The Vision
The vision is to be the home for Houston’s innovation community – cultivating a transformative culture of people, places, ideas, and experiences that build the world we want to see, creating a better quality of life for all of Houston.
Houston has long been an entrepreneurial haven. But as a major metropolis, there is a hunger for the kind of cross-pollinating, momentum-building magic that transpires from a meaningful concentration of brains and businesses in one area—prosperous micro-regions like Boston’s Seaport or Atlanta’s Tech Square — and transforms a pocket of activity into a powerful culture that inspires people to come together to build things, solve problems, and test ideas that improve how we move, work, play, care, and learn.
Houston’s new innovation district takes the city’s talent and sprawl and connects it all, harnessing Houston’s potential to emerge and endure as a tech hub, a thought leader, a cultural core, and a global economic force. Twelve blocks built to encourage serendipitous collisions across all sectors and skill levels, and promote fair businesses, products, and jobs in our image: ones that reflect the city’s variety of ethnicities and enduring individualism, the big-hearted tenacity and wildcatting audacity, the gumption and resilience.
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