bank
• Family Dollar stores
• Gallo Loco
• Gulfgate Center
• Juliet Homes • Kaldis Properties Retail Center
• Las Palmas Plaza Retail Center
• Lovett Townhomes
• Perry Homes
• Pollo Campero
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and web format
• Promote local businesses through
the expansion of the Houston East End
Chamber’s “Buy East End” campaign
• Showcase local business through a
series of promotional events in
coordination with the Greater East End
Management District’s program that
recently celebrated the coffee industry
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• Capitalize on opportunities for
mixed-use and transit-oriented
development in the East End, particularly along the proposed transit
line, bayous and in proximity to the
University of Houston
• Work towards realizing the
proposed “Eco-Industrial Park”
• Organize semiannual information
forums for East End businesses with
city permitting and other regulatory
agencies to assist them in achieving goals such as expansion, land
acquisition or lobbying for necessary
infrastructure improvements
• Create a Local Directory of Business and Industry available to all area
businesses and residents in both book
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PARKS AND GREEN SPACES: GREENANDLINKED
One of the many assets of the East End is its wealth of natural
resources. Buffalo and Brays Bayous wind through the community and small and large parks provide amenities for residents.
However, to meet the City of Houston’s guidelines, the East End
would need to develop as much as four times more park land for
its acreage and population. A “green and linked” East End will
be accomplished by enhancing the streets, medians, parks, trails
and open spaces, creating additional parks and open spaces, and
linking them to create ribbons of green throughout the East End.
Linking our green spaces will connect our diverse neighborhoods,
enhance our quality of life, serve as catalysts for future development, attract private interest and provide recreational activities for
residents and visitors alike.
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The State of Texas, Harris County, Precinct
2, Harris County Flood Control District/
Project Brays, City of Houston, Buffalo
Bayou Partnership, Houston Parks Board,
The Park People, The Trust for Public Land
plans spanning decades for additional
green space, trails and other amenities.
Proposed and completed projects include:
Buffalo Bayou Partnership
Master Plan Projects:
• Guadalupe Park improvements
• Environmental science center
• Hidalgo Park expansion
• New turning basin overlook park
• Botanical gardens at Lockwood
• Turkey Bend Ecology Park
• Symphony Island performance center
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and the Greater East End District all have
• Identify medians, intersections and esplanades for landscaping and “greening” opportunities
• Work in partnership with area industries to develop green
buffer zones between industrial and other land uses
• Develop community gardens on vacant land or other sites
adjacent to schools, institutions and gathering places
•Develop an East End farmer’s market for the sale of produce
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Parks and Open Spaces
• Design and develop “green streets” to link existing and
proposed parks, trails and bayou amenities to neighborhoods,
schools and gathering places
• Develop a plan for the design and development of children’s
spaces, pocket parks, and gathering places or plazas that
connect the existing and proposed trails and parks to the East
End’s businesses, neighborhoods and institutions
• Work in coordination with all the agencies developing trails
and other linear green spaces in the East End, including the
State of Texas, Harris County Precinct 2, Harris County Flood
Control District’s “Project Brays,” City of Houston, the
• Hike and bike trails
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Houston Parks Board and the Buffalo
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for the expansion of these networks
• Capitalize on plans for new parks
and trails by developing plans for the
incorporation of public art that reflects
the East End’s vibrant history, culture
and commerce
Harrisburg Hike & Bike Trail
Land Acquired
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MANCHESTER
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Evergreen-griggs Triangle
Spurlock Parkway
Laporte Rd.-lawndale Triangle
Woodruff Park
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KELLER
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Land Acquired
New Parks
The Trust for
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Mason Park
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Fresh Water
Tidal Marsh
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Diez Street Park
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Pineview Triangle
ing Hike and Bike Trails
posed Green Streets
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of Houston Bikeways Project
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Buffalo Bayou
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Finnigan Park
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Gregg Street Park
Swiney Park
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STRATEGIC VISION {CHAPTER}
INFRASTRUCTURE: EVALUATEPRIORITIZEREBUILD
Improving the Infrastructure in the East End
Infrastructure is the circulatory system of a city. Sound infrastructure keeps a community growing and thriving. The East End’s
streets, water lines and storm and sanitary sewers are among the
oldest in the city. To ensure the continued growth and renewal of
the East End, aging infrastructure must be evaluated and much of
it rebuilt, and new telecommunications infrastructure constructed.
