Valve+Meter Performance Marketing

The Rice University Kinder Institute for Urban Research a think tank has described Greater Houston as "one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse metropolitan areas in the country". Houston's diversity fueled by large waves of immigrants has been attributed to its relatively low cost of living strong job market proximity to Latin America and role as a hub for refugee resettlement a 2012 Kinder Institute report found that based on the evenness of population distribution between the four major racial groups in the United States (non-Hispanic white non-Hispanic black Hispanic or Latino and Asian) Greater Houston was the most ethnically diverse metropolitan area in the United States ahead of New York City in 2017 according to the U.S Census Bureau non-Hispanic whites made up 24.9% of the population of Houston proper Hispanics or Latinos 44.5% Blacks or African Americans 22.9% and Asians 6.7%. As Houston and the rest of the country recovered from the Great Depression art-deco style theaters of the late 1930s were built in many residential neighborhoods across the city in addition to the River Oaks neighborhood movie theaters like the Alabama Tower Capitan and Ritz-Majestic Metro were several of the venues where Houstonians sought entertainment the Alabama serves as a prime example of adaptive reuse the repurposing of architecture considered obsolete in terms of modern usage Opening as a Bookstop bookstore in 1984 after the original theater closed the building was later converted into Houston's first Trader Joe's specialty grocery store in 2012 the grocer took pains to preserve much of the building's original architectural splendor including its original terrazzo-tile front entrance as well as its second-floor balcony, University of Houston, Houston Texas Business Directory. . .

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