East End Stories

Mark your calendars! Join Mayor Sylvester Turner, the Planning & Development Department (P&D), and other community representatives to kick off Complete Communities meetings in Acres Home, Third Ward, Second Ward, Gulfton, and Near Northside beginning August 29th.

Neighboring downtown Houston is the East End, a community with deep historic roots and entrepreneurship. It was in the East End that the Allen Brothers envisioned and built Harrisburg, Houston's founding cornerstone for what has become today, the fourth largest city in the country. Almost 200 years later, this largely Hispanic community is charting a new vision: To become Houston's primary makers hub.

Houston's Buffalo Bayou Partnership (BBP) is launching a major planning effort along Buffalo Bayou's East Sector that will continue the non-profit organization's legacy of transformative parks, trails and open space. In revitalizing the waterway east of downtown (from US 59 to the Port of Houston Turning Basin), BBP seeks to establish a pioneering precedent where green space can be a catalyst for inclusive growth and community development.