Greater Greenspoint, also referred to as the North Houston District, is a business district and a suburban neighborhood in northern
Harris County,
Texas
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,
United States
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, located mostly within the city limits of
Houston
Houston ( ) is the List of cities in Texas by population, most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States. Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the county seat, seat of ...
. Centered around the junction of
Interstate 45
Interstate 45 (I-45) is a major Interstate Highway located entirely within the U.S. state of Texas. While most primary Interstate routes which have numbers ending in "5" are cross-country north–south routes, I-45 is comparatively short, ...
and
Texas State Highway Beltway 8
Beltway 8 (BW8), the Sam Houston Parkway, along with the Sam Houston Tollway, is an beltway around the city of Houston, Texas, United States, lying entirely within Harris County.
Beltway 8, a state highway maintained by the Texas ...
near
George Bush Intercontinental Airport
George Bush Intercontinental Airport is an international airport in Houston, Texas, United States, serving the Greater Houston metropolitan area. Initially named Houston Intercontinental Airport upon its opening in 1969, it was renamed in ho ...
, the area is a classic example of a planned
edge city
An edge city is a concentration of business, shopping, and entertainment outside a traditional downtown or central business district, in what had previously been a suburban, residential or rural area. The term was popularized by the 1991 boo ...
. The initial retail and office development centered around
Greenspoint Mall was a project of the
Friendswood Development Company during the 1970s and early 1980s.
[Bivins, Ralph.]
Exxon mulls move to Greenspoint site
" ''Houston Chronicle
The ''Houston Chronicle'' is the largest daily newspaper in Houston, Houston, Texas, United States. it is the third-largest newspaper by Sunday circulation in the United States, behind only ''The New York Times'' and the ''Los Angeles Times''. ...
''. Wednesday December 13, 1989. Business 3. Retrieved on August 3, 2009.
Greenspoint is one of Houston's major business districts, with of office space.
The district's 2,880 companies host a workforce of nearly 50,000 people.
Major flooding events along Greens Bayou, which bisects the district, have put additional pressure on the area's large low-income population; nearly half of Greenspoint residents have an income of under $25,000 per year, well below the Houston median of over $44,000 per year.
In order to create new infrastructure, boost public services (particularly safety), and spearhead
urban planning
Urban planning (also called city planning in some contexts) is the process of developing and designing land use and the built environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportatio ...
, the
Texas Legislature
The Texas State Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Texas. It is a bicameral body composed of a 31-member Senate and a 150-member House of Representatives. The state legislature meets at the Capitol in Austin. It is a p ...
created the North Houston District in 1991. This special government entity is bounded by the
Hardy Toll Road to the east, Airtex Boulevard to the north, Veterans Memorial Drive to the west, and West Road to the south.
[Boundary Map]
."
Full map
) Greenspoint Management District. Retrieved on May 19, 2009.
Geography
Greenspoint is located at the junction of two major regional highways,
Interstate 45
Interstate 45 (I-45) is a major Interstate Highway located entirely within the U.S. state of Texas. While most primary Interstate routes which have numbers ending in "5" are cross-country north–south routes, I-45 is comparatively short, ...
(the North Freeway) and
Texas State Highway Beltway 8
Beltway 8 (BW8), the Sam Houston Parkway, along with the Sam Houston Tollway, is an beltway around the city of Houston, Texas, United States, lying entirely within Harris County.
Beltway 8, a state highway maintained by the Texas ...
. The district is only west of
George Bush Intercontinental Airport
George Bush Intercontinental Airport is an international airport in Houston, Texas, United States, serving the Greater Houston metropolitan area. Initially named Houston Intercontinental Airport upon its opening in 1969, it was renamed in ho ...
(IAH).
