‘Ghettoized’: Houston’s East End residents fear convention center expansion cuts them off from downtown

HOUSTON – If getting around Houston isn’t tough enough already, traffic could get a little bit worse.

Parts of several downtown streets could close down for good to make way for the $2 billion expansion of the George R. Brown Convention Center.

While neighbors welcome the idea of a newly expanded convention center, they aren’t big fans of the repercussions that come along with it, namely the abandonment of several city streets…

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