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Old Posted Mar 17, 2014, 4:44 PM
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OK, the article didn't say Houston was the only city with edge cities. It said that two of Houston's edge cities were built almost entirely by single developers and that was considered exclusive to Houston (is it?).

Uptown
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Not many cities — okay, no city outside Houston — would let a developer build an entire business district from scratch miles from the urban core, but that’s exactly what Gerald D. Hines did nearly half a century ago.

Greenway Plaza
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Uptown is not the only west side business district to sprout from nothing. There’s also Greenway Plaza, another one of the five downtowns. It is a bit closer to the actual downtown and within the 610 Loop, but nevertheless located amid suburban-looking single-family neighborhoods. Owned by Cousins Properties, the mixed-use development sprung up in the 1970s, around the same time as Uptown, and has millions of square feet of office space spread among 10 buildings.