To begin this task, East End stakeholders—businesses, residents and
organizations—must partner with public agencies, elected officials
and governmental entities to work through the process of evaluating
existing needs, prioritizing potential projects, advocating for specific projects as capital improvement projects, identifying additional
financing mechanisms and following selected projects through to
completion. Updating and rebuilding the infrastructure in the East
End will attract new development and guarantee opportunities for the
retention and expansion of existing businesses and the redevelopment
of opportunity sites.
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• Identify and map all proposed or ongoing capital improvement
projects in the East End, including street improvements, storm
and sanitary sewer upgrades, utility upgrades, sidewalks, curb
and gutter and other infrastructure improvements
• Work in partnership with the City of Houston Department of
Public Works to map current street conditions in the East End
and identify streets in need of improvement or maintenance
• Work with the City of Houston’s Public Works Department to
map the current capacity of utility infrastructure in the East End
Completed Street Improvements:
• Canal Street (METRO)
• Harrisburg Boulevard (METRO)
• Manchester
• Market Street
• Sampson Street
• South Wayside, Highway 90 (TXDOT)
• METRO Solutions East End Corridor
• Armour Drive/Harvey Wilson Project, Phase 1
Planned Street Enhancements
East End Streetscapes
• Franklin Street railroad underpass
• Harrisburg Boulevard railroad underpass
• Esplanade enhancement I-10 at Wayside
• Wayside at 1-45 underpass
• Enhanced sidewalk connecting Harrisburg
hike & bike trail to Eastwood Park
• Sidewalk enhancements at Harrisburg Plaza
REBUILD
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Under Construction:
• Prioritize utility and street infrastructure improvements
• Prioritize sidewalks, lighting, curb and gutter improvements
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PRIORITIZE
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• Gulfgate Transit Center
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• Telephone Road
Completed Trash Improvements:
EVALUATE
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INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRESS
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Infrastructure
• Create transportation and infrastructure implementation
groups, comprised of agencies and representatives with the
power, staff and recources to plan, design, finance and implement
infrastructure improvements in the East End. These groups will
be responsible for prioritizing projects and developing implementation and financing strategies
INFRASTRUCTURE COMPOSITE MAP
Water Line Replacement Areas
Storm Sewer Replacement Area
Review
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Site Remediation
East End Streetscape Enhancement
(Wayside at I-10)
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• Based on the evaluation of infrastructure needs and established priorities,
the infrastructure implementation
group must work in partnership with
the city, county, state, stakeholders and
other agencies to get projects included
in capital improvement plans
• The transportation implementation
group will advocate for the development of an East End intermodal facility
that would serve local bus routes,
private bus companies and the future
Harrisburg Rail Corridor to strenghten
the areas connection to Downtown,
airports and other destinations
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STRATEGIC VISION {Infrastructure}
Sidewalks, Curbs and Gutters
As Identified by Stakeholders
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STRATEGIC VISION {CHAPTER}
NEIGHBORHOODS: AFFORDABLEHOUSINGAND
HEALTHYNEIGHBORHOODS
Strengthening the East End’s Neighborhoods
Neighborhoods, each unique in history, character, identity and
culture, are the heart of the East End. While some neighborhoods
are strong and healthy, others require assistance. Strengthening
East End neighborhoods will be accomplished through the renovation of existing housing, the construction of new affordable
housing and the development of plans and guidelines for new
development that maintains and enhances existing neighborhood
character. As Houston continues to grow, it is likely that neighborhoods in the East End will change in new ways. Neighborhoods
will need assistance as they respond to this change.
