Page 14 - 2017 Directory

A Developing Community:

A Look at the Changing Landscape of East End Houston

By Dan Joyce
for Law Enforcement and Criminal spaces for science and engineering
ust minutes from downtown Justice) to be located on Scott Street labs, welding, and the culinary arts
Houston, with quick access to Cyclists enjoing the bike trail at Mason Park
Jmajor freeways and the newly between Pease and Coyle. The $40 program, which will include a student-
run café. Other features include new
million facility, funded from real-
completed METRORail Green Line, estate proceeds under the 2012 Bond administrative offices, an auditorium and Sampson, the newest New Hope
renewed green spaces and hike and Program, will feature a new three-story with a black box theater, a large Housing project looks to welcome new
bike trails, some of the best murals building that combines a 21st-century commons area, and outdoor courtyard. residents by year’s end. New Hope
and public art in the city, and the U.S. learning environment with a realistic Housing’s core mission is to provide
birthplace of fajitas, East End Houston courtroom, crime-scene investigations The East End is also quickly earning a life-stabilizing, affordable, permanent
offers a little something for everyone. housing with support services for
lab, emergency communications center, reputation as the tech and start-up hub people who live on very limited
The abundance of available land, as and law library. The High School for of Houston, in part to the newly opened incomes. The newest development in
well as existing warehouse and light Law & Justice aims to provide students Headquarters at 3302 Canal Street. the East End, with construction well
manufacturing opportunities, make and staff with a safe facility where Housed in 35,000 square feet of former underway, will also serve as the new
this historic community an attractive students may receive a strong academic warehouse space, Headquarters offers corporate offices of the New Hope
setting for new businesses to locate and education in conjunction with an a co-working space for both small and Housing administration.
for existing business to expand. in-depth study of Law
Enforcement and Criminal At 501 N. York Street, a block away
Houston-based developer Midway has Justice. The school also offers from Tony Marron Park, sits the newly
unveiled preliminary details of their a magnet program in legal opened Seafarers International Union
plans to redevelop a sprawling 147- studies, law enforcement and Hall. Perched on the site of a former
acre tract of land along Buffalo Bayou, fire technology. cement facility, the Seafarers building
once occupied by KBR. The proposed represents yet another example of
development, to be called East River, The 2012 HISD Bond repurposed property development in
is a joint venture between Midway and Program also paved the way East End Houston.
William Harrison of Cathexis. With one for a new and improved
mile of frontage along Buffalo Bayou Milby High School, slated Milby High School, photos courtsey of HISD
and unobstructed views of the Houston to open this summer.
skyline, the developers envision an Currently 85% complete,
industrial waterfront mixed-use the three-story $69 million
development that includes plans for project is a combination of
both for-sale and rental properties that new construction as well as
accommodate a variety of income levels. renovations that preserves
the historical front façade
Education options are growing in while creating a modern
the East End as well. The Houston learning environment to accommodate large companies. With features like
Independent School District broke over 2,000 students. The building will 24/7 access, fiber internet access, and
ground late last year on the new feature new academic wings erected shared spaces that include a game room,
location of the High School for Law to the north and south of the main coffee bar and an interior courtyard,
and Justice (formerly High School building, each including learning the new facility offers a flexible work
environment at a reasonable cost.

After a long day at the office, the East
End’s newest craft brewery offers the
perfect spot to unwind. Sigma Brewing
Company, located at 3118 Harrisburg,
offers daily tap room tastings of
homegrown recipes like their Bonesaw
Double Black IPA or Bulgarian Miak
Milk Stout. Did we mention that their
local distribution vehicle is an old
hearse? Be sure to keep an eye out for it
around town.
Just across the street from Sigma
METRORail Green Line, connects historic East End to downtown Brewing Company, at Harrisburg Counstuction site of Sampson, the newest New Hope Housing

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