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  • Downtown Houston is 1.8 square miles and is bordered by Interstate 10, Interstate 45 and U.S. 59
  • Total workforce, 145,318
  • Total businesses 5,150 (2,125 company headquarters)
  • Largest employers (by number of employees, 2006)

 Shell Oil Company  5,950
 Harris County  5,400
 Chevron*  4,400
 City of Houston  4,000
 JPMorgan Chase  4,000
 ExxonMobil  3,600
 Continental Airlines  2,700
 El Paso Corp.  2,065
 US Government  1,970
 US Post Office  1,950
 Christus St. Joseph Hospital  1,900
 Reliant Energy  1,600
 CenterPoint Energy  1,400
 Kellogg Brown & Root   1,240
 Deloitte & Touche L.L.P.  1,225
 Lyondell Petrochemical Co.  1,100
 PricewaterhouseCoopers, L.L.P.   1,000
 Vinson & Elkins     920
 Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.     905
 EPCO**     900
 Ernest & Young     900
 Waste Management, Inc.     900
 Devon     875
 Amerada Hess Corporation     800
 Express Jet Holdings     800
 Houston Chronicle     800
 University of Houston Downtown     720
 Kinder Morgan     700
 Baker Botts     660
 KPMG Peat Marwick     660
 Amegy Bank     550
 Hilton Americas- Houston     550
 Andrews Kurth     525
 Burlington Resources     475
 Bank of America     460

  * Chevron will relocate an additional 700 employees to downtown in the second half of 2006
** Enterprise Products will employ approximately 900 people downtown by October 2006

  • There is over 43 million square feet of office space in Downtown Houston
  • Downtown residents, workers and visitors enjoy access to approximately 300 restaurants and 2.45 million square feet of retail shops
  • Downtown Houston has the second largest underground tunnel system that is 6.3 miles long, having started out years ago as a tunnel between two downtown movie theaters. Today it includes restaurants, services and shops between connecting buildings
  • Downtown is home to 15 hotels totaling over 5,000 rooms and suites
  • Currently there are 3,068 residential units in Downtown accommodating more than 3,800 people
  • Downtown Houston's Theater District is one of five in the United States with permanent, professional resident companies in all of the major performing art disciplines: opera, ballet, symphony and theater
  • With 13,000 theater seats, the Theater District ranks second behind New York City for the number of theater seats in a concentrated downtown area
  • The Theater District includes Jones Hall, Alley Theater, Wortham Center and Hobby Center is also home to the 130,000 Bayou Place restaurant and entertainment complex
  • There is over 1 million square feet of meeting and convention space in Downtown included the George R. Brown Convention Center
  • The Houston Rockets moved to a new Downtown arena, The Toyota Center. This state-of-the-art center is also home to the Houston Comets and the Houston Aeros
  • Home to the 2005 National League Champions Houston Astros, Minute Maid Park features a retractable roof
  • You will find the Dowtown Aquarium, an underwater dining and entertainment adventure featuring 500,000 gallons of marine life, a Ferris wheel, boardwalk, dancing fountains and more
  • Downtown is linked by MetroRail to the Museum District, the world-class Texas Medical Center and Reliant Plaza

    Since 1999, the Downtown overall crime statistics have increased less than 1%. This slight increase can be directly attributed to increased activities in Downtown including events at Minute Main Park, Toyota Center as well as a dramatic increase in the number of nightclubs, restaurants and bars. The Houston Police Department's Special Operations Division, located at 1900 Rusk, focuses specifically on Downtown safety issues

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