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Sharpstown Sharpstown is a master-planned community in the Southwest Management District (formerly Greater Sharpstown), Southwest Houston, Texas.Chinatown, Mahatma Gandhi District/Little India, Westwood, Harwin, and

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. It is governed by a management district which is created by the

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.

History

Construction of the

Sharpstown Sharpstown is a master-planned community in the Southwest Management District (formerly Greater Sharpstown), Southwest Houston, Texas.History & Demographics
" Greater Sharpstown Management District. Retrieved on December 29, 2010. The

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approved the formation of the Greater Sharpstown Management District in 2005. On August 20, 2000. Houston METRO provided its first 24-hour bus service from Downtown to Sharpstown Center. However, due to financial difficulties in building light rail, they had to discontinue the 1:35 am, 2:35 am, and 3:33 am eastbound trips. The last trip from Downtown would leave at 1:05 am, and the First trip at Harwin and Reims would start at 4:00 am Effective January 26, 2003. They have not brought back 24 hour service since then. After Hurricane Katrina struck

New Orleans, Louisiana New Orleans ( , ,New Orleans

, the zip code 77036 received the largest concentration of Katrina evacuees of any area in the city. 5,991 Katrina evacuees moved into over 2,600 apartment units. Within a wider area, from the

610 Loop Interstate 610 (I-610) is a freeway that forms a loop around the inner city sector of the city of Houston, Texas. I-610, colloquially known as The Loop, Loop 610, The Inner Loop, or just 610, traditionally marks the border between the ...

to the Houston city limits and from Westpark Drive to U.S. Highway 90A (South Main), 23,000 Katrina evacuees settled there.Turner, Allan.
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''. Friday January 20, 2006. Retrieved on October 23, 2011. On May 31, 2013, the Houston Fire Department suffered its largest casualty in a single event, the Southwest Inn fire, with four firefighters killed and 13 others were injured while fighting a 5-alarm fire at Southwest Inn, located in Greater Sharpstown.Map Major Roads
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Greater Sharpstown Management District. Retrieved on August 15, 2009.

Cityscape

The district consists of around of land, bounded by the

Westpark Tollway The Westpark Tollway, also Fort Bend Westpark Tollway, is a limited-access toll road in Texas, serving western Houston and Harris County, and northeastern Fort Bend County. Construction on the facility began in 2001 and portions of the road we ...

to the north, Interstate 69/ U.S. Route 59 and Bissonnet to the south,

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 Texa ...

to the west, and Hillcroft to the east.About the District
" Greater Sharpstown. Retrieved on June 1, 2010. I-69/U.S. 59, the Westpark Tollway, and Beltway 8 are the main transit arteries. The main commercial arteries of the district are

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 unincorporated a ...

and Interstate 69/U.S. Route 59. The management district government estimates that the district is 15 minutes driving time from

Downtown Houston Downtown is the largest central business district in the city of Houston and the largest in the state of Texas, located near the geographic center of the metropolitan area at the confluence of Interstate 10, Interstate 45, and Interstate 69. The ...

.

The Galleria The Galleria, stylized theGalleria and also known as the Houston Galleria, is an upscale mixed-use urban development and shopping mall located in the Uptown District of Houston, Texas, United States.Greenway Plaza Greenway Plaza is a business district located along Interstate 69 ( U.S. Highway 59) within the Interstate 610 loop in southwestern Houston, Texas, west of Downtown and east of Uptown. The district is located immediately west of Upper Kirby ...

, and the

Texas Medical Center The Texas Medical Center (TMC) is a medical district and neighborhood in south-central Houston, Texas, United States, immediately south of the Museum District and west of Texas State Highway 288. Over 60 medical institutions, largely concentrat ...

. The district has about 8,000 single-family houses and 7,000 condominiums and townhomes. Greater Sharpstown includes the

Sharpstown Sharpstown is a master-planned community in the Southwest Management District (formerly Greater Sharpstown), Southwest Houston, Texas.Chinatown inside

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 Texa ...

