Victorian Tenements: Office Parks and Strip Malls

victorian tenements: Instead of converted Victorian tenements, think brand-new strip malls , postwar Levittown-style ranch houses and 1970s office parks and apartment complexes, according to CNN. From the air, it looks like any other automobile-friendly shopping district. That is not what you will find in Houston Chinatown, a vast, rectangular, city-within-a-city 12 miles southwest of downtown, sprawling along Bellaire Boulevard from Fondren Road on the east to Highway 6 on the west, and extending north roughly to Westpark Drive and south to Beechnut Street. But oh, what a difference when you are the ground. Yes, the street signs along Bellaire Boulevard from South Gessner to roughly Beltway 8 are posted in Mandarin characters as well as English script, but go further west and they change to Vietnamese. There is some debate as to whether "Chinatown" suffices to encompass the multitude of Asian cultures visitors will find within its boundaries. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.