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Five Corners District is a management district covering sections of southern and Southwest Houston, Texas, United States.
The Texas Legislature created the district in 2007. [1] A business owner named Mehdi Banijamali stated that 25 property owners had signed to have the district created even though there were 1,400 property owners in its boundaries. [2]
On one occasion a group of business owners sued the district, and a settlement ended that suit; as part of the settlement the business owners no longer had their properties assessed. [3] Another suit was filed in 2012 with another group of business owners accusing the district organizers of deliberately excluding some businesses from the district. [2]
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The current Houston Police Department Southwest Patrol Division Station is located in Cambridge Village Park, within the Five Corners district. [5] The beginning of the construction was scheduled for February or March 2016 while the end of construction was scheduled for June–July 2017. It replaced a previous station inside the 610 Loop. [6] It has a total of 55,000 square feet (5,100 m2) of space, [5] including a 2,300-square-foot (210 m2) community room. [6] The cost was $21 million. [5]
Residents are in the Houston Independent School District. [7] Zoned middle schools serving sections of Five Corners include Attucks in Sunnyside, [8] Lawson (formerly Dowling) in Hiram Clarke, [9] Billy Reagan K-8, [10] Thomas, [11] and Welch in Fondren Southwest. [12] Zoned high schools serving sections of Five Corners include Madison High School and Worthing High School. [13] [14]
In 2019 Susie Tommaney, a contributing writer to the Houston Press , stated "Report cards from area schools are mixed" and that there were "Decent schools, including the area high school". [4]
St. Nicholas School (K-8) is an Anglican school. It will later occupy a new development on a 47-acre (19 ha) property along South Main Street. [15] [16]
The private school The Imani School is in Five Corners. [17]
Chinatown is a community in Southwest Houston, Texas, United States.
Sharpstown is a master-planned community in the Southwest Management District, Southwest Houston, Texas. It was one of the first communities to be built as a master-planned, automobile centered community and the first in Houston. Frank Sharp (1906–1993), the developer of the subdivision, made provisions not only for homes but also for schools, shopping and recreation areas. While this model has been duplicated countless times in the past fifty years, at the time it was quite revolutionary, attracting national media attention. The development was dedicated on March 13, 1955.
Westbury is a neighborhood in the Brays Oaks district of Southwest Houston, Texas, United States. It is located east of Bob White Road, north of U.S. Highway 90 Alternate, and west of South Post Oak Road, adjacent to the Fondren Southwest and Meyerland neighborhoods, just west of the southwest corner of the 610 Loop.
Southgate is a neighborhood in Houston, Texas, United States.
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Corinthian Pointe is a large planned affordable subdivision located in Houston, Texas, in the United States. It is a part of the larger master planned community Pointe 2.3.4, and is within the 5 Corners District.
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Brays Oaks, formerly known as Fondren Southwest, is an area in Southwest Houston, Texas, United States. The Brays Oaks Management District, also known as the Harris County Improvement District #5, governs the Brays Oaks area as well as other surrounding areas, such as Westbury. The City of Houston also defines the Brays Oaks Super Neighborhood, with separate boundaries.
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