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BBVA Compass Stadium is home for the Houston Dynamo and the Texas Southern University football team, which is on a tract of land bordered by Texas, Walker, Dowling and Hutchins in East Downtown. BBVA Compass is the first soccer-specific stadium in MLS to be located in a Downtown area. The stadium seats 22,039 and besides hosting soccer and football events will hold other events such as concerts and boxing matches.
Helen Anders of the Austin American-Statesman said that EaDo "looks like an art installation, with the steamshiplike George R. Brown Convention Center as a backdrop, skyscrapers lurking in the background and angular new condos set against low-slung warehouses, some of them still in use for industrial storage."[10]
The Kim Sơn headquarters and restaurant is located in East Downtown.[11]
The Texas Guandi Temple (Traditional Chinese: 德州關帝廟, Simplified Chinese: 德州关帝庙, Pinyin: Dézhōu Guāndì Miào) is located in East Downtown.[12] The temple was established in 1999 by a Vietnamese couple,[13] Charles Loi Ngo and Carolyn.[14] They decided to build a temple to Guan Yu (Guandi) after surviving an aggravated robbery,[14] which occurred at their store in the Fifth Ward.[14] They believed that Guandi saved their lives during the incident.[13] The temple is open to followers of all religions, and it has perfumed halls.[14]
The district has long been known for a relatively large homeless population (comparable to Skid Row, Los Angeles but on a far smaller scale). Many of the homeless in the Houston area congregate in East Downtown because of the presence of nearby agencies that provide services (which predate the current redevelopment efforts) and several groups that independently provide food, clothing, toiletries and other items on nearby vacant lots. Nearly all Houston non-profit and faith-based agencies which provide services to the homeless, including food and shelter, are located within Downtown and Midtown. A major shelter for women and children operated by Star of Hope, a faith-based agency, is located on Dowling Street, between Texas & Franklin; the agency operates a men's facility nearby on the west side of US 59, north of Minute Maid Park.
There has been some tension in recent years between developers who want to revitalize the East Downtown district with commercial and residential projects, and the homeless (and homeless service providers). Some have called for the city of Houston to restrict public sleeping on sidewalks and to regulate charitable serving of food.[15][16] It remains to be seen whether or not current services to the homeless can continue in East Downtown in the face of ongoing revitalization and redevelopment efforts.
Houston City Council District I covers East Downtown.[17]
Station 10, opened in 1894 in what is now East Downtown;[2][18] the station relocated to its current location in what is now the new Chinatown and Greater Sharpstown in 1985.[18][5][19]
Metro is currently building a new MetroRail line called East End/Green Line which is slated for completion in 2016.
The district is within the Houston Independent School District. East Downtown is within Trustee District VIII, represented by Diana Dávila as of 2009.[2][20]
Dodson Elementary School, in East Downtown,[21] and Rusk Elementary School, outside of East Downtown,[22] serve separate sections of East Downtown for elementary school. In 1995 Rusk had a student mobility rate of almost 100% because it had a very large homeless population.[23]
For grades 6 through 8 Jackson Middle School serves East Downtown,[24] Austin High School and Wheatley High School serve separate sections of East Downtown.[25][26] Rusk has a science and technology magnet program for middle school students.[27]
Charles W. Luckie Elementary School, located at 1104 Palmer in what is now East Downtown, was a school for African-Americans.[28] It closed circa 1943.[29]
Prior to its closure, Anson Jones Elementary School, outside of East Downtown, served sections of East Downtown.[30] The school, opened in 1892 with its latest campus constructed in 1966, closed in Summer 2006.[29][31] E. O. Smith Education Center closed after the 2010-2011 school year; the portion of East Downtown was rezoned to Jackson.[24][32]
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