Chinatown ( or ) is a community in

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. There is another Chinatown called "Old Chinatown" located within the

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district near the George R. Brown Convention Center.

History

The first businesses of the new Houston Chinatown opened in 1983.Gray, Lisa.
Branding Chinatown: Neighborhood transforms
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''. January 8, 2008. Retrieved on August 11, 2011. In the 1980s increasing numbers of Chinese were living in

and

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and those residents were further away from the old Chinatown in what is now

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.Rodriguez, Nestor, p
39
Diho Square (), home to a Diho Supermarket chain outlet, was built, followed by Dynasty Plaza () in 1986-1987, a complex developed by a Singaporean friend of Diho Supermarket operator Tsang Dat Wong; the latter invited the former to build in Houston. Developers at the time bought land, inexpensive due to the

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, in hopes of prosperous development later.Knapp and Vojnovic, p. 354 (PDF p. 11/27). From the 1980s until the 2000s, the

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housing sections of Chinatown saw decreasing income levels and real estate values.Knapp and Vojnovic, p. 357 (PDF p. 14/27). The new Chinatown began to expand in the 1990s when Houston-area Asian American entrepreneurs moved their businesses from older neighborhoods, especially the "Old Chinatown" on the eastern end of Downtown Houston (in the process of redevelopment), in a search for more inexpensive properties and lower crime rates. Hong Kong City Mall (), owned by an ethnic Vietnamese man named Hai Du Duong, opened in 1999. In 2004 Nancy Sarnoff of the ''

'' described it as a westward shift for Chinatown. In 2005 Christy Chang, a tour operator who operated tours into Chinatown, said, "This area is not just Chinatown anymore. If anything, it's Asia Town" due to the presence of various ethnic groups that began establishing themselves in the community.Rodriguez, Lori.
Opinions vary over naming the growing Asian community on Houston's southwest side

. (Archived on May 15, 2008). Alternate version without Chinatown map:
DIVERSITY DEBATE / Chinatown outgrowing name / Opinions vary over naming the growing Asian community on Houston's southwest side
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''. Wednesday May 9, 2007. A1. The Asian American Business Council estimated that between 2004 and 2008 the land values along

Bellaire Boulevard Bellaire Boulevard (also known as Holcombe, and as 百利大道 ''Bǎilì Dàdào'' in Chinese and ''Đại Lộ Sàigòn'' in Vietnamese) is an arterial road in western Houston, Texas, United States. The street also goes through unincorporat ...

() in Chinatown increased between 25 and 50 percent. In 2008 the group estimated that in construction would appear within two years, including high-end condominiums. Lisa Gray of the ''

'' wrote that the development of the remaining acreage would likely cause rents to increase and that, compared to many other Chinatowns in the United States, the Houston Chinatown is still relatively inexpensive. In 2008 the Asian American Business Council placed a contest to design a "landmark monument" to be placed on Bellaire Boulevard between

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() and Gessner Road () in order to increase visibility among Asian Americans and non-Asian Americans and to beautify the area. Xenophobia stoked during the

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caused a steep decline in customers, as malicious people spread rumors about Chinese-Americans in Houston.

Cityscape

The

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(formerly Greater Sharpstown Management District) defines it as being roughly bounded by Redding Rd and Gessner Rd to the East, Westpark Dr to the North, Beltway 8 to the West, and Beechnut St to the South. The Greater Sharpstown Management District defines Chinatown within its borders as being a area.Chinatown
"
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" Chinatown GSMD-MarketZones-Chinatown Population: 29,993 Area: 2.37 Square Miles" According to the Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau (GHCVB), ''Chinatown'' along with

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(just west of the neighborhood) combine to form a combined Asiatown. The combined border roughly bounded by Fondren Road, Beechnut Street, State Highway 6, and Westpark Drive, and lies between

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and the city of Bellaire. The naming is disputed as other ethnic groups are within the expanded boundaries. The Bellaire Chinatown is about southwest of

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. It is over , making it among the largest automobile-centric Chinatowns in the

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. The Chinatown is located on a mostly treeless plain.Schilcutt, Katharine.
Top 10 Restaurants In Chinatown
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''. Wednesday June 16, 2010. Retrieved on June 17, 2010. The community is between Westchase and the

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. Katharine Shilcutt of the ''

'' said that Chinatown was "straddling Beltway 8 on the southwest side like an entire city unto itself." Sarnoff said that historically the intersection of Bellaire and Corporate Drive () served as the center of Chinatown, though that this was moving to the west by 2004. Much of the land of Chinatown is owned by private entities, so there are relatively few public areas. The new Chinatown is located within a residential area of single-family houses and apartments, and its spread-out nature differs from the

Chinatown, which was in a relatively compact area. Many of the surrounding residential areas and office developments were built in the 1990s and 2000s. The businesses within the new Chinatown include a mall, supermarkets, shopping centers, restaurants, and bakeries. The street signs have Chinese characters. Knapp and Vojnovic identified Hong Kong City Mall as the "symbolic center", and "visual center", as it houses the

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(Chinese arch).Knapp and Vojnovic, p. 356 (PDF p. 13/27). Chinatown1

The Bellaire Chinatown has many "retail condos," shopping centers in which spaces are owned instead of leased. Many

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n people prefer to own shopping places instead of renting them. In the United States "retail condos" are rare outside areas populated by

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. The community has restaurants serving many kinds of cuisines, including Chinese,

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and

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, Filipino, Indonesian,

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Korean Korean may refer to: People and culture * Koreans, ethnic group originating in the Korean Peninsula * Korean cuisine * Korean culture * Korean language **Korean alphabet, known as Hangul or Chosŏn'gŭl **Korean dialects and the Jeju language ** ...

, Laotian, Malaysian, Thai, and

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. In addition it has restaurants operated by ethnic Vietnamese that serve Louisiana-style

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. The community also has many

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restaurants. Shilcutt said that "the restaurant density in this area is roughly equivalent to the population density of

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." Lisa Gray of the ''

'' stated that this Chinatown resembles newer Chinatowns that opened in automobile-oriented metropolitan areas in the United States such as suburbs in

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and the

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, as opposed to older, uniformly Chinese, pedestrian-oriented Chinatowns in

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and

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. Gray said that in older Chinatowns immigrant businesses cluster together by ethnic group, while in newer automobile oriented Chinatowns retail operations from different ethnic groups move in next door to each other.

Demographics

As of 2012, according to the

Greater Sharpstown Management District Southwest Management District, formerly Greater Sharpstown Management District, is a district in Houston, Texas, United States. The district is split into 6 neighborhoods: Sharpstown, Chinatown, Mahatma Gandhi District/Little India, Westwood, H ...

the portion of Chinatown within the boundaries of the Greater Sharpstown district has 29,993 people. The clientele of this Chinatown tends to be middle class.

Government and instrastructure

Two Houston City Council districts, F and J, serve the new Chinatown.City of Houston, Council District Maps, District F
." City of Houston. Retrieved on November 5, 2011. District J was created to allow Hispanics to more easily elect representatives who cater to them. The new Chinatown is served by two

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patrol divisions, the Midwest Patrol Division and the Westside Patrol Division, of the

.VOLUNTEER INITIATIVES PROGRAM – Citizens Offering Police Support
" ''City of Houston''. Retrieved on September 23, 2008.
"

. Retrieved on May 27, 2010. The Midwest division operates the Ranchester Storefront ( "Chinatown Police Office") in the Diho Square complex. Fire stations located within Chinatown's boundaries include Station 10 Bellaire ( "Fire Brigade #10") and Station 76 Alief Community, both a part of Fire District 83. Station 10, previously located in what is now

, moved to its current location in 1985.Welcome to EaDo
." ''East Downtown Management District''. Retrieved on August 1, 2009. Station 76 was built in 1985.

Economy

Nearly a dozen banks, including

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and mainstream banks, are located along a less-than- stretch of

, near

. The clientele of these banks include area residents and

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entrepreneurs. Robert Lee, an executive vice president of MetroBank, said, "They call it the

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of Chinatown."Moreno, Jenalia.
Houston's 'Chinatown' near Beltway 8 sparks banking boom
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''. Sunday February 18, 2007. Retrieved on October 16, 2011. In the three decades before 2007,

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had one of the few bank branches in the area. Businesspeople began to open Asian American ethnic grocery stores and seafood markets. In the 1980s, Wells Fargo added signs in Chinese and hired tellers who spoke Cantonese, Korean, and nine other languages. During the same decade, local businesspeople opened MetroBank and Texas First National Bank during a banking crisis that hurt the state's mainstream banks. George Lee, the president of MetroCorp Bancshares, said, "All the banks were in trouble, and the ones that were not in trouble didn't understand the needs of the Asian community." American First National Bank and Southwestern National Bank opened in the 1990s. As of 2007, many Asian businesses operate in the area, and so Asian American banks have opened to cater to them. As of that year

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(now

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) was the last company to open a bank branch in that area of Chinatown. Texas First National is now known as Golden Bank.

Southwestern National Bank Southwestern National Bank ( zh, t=美南銀行, s=美南银行, p=Měi Nán Yínháng) is a United States based community bank with headquarters in Chinatown, Houston, Chinatown and in Greater Sharpstown, Houston, Greater Sharpstown in Houston, ...

has its headquarters in Chinatown and Greater Sharpstown. American First National Bank maintains a 12-story, $30 million headquarters building in Chinatown. MetroCorp Bancshares and subsidiary MetroBank previously had their headquarters in Chinatown and in

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previously operated the Houston Office (a.k.a. Oak Park Campus) on 67 acres of land in Chinatown and in the

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''. Friday August 10, 2001. Retrieved on November 11, 2009. The complex included the Latin America division of Easywell, a division of Halliburton. The building first opened as a

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facility in 1979. In 2009 the Westchase campus had 1,700 employees; Halliburton plans to increase employment at Oak Park to 3,000. At the Bellaire site Halliburton plans to build a 16-story tower, a two-story "life center," an additional parking garage, expanded child care facilities, auditoriums, and bridges to connect the many buildings. In 2009 Halliburton had about 1,000 employees in leased office space in Westchase. During that year Halliburton said that it planned to vacate the leased space.HALLIBURTON TO CONSOLIDATE HOUSTON OPERATIONS
." Halliburton. April 3, 2009. Retrieved on January 22, 2010. The plans for the Oak Park office had been delayed by one year, and Halliburton expected completion in 2013. However Halliburton closed it in 2015, and in 2020 a planned demolition was revealed.

Education

The new Chinatown is served by two school districts. Most of the New Chinatown according to the GHCVB definition is served by the

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, while an eastern portion is served by the

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. The HISD portion of the community is within Trustee District VI, represented by Greg Meyers as of 2008.

Alief Independent School District

Zoned elementary schools (K-4) located within the GHCVB definition of Chinatown include A. J. Bush, Chambers, Chancellor, Collins, Hearne, Liestman, Mahanay, Martin, and Youens. In addition Sneed Elementary School, outside Chinatown, serves a portion of Chinatown. Bilingual students zoned to Chancellor attend Youens, and bilingual students zoned to Mahanay attend Hearne. Owens Middle School is a zoned intermediate school in Chinatown. Budewig, Miller, and Youngblood, outside Chinatown, serve portions of Chinatown. Middle schools in Chinatown include Alief Middle, Killough, and O'Donnell. A portion is served by Albright Middle, outside Chinatown.2007–2008 Intermediate and Middle School Boundaries
."

. Retrieved on June 2, 2010. Regardless of location within the district, all Alief ISD residents may be randomly assigned to either

Alief Elsik High School Alief Elsik High School is a high school in the Alief region of Houston, Texas, United States. Elsik is divided into two campuses: the main campus (12601 High Star in Houston, zip code 77072), and the Alief Elsik Ninth Grade Center (located ...

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, and

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; all of them are in Chinatown. In addition the magnet school

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is in Chinatown.

Houston Independent School District

Neff and White Elementary Schools are located in the Houston ISD portion of Chinatown. Other portions are served by Emerson and Piney Point elementary schools. Most of the HISD portion is zoned to Sugar Grove Middle School and

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. A portion of Chinatown is zoned to Revere Middle School and

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(formerly Lee High School). Prior to 2011, Sharpstown Middle School served most of the HISD portion of Chinatown. The portion of the HISD portion of New Chinatown south of Bellaire Boulevard was zoned to Sharpstown High School, while the portion north of Bellaire Boulevard was zoned to Lee High School (With Lamar High School and Westside High School as options). For a period after 2011 the Sharpstown zone was assigned to Sharpstown International School for grades 6 through 12.

Private schools

Strake Jesuit College Preparatory Strake Jesuit College Preparatory (properly referred to as Strake Jesuit or Jesuit but often informally called Strake by students and alumni) is a Jesuit, college-preparatory school for boys, grades 9–12, in the Chinatown area and in the Greate ...

and Saint Agnes Academy are in Chinatown.

Transportation

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(METRO) provides local bus services to the area.

Recreation

Many Chinese holidays are celebrated in the Chinatown area with official events. The Chinese Community Center (CCC, , "Houston Chinese Culture Service Center"), an IRS

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organization and a

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affiliate, is located at 9800 Town Park Drive. The facility opened in 1979 as the Chinese Language School. The CCC has several levels of English classes offered daily. As of 2006, at CCC about 80% of the students have university degrees, and the other 20% are their family members. There is a mural representing the pan-Asian cultures made by Thomas Tran, called the Asiatown Community Mural. The organization Houston in Action gave a grant to the Vietnamese Culture and Science Association (VCSA), which hired Tran. Over 200 people created the mural without payment, and the mural opened in 2022.

References

* * Rodriguez, Nestor. "Hispanic and Asian Immigration Waves in Houston." in: Chafetz, Janet Salzman and Helen Rose Ebaugh (editors). ''Religion and the New Immigrants: Continuities and Adaptations in Immigrant Congregations''.

AltaMira Press Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an independent publishing house founded in 1949. Under several imprints, the company offers scholarly books for the academic market, as well as trade books. The company also owns the book distributing comp ...

, October 18, 2000. , 9780759117129. ** Also available in: Ebaugh, Helen Rose Fuchs and Janet Saltzman Chafetz (editors). ''Religion and the New Immigrants: Continuities and Adaptations in Immigrant Congregations''.

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, January 1, 2000. 0742503909, 9780742503908.

Notes

External links

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Chinatown
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Asian American Business Council
– Official New Chinatown Website for Detail Restaurants Guide, News, Entertainment and Cultural Event Schedule.
eBao – Asian American Lifestyle Online News
– eBao News Magazine covered Asian Community Business Events and Development.
Houston Chinatown
– Information about Houston's Chinatown and Asian Culture

– Map for the newer Chinatown on Bellaire Boulevard {{US Chinatowns Asian-American culture in Houston Ethnic enclaves in Texas Neighborhoods in Houston

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