My Gulfton District

When she emigrated to the United States from Peru more than 20 years ago, Belen Bailey never imagined she would one day run a successful pastry shop in Houston’s Gulfton neighborhood. Bailey, 50, is a Spanish-teacher-turned-entrepreneur [...]

A former residential facility for young people in custody of the Harris County Juvenile Probation Department is now a place of new beginnings, burgeoning with hope and opportunity, after being transformed, physically and ideologically, into [...]

Owner Omer Yousafai, left, with restaurant customers As the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan intensified a year and a half ago, Houston resident and Afghan national Najidullah Sharisi wanted to do more than [...]

Health Disparities in Breast Cancer Treatment for Black Women

The Gulfton neighborhood has attracted newly arrived refugees and other immigrants from across the world. Just ask the people who work for Indus Communities, which owns and manages apartment complexes in the area. The business [...]

For residents of Indus Communities properties, a helping hand is closer than they might think at first — in the form of computer labs, free groceries, free vaccine clinics — at their apartment complexes. Those [...]

González Greener Gulfton is a coalition seeking to bring more greenspace and vegetation to Gulfton Area Management District to improve public health, commerce, visual appeal and much more for the neighborhood. Jaime González, [...]

Just spend any afternoon driving around our city and you cannot help but notice construction of all kinds, commercial and residential, in a city with more concrete than greenspace. The Gulfton area is no different. [...]

As the Gulfton Area Management District establishes long-running services in the neighborhood, its primary focus is public safety. To that end, the District has funded a new private security patrol program to augment the work [...]

Less than a block from Burnett Bayland Park in the heart of the Gulfton Management District is Studio Space Houston, a sleek, modern venue for events and exhibits. The facility hosts Alta Arts, an interdisciplinary [...]