East End Stories

Article and photography by Raj Mankad; originally published at offcite.org (12/19/14) A feeling of malaise, even panic, has permeated a swath of Houstonians even as we receive national attention for job growth. We have lost Houston's greatest attribute - affordability. Erin Mulvaney reported for the Houston Chronicle on the spike in housing costs and quoted…

Crowds flocked to the East End this past Sunday to take part in Sunday Streets HTX, a Go Healthy Houston event celebrating the streets of Houston by opening them for walking, biking, dancing, and other physical activity. With no cars on the road, over 10,000 community members took advantage of the street closure, which ran…

EaDo is an exciting and rapidly developing area of the city – rich with opportunities and interlaced with a myriad of land uses, necessary infrastructures, historical conditions, natural features and development(s) "on the horizon." With that in mind, architecture students from Texas Tech University were challenged to develop a vision for the parking lot site…

There are no shortage of events this weekend going on in the East End and we wanted to make sure you were aware of some of the highlights. Sunday Streets - East End/Fifth Ward Edition Sunday, December 7 from 12–4pm On the first Sunday of December, a street in the East End/Fifth Ward community will…