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Plan Downtown CONVERGING plan downtown Plan Downtown CONVERGING Culture, Lifestyle & Commerce Setting the Stage Shea Street Building, University of Houston Downtown opened Buffalo Bayou Plan Buffalo Bayou Partnership formed Discovery Green opened Phase 1 of Sesquicentennial Park opened Central Houston, Costwold project ground breaking Market Square Park re-opened Inc. formed Five new office Downtown Public Safety Guide program launched towers open Houston Downtown Management Corporation (HDMC) created Downtown Historic District created Main Street Master Plan announced Purple and Green METRORail lines begin service Downtown Public Improvement District created Allen’s Landing Park ground breaking Minute Maid Park opened Downtown/EaDo Livable Centers Study Street Teams program begins Houston Downtown Mixed-Use Retail Core Plan GRB Convention Center 2025 Master Plan 1994 Downtown Plan Street reconstruction at peak level Hobby Center opened Buffalo Bayou Super Bowl LI Park opened 1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 Legislation to create Houston Downtown Management District (HDMD) Toyota Center opened Main Street Square completed Greenlink launched Creation of Theater District Hilton Americas opened Downtown Living Initiative approved GRB Convention Center BBVA Compass Stadium opened Voters approved referendum Expansion opened for sports stadiums First Downtown Living Initiative project opened Southern Downtown CBD Public Realm Plan Plan Houston adopted by City Council Wortham Theatre opened GRB Convention Center upgrades and Avenida completed GRB Convention Center opened Phase II of Sesquicentennial Park opened The Rice opened Gulf Freeway transitway opened SRO housing for homeless opened UH Downtown campus renovations METRO Transit Streets ground breaking Hardy Toll toad opened Marriott Marquis opened Lamar Cycletrack opened Main Street Metro Rail begins service Houston Theatre District Master Plan Main Street Square completed North Houston Highway Improvement Project Super Bowl XXXVIII presented for public comment 2004 Downtown Development Framework Downtown Streetscape Improvement Plan Plan Downtown, a vision for 2036 Foreword On August 30, 2036, Houstonians will celebrate the city’s Bicentennial. A town founded on the banks of Buffalo Bayou by two young New York speculators with a vision of an idyllic new city with vast charm and economic potential. Even now as the fourth largest city in the nation, the city’s foremost attributes haven’t changed – Houston is grounded by a can-do spirit, led by a diverse citizenry and primed for new opportunities. For well beyond a century since Houston’s founding, Downtown was the home of all city life. In response to dramatic growth starting in the 1950s, new centers of activity blossomed across the region such that by the mid- 1980s Downtown’s future seemed challenged. Though it retains its role as the economic engine of the city, today, Downtown’s new entertainment, dining, nightlife and outdoor options are bringing new vitality to the formerly office- centric core. As a walkable, safe and vibrant urban place, Downtown truly stands out with an exciting energy all its own. Since Houston’s Sesquicentennial, Downtown Houston has experienced a major resurgence and new opportunities abound. Billions have been invested in new parks and public spaces, new multi-family residential developments, new and renovated office towers and hotels, new convention, theater and sports facilities and continued investments in infrastructure and transit. This revolutionary period of growth has made Downtown an even better place to live, work and play. But what’s next? Plan Downtown: Converging Culture, Lifestyle & Commerce is the product of an 18-month planning process led by Downtown partner organizations and city, county and community leaders. The leadership group and steering committee, in addition to robust public input, have provided big ideas from 30,000 feet in the air to thoughtful observations from a street level point of view, culminating in both large and small projects that will continue the Downtown transformation for the next five, ten, twenty years. So when the city celebrates its 200th birthday in 2036, imagine what Downtown will look and feel like. Downtown will be a compelling, layered, and authentic mix of activities and attractions; it will be the most livable community in the city; it will be spontaneous and fun; it will be the premier place for doing business for all industries, including an unrivaled innovation ecosystem; and Downtown will be leading the nation in the next generation of mobility and connectivity advancement. Without a doubt, Downtown will be at the forefront in advancing Houston as a great global city. 1 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 6 DOWNTOWN IS HOUSTON’S GREATEST PLACE TO BE 1: Enhance and expand Downtown’s activities and attractions. 