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Uptown is a business district in Houston, located west of Downtown and is centered along Post Oak Boulevard and Westheimer Road (Farm to Market Road 1093). The Uptown District is roughly bounded by Woodway Drive to the north, the I-610 (West Loop) to the east, Richmond Avenue to the south, and Yorktown Street to the west. It covers .〔http://www.houstontx.gov/budget/04budadopt/XIV_t16.pdf〕 At of office space, the Uptown District is the 17th-largest business district in the United States, comparable in size to the downtowns of Denver and Pittsburgh.〔"(Office )." ''Uptown Houston''. Retrieved on January 18, 2009.〕 The district is home to approximately 2,000 companies and represents more than 11 percent of Houston's total office space.〔 ==History== right In 1948 what is now Uptown was outside of the city limits of Houston. A local reporter described the roads as "lonely, unlit, pockmarked booby trap for nocturnal animals and boozed up motorists." Development increased after Gerald D. Hines and other individuals began to develop properties in Uptown in the 1960s.〔Breeding, John R. "(After years of labor, San Felipe is ready for viewing )." ''Houston Chronicle''. July 16, 2010. Retrieved on July 17, 2010.〕 By 1987, the Uptown area had more hotel rooms and retail shopping centers than Downtown Houston had. The Uptown area, with 55,000 employees, also had more office space than Downtown Atlanta and more office space than Downtown Denver.〔Mintz, Bill. "(METRO/The Transit Question: Bus or Rail?/Metro goal is to link employment centers across sprawling city )." ''Houston Chronicle''. Sunday July 19, 1987. Section 3, Page 1. Retrieved on October 28, 2012.〕 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「Uptown Houston」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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