The district is straddled by Greens Bayou, a major
tributary
A tributary, or an ''affluent'', is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream (''main stem'' or ''"parent"''), river, or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries, and the main stem river into which they ...
of
Buffalo Bayou
Buffalo Bayou is a slow-moving river which flows through Houston in Harris County, Texas. Formed 18,000 years ago, it has its source in the prairie surrounding Katy, Texas, Katy, Fort Bend County, Texas, Fort Bend County, and flows approximately ...
which flows from west to east. The bayou was extensively
channelized in the 1970s to improve drainage from the then-new airport; however, rapid development within its environs has compromised its ability to handle high-volume rainfall events. Over Construction also overwhelmed the bayou with uncontrolled
sewage
Sewage (or domestic sewage, domestic wastewater, municipal wastewater) is a type of wastewater that is produced by a community of people. It is typically transported through a sewerage, sewer system. Sewage consists of wastewater discharged fro ...
overflows in the 1970s and 1980s, and the waterway continues to struggle with
water quality
Water quality refers to the chemical, physical, and biological characteristics of water based on the standards of its usage. It is most frequently used by reference to a set of standards against which compliance, generally achieved through tr ...
issues.
In 2005, the Houston–Galveston Area Council identified Greenspoint as one of the most hazardous communities in Houston for pedestrians.
Demographics
The Greater Greenspoint super neighborhood, as defined by the City of Houston, had an estimated population of 42,569 people in 2012.
There were 13,859 households, of which 9,235 were family households.
Greenspoint is overwhelmingly
majority minority
A majority-minority or minority-majority area is a term used to refer to a subdivision in which one or more racial, ethnic, and/or religious minorities (relative to the whole country's population) make up a majority of the local population.
Ter ...
. The population is 5% non-Hispanic white, 29% non-Hispanic black, 66% Hispanic, and 1% Asian.
In the 2000 Census, the district was 10% non-Hispanic white, 34% non-Hispanic black, 53% Hispanic, 2% Asian, and 1% other.
Greenspoint's proportion of black and Hispanic people is significantly greater than that for Houston as a whole; the city was 26% non-Hispanic white, 23% non-Hispanic black, and 44% Hispanic in 2012.
Since the 1980s, the proportion of families in Greenspoint has dramatically increased. In 2012, there were 13,859 households, of which 9,235 were family households.
Between 1990 and 2010, the number of people under the age of 18 in Greenspoint increased nearly sixfold, indicating the departure of young professionals and their replacement with low-income families in the area's apartment complexes.
The proportion of Greenspoint residents under 5 years of age is nearly double the city of Houston's.
The Greenspoint area's median
household income
Household income is a measure of income received by the household sector. It includes every form of cash income, e.g., salaries and wages, retirement income, investment income and cash transfers from the government. It may include near-cash gover ...
is significantly lower than the City of Houston's – $26,823 versus $44,648 in 2012.
Greenspoint's median household income declined slightly between 2000 and 2012 despite a 22% increase in the city's overall median household income during the same period.
A plurality (48%) of Greenspoint's residents make less than $25,000 per year.
Greenspoint's population has lower levels of educational attainment than the city of Houston as a whole. Only 6% of Greenspoint residents had a bachelor's degree or higher in 2012, compared with 29% of Houston residents.
Conversely, 45% of Greenspoint residents have no
high school diploma
A high school diploma (sometimes referred to as a high school degree) is a diploma awarded upon graduation of high school
A secondary school, high school, or senior school, is an institution that provides secondary education. Some secondary s ...
, compared with only 25% of Houstonians overall.
History
Suburban development first arrived in the area with the construction of
Greenspoint Mall by development firm Federated Stores Realty in 1976. By contemporary standards, the mall was state-of-the-art, with the interior designed to mimic an urban streetscape with extensive natural lighting and organic landscaping.
Early tenants included
Foley's
Foley's was a regional chain of department stores owned by Federated Department Stores (1947–1988, 2005–2006), later owned by May Department Stores (1988–2005) and headquartered in Downtown Houston, Texas. On August 30, 2005, the divisi ...
,
Montgomery Ward
Montgomery Ward is the name of two successive U.S. retail corporations. The original Montgomery Ward & Co. was a mail-order business and later a department store chain that operated between 1872 and 2001; its common nickname was "Monkey Wards". ...
, and
Lord & Taylor
Lord & Taylor was an American department store chain founded in 1826 by Samuel Lord. It had 86 full-line stores in the Northeastern United States at its peak in the 2000s, and 38 locations at the time of its liquidation in 2021. The Lord & Tay ...
.
