BLOCKS of East Houston About to be DEMOLISHED

Nowhere is Houston’s urban progress more evident than on St. Emanuel Street in East Downtown. Over the past 20 years, this area has transformed from a gritty, half inhabited industrial neighborhood to one of the most active streets in the city. But thanks to an ambitious and controversial highway widening plan that now seems inevitable, this entire half of the street - including entire blocks of bars, restaurants, and apartments totaling many millions of dollars - are about to be flattened, eaten up by a revamping of the city core’s entire freeway system. Let’s investigate the good and the bad of the seven billion dollar plan, and the prospective impact on what’s become one of central Houston’s most important neighborhoods.


SOURCES | FURTHER READING


1. https://www.archpaper.com/2021/05/nhh... About opposition and civil rights suit
2. https://www.texastribune.org/2019/10/... Tribune article
3. https://communityimpact.com/houston/h.... paused-as-i-45-expansion-meets-more-obstacles/
5. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/busi... Coffee Building
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news... Pierce Elevated Removal
6. https://houston.eater.com/2020/6/15/2... Lucky’s
7. https://www.txdot.gov/nhhip.html TXDOT NHHIP Site
8. https://www.axios.com/local/houston/2... About park on new freeway
9. https://thetexan.news/harris-county-t...
10. http://mycity.maps.arcgis.com/apps/we... Interactive Map of Project


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houston, eado, east houston, urban planning, abandoned, abandoned buildings, neighborhood, history, abandoned places, texas, houston texas, houston tx, urbex, urban exploration, freeways, city planning