Walk On The Wider Side

摘要

A lot has changed for Uptown Houston since the 1940s, when a local reporter described the area as a "lonely, unlit, pockmarked booby trap for nocturnal animals and boozed-up motorists." Over the past six decades, the district has seen an infiltration of commercial, retail and residential development that has taken it from bleak to booming. Now home to the Galleria-one of the largest retail complexes in the country-the 901-ft-tall, Philip Johnson-designed Williams Tower, and a cornucopia of other shops, restaurants, hotels, parks, offices and upscale condos, Uptown Houston has virtually every amenity a resident or visitor could need.