GREENWAY PLAZA

Houston, Texas

ARCHITECTS: Lloyd, Morgan & Jones

CONSULTING LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS:

Mormon, Mock & Jones

ARCHITECTS FOR RETAIL MALL:

Pujdak, Bielski & Associates

Greenway Plaza, located 5 miles from downtown Houston, is being developed on a 127-acre site. It is a self-contained complex of retail, business, and residential facilities. The site acquisition required negotiations with more than 300 homeowners. Its location is central to all points of the metropolitan area via the city's extensive freeway system.

The project is being planned in three phases. The first phase of construction started in 1968 and was scheduled for completion in 1975. This phase includes an underground shopping concourse, eight major office buildings, and a three-level parking structure for 3,500 cars. Of special interest is the "sculpture garden" in the plaza area. The bronze sculptures include life-size figures of three children and an old man feeding pigeons. The sculptor is Pat G. Foley, fine arts director and artist in residence of the Kinkaid School.

Phases two and three are scheduled to be completed by 1980 and will include a luxury hotel, a sports arena, an expansion of the underground retail concourse, a landing strip for short take off and landing (STOL) aircraft atop a 2,000-foot-long multistory parking structure (see model of master plan), and an extensive complex of multifamily housing units.

The developers are the Century Development Corporation.

Model of master plan.

Sculpture garden in plaza. (Sculptor: Pat G. Foley)