Doing Business Downtown

Downtown began its renewal in the mid-1990s, and since then, almost $4 billion of buildings, parks and infrastructure have been completed. We are now entering a new and amazing era of development, as it takes advantage of previous investment and foresee some $3 billion more of upcoming projects. Developments under construction include a 12-acre park, a 346-unit high rise apartment building overlooking the park and a $170 million mixed-use entertainment, retail and office complex. This renewed business environment bodes well for additional development and investment in downtown.

Putting a presentation together? The following are some of the documents included in this website, and are the most downloaded:

• Office market overview, major downtown employers, tax benefits of transit. See also the Office Market Reports section of this site
• Residential market overview, residential map, residential demand study
• Hotel market overview, hotel map , PKF’s reports in the Hotel section of this website, and our time series chart of downtown hotel statistics
• Retail market overview
• Entertainment market overview
• General supporting documents: Downtown Above & Below Map (also known as the Tunnel Map), downtown aerial map, available here in 11 x 17 PDF format or available in print from our office (713.650.1470), downtown block map , a list of development assistance programs that may be available, our recent strategic research summary and Opportunity Houston's talking points.