Houston Apartments

Take an Apartment on Lease in Downtown Houston in the State of Texas

Downtown of Houston signifies the very centre of the city of Houston in Texas. It is concentrated around the major Interstate highways of the region, such as the I-10, the I-45 and Highway 59. This Downtown area boasts magnificent high rise buildings adorned in large glass plates and reaching for the Texan skies. A well known landmark of the immediate vicinity is the Enron Tower – probably one of the best known in the area. Purchased outright in 2006 by the Brookfield Properties Corporation, it was later entirely leased to Chevron. The headquarters building of Continental Airlines is another notable downtown building.

Another latest convenience available for travellers to get about is the new Metro Light Rail service. Travelling all the way from the Medical Centre in the South, the Light Rail service goes up to the North side downtown area. On an average weekday it commutes an approximate count of more than 40,000 passengers. Downtown is also the home of the Houston Astros and Houston Rockets and the teams playing their games in the Minute Maid Park and Toyota Centre respectively? Once known as Enron Field, the name was changed to Astros Park when the owning company declared bankruptcy.

Leading off from Texas Avenue you will find a theatre known as Verizon Wireless Theatre which is a fairly small indoor venue containing seating only for a few thousand, and usually used for events such as concerts. Nevertheless in comparison to other venues of Houston such as the pavilion named after Cynthia Woods Mitchell, this one has an excellent location.

In readiness for Super Bowl 2004, the downtown area was the recipient of a major upgrade and construction programme. Owing to the tearing up of several main roads, trade in quite a number of businesses came to a halt. Then in 2008 September, the eye of Hurricane Ike passed directly over downtown Houston on its journey inland, resulting in huge glass plates blowing out from several high rise buildings and rendering the city streets quite hazardous. Across the metropolis sudden fires broke out and the power supply was interrupted. Until the downtown area could be restored to some semblance of order, it was completely shut down.