Southwest Management District

The district is split into 6 neighborhoods: Sharpstown, Chinatown, Mahatma Gandhi District/Little India, Westwood, Harwin, and University.

[2] The Texas Legislature approved the formation of the Greater Sharpstown Management District in 2005.

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.

Within a wider area, from the 610 Loop to the Houston city limits and from Westpark Drive to U.S. Highway 90A (South Main), 23,000 Katrina evacuees settled there.

[6][7] The district consists of around 10 square miles (26 km2) of land, bounded by the Westpark Tollway to the north, Interstate 69/U.S.

The main commercial arteries of the district are Bellaire Boulevard and Interstate 69/U.S.

[7][9] The district is divided into several zones, including:[10][11] 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.

[18][7] MetroCorp Bancshares and subsidiary MetroBank have their headquarters in Greater Sharpstown and in Chinatown.

[25] The China Airlines Houston Mini Office (Chinese: 休士顿营业所, Pinyin: Xiūshìdùn Yíngyèsuǒ[26]) is located in 2 Arena Place in the Arena Place complex in Greater Sharpstown.

[32] District J was created to allow Hispanics to more easily elect representatives who cater to them.

[42] The Midwest division operates the Ranchester Storefront along Bellaire Boulevard in the new Chinatown and in Greater Sharpstown.

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.

Bonham, Neff, Sutton, and Ed White elementary schools are in the district.

[58][59] There are three Alief ISD elementary schools in the district: Best, Audrey Judy Bush, and Collins.

[69][70] Girls and Boys Preparatory Academy, a charter school, was in Greater Sharpstown.

St. Francis de Sales Catholic School (grades K-8), Strake Jesuit College Preparatory and Saint Agnes Academy, are located in Sharpstown.

Islamic Education Institute of Texas (IEIT) is headquartered in Southwest Management District.