East End, Houston

[1] The District is home to Houston's early history and industry and is the site of Harrisburg, the seat of government for the Republic of Texas in 1836.

[1] East End Houston consists of many different ethnic groups, including Hispanic, Asian, White, and African American.

Latinos make up more than half of the 100,512 residents, The area includes two of Houston's oldest Hispanic neighborhoods, Magnolia Park and Second Ward.

[citation needed] The Eastwood subdivision, established in 1913, is considered one of the first master-planned communities in Houston.

[6] In 1997, Lori Rodriguez of the Houston Chronicle said "In the lifetime of some coalition members, the East End has gone from being mainly white to mainly Hispanic, mainly affluent to mainly modest, mainly thriving to mainly struggling," and that "a younger and more aggressive leadership is trying to revitalize the area and, to a touchingly discernible degree, it has succeeded.

"[7] The Greater East End management district was established by a bill sponsored by Texas Senator Mario Gallegos and Texas Representative Rick Noriega after a petition circulated advocated for the establishment of the district.

[9] The district is home to The Orange Show, Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, Mutalistan Hall, and a Chicano mural by artist Leo Tanguma on Canal Street.

[9] The Association for the Advancement of Mexican Americans opened the new $3.6 million AAMA Multi-Purpose Education Center in 1999.

[9] In 1997 Paul Galvani of the Houston Press wrote that despite the fact that the East End has "standouts " like Ninfa's, Mandola's Deli, and Shanghai Reds, "it too frequently gets bypassed when folks think about eating out.

[11] In 2013 Houstonia wrote that East End Houston is "home to some of the city’s best Mexican restaurants and bakeries.

[24] In 2011 Dane Schiller of the Houston Chronicle said "Parts of the area have the feel of Mexico: brightly painted homes and narrow streets, store signs in Spanish and snow cones sold from carts.

"[26] In 1997 Lori Rodriguez of the Houston Chronicle said that "the revitalization" that occurred in the 1990s "seems to abruptly stop at the railroad tracks that crisscross Harrisburg beyond the Plaza" and that "the slick national chains must share the commercial corridor with cantinas, empty buildings and halfway houses.

By the same year, the former Baker Hughes building was renovated into an 80-acre (32 ha) complex, Central City Industrial Park.

[7] KBR maintained offices in a 138 acres (56 ha) campus on Clinton Drive,[28][29][30] within the boundaries of East End Houston and the Fifth Ward.

In August of that year Halliburton announced that it would consolidate 8,000 local employees to office space in Westchase.

[39] When RioStar Corp. (Ninfa's parent company) existed, its headquarters were also in East End Houston.

[54] The archdiocese previously also operated Queen of Peace School, which opened on September 8, 1947, in a four classroom building.

On December 1, 2023, Greyhound moved its remaining services from Midtown to the Magnolia Park bus stop.