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• Identify opportunities and sites for the development of
affordable and workforce housing
• Develop a Historic Housing Renovation Program to
stabilize and strengthen neighborhoods by improving
existing housing
• Work in coordination with community-based organizations, public agencies and private partners in implementing affordable housing strategies, for example the City of
Houston’s Land Assemblage Redevelopment Authority
(LARA) program in Magnolia Park
Affordable Housing
• New Hope Housing, Inc.- Canal Street Apartments,
a 133-unit single room occupancy development
• AAMA-Community Development Corporation plans for
Las Villas De Magnolia, a 116-unit senior citizen center
on Harrisburg
• Land Assemblage Redevelopment Authority
(LARA)-City of Houston program to utilize tax
Established housing on Harrisburg
HEALTHYNEIGHBORHOODS
n
neighborhoods
n
delinquent property for affordable housing. Magnolia Park has been designated as one of the pilot
AFFORDABLEHOUSING
• Plans should be completed or updated for each neighborhood and should serve as a guide for new development and as
a catalyst for improvement, stabilization and empowerment
• Develop a coordinated action plan to assist qualified
neighborhood groups in receiving assistance on developing
or revising deed restrictions
• Establish guidelines for new development that determine
prevailing building setbacks and prevailing lot sizes
• Advocate to redefine city policies and regulations to
protect neighborhood character, historic structures and lot
coverage while encouraging development
• Coordinate a one-stop resource for potential first time
home buyers and others who need assistance through East
End community service organizations
Live Oak Lofts
Housing on Clinton Drive
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STRATEGIC VISION {Neighborhoods}
n
AFFORDABLE HOUSING
n
Neighborhoods
New Hope Housing, Canal Street Apartments (Affordable housing community)
Juliet Homes (New town house development)
Habitat for Humanity House (Affordable housing)
STRATEGIC VISION {Neighborhoods}
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STRATEGIC VISION {CHAPTER}
HISTORY: PRESERVEANDTREASURE
A New Future for the History of the East End
The East End is home to a substantial number of historic sites,
structures and buildings. The unique history of the East End is a
source of pride for residents and business owners and provides the
area with a distinctive character and quality that is reinforced by a strong
sense of history and place. Our historic resources should be promoted
with guidebooks, tours, way-finding signage and markers, our important buildings and structures should be saved, and incentives for historic
preservation should be identified. Treasuring and preserving the East
End’s history requires active programs to encourage adaptive re-use,
reward preservation and provide resources for historic preservation,
including façade improvement programs. These programs will increase economic development in the East End, significantly enhance
the potential of the district as a destination, preserve important Texas
history sites and strengthen the distinctive character that makes the
East End unique.
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POTENTIAL PROJECTS
n
History
TREASURE
• Create a historic preservation committee to coordinate
and promote historic preservation in the East End as well
as work towards the enhancement of historical sites and
markers in the area
• Create and publish a guide to historic sites, structures and
buildings to be used as a tool to build awareness of the East
End’s unique history and to encourage historic preservation
and adaptive re-use of historic buildings
• Develop designs for the improvement of historical markers
and their surroundings to enhance the area’s sense of place
and history
• Advocate for the inclusion of relevant East End sites in the
Texas Independence Trail brochure and guidebook
Historic Building Adaptive Re-Use Plans
• Historic Cage Elementary proposed re-use by
Historic Houston
• Warehouse space conversion for affordable
artist housing by ArtSpace, Inc.
• Sociedad Mutualista Benito Juarez Casino Hall
(1928) possible adaptive re-use as farmer’s market
or other community uses
• Port of Houston building adjacent to Brady’s
PRESERVE
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Island—possible use as a historical museum
•Develop specific re-use plans for important historic buildings in the East End in coordination with both commercial
and community uses, for example a Visitor’s Center or an
Archive for the East End and the Port of Houston
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Casino Hall
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1. Navigation Boulevard
2. Harrisburg Boulevard
3. Broadway
4. Telephone Road
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HISTORIC BUILDINGS AND SITES
1921 La Sociedad Mutualista Benito Juarez
Casino Hall
1922 Houston Scenic Studios
• Develop a historic preservation
resources and incentives
brochure to educate potential investors
on the resources available for historic
preservation and designation, including tax exemptions, federal tax credits
and other grants
• Develop a small grant program for
historic building façade improvements
along important corridors, for example
Harrisburg, Navigation, Broadway
and Canal
• Implement an annual East End
Preservation Award for the restoration
of important historic structures in the
community
1852 St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Cemetery
1923 Our Lady of Guadalupe Church
1890 Martinez House and Garden
1925 Reed Power Bit Company
1904 Lottman Manufacturing Mattress Plan
1925 Peter Peterson Apartment House
1905 City Dumping Grounds
1926 David G. Bumet Elementary
1905 Turning Basin
1926 Houston Public Grain Elevator
1906 Tony Saragusa Building
1927 Navigation Underpass
1910 Storage Warehouse, City of
1929 Houston Lighting and Power
Magnolia Park
Houston Wharves
1929 Galveston Houston and Henderson
1914 McAshan Methodist Church
Railroad Bridge
1919 Southern Pacific Railroad Bridge
1920 Trinity Portland Cement Company
1930 Wood Furniture Manufacturing
1920 Building Row
1935 Hidalgo Park Kiosk
1920 Plowden Supply Company
1938 Hill Street Bridge
1920 The Pruitt Company 8, Sons
1939 Parker Brothers
1920 Street Curb Marker
1939 U.S. Appraisers Building
1920 Longhorn Supply Company
1940 Temple el Redemtor
1920 Radiator Manufacturing
1940 Dixie Plating Company
1920 Republic Carload Distribution
1940 Texaco Station
1947 Velasco Street Incinerator
Company
1948 Gribble Stamp and Stencil Company
1920 Dahl Apartments
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IMPLEMENTATION: Achieving The Goals of The East End Strategic Vision Project
The East End community has worked collectively to create a vision for its future. Each objective and action item of the East End Strategic Vision Project works in concert with the others to
move us towards our goals. Rebuilding infrastructure will lead to new business and housing
opportunities. Improving and adding to area green spaces will strengthen neighborhoods and
create an inviting environment for business. Working to keep public spaces clean and our neighborhoods safe will enhance the image of the East End. Strong schools and the strengthening of
educational opportunities in the community are vital links in the chain of goals that comprise
the Strategic Vision. Achieving our goals will require long-term commitment, broad participation and funding. Implementing the Strategic Vision will require partnerships and an investment from each of us.
