EaDo: East Downtown's Warehouse Reinvention

Just east of downtown's towers lies a neighborhood that has reinvented itself more than once. This was Houston's original Chinatown and then, for most of the twentieth century, a hard-working landscape of rail yards, warehouses, biscuit and mattress factories, and immigrant parishes. Freeways later carved it up and business drained away — until artists, breweries, and a downtown soccer stadium began pulling life back in, and the district rebranded itself as EaDo, East Downtown. This walk moves through that layered ground: a grand old rail station, the trace of a lost German settlement, the brick factories that once employed the neighborhood, a stadium built on a former rail yard, and a church that has welcomed wave after wave of newcomers to the east side.