, a portion of Forum Park, and other nearby subdivisions.Rodriguez, Lori.
Opinions vary over naming the growing Asian community on Houston's southwest side
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. 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 district is divided into several zones, including:Slide1dh2-820x345.jpg
" Greater Sharpstown Management District. Retrieved on December 29, 2010. * Chinatown (the portion of Chinatown within Greater Sharpstown) * Harwin *

Sharpstown Sharpstown is a master-planned community in the Southwest Management District (formerly Greater Sharpstown), Southwest Houston, Texas. * Westwood ( Westwood Mall area) In 2010 the district announced that it will implement new and distinctly designed street signage to mark the various zones within Greater Sharpstown (replacing the existing standard city of Houston signage); installation began in the late winter of 2011.

Demographics

As of 2010 Greater Sharpstown has about 94,500 residents. Among the district residents are African Americans, Chinese Americans,

Hispanic Americans Hispanic and Latino Americans ( es, Estadounidenses hispanos y latinos; pt, Estadunidenses hispânicos e latinos) are Americans of Spanish and/or Latin American ancestry. More broadly, these demographics include all Americans who identify a ...

,

Vietnamese Americans Vietnamese Americans ( vi, Người Mỹ gốc Việt, lit=Viet-origin American people) are Americans of Vietnamese ancestry. They make up about half of all overseas Vietnamese and are the fourth-largest Asian American ethnic group after Chinese ...

. Up until the late 1980s

White American White Americans are Americans who identify as and are perceived to be white people. This group constitutes the majority of the people in the United States. As of the 2020 Census, 61.6%, or 204,277,273 people, were white alone. This represented ...

s were the majority. Many former residents left, going to First Colony,

Missouri City Missouri City is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, within the metropolitan area. The city is mostly in Fort Bend County, Texas, Fort Bend County, with a small portion in Harris County, Texas, Harris County. As of the 2020 census, the c ...

,

Pearland Pearland ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, within Brazoria County, with portions extending into Fort Bend and Harris counties. The city of Pearland is a principal city within the metropolitan statistical area. At the 2020 U.S. census, t ...

, Stafford, and

Sugar Land Sugar Land is the largest city in Fort Bend County, Texas, United States, located in the southwestern part of the metropolitan area. Located about southwest of downtown Houston, Sugar Land is a populous suburban municipality centered around ...

as the City of Houston expanded.

Economy

National Oilwell Varco NOV Inc., formerly National Oilwell Varco, is an American multinational corporation based in Houston, Texas. It is a worldwide provider of equipment and components used in oil and gas drilling and production operations, oilfield services, and ...

has its headquarters in Greater Sharpstown. MetroCorp Bancshares and subsidiary MetroBank have their headquarters in Greater Sharpstown and in Chinatown.

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, ...

also has its headquarters in Chinatown and Greater Sharpstown. La Subasta Inc. (formerly El Día, Inc.), which publishes ' and which published '' El Día'', has its offices in Greater Sharpstown.

KPRC-TV KPRC-TV (channel 2) is a television station in Houston, Texas, United States, affiliated with NBC and owned by Graham Media Group. Its studios are located on Southwest Freeway (I-69/US 59) in the Southwest Management District (formerly Greater ...

has its studios in Greater Sharpstown. The

China Airlines China Airlines (CAL; ) is the state-owned flag carrier of the Republic of China (Taiwan), and one of its two major airlines along with EVA Air. It is headquartered in Taoyuan International Airport and operates over 1,400 flights weekly (in ...

Houston Mini Office (Chinese: 休士顿营业所, Pinyin: ''Xiūshìdùn Yíngyèsuǒ'') is located in 2 Arena Place in the

Arena Place Arena Place is a complex including two office towers and a theater located in Sharpstown, Southwest Management District, Houston, Texas. Prior to its dissolution, A.D. Vision, an anime and manga company, was headquartered in Greater Sharpstown.Contact ADV
" ''A.D. Vision''. Retrieved on May 8, 2009.

Government

Management district

The district headquarters are located in Suite 109 at 9788 Clarewood Drive. The management district is governed by a board of directors, and board meetings are held once every month in the district headquarters.