Guiding Our Community Towards Its Shared Vision
The Greater East End Management District and the Houston East End Chamber of Commerce,
co-sponsors of this project, will establish an East End Strategic Vision Guiding Coalition comprised of representatives from the entities and organizations that will implement major portions
of the seven goals. Because this is a 10-year endeavor, active participation in the coalition will be
fluid, reflecting the relevant focus of current projects and objectives. The purpose of this coalition is to recruit partners and motivate, monitor and communicate the East End’s Vision in order
to ensure its success. The coalition is the umbrella organization that will guide and track the overall
progress of the Strategic Vision Project. The coalition will also identify and gather partners for
working groups that will plan, fund and realize the specific action items. These working groups
will be comprised of representatives, decision-makers, businesses, organizations and agencies
with the funds and staff to accomplish the goals of the plan.
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SPONSORS AND PARTICIPANTS
Sponsoring Organizations
Greater East End Management District
3211 Harrisburg
Houston, TX 77003
Houston East End Chamber of Commerce
550 Gulfgate Center Mall
Houston, TX 77087-3022
Sponsoring Staff Contributors
Greater East End Management District
Mary Margaret Hansen, President
Cynthia Kimmey
Annette Ramos
Eva Quiroz
Martin Chavez
Community Design Resource Center, University
of Houston
Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture
Geoffrey Brune
Susan Rogers
Jessie Palacios
Doris Villareal
Veronica Hernandez
Volunteer Committees and Participants
Executive Committee
Chairperson
Andrew Perez, State Farm Insurance
Vice Chairperson
Taryn McFarlane, Wulfe & Co.
Virgil Cox, Cox Hardware
Jon Strange, JNS Inc. Consulting Engineers
Steering Committee
Joe Adams, Union Pacific
Jason Allison, Alexan Lofts
Larry Badon, METRO
Katherine Bailey, Gem’s Realty
Robert Bailey, Gem’s Realty
Glenda Barrett, The Park People, Inc.
Doug Bates, Henry S. Miller Commercial Co.
Max Beauregard. Office of Jessica Farrar
Jeff Bostick, KBR
Vicki Brentin, Houston Rotary Club
Joy Horak Brown, New Hope Housing, Inc.
Janice Caddie, KC Contractors
Mary Ann Carrion, Office of Senator
Mario Gallegos
Chris Conrad, Dinosaur Plastics
Adrian de la Cerda, The Orange Show
Rey de la Reza, Rey de la Reza
Architects, Inc.
Father Bill Davis, Immaculate Heart of Mary
Catholic Church
Clifford Dieterle, Baker Hughes Inc.
Yvette Diaz, Steering Committee
Bill England, The Garland Company
Raouf Farid, Harris County Flood
Control District
Marianne Flournoy, Mortgage Associates
Joe Fraga, Mahonney & Associates
Lindy Gallamore, Alexan Lofts
Robert Gallegos, Office of
Commissioner Sylvia Garcia
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Caprice Garcia, Office of
Congressman Gene Green
Carlos Garcia, Carlos Garcia Realty
Norma Garcia, Zachry Construction
Sylvia Garcia, Harris County Precinct 2
Fena Garza, Houston Community
College Southeast
Gordon Goss, Super Neighborhood Coalition
Dan Grosz, Llewelyn-Davies Sahni, Inc.
Marlene Gafrick, City of Houston
Planning Department
Ruben Guerrero, City of Houston
Housing and Community Development
Guy Hagstette, Downtown
Management District
Virginia Hancock/Houston
Country Club Place Resident
Gordon Harris, Oak Farms Dairy
Cloredia Hawkins, Harrisburg
Civic Association
Richard H. Hill Jr., Open Door Mission
Laura Hipps, New Hope Housing, Inc.
