Downtown Density

[downtownian 457]

After this wave of residential buildings are completed, Downtown Houston may be the most dense Houston neighborhood. According to the formal boundaries of Downtown, its area is 1.6 square miles but the area is only 0.7 square miles if you exclude the Warehouse District north of the Bayou and the Louisiana St office corridor which may never be 24/7 activated given its corporate lobbies. Before this wave of residential, Downtown had total population density of 1,532 people/square mile and “Core” population density of 3,481 people / square mile. If everything planned gets built, Downtown will have total population density of 5,038 people / square mile and “Core” population density of 11,444 people / square mile (Assuming one person per unit. If you want to assume greater than 1 person per unit, just multiply your assumption by density). Compare this to 77006’s (Midtown / Montrose) density of 8,720 people / square mile per 2010 census.

 

I’ve split the residential projects into six sub-neighborhoods detailed in the attached map: 1) South Downtown; 2) Ballpark; 3) Market Square; 4) Discovery Green; 5) Main Street; 6) Warehouse. Before the Downtown Living Initiative, there were just 2,437 units in total Downtown. If all these projects are completed, South Downtown alone will have 2,833 units and the Ballpark area will have 2,087. South Downtown is also the least certain of all the sub-neighborhoods – it has a number of planned projects that are not yet under development. I’m excited to see how these sub-neighborhoods interact with each other and how they will support each other’s development.

 

 

[Howard Huge 2310]

Awesome post buddy!

You put alot of work into this, I'm sure the board will really appreciate all this!

[Montrose1100 2819]

Based on 2011 data, Uptown in it's entirety has a population density of 5,464 per square mile. I wonder how updated information along with several residential towers coming online soon, would compare.

Anyways really cool info!

[HoustonIsHome 1348]

I dunno. The gufton ghetto still has some seriously dense zip codes

[Slick Vik 449]

I dunno. The gufton ghetto still has some seriously dense zip codes

It's not ghetto the people are very friendly i go there 5 times a week to train for boxing.

[LS27 50]

Gulfton is besides the point. I am interested in seeing not only how Downtown alone develops, but if we can start seeing higher density in the neighborhoods immediately around downtown and seeing some more mid and high rises, along with more urban type development. Still plenty of underutilized blocks.

[Subdude 1386]

Don't feed the trolls, guys.  Responding just eggs them on.  

[samagon 2480]

not to get off the topic of the gulfton ghetto, but downtown is comprised of a lot more land than just what's bounded by the freeways, according to SN standards anyway...

 

it includes all of the EaDo area, and also extends a bit beyond I-10 to the north.

 

not that it makes a big difference informally, which what you picture is exactly all of what is considered downtown in conversation, but I assume the census data is referencing the literal boundaries of neighborhoods, IE super neighborhoods.

 

anyway, here's a super zoomed out map of the super neighborhoods.

http://www.houstontx.gov/superneighborhoods/snmapsbyzip.pdf

Edited February 20, 2015 by samagon

[IronTiger 840]

Don't feed the trolls, guys. Responding just eggs them on.

Thanks for cleaning up the thread, it even still flows correctly.

[LTAWACS 75]

It's not ghetto the people are very friendly i go there 5 times a week to train for boxing.

Slik, I do believe ghetto us a relative term. I personally believe it is ghetto but others may have a different opinion.

[HoustonIsHome 1348]

Don't feed the trolls, guys. Responding just eggs them on.

I hope you were not implying that my post was trolling cause it is very much on topic to mention an area that is much denser than the projected density figure for downtown when the topic of the thread is downtown being the most dense neighborhood.

Downtown offers a standard of living that the gulfton ghetto will never match, but I doubt I will live to see downtown matching gulftons density levels.

EDIT: don't want to derail the thread or anything but I lived in the SW for about 10 years and that is what gulfton was referred to. I Am NOT Calling Gulfton ghetto. That is the informal name of the neighborhood. Google Gulfton ghetto.

Edited February 25, 2015 by HoustonIsHome

[kylejack 850]

My deleted Rocky IV post was a real gem. RIP