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Chinatown (Chinese: 華埠 or 中國城) is a community in Southwest Houston, Texas, United States. There is another Chinatown called "Old Chinatown" located within the East Downtown Houston district near the George R. Brown Convention Center.
By the 1970s, the original Chinatown in downtown Houston began to decline due to urban renewal projects and rising property values. As a result, many Chinese-owned businesses and residents started relocating to the southwest part of the city, particularly along Bellaire Boulevard.
Oct 6, 2022 · The city's original Little Saigon District once stretched from 59 South to West Gray Street, at the time named Hai Bà Trưng after the legendary Trưng sisters, warriors who rode...
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Chinatown Houston boasts a large and vibrant Asian community, with the second-largest Indochinese population in the United States, behind Los Angeles. The first Chinatown was established east of Downtown, but today the southwest area of the city has emerged as the thriving international district.
Aug 14, 2024 · Discover the history and evolution of Houston's Chinatowns in Zen Tong Chunhua Zheng's and Yali Zou’s book. Explore the rise of New Chinatown and the decline of the original community, shaping Houston's multicultural fabric.
History. The first businesses of the new Houston Chinatown opened in 1983. [3] In the 1980s increasing numbers of Chinese were living in Southwest Houston and Fort Bend County and those residents were further away from the old Chinatown in what is now East Downtown. [4]
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Jun 22, 2018 · Houston’s original Chinatown—the neighborhood wedged between the Third Ward and the East End now known as EaDo—was established in the 1930s by Cantonese immigrants who experienced the same...
