i dunnah.
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. Anchored by the Galleria mall, the largest in Texas, Uptown has emerged as a “downtown” to Houston’s western suburbs, centered on Post Oak Boulevard, just west of the 610 Loop.
you have the plaza in kansas city, one developer.
downtown clayton in st. louis county, mo, also nearby by the galleria mall (pictured)....
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you see, this IS our uptown, except its a little further from downtown st. louis than uptown houston is from downtown houston.