Cliff Hunnicutt, Second Ward
Residents Association
Elizabeth Jacob, Lovett
John Jacob, Texas Cooperative Extension
Dr. Daniel Jenkins, Harrisburg Eye Clinic and
Optical Shop
John Kopriva, Kopriva Body Works, Inc.
Barbara Koslov, S. R. Beard & Associates
Kate Kuffner, Office of
Council Member Gordon Quan
Robert Litke, City of Houston
Planning Department
Celeste Lofton, Collaborative for Children
Katherine Lord, Trees for Houston
Curtis Lovett, Open Door Mission
Jeff Madden, Rex Supply
Debra McGaughey, HCC Southeast
Sylvia Medina, METRO
Paul Meza, Second Ward Residents
Association
Gilbert Moreno, AAMA, Inc.
Gloria Moreno, Office of
Commissioner Sylvia Garcia
Peter Morris, Bulls Eye Storage
Karen Neimeier, Eastwood
Civic Association
Fred Newhouse, Valero Energy
Diane Olmos Guzman, Houston Community
College Southeast Trustee
Zeeba Paksima, Paksima Group, Inc.
Burt Palmer, First United Methodist Houston,
B. Kelley Parker III, Cushman & Wakefield of
Texas, Inc.
Steve Parker, Eastwood Civic Association
Eliza Paul, Texas Department
of Transportation
Margorie Peña, Neighborhood Centers
George Peres, HISD
Danny Perez, Precinct 6
Beth Polkinghorn, Neighbors in Action
James Rodriguez, Office of
Council Member Carol Alvarado
Sylvia Rodriguez, Office of State
Representative Rick Noriega
Linda Russey, Alexan Lofts
Randi Sahni, Llewelyn-Davies Sahni, Inc.
Donna Scott, Houston Speech &
Hearing Clinic
Linda Shead, Trust for Public Land
Megan Sigler, Perry Homes
Trudi Smith, Buffalo Bayou Partnership
Kenneth Stallman, Comerica Bank Texas
James Thompson, Team Associates, Inc.
Rick Trejo, Community Service
Officer – HPD
Elena Vergara, Community Family Center
Karry Williams, Centerpoint
Roy Zermeno, Southwestern Bell Telephone
Participants
Al Amaya, Resident
Debbie Anders, DJ Anders Consulting
Lilibeth Andre, City of Houston Bikeways
Bill Arnold, Laura Salinas Campaign
Evelyn Benfield, Resident
Evelyn Bernard, Eastwood Civic Association
Chris Berno, Idylwood Resident
Judy Berno, Idylwood Resident
Yolanda Black-Navarro, Villa Arcos
Jason Blair, Real Estate
Freddie Blanco, East Lawndale Civic
Association
Maria Bolaños-Rocha, Mayor’s Citizens’
Assistance Office
Richard Bost, Urban Harvest
Chris Brown, Office of
Council Member Ron Green
Johnella Bradford, HCC Southeast
Mary C. Bradley, Private Practice Therapist
Vicki Brenton, Rotary
Lupe Brown, Magnolia Multi-Service Center
Patrick Brown, Resident
Heather Bruen, Orange Show
Sister Mary Bulmer, Sister of Charity Villa de Matel
Patricia Cabrera, HISD
Esther Campos, HISD Trustee- Retired
Luis Canales, Resident
Mary Ann Carrion, Office of Senator Gallegos
Sgt. Casey, HPD
Jessica Castillo-Hulsey, Oaklawn Civic Association
Vicente Men Chaer, Resident
Mai Chan, Stop N Go #4
Tammy Cirigliano, Idylwood Resident
Peter Clementi, AAMA CDC
Bea Cohen, Classy Art Whslers, Inc.
Isaac Cohen, Classy Art Whslers, Inc.
Joseph Cooper, Talento Bilingue de Houston
Kristin Cox, Office of
Council Member Sekula-Gibbs
Patrick Crespo, Crespo Funeral Homes
Carlos de Aldecoa, Cadeco Industries
Yvette de la Fuente Diaz, Idylwood Resident
Carlota Del Campo, Magnolia Pineview Civic Club
Julio del Carpio, Interplan Group
Virginia Delgado, Resident
Michael Derr, Afton Pumps, Inc.
Yvette Diaz, Piel de la Fuente
Isabel Dominguez, Resident
Frank Dominguez, Resident
Juanita Eizondo, Fiesta Mart, Inc.
DV “Sonny” Flores, PEC Corporation
Dr. Craig Follins, Houston Community College