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Westheimer Road is an arterial east-west road in Houston, Texas, United States. It runs from Bagby Street in downtown Houston, and terminates at the Westpark Tollway on the southern edge of George Bush Park, stretching about 19 miles (30.5 km) long. The street was named after Michael Louis Westheimer, a German immigrant and flour salesman. Westheimer Road's eastern terminus is at Bagby Street. At this point, traffic heading east on Westheimer either turns southwest on Bagby Street or jogs right and southeasterly, continuing on Elgin Street into Midtown, and into Third Ward near the University of Houston. From Bagby west, Westheimer jogs mostly westerly, through Neartown, forms the south boundary of the River Oaks community, and then passes under the west 610 Loop. The portion spanning from Interstate 610 west to the Westpark Tollway is designated as a part of Urban Road 1093. Urban Road 1093 was formally extracted from Farm to Market Road 1093 on June 27, 1995; however, as is the case with all designated Urban Roads in Texas, Urban Road 1093 is signed publicly as Farm to Market Road 1093. From the 610 Loop west, Westheimer Road traverses through Uptown and then west-southwest to Chimney Rock. From Chimney Rock west, Westheimer is straight along a cardinal east–west line. Westheimer passes north of Alief and Westchase when passing under Beltway 8. After intersecting Highway 6 and passing west of West Oaks Mall, Westheimer Road and Westheimer Parkway split, with Westheimer ''Parkway'' continuing west through George Bush Park and Westheimer ''Road'' (a.k.a., "Old Westheimer Road") turning southwest. Westheimer Road terminates when FM 1093 becomes the feeder road of the Westpark Tollway just west of FM 1464 and just inside Fort Bend County. == Character of Various Segments == John Nova Lomax of the ''Houston Press'' said in a 2006 article that Westheimer Road, "more than any other thoroughfare, embodies Houston's car-enamored, zoning-free ethos, a damn-near 20-mile phantasmagoria of strip malls, storage facilities, restaurants, big-box retail, office parks, apartment complexes, strip clubs, malls, supermarkets and the occasional church."〔Lomax, John Nova. "The Sole of Houston." ''Houston Press''. October 12, 2006. (1 ).〕 In another article he referred to Westheimer as "mainly about the fetishes, broken dreams and vanities of Anglo whites."〔Lomax, John Nova. (I am a Pedestrian Report: Bellaire ). ''Houston Press''. May 25, 2007. Retrieved on August 4, 2009.〕 In a post on the ''Houston Press'' website during the same year, he called the stretch of Westheimer west of Chimney Rock Road and east of Fondren Road, which he refers to as "Mid-Westheimer," "The Testosterone Zone." Referring to a photograph of a shopping center on that segment, Lomax added that "This strip center is the essence of that -- Evans Music City, an army surplus store, a titty bar and a liquor store within 100 yards of each other. Now that's one-stop shopping."〔Lomax, John Nova. "(Re: The Adventures of John Lomax and the Walk Down Westheimer )." ''Houston Press''. December 6, 2006.〕 In ''Houston Architectural Guide'', Stephen Fox said the following about the stretch of Westheimer between Chimney Rock Road and South Gessner Road: Lomax said that the segment of Westheimer in Westchase is "virtually all chains -- a ''Geography of Nowhere'' wasteland of Boston Market, Borders, Kroger, Randalls, Taco Bell, Citgo and Sonic. Several of the six CVS outlets we passed are there, as are a few of the uncountable Starbucks." He added that the segment of Westheimer Road in Westchase does not have "the sleaze of the Highway 6 area and the tacky exuberance of mid-Westheimer, the area between Chimney Rock and Fondren."〔Lomax, John Nova. "The Sole of Houston." ''Houston Press''. October 12, 2006. (3 ).〕 In 2007 Colliers International ranked Westheimer Road as the seventh most expensive retail streets in the United States by rent per square foot; the group calculated the rent per square foot as $120 United States dollars.〔"(THE MONEY STREETS; THE PRICIEST RETAIL STREETS IN THE U.S. RANKED BY RENT PER SQUARE FOOT. ) ''Women's Wear Daily''.〕 In 2007 Mimi Swartz of ''Texas Monthly'' referred to a stretch of Westheimer between Claremont Lane and Kirby Drive as "the socialite’s sector" due to the stores catering to residents of River Oaks and other nearby wealthy communities; in the article she describes several places along the stretch of Westheimer.〔Swartz, Mimi. "(Westheimer Road, Houston )." ''Texas Monthly''. August 2007. Retrieved on July 7, 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「Westheimer Road」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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