Municipal government

Most of Greater Sharpstown is in

Houston City Council The Houston City Council is a city council for the city of Houston in the U.S. state of Texas. Currently, there are sixteen members, 11 elected from council districts and five at-large. The members of the Council are elected every four years, w ...

District J. District J was created to allow Hispanics to more easily elect representatives who cater to them. Some of it is in city council district F. The Houston Fire Department operates fire services in Greater Sharpstown, with the primary run area of Fire District 68 covering a lot of territory in Greater Sharpstown. Fire stations located within the district boundaries include Station 51 Sharpstown, a part of Fire District 68, and Station 10 Bellaire, a part of Fire District 83. Station 51 opened in 1962. Since then it had two facelifts and a renovation in the financial year of 1999. Station 10, previously located in what is now

East Downtown East Downtown Houston (EaDo) is a district in Houston, Texas, United States. The East Downtown Management District (EDMD), manages the area with offices headquartered at START Houston, a co-working space 1121 Delano Street. The community is locat ...

, relocated to its current location in the new Chinatown and in Greater Sharpstown in 1985.Welcome to EaDo
" East Downtown Management District. Retrieved on August 1, 2009. Station 68 Braeburn Glen, adjacent to the district, opened in 1973. The neighborhood is served by three

Houston Police Department The Houston Police Department (HPD) is the primary law enforcement agency serving the City of Houston, Texas, United States and some surrounding areas. With approximately 5,300 officers and 1,200 civilian support personnel it is the fifth-largest ...

patrol divisions. Most areas north and west of U.S. Route 59 are served by the Midwest Patrol Division, while the far western portion of Greater Sharpstown is served by the Westside Patrol Division. Areas south and east of U.S. 59 are served by the Fondren Patrol Division. The portion that is now in the Midwest Patrol Division was formerly in the Westside Patrol Division. The Midwest division operates the Ranchester Storefront 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 unincorporated a ...

in the new Chinatown and in Greater Sharpstown. VOLUNTEER INITIATIVES PROGRAM - Citizens Offering Police Support
" ''City of Houston''. Retrieved on September 23, 2008.
"

Houston Police Department The Houston Police Department (HPD) is the primary law enforcement agency serving the City of Houston, Texas, United States and some surrounding areas. With approximately 5,300 officers and 1,200 civilian support personnel it is the fifth-largest ...

. Retrieved on May 27, 2010. The Midwest Patrol Division headquarters are located in a building in the district.Welcome to the city’s newest Police Station.

Houston Police Department The Houston Police Department (HPD) is the primary law enforcement agency serving the City of Houston, Texas, United States and some surrounding areas. With approximately 5,300 officers and 1,200 civilian support personnel it is the fifth-largest ...

. Retrieved on April 28, 2010. The city purchased the building, a former business college, in November 2007. The operations in the facility began on March 1, 2010. The process of the purchase and renovation was a two-year project. The official grand opening of the station was held on April 27, 2010. The station has 159 police officers and civilians assigned to the patrol division, one investigative first responder (IFR) squad, and two narcotics squads. The facility has available furnished space for two additional investigative squads and of unfurnished space for future expansion. The building has a room which functions as a public meeting room and an in-service training room which seats up to 80 people. The facility has a gymnasium, a jail lockup for class C prisoners, down rooms for men and women, a break room, a kitchenette, full-sized lockers for the employees, an emergency generator, an ice machine, and hurricane supplies. The City of Houston Health Department operates the Sharpstown Health Services clinic.

County government

Harris Health System The Harris Health System, previously the Harris County Hospital District (HCHD), is a governmental entity with taxing authority that owns and operates three hospitals and numerous clinics throughout Harris County, Texas, United States, includin ...

(formerly Harris County Hospital District) designated Valbona Health Center (formerly People's Health Center) in

Greater Sharpstown 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, ...

for ZIP code 77074. The nearest public hospital is

Ben Taub General Hospital Ben Taub Hospital is a public hospital located in Houston, Texas within the Texas Medical Center. Having opened in May 1963, the hospital is owned and operated by the Harris Health System and is staffed by the faculty, residents, and students f ...

in the

Texas Medical Center The Texas Medical Center (TMC) is a medical district and neighborhood in south-central Houston, Texas, United States, immediately south of the Museum District and west of Texas State Highway 288. Over 60 medical institutions, largely concentrat ...

