Hwy 290, TX Real Estate

Median Income $57,214

Median Age 32.67

Population 49,097

	Median Temperature
	January	HI 62°	LO 41°	July	HI 93°	LO 73°

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The Northwest section of Houston is a high-growth area. Integral to the accessibility of the region is U.S. Hwy. 290, which becomes Northwest Highway, as it nears Houston. Hwy. 290 serves innumerable residential communities, neighborhoods and towns that comprise the outer orbit of the Houston-Baytown-Sugar Land Metropolitan Area. The highway also serves as the most direct route between Houston and Austin, the Texas state capital. The 13-mile stretch of Hwy. 290 from its eastern terminus at Loop 610 to its exit from the Houston City limits is particularly attractive to employees who work on the west side of Houston. As a result, the area has experienced a surge of residential development as well as major office and industrial activity as of late. At the northernmost edge of this corridor Coles Crossings is a master-planned community located at the U.S. 290 and Barker-Cypress Road intersection. Coles Crossing includes 1,200 acres of heavily forested land. Upon completion, the development will include more than 2,400 single-family homes, retail shops, commercial office space and churches. Cypress Fairbanks, or Cy-Fair, is the next community along the Hwy. 290 corridors at Texas 249. The intense growth of this community was driven in no small part by the re-location of Compaq Computer here in 1982. Many two-story brick homes sit on wooded lots offering quiet havens. Multifamily housing is limited in this area. Willowbrook Mall sits just at the edge of Cypress Fairbanks. Carverdale is a small, originally marketed as a primarily residential suburb and considered a key Northwest Highway community. Today, large industrial park and warehouse complexes surround it. Still, Carverdale's proximity to Northwest Freeway and Beltway 8 has made this area a popular one for industrial and distribution complexes. Modest side-street homes and small retail establishments on the major thoroughfares characterize this neighborhood. Houston Community College Northwest Campus is located nearby, south of Tanner Road. Fairbanks Northwest Crossing is a combination of rural land use and scattered housing and high-density urban development that followed the construction of the Northwest Freeway. Many garden apartment complexes are scattered through and around the edge of the Northwest