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East Downtown Houston (EaDo) is a district in Houston, Texas, United States. The East Downtown Management District (EDMD), manages the area with offices headquartered at (START Houston ), a co-working space at 1121 Delano Street.〔"(EaDo's Contact Information )." ''East Downtown Management District''. Retrieved on August 1, 2009.〕 The community is located east of Downtown Houston and north of Interstate 45 (Gulf Freeway).〔"(Welcome to EaDo )." ''East Downtown Management District''. Retrieved on August 1, 2009.〕 It is between the George R. Brown Convention Center and the East End district.〔Moreno, Jenalia. "(Chinatown no longer )." ''Houston Chronicle''. October 17, 2009. Retrieved on October 19, 2009.〕 The Old Chinatown, an area within East Downtown bounded by Interstate 69/U.S. Route 59, Preston Street, St. Joseph Parkway, and Dowling Street, is the older of the two Houston Chinatowns.〔〔Patel, Purva. "(Pay-for-visa plan could revive Houston's Old Chinatown )." ''Houston Chronicle''. August 18, 2008. Retrieved on January 20, 2009.〕 The East Downtown Chinatown is not the same as the Chinatown in southwestern Houston.〔Rodriguez, Lori. "(Opinions vary over naming the growing Asian community on Houston's southwest side )." ((Archive )). Alternate version without Chinatown map: "(DIVERSITY DEBATE / Chinatown outgrowing name / Opinions vary over naming the growing Asian community on Houston's southwest side )." ''Houston Chronicle''. Wednesday May 9, 2007. A1.〕 ==History== In the 1930s many Cantonese immigrants moved to the former Houston Chinatown, then a part of the Third Ward area, from Downtown Houston in an effort to find more inexpensive land. The Cantonese opened several businesses, including grocery stores and restaurants, and held Chinese New Year celebrations. Immigrants from other East Asian countries, including Vietnam, moved into the Chinatown.〔 In the early 1950s the Chinese Merchants' Association moved to the southeastern edge of Downtown Houston. Many Chinese businesses moved there. The Chinatown solidified as many Asian immigrants, including Viet Hoa, began moving to Houston in the 1970s. By the 1980s a theater, supermarkets, warehouses, a bank, and restaurants were located there.〔Rodriguez, p. (38 ).〕 By the late 1980s increasing numbers of Chinese began living in suburbs in Southwest Houston and Fort Bend County.〔Rodriguez, p. (39 ).〕 In addition, the Chinatown was geographically hemmed in,〔Rodriguez, p. (38 )-(39 ).〕 with surrounding low income African-American and Hispanic neighborhoods and the Downtown area preventing additional growth. Two Chinese religious temples opened about south of the old Chinatown in the 1990s.〔 By the 1990s, many of the East Asian businesses left and had relocated to the current Chinatown in southwest Houston.〔 In a November 28, 2002 ''Houston Press'' article John Nova Lomax described what is now known as East Downtown Houston as "a silent, godforsaken stretch of no-man's-land that's not really the Warehouse District, nor the Third Ward, nor the East End."〔Lomax, John Nova. "Glamorous Youth." ''Houston Press''. November 28, 2002. (6 ). Retrieved on March 31, 2009.〕 Lomax said that he used "that bulky definition" since that by 2000, the name "Chinatown," still used in the 1980s and 1990s, "was no longer apt." The area received its current name in the late 2000s.〔Lomax, John Nova. "(Say Hello to EaDo )." ''Houston Press''. Thursday February 3, 2009. Retrieved on March 31, 2009.〕 In 2008 the management district and its namethedistrict.com website asked for suggestions for a new name for the district.〔〔"(Name the District )." ''East Downtown Houston''. Retrieved on January 21, 2009.〕 Suggestions included "the Warehouse District," referring to the abandoned warehouses, and "Saint E," after St. Emanuel Street, a key street and the location of several bars and clubs. The district selected "EaDo," short for "East Downtown," one of the three most popular suggestions for the name of the district.〔 During the same year Dan Nip, a developer and East Downtown Management District board member, encouraged people to invest in the Old Chinatown area in East Downtown; if a person invests $500,000 United States dollars in the Old Chinatown and subsequently creates two jobs for ten years, he or she would become eligible for a EB-5 visa.〔〔"(About EaDo )." ''East Downtown Houston''. Retrieved on August 1, 2009.〕 By late 2009 the East Downtown authority began re-branding the district to reflect its current name.〔 By 2010 a community of artists began to form in EaDo.〔Anders, Helen. "(Emergine EaDo: Houston's newest arts community )." ''Austin American-Statesman''. Saturday February 13, 2010. Retrieved on March 20, 2010.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「East Downtown Houston」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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