A local reporter described the roads as "lonely, unlit, pockmarked booby trap for nocturnal animals and boozed up motorists."

[citation needed] A major feature of Uptown Houston is The Galleria, the largest shopping mall in the state of Texas and the seventh-largest in America.

The Galleria hosts many of the upscale shops of the area as well as citywide chain stores that appear in many Houston-area malls.

The Uptown District is bounded by Woodway Drive to the north, the I-610 (West Loop) to the east, Interstate 69/U.S.

The IHeartMedia Houston cluster of KBME, KODA, KQBT, KPRC (AM), KTBZ-FM, and KTRH is located in 2000 West Loop South.

Spanish-language Univision Communications Houston TV studio (KXLN-DT and KFTH-DT) and radio cluster (KLTN, KAMA-FM, KLAT, KOVE-FM and KQBU-FM) is located near the Southwest Freeway and Loop 610 interchange.

[31] From its founding on May 25, 1982, to April 1988, the Consulate-General of Indonesia in Houston was located in Post Oak Central in Uptown.

The Williams Tower was the product of a unique era in Houston: energy companies were highly profitable entities and they sought impressive, monumental structures to broadcast their power.

Large-scale office construction in Uptown came to an end with the collapse of energy prices and the meltdown of Houston's economy in the mid-to-late 1980s.

[citation needed] Four Leaf Towers, a high-rise residential complex consisting of two 40-story buildings located on San Felipe Street was constructed in 1982.

[41] The neighborhood is served by the Houston Police Department's Midwest Patrol Division, headquartered in Greater Sharpstown.

[48][49] The United States Postal Service operates the Galleria Post Office in Suite 1200 at 5015 Westheimer Road, in Uptown Houston.

[50] The City of Houston announced in December 2008 that it would purchase the Williams Tower Park and Fountain from Hines REIT for approximately $8.5 million.

[52] In 2007 the city seized land from James and Jock Collins via eminent domain in order to widen San Felipe and convert the rest into a park.

[53][54] According to Carolyn Feibel and Bradley Olson of the Houston Chronicle, the Houston Chronicle obtained documents that show that the city eminent domain helped Ed Wulfe, the developer of the BLVD Place complex adjacent to the park, complete a $12.5 million land sale related to the development.

The Collins brothers said that the city government had used eminent domain to seize land only for the purposes of private development, which is not legal in Texas.

[53] On December 8, 2006, the Uptown District and the Texas Department of Transportation opened the Hidalgo Park, located south of the Galleria.

The 3-acre (1.2 ha) park, previously a vacant plot of land, has 650 trees and shrubs and 240,000 square feet (22,000 m2) of sod.

[55] Prior to 1998,[56] the Houston Press was located in Suite 1900 of the 2000 West Loop South building in Uptown.

[56] The Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas, provides public bus service to Uptown.

Bus routes that serve the Uptown area include:[59] Local routes METRORail expansion plans include the Uptown/Gold Line which will serve the Uptown Houston area and run primarily down the median strip of Post Oak Boulevard.

In 2010, Houston Mayor Annise Parker announced that there were no available funds to construct the rail line, although it still remains in METRO's future expansion plans.

[75] Two Catholic high schools, Strake Jesuit College Preparatory and Saint Agnes Academy, are located in Sharpstown, southwest of Uptown.