.

State representation

The

Texas Juvenile Justice Department The Texas Juvenile Justice Department (TJJD) is a state agency in Texas, headquartered in the Braker H Complex in Austin. It was created on December 1, 2011, replacing the Texas Youth Commission and the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission. Histor ...

(formerly of the

Texas Youth Commission The Texas Youth Commission (TYC) was a Texas state agency which operated juvenile corrections facilities in the state. The commission was headquartered in the Brown-Heatly Building in Austin. As of 2007, it was the second largest juvenile corre ...

) Houston District Office is located in Greater Sharpstown.

Crime

In regards to the ZIP code 77074, one area pizza parlor, as of 2006, does not make deliveries to four apartment complexes due to fear of crime. In regards to five or six others, it only makes deliveries at daylight hours.

Culture

In 2007, the group Neighborhood Centers Inc. announced that it would build the

Gulfton Gulfton is a community in Southwest Houston, Texas, United States that includes a group of apartment complexes that primarily house refugee and immigrant populations. It is located between the 610 Loop and Beltway 8, west of the City of Bellaire ...

Neighborhood Campus at the intersection of Rookin Street and High Star Drive when it raises $20 million.Friedberg, Jennifer.
Funds sought for Gulfton center
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Houston Chronicle The ''Houston Chronicle'' is the largest daily newspaper in 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''. With i ...

''. January 30, 2007. Retrieved on December 13, 2008. The Baker-Ripley Neighborhood Center, the neighborhood center at the intersection in Greater Sharpstown, was scheduled to open in December 2009.Rogers, Susan.
A New Center on the Periphery
" ''Cite''. Rice Design Alliance, (Northern Hemisphere) Fall 2009. 24. Retrieved on March 3, 2010.Rogers, Susan.
A New Center on the Periphery
" ''Cite''. Rice Design Alliance, (Northern Hemisphere) Fall 2009. 23. Retrieved on March 3, 2010.

Education

Primary and secondary schools

About 73% of the area of Greater Sharpstown is in the

Houston Independent School District The Houston Independent School District (HISD) is the largest public school system in Texas, and the eighth-largest in the United States. Houston ISD serves as a community school district for most of the city of Houston and several nearby and ...

(HISD), while the remaining 27% is within the

Alief Independent School District Alief Independent School District is a school district that is based in southwest Houston, Texas, United States. Alief ISD, which covers of land, covers a small portion of southwest Houston and parts of unincorporated Harris County. In Hous ...

(AISD). The HISD section is served by multiple schools. Bonham, Neff, Sutton, and Ed White elementary schools are in the district. Secondary schools in that district in the SWMD are Sugar Grove Middle School,

Jane Long Academy Jane Long Academy, formerly Jane Long Middle School, is a public grade 6-12 middle and high school in Sharpstown, Houston, Texas. It is a part of the Houston Independent School District. Long, in Sharpstown Section 1, serves portions of Sharpstow ...

(6-12), Sharpstown High School, and Sharpstown International School (6-12). A portion of the district is zoned to Sharpstown High. A portion of the district is served by

Margaret Long Wisdom High School Margaret Long Wisdom High School, formerly Robert E. Lee High School, is a publicly funded secondary school located in Southwest Houston, Texas, United States 77057. The Houston Independent School District, the 7th largest school district in the ...

(formerly Robert E. Lee High School) outside of the district. The Long campus houses the Las Américas Newcomer School. Sharpstown International is a

magnet school In the U.S. education system, magnet schools are public schools with specialized courses or curricula. "Magnet" refers to how the schools draw students from across the normal boundaries defined by authorities (usually school boards) as school ...

. Liberty High School, an alternative high school for recent immigrants, was from 2017 on the campus of Sharpstown International. In 2022 it moved to the

Houston Community College Houston Community College (HCC), also known as Houston Community College System (HCCS) is a public community college system that operates community colleges in Houston, Missouri City, Greater Katy, and Stafford in Texas. It is notable for active ...

