X-Nico

unusual facts about Downtown Houston



Hit Video USA

From 1985 to 1993, the station was located on the 35th floor of the Allied Bank Plaza/First Interstate Plaza (now Wells Fargo Plaza), a skyscraper in Downtown Houston.

Nicknames of Houston

The first words transmitted by Neil Armstrong from the moon, "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed", are written in 15 languages on bronze plaques placed along the main entrance of Tranquility Park in downtown Houston.

Rendez-vous Houston

Rendez-vous Houston: A City in Concert was a live performance by musician Jean Michel Jarre amidst the skyscrapers of downtown Houston on the evening of April 5, 1986, coinciding with the release of the Rendez-Vous album.

The Houstonian Hotel

Tim McDonald of Travel Golf, a website of the Golf Channel, said that the location, being in proximity to Uptown and Downtown meant that the hotel became a popular place for small and large meetings.


see also

British Schools of America

The British School of Houston opened in 2000 and is located west of downtown Houston, Texas.

Castle Golf and Games

Opening in the early 1970s near the developing Spring Branch area and not too far from downtown Houston, the park would operate until the early 2000s.

Cenikor Foundation

In 1994, Cenikor's Houston facility moved from downtown Houston to Deer Park, a suburb in southeast Houston.

Discovery Park

Discovery Green, a public park in downtown Houston, Texas, United States

Entex Building

Total Plaza, a 35-storey building in Downtown Houston, Texas, occupied by Total Petrochemicals USA

1200 Travis, a 28-storey building in Downtown Houston, Texas, occupied by the Houston Police Department

Guy Schwartz

In 1966, as a fourteen-year-old, Schwartz met vocalist Ray Salazar and began gigging at Old Market Square in downtown Houston, at all-night clubs and dancehalls in Texas and southern Louisiana, and on the east Texas soul circuit.

Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams

Inspired by the aspirations of Knowles's father Mathew, the album was titled after Hadley Street, a plot of land in downtown Houston: "My father took me there one day and told me he was going to build a studio," she said in an interview with the Daily Mail.

Sundance Cinemas

Sundance Cinema's third theater is located within the Bayou Place development in downtown Houston, Texas.