10 2: Create Downtown’s Green Loop. 18 3: Enliven Downtown through enhanced walkability and engaging places. 28 DOWNTOWN IS THE PREMIER BUSINESS AND GOVERNMENT LOCATION 4: Support Downtown’s existing businesses and promote corporate attraction. 36 5: Build Downtown’s innovation ecosystem and the office of the future. 40 DOWNTOWN IS THE STANDARD FOR URBAN LIVABILITY 6: Catalyze Downtown’s emerging neighborhoods. 46 7: Support a comprehensive Central City Housing Plan. 54 DOWNTOWN IS THE INNOVATIVE LEADER IN CONNECTIVITY 8: Capture the value of Downtown’s central position. 58 9: Implement a smart network of great streets. 64 10: Be a national leader for connectivity innovation. 68 IMPLEMENTATION 76 Partners Consultants DOWNTOWN PLANNING PROCESS Downtown District Asakura Robinson (www.asakurarobinson.com) Stakeholder Engagement 80 Central Houston, Inc. HR&A Advisors Partners 84 Downtown Redevelopment Authority Sasaki Associates Participants 86 Houston First Corporation Traffic Engineers, Inc. The City of Houston Harris County Buffalo Bayou Partnership Theater District Houston East Downtown Management District Greater East End Management District Greater Northside Management District Midtown Management District Plan Downtown: Converging Culture, Lifestyle & Commerce November 2017 To download this report and for more information, visit downtowndistrict.org. 2 PLAN DOWNTOWN 3 A Vision for 2036: Downtown is at the forefront in advancing Houston as a great global city. 4 PLAN DOWNTOWN 5 INTRODUCTION SETTING A 20 YEAR VISION: Since the Houston Downtown Development Framework was released in October 2004, Downtown has experienced phenomenal change. Building on the momentum of the past decade and working with adjacent central city Downtown is at the forefront stakeholders, Plan Downtown sets the groundwork for urban vitality, continued growth, and enrichment of the Downtown experience for all visitors and Houstonians, today and in the future. in advancing Houston as a Downtown’s Transformation Resilient Downtown Since 2004, Downtown has experienced what is arguably On August 26th, 2017, during the final development great global city. the greatest resurgence in the city’s history. More than of Plan Downtown, Hurricane Harvey made landfall $6 billion has been invested across a broad mix of urban southwest of Houston. The storm remained over the uses: new parks and public spaces, new and renovated Houston region for several days, dropping record hotels, new multi-family residential developments, new rainfall and causing severe flooding throughout the city, PILLARS STRATEGIES and renovated office towers, renovations and expansions including limited areas of Downtown closest to Buffalo 1 Enhance and expand Downtown’s to convention and theater facilities, and continued and White Oak Bayous. Unfortunately, Harvey was not investments in government facilities, infrastructure, and a lone storm event. In recent years as climate changes activities and attractions. transit. A compelling part of Downtown’s story is shared and development patterns throughout the region have 2 Create Downtown’s Green Loop. with the adjacent communities where planning and accelerated, major flood events have become more 3 Enliven Downtown through economic development are generating and preserving an frequent. DOWNTOWN IS array of mutually supportive historic neighborhoods. HOUSTON’S enhanced walkablity and Downtown served as a critical site during the storm GREATEST engaging places. Downtown is the Center of the Changing Region and recovery though the public and private emergency PLACE TO BE DOWNTOWN IS response, through the role of the George R. Brown THE PREMIER 4 Support Downtown’s existing As the center of the fourth largest city in the United Convention Center as a refuge for the displaced, as a BUSINESS AND businesses and promote States, Downtown Houston is the core of a dynamic GOVERNMENT center for the distribution of goods, and as the location LOCATION corporate attraction. regional economy that is shaped by the convergence where Houston “got back to business” in the days after of geography, history, development, natural systems, Harvey. 5 Build Downtown’s innovation and the diverse residents who call Houston home. At ecosystem and the office of the heart of an eight county region, Downtown must As Downtown moves into the next twenty years, it can the future. be understood in terms of its interconnectedness with continue to define itself as a leader in resilience for DOWNTOWN IS the City of Houston, Harris County and neighboring the City of Houston. Through this Plan, Downtown can THE LEADERINNOVATIVE IN 6 Catalyze Downtown’s emerging counties. It
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