Downtown Houston contains approximately 3,500 businesses and 140,000 employees in more than 40 million square feet of office space.  Downtown's office market is complemented by growing hospitality, tourism, residential and retail markets.

Numerous companies have moved or have announced moves to downtown.  These include Total which relocated its north Houston operations to downtown at the end of 2005,  El Paso Corporation with its relocation of 1,700 employees to downtown in 2004, Chevron's consolidation which resulted in a net gain of 2,000 downtown employees in (official release, USA Today), Burlington Resources' Houston offices and headquarters, JPMorgan Chase's North American Technology Center,  numerous law and accounting firms, and many others!

Why do so many companies choose downtown Houston?  Why do employees want to work downtown?  Read some of the many reasons.

In addition, the following reports, studies and graphics are available:

• Office market reports
• Parking studies, maps and surveys
• Tunnel and skywalk system
• Downtown's largest employers
• Employment by Block (numbers per block, or color-coded density), 2001
• Driving in and out of downtown -- primary routes (Word or PDF)
• Incentives
• Executive suites and offices