The arrival of the mall and its modern suburban amenities catalyzed a wave of development on the
greenfield land
Greenfield land is a British English term referring to undeveloped land in an urban or rural area either used for agriculture or landscape design, or left to evolve naturally. These areas of land are usually agricultural or amenity properties ...
surrounding it. In 1978,
Friendswood Development Company, a subsidiary of oil giant
Exxon
Exxon Mobil Corporation ( ) is an American multinational oil and gas corporation headquartered in Spring, Texas, a suburb of Houston. Founded as the largest direct successor of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil, the modern company was form ...
, purchased hundreds of acres around the mall for the construction of what the
''Texas Observer'' described as a "world-class suburban business district, a hub for the corporate jet set."
The master plan included 5,000 apartment units and eight interconnected office towers.
The onset of the
1980s oil glut in the middle of the decade harshly affected Exxon, which cut its workforce by 40%.
Greenspoint, faced with a glut of residential and commercial development, quickly lost its luxury appeal and price point.
Greenspoint Mall became the apex of a growing crime problem, and by the middle of the decade,
motor vehicle theft
Motor vehicle theft or car theft (also known as a grand theft auto in the United States) is the criminal act of stealing or attempting to steal a motor vehicle.
In 2020, there were 810,400 vehicles reported stolen in the United States, up f ...
was endemic to its large surface parking lot.
Crime problems in the Mall climaxed with the abduction and murder of
Harris County Sheriff's deputy Roxyann Allee at the mall in 1991. After frequent robberies in the parking lot and the infamous murder of deputy Roxyann Allee the mall was nicknamed "Gunspoint."
In 1998,
Goldman Sachs
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. ( ) is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company. Founded in 1869, Goldman Sachs is headquartered in Lower Manhattan in New York City, with regional headquarters in many internationa ...
purchased 24 Greenspoint-area apartment complexes, totaling of rentable space, for over $130 million.
15 of those complexes were extensively renovated and merged into a large development known as "CityView", designed to appeal to higher-income young professionals.
Since 2000, Greenspoint has suffered from multiple catastrophic flooding events, largely due to the presence of multiple high-density apartment complexes within the
floodplain
A floodplain or flood plain or bottomlands is an area of land adjacent to a river. Floodplains stretch from the banks of a river channel to the base of the enclosing valley, and experience flooding during periods of high Discharge (hydrolog ...
of Greens Bayou.
The bayou overtopped its banks in 2001 (
Tropical Storm Allison), 2002, 2003, 2016 (
"Tax Day" floods), and 2017 (
Hurricane Harvey
Hurricane Harvey was a devastating tropical cyclone that made landfall in Texas and Louisiana in August 2017, causing catastrophic flooding and more than 100 deaths. It is tied with 2005's Hurricane Katrina as the costliest tropical cy ...
).
Three-quarters of the district's
multi-family housing is located within a floodplain.
After
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina was a powerful, devastating and historic tropical cyclone that caused 1,392 fatalities and damages estimated at $125 billion in late August 2005, particularly in the city of New Orleans and its surrounding area. ...
struck
New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or The Big Easy among other nicknames) is a Consolidated city-county, consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the U.S. state of Louisiana. With a population of 383,997 at the 2020 ...
in 2005, large groups of evacuees settled into apartment complexes in the area.
In 2017, Greenspoint Mall entered into a contract for sale to an international investment group which seeks to replace the ailing complex with
mixed-use development
Mixed use is a type of urban development, urban design, urban planning and/or a zoning classification that blends multiple uses, such as residential, commercial, cultural, institutional, or entertainment, into one space, where those functions ...
.
By 2020
Amazon
Amazon most often refers to:
* Amazon River, in South America
* Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin
* Amazon (company), an American multinational technology company
* Amazons, a tribe of female warriors in Greek myth ...
had established a warehouse in Greenspoint. R.A. Schuetz of the ''
Houston Chronicle
The ''Houston Chronicle'' is the largest daily newspaper in Houston, Houston, Texas, United States. it is the third-largest newspaper by Sunday circulation in the United States, behind only ''The New York Times'' and the ''Los Angeles Times''. ...
