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Fast Facts
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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
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Downtown residents, workers and visitors enjoy access to approximately 300 restaurants and 2.45 million square feet of retail shops
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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
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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
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Home to the 2005 National League Champions Houston Astros, Minute Maid Park features a retractable roof
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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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