Planning + Capital Projects
The Downtown Houston+ Planning and Capital Projects program includes near-term urban design and improvement projects, long-range planning studies and initiatives, and ongoing planning and construction coordination with government agencies and private entities in Downtown.
Current Initiatives and Studies
Placemaking & Connectivity Study and Action Plan (Coming 2024)
North Houston Highway Improvement Project Civic Opportunities
North Houston Highway Improvement Project Messaging Toolkit
Past Efforts
Downtown Commute Survey (2018)
Central Houston, Inc. (CHI) engaged SSRS to conduct the 2018 Downtown Commute Survey. The primary objective of the survey was to assess how people from the Houston region commute to and from employment in Downtown and to establish the transit mode split of Downtown employees.
Read the Downtown Commute Survey
Warehouse District (2018)
The Warehouse Vision District Plan conducted studies and assessed the upgrade of urban design, transportation, and infrastructural systems in the Warehouse District. As this area will be significantly impacted and transformed by the NHHIP, planning scenarios stand to define the path forward for this section of Downtown.
Plan Downtown (2017)
In 2017 the Houston Downtown Management District, in partnership with Central Houston, published Plan Downtown: Converging Culture, Lifestyle & Commerce. The plan guided the efforts of the Downtown Houston+ team for several years, and elements have been continued on through the Strategic Alignment Plan.
Southern Downtown / CBD Public Realm Plan (2014)
Read Southern Downtown / CBD Public Realm Plan