'' stated that a "revival" in Greenspoint was occurring. In 2019 Florian Martin of
Houston Public Media reported that year that the "Gunspoint" nickname was still in use and that despite an increase in development and a decline in the crime rate, that "It’s Not Quite Houston’s New Hotspot Just Yet".
Economy
Greenspoint contains of office space hosting 2,880 companies with nearly 50,000 employees.
In 2010, Greenspoint was named one of the top five markets in the United States for
logistics
Logistics is the part of supply chain management that deals with the efficient forward and reverse flow of goods, services, and related information from the point of origin to the Consumption (economics), point of consumption according to the ...
companies.
[Popovec, Jennifer Duell.]
Greenspoint Attracts Large Industrial
." Globst.com by ALM. April 21, 2010. Retrieved on April 29, 2010.
Following the completion of a comprehensive new corporate campus in
Spring,
ExxonMobil
Exxon Mobil Corporation ( ) is an American multinational List of oil exploration and production companies, oil and gas corporation headquartered in Spring, Texas, a suburb of Houston. Founded as the Successors of Standard Oil, largest direct s ...
withdrew completely from Greenspoint, abandoning approximately of office space during the mid-2010s. This move severely impacted the district's office market, which saw its office occupancy rate plummet to 60% in 2015, making it the worst-performing office submarket in Greater Houston. Prior to its move, ExxonMobil had consolidated a variety of departments into the district, including computer operations and exploration. The corporation's investment in Greenspoint had been so substantial that it was responsible for the construction of an entire eight-story office building, Greenspoint Eight, in the mid-1990s.
ExxonMobil's presence expanded further in the 2000s, when it leased additional space and spent millions of dollars on infrastructure improvements.
[Sarnoff, Nancy. "ExxonMobil may be frontrunner for Enron Center South building." '']Houston Business Journal
American City Business Journals, Inc. (ACBJ) is an American newspaper publisher based in Charlotte, North Carolina. ACBJ publishes ''The Business Journals'', which contains local business news for 44 markets in the United States with each market ...
''. Friday February 8, 2002
1
Retrieved on April 5, 2010.
Corporate operations

Greenspoint contains the headquarters of the following companies:
* Canrig Drilling Technologies
*
Friendswood Development Company
Additionally, these corporations have major operations in Greenspoint:
*
Nabors Industries
*
Saudia
Saudia (), formerly known as Saudi Arabian Airlines (), is the flag carrier of Saudi Arabia based in Jeddah. The airline's main hubs are the King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah and the King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, the ...
*
Servisair
*
Aetna
Aetna Inc. ( ) is an American managed health care company that sells traditional and consumer directed health care insurance and related services, such as medical, pharmaceutical, dental, behavioral health, long-term care, and disability plans, ...
Former operations

*
ASP Westward
*
ExpressJet Airlines was headquartered in Greenspoint and in Houston.
Anadarko Petroleum was headquartered in the Anadarko Tower.
Around 2002, Anadarko moved to
The Woodlands, Texas
The Woodlands is a Special district (United States), special-purpose district and census-designated place (CDP) in the U.S. state of Texas in the Greater Houston, Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan statistical area. The Woodlands ...
,
Montgomery County.
At one time the headquarters of Atofina (now
Total Petrochemicals USA) were in an area in Houston in proximity to
George Bush Intercontinental Airport
George Bush Intercontinental Airport is an international airport in Houston, Texas, United States, serving the Greater Houston metropolitan area. Initially named Houston Intercontinental Airport upon its opening in 1969, it was renamed in ho ...
and in proximity to the Greenspoint district.
[Dawson, Jennifer.]
ATOFINA to move from Greenspoint to downtown
" ''Houston Business Journal
American City Business Journals, Inc. (ACBJ) is an American newspaper publisher based in Charlotte, North Carolina. ACBJ publishes ''The Business Journals'', which contains local business news for 44 markets in the United States with each market ...
''. Monday July 19, 2004. Retrieved on April 5, 2010. The lease to the former space was scheduled to expire in 2010, but the company had the right to cancel its lease in 2007. The firm, which occupied a similar amount of square footage in the previous office that it has in its current office, planned to sublease the space from 2005 to 2007.
