2006-12-22 12:12:38 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ United States ➔ Houston
Wrong Avon. NYC is the largest city followed by about 3 others not including Houston.
2006-12-26 09:24:38 · update #1
Avon is right.
Houston didn't waste valuable real estate on things like bays or harbors (our port is on the man made ship channel) or rivers. Also we don' t have zoning here, so anyone can pretty much bulid whatever they want wherever they want. This means property and rents are about 1/2 to 1/3 of what they are in places like NYC and LA.
It also means that the financial centers are spread out. We have at least three "downtowns", each of which is larger than the downtowns of most other Amercian cities. The Galleria area is probably where you find more commercal lawyers and stock brokers, but Exxon-Mobil, Chevron-Texaco, Dynegy, Continental Airlines, and yes the late great Enron have their headquarters downtown, near the big law firms (including Bracewell and Guiliani... the firm Rudy joined after he stopped being mayor of NYC).
The Medical Center has more skyscrapers than most American Cities but it's almost all hospitals and cancer treatment centers and hotels. I don' t think that qualifies as a "wannabe Wall Street".
Up north of town is The Woodlands, a suburb that is developing some serious financial muscle (Anadarko Petroleum (who just bought Kerr-McGee) is up there). To the west of town is Katy, a suburb that is growing like crazy, south east of town is Clear Lake (where NASA is) and Galveston, (beaches, of a sort), and south-west of town is Sugarland where all the doctors live.
All of those areas have money to one extent or another, but I'd have to say the Galleria is our financial hub.
2006-12-25 04:08:52 · answer #1 · answered by Larry R 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, you see, when the cattle get out of the way, and there aren't to many cactus to fall over, we can drive our wagons all the way to Main Street, or Travis, sometimes even Westheimer.
What are you talking about? We have three main business districts where international trade is conducted, but since Houston is much larger than New York, and does not try to imitate the lay out of Manhattan, we do not have all of our investment companies concentrated on one street.
2006-12-23 12:57:46 · answer #2 · answered by Avon 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It means that Houston is Growing...
2006-12-24 12:38:47 · answer #3 · answered by houstonsoutheast 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ummm.... what is with ur question? If u gonna hate on H-town ask a real question.
2006-12-23 00:39:18 · answer #4 · answered by little g 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