Our Projects
The Harris County RDA and TIRZ 24 will make strategic community investments in real estate projects and capital improvements that will result in resilient, sustainable communities integrating transit access, innovative drainage solutions and incorporating an enduring urban design that promotes new real property housing values serving mixed-income and mixed land use developments.
When America’s largest oil company was looking for a place to re-establish its U.S. headquarters, it turned to Texas and to Harris County where a great portion of its storied success has taken place.
The Harris County Redevelopment Authority (HCRDA) entered into a 381 agreement with the Harris County Improvement District (HCID) #18 in 2011.
As the University of Houston, under great leadership has worked diligently to improve infrastructure and amenities South of Interstate 45 and new business and residential amenities slowly build into Houston’s east end, a gap in development was apparent along the North side of Interstate 45 corridor southeast of Downtown.
Standing vacant was the once landmark Finger Furniture Warehouse. While Harris County has worked to provide mixed-use housing in the area with the Villages of Eastwood, there is a need to make the area more enticing for private development.
The third TIRZ/RDA agreement was a public-to-public agreement between the City of Houston, and HCRDA/TIRZ24. The agreement known as Buffalo Point was executed 11/20/2014 for a participation amount of a maximum contribution of $3.5M for the purpose of constructing a wastewater line in conjunction with the paving improvements for Holmes Road, a designated major thoroughfare. This proposed infrastructure improvement opened approximately 1300 acres within TIRZ area boundaries that could not previously obtain a building permit for wastewater services. Again, the purpose of creating TIRZ 24 was to open development opportunities to over 4,000 acres of vacant or underdeveloped acreage, in the southern area of the Zone, due to a lack of suitable infrastructure. This TIRZ investment will generate new taxable property values that “but for” the TIRZ investment otherwise would not have occurred in a timely manner within the service area.
Our Maps
The TIRZ is composed of a noncontiguous geographic area that includes the area near NRG Stadium generally bounded by Old Spanish Trail, Almeda Genoa Road, State Highway 288 and Main Street and the eastern portion of the Houston Central Business District abutting Reinvestment Zone Numbers Two (Midtown Zone), Three (Main Street/Market Square Zone), Thirteen (Sixth Ward Zone), Fifteen (East Downtown Zone) and Twenty-One (Hardy/Near Northside Zone), and a proposed annexation area generally bounded by Polk Street, South Lockwood Street, Interstate 45 and Leeland Street.
Latest News
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Springwoods/Exxon Campus
The Springwoods/Exxon Campus required access from the Grand Parkway and North Freeway as well as internal thoroughfare
ExxonMobil’s New Campus: Giving Houston a Second Energy Corridor
Beginning like a spy novel might, an anonymous inquiry led to one of the largest and most transformative
Buffalo Point/Holmes Road Wastewater Line
The agreement known as Buffalo Point was executed 11/20/2014 for a participation amount of a maximum contribution