Tax exemptions
Due to efforts from the North Houston Greenspoint Chamber of Commerce, in May 2003 the
Aldine Independent School District (AISD) ratified approval of the freeport tax exemptions, which waive ad valorem property taxes on types of business inventory. 150 of the 5,000 companies operating in the Greenspoint area qualified for freeport tax exemptions. The chamber asked the school district to exempt the taxes because neighboring school districts had adopted the exemption and put the territory in AISD in a competitive disadvantage. As of 2003 the portions of Greenspoint covered by the City of Houston are under a freeport tax exemption from the city government, while the areas of Greenspoint in
unincorporated area
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
s do not have that exemption.
Government and infrastructure
Local government and special districts
Greater Greenspoint straddles the city limits of Houston, with portions lying in
unincorporated Harris County. Since Greenspoint is not an incorporated area, it does not have fixed geographic boundaries.

The portion of Greenspoint within Houston is part of
Houston City Council
The Houston City Council is a city council for the city of Houston in the U.S. state of Texas.
The Council has sixteen members: eleven from council districts and five elected at-large. The members of the Council are elected every four years, wi ...
district B. The
Houston Police Department (HPD) serves the Houston portions of Greenspoint from the North Belt Police Station. The station, in a temporary office building location was of 2020, opened in January 2018. HPD previously served it as part of the North Patrol Division, While Greenspoint was a part of the North District, HPD operated two "storefronts" – small
police station
A police station is a facility operated by police or a similar law enforcement agency that serves to accommodate police officers and other law enforcement personnel. The role served by a police station varies by agency, type, and jurisdiction, ...
s located in retail centers – in the area: Aldine Storefront along Interstate 45 near Airline Drive and Greenspoint Storefront on the grounds of Greenspoint Mall.
[Police Stations and Neighborhood Storefronts]
" Houston Police Department. Retrieved on May 27, 2010. "Aldine 10966 North Fwy" and "Greenspoint 105 Greenspoint Mall "
Greenspoint is serviced by a
special management district, the North Houston District, which was created by the
Texas Legislature
The Texas State Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Texas. It is a bicameral body composed of a 31-member Senate and a 150-member House of Representatives. The state legislature meets at the Capitol in Austin. It is a p ...
in 1991 to fund infrastructure, public safety, branding, and planning initiatives. The district levies its own special
ad valorem
An ''ad valorem'' tax (Latin for "according to value") is a tax whose amount is based on the value of a transaction or of a property. It is typically imposed at the time of a transaction, as in the case of a sales tax or value-added tax (VAT). A ...
commercial property tax on parcels within its boundaries to fund these improvements. The entity was known as the Greenspoint District until 2016, when it was renamed to reflect its incorporation of areas outside the traditional boundaries of Greenspoint.
The Greater Greenspoint Redevelopment Authority (GGRA), which oversees the Greenspoint
Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone (TIRZ), is a separate entity from the North Houston District. TIRZs, which are created by the City of Houston (as opposed to the Texas Legislature), use
tax increment financing
Tax increment financing (TIF) is a public financing method that is used as a subsidy for redevelopment, infrastructure, and other community-improvement projects in many countries, including the United States. The original intent of a TIF program i ...
to fund infrastructure and economic development projects within their boundaries. While the North Houston District and the GGRA often cooperate to create, manage, and fund infrastructure projects, they are distinct legal entities with different geographic boundaries.
The
Houston Fire Department
City of Houston Fire Department (HFD) is the agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the city of Houston, Texas, United States, the fourth largest city in the United States. HFD is responsible for preserving life a ...
operates Station 74 Greenspoint, located in Fire District 64. The station at Airline and Goodson was built in 1979; the location was shared with the Little York Volunteer Fire Department. The current Station 74, located at Aldine Bender at Lillja, was built in 1983.
Federal and state representation
The
United States Postal Service
The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or simply the Postal Service, is an independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the executive branch of the federal governmen ...
operates the Greens North Post Office at 1530 Greensmark Drive.
The
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Houston Field Office and the Houston office of the
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE; ) is a Federal law enforcement in the United States, federal law enforcement agency under the United States Department of Homeland Security. ICE's stated mission is to protect the Un ...
are in Greenspoint and in Houston.
