Multi-lingual business owners and employees can better problem-solve for a diverse customer base and build rapport in the local community, helping to attract and retain new customers. This situation is especially true in East Aldine, where some 80 percent of the area’s growing population is Latino and most people speak some Spanish. These factors mean [...]
Artist's rendering Two very different art projects – a prominent, bold sculpture of the late President John F. Kennedy and a tranquil walking space through a “rambling rose” labyrinth – will soon bring more people into the East Aldine community. The five-ton bust of the 35th president, designed by renowned sculptor David Adickes, [...]
An annual tradition was born recently at the East Aldine Town Center under a full moon and a spring-like breeze as kids made snow angels and snowballs in a pile of artificial snow and families feasted on free tamales. Sponsored by the East Aldine Management District, the first Christmas tree lighting at the Town Center’s [...]
Long-time Houston journalist and professor Michael Berryhill painted an insightful picture of the East Aldine area in a 2016 article. “East Aldine is a place you are born into, or drawn to. You work your way up but not out. The public schools are a source of pride and community development. Students graduate and come [...]
Angela Mitchell For Harris County government bus driver Angela Mitchell, a recent trip to the East Aldine Management District’s Town Center provided a big surprise and pleasing reminder of her family’s lengthy history in the area. Featured prominently on a floor-to-ceiling lobby mural, which depicts the area’s history, are her great, great, great [...]
When Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale threw the ceremonial first pitch at Game 6 of the Houston Astros’ decisive World Series win, Griselda “Grizzy” Castillo was there. Of course she was. Many of her thousands of social media followers had supported the online petition to get the famous furniture pitchman on the pitcher’s mound. Without any [...]
Months ago, over emotional objections from community members and elected officials, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) licensed a concrete batch plant next to a park and residential neighborhood in East Aldine. Now officials of the agency will host a public hearing Monday night on whether to change air quality standards for such future [...]
Second in a series on business development in our district [ Read Part 1 ] On a recent weekday morning, Lt. Mike Santos of the Harris County Sheriff’s Office was making a phone call from the parking lot of St. Leo’s Catholic Church when a parish priest approached him. The priest wanted Santos to [...]
East Aldine is gaining a state-of-the art, full-service medical clinic and community center tailored to elderly Hispanic residents. The bilingual Suvida Neighborhood Center and Clinic, at 2505 Aldine Mail Route Road, is almost within sneezing distance of the East Aldine Management District’s Town Center. Business development along the corridor has increased now that the town center [...]
City of Houston image A 2-acre neighborhood depository and recycling center aimed at making East Aldine “cleaner and greener” is nearing completion, with a phased-in grand opening planned for early 2023. The center, funded by the East Aldine Management District, will operate at 2789 Hopper Rd. near the water treatment facility on the [...]
