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. Recently completed developments include One Park Place, a 346-unit high rise apartment building overlooking Discovery Green, a one-year-old 12-acre park; and Houston Pavilions, a $170 million mixed-use entertainment, retail and office complex. Projects under construction include MainPlace, a 47-story, one million square-foot office tower by Hines; Hess Tower, a 29-story, 844,763-square-foot office tower by Trammell Crow; and a new YMCA.

The Basics. The following are some of the most downloaded documents and maps of this section, placed here for easy and quick access:

• Office market overview, major downtown employers, tax benefits of transit. See also the Office Market Reports section of this site 
• Commute Survey Report, identifying how downtown workers get to work, what transit and/or parking subsidies they are offered, how far they travel, what time they leave, how long it takes, where they live, and more. For more information, including appendices, go to the Commute Survey section.
• 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 and our recent strategic research summary.