Education
Community colleges
Lone Star College-Houston North(part of the
Lone Star College System), is located along
Beltway 8
Beltway 8 (BW8), the Sam Houston Parkway, along with the Sam Houston Tollway, is an beltway around the city of Houston, Texas, United States, lying entirely within Harris County, Texas, Harris County.
Beltway 8, a state highway mai ...
; it is on the south side of Beltway 8 while
Greenspoint Mall is on the north side.
The center was previously the administrative headquarters of the Lone Star College system, before it moved to The Woodlands.
Lone Star College-North Harris also serves much of the area.
Primary and secondary schools

Most students living in Greenspoint are zoned to the
Aldine Independent School District; however, some are zoned to the
Spring Independent School District.
Aldine Independent School District
Aldine ISD serves much of the Greenspoint district.
PreK schools serving sections of Greenspoint include deSantiago, Griggs, Hinojosa (in
Aldine), Keeble, and Magrill.
Elementary schools serving sections of Greenspoint include Greenspoint (in Greenspoint), Black, Bussey (in Greenspoint), Calvert, Eckert, Gray (in Greenspoint), Marcella (in Greenspoint), Spence (in Greenspoint), Stehlik (in Greenspoint), and Thompson. Marcella and Stehlik were previously grade 5-6 intermediate schools.
Middle schools serving Greenspoint include Stovall (in Greenspoint), Lewis, Plummer, and Teague.
Aldine High School and
Benjamin O. Davis High School are located in Greenspoint and serve portions of the district.
Nimitz High School serves a small section. When Davis High School opened in 2012, a portion of Greenspoint was rezoned to that school.
Spring Independent School District
None of the Spring ISD schools serving Greenspoint are in Greenspoint. Clark Primary and Clark Intermediate School, in an unincorporated area, serve one portion of Greenspoint for elementary school. Heritage Elementary School, in an unincorporated area, serves another. The SISD portion is also zoned to Wells Middle School and
Dekaney High School, both in unincorporated areas.
Public libraries

The
Harris County Public Library Aldine Branch, located at 11331 Airline Drive in Greenspoint and in Houston, serves the community.
[WORTH READING ABOUT / Construction work under way on Barbara Bush branch library]
" ''Houston Chronicle
The ''Houston Chronicle'' is the largest daily newspaper in Houston, Houston, Texas, United States. it is the third-largest newspaper by Sunday circulation in the United States, behind only ''The New York Times'' and the ''Los Angeles Times''. ...
''. Wednesday September 20, 2000. ThisWeek 1. Retrieved on December 9, 2011. The branch opened in 1976. The renovated Aldine Branch reopened on September 6, 2001.
The expansion and renovation was originally scheduled to be completed in January 2001.
Due to the expansion, the library gained , which led to increases in meeting spaces and a 100% increase in the number of computers. Students from
Aldine High School, Aldine 9th Grade School, Stovall Middle School, and Black Elementary School use the branch.
Parks and recreation
The management district destroyed two abandoned apartment complexes and replaced them with parks operated by the management district.
[Greater Greenspoint Redevelopment Authority]
." Greenspoint Management District. Retrieved on May 30, 2010. The CityView Park includes benches, a garden, a by pavilion, a trellis, a seat wall used for resting and providing shade, and tables. The Thomas R. Wussow Park has baseball/soccer (football) fields, hike and bicycle trails, a playground, a public pavilion, a spray ground, and sand volleyball courts. The park was named after Thomas R. Wussow, the founder of the district and a member of the district's board.
In 2010 the management district announced that a
skate park would be established by 2010 in an area at Kuykendahl Road at Rankin Road, near
Interstate 45
Interstate 45 (I-45) is a major Interstate Highway located entirely within the U.S. state of Texas. While most primary Interstate routes which have numbers ending in "5" are cross-country north–south routes, I-45 is comparatively short, ...
.
[Koloian, Kevin.]
Skate park to go up in the area by 2012
" '' The Spring Observer''. Tuesday March 16, 2010. Updated on Saturday November 20, 2010. Retrieved on December 4, 2010.
Gallery
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See also
*
Greenspoint Mall
References
External links
North Houston District**
- City of Houston
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