(HCC) Gulfton Campus. - See the scrolling panels for the address. There are three Alief ISD elementary schools in the district: Best, Audrey Judy Bush, and Collins. Chancellor, Gladys Birdwell Horn, Landis, and Sneed serve other sections of the district; Chancellor has no bilingual students, and the ones in the district go to Sneed instead. For intermediate school Alief Middle, Budweig, Klentzman, and Owens serve sections of the district; Alief Middle does not have bilingual students, and they go to Owens instead. Middle schools serving sections include Alief Middle, O'Donnell, and Olle. For senior high school Alief ISD residents are randomly assigned to Alief Elsik, Alief Hastings, or Alief Taylor high schools.

YES Prep Public Schools YES Prep Public Schools, Inc. is a network of public, open-enrollment charter schools located in Greater Houston. Its headquarters are located at its Southside campus. The YES program is a university-preparatory program for grades K-12. Histo ...

has its headquarters in Greater Sharpstown. In addition YES Prep operates YES Prep Gulfton (originally YES Prep Lee), YES Prep West, and YES Prep South at the Revolution Campus in Greater Sharpstown. Harmony Public Schools also has its headquarters in Greater Sharpstown. In addition, it has Harmony Science Academy High School, which was ranked in the top ten schools in the Greater Houston area by

Children at Risk CHILDREN AT RISK is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that drives changes for children through research, education, and influencing public policy. Founded in the year of 1989 in Houston, Texas and with an office opened in North Texas in 2011, ...

, and the Harmony School of Innovation in Greater Sharpstown.

Girls and Boys Preparatory Academy Girls and Boys Preparatory Academy (GBPA) was a K-12 state-chartered primary and secondary school located in Greater Sharpstown, Houston, Texas.newspapers center accessible with a library card number and password. Up to July 2007 several teachers ...

, a charter school, was in Greater Sharpstown. Greater Sharpstown also has three private schools
St. Francis de Sales Catholic School
(grades K-8),

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 located in Sharpstown.

Islamic Education Institute of Texas The Islamic Education Institute of Texas (IEIT), also known as Darul Arqam Islamic School District (DAISD) and Darul Arqam Schools is a network of Islamic schools in Greater Houston, Texas, United States. The organization is a subsidiary of the I ...

(IEIT) is headquartered in Southwest Management District.

Public libraries

Two

Houston Public Library Houston Public Library is the public library system serving Houston, Texas, United States. History Houston Lyceum and the Carnegie Library The Houston Public Library system traces its founding to the creation of the second Houston Lyceum in 1 ...

facilities, the M. E. Walter Neighborhood Library and HPL Express Southwest, are in Greater Sharpstown.

Colleges and universities

Houston Christian University Houston Christian University (HCU), formerly Houston Baptist University, is a private Baptist university in Houston, Texas. It is affiliated with the Baptist General Convention of Texas ( Southern Baptist Convention). Its Cultural Arts Center ...

(renamed from Houston Baptist University in September 2022) is located in Greater Sharpstown.

Houston Community College Houston Community College (HCC), also known as Houston Community College System (HCCS) is a public community college system that operates community colleges in Houston, Missouri City, Greater Katy, and Stafford in Texas. It is notable for active ...

provides the district's residents with community college services.

Westwood College Westwood College was a private for-profit college owned by Alta Colleges Inc. with 15 campus locations in five states and online learning options. Westwood was nationally accredited by the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Scho ...

's Houston South Campus was located in One Arena Place in

Arena Place Arena Place is a complex including two office towers and a theater located in Sharpstown, Southwest Management District, Houston, Texas.Houston South Campus
"

Westwood College Westwood College was a private for-profit college owned by Alta Colleges Inc. with 15 campus locations in five states and online learning options. Westwood was nationally accredited by the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Scho ...

. Retrieved on April 24, 2010.

References

External links

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History

Cityscape

Demographics

Economy

Government

Management district

Municipal government

County government

State representation

Crime

Culture

Education

Primary and secondary schools

Public libraries

Colleges and universities

See also

References

External links