It was surprisingly difficult finding information on the Memorial Super-Neighborhood. A “city-within-a-city” located along I-10 and beltway 8, Memorial can boast premier office space, upscale homes, and luxury hotels. The median household income is $208,000. It has a booming economy, excellent schools, great shopping, and is home to the Texas Medical Center (Air Liquide USA LLC; Air Liquide to Relocate American Corporate Headquarters to Memorial City in Houston). It’s all in the name, I guess; when you name something Memorial, most of what comes up is memorials to some cause or another, some date or individual. And yet, for all of my struggles to find something about the neighborhood and not a past event, I wouldn’t change the name even if
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Maybe it has something to do with their histories; Memorial City Mall was originally constructed in the 1960’s and has since become one of the premier shopping spots in Houston thanks to a large scale renovation projects taking place in the 2000’s (Redevelopments), but it is still definitely older, and full of the shops you’d see everywhere else. CityCentre is a more recent construction, a312,679 square foot mixed-retail center located upon the former Town and Country Mall; younger and full of hipster shops. Although CityCentre was originally meant to surpass Memorial City Mall, the two continue to be lively competitors, offering shopping, entertainment, and fine dining (Adams). I had not intended to visit CityCentre at first, but Roberta Trujillo, my interviewee, persuaded me. A resident of twelve years, she told me that while her favorite place in Memorial would forever remain her local Walmart (“It has everything I could ever need,” she told me. And it’s cheap”), CityCentre was full of unique shops, a little “too modern” for her, but the restaurants were amazing, if occasionally expensive. She specially recommended RA Sushi; everything on their menu was worth trying except for the seared tuna. Her talk of price gave me a bit of a pause, but after that, how could I not
Maybe it has something to do with their histories; Memorial City Mall was originally constructed in the 1960’s and has since become one of the premier shopping spots in Houston thanks to a large scale renovation projects taking place in the 2000’s (Redevelopments), but it is still definitely older, and full of the shops you’d see everywhere else. CityCentre is a more recent construction, a312,679 square foot mixed-retail center located upon the former Town and Country Mall; younger and full of hipster shops. Although CityCentre was originally meant to surpass Memorial City Mall, the two continue to be lively competitors, offering shopping, entertainment, and fine dining (Adams). I had not intended to visit CityCentre at first, but Roberta Trujillo, my interviewee, persuaded me. A resident of twelve years, she told me that while her favorite place in Memorial would forever remain her local Walmart (“It has everything I could ever need,” she told me. And it’s cheap”), CityCentre was full of unique shops, a little “too modern” for her, but the restaurants were amazing, if occasionally expensive. She specially recommended RA Sushi; everything on their menu was worth trying except for the seared tuna. Her talk of price gave me a bit of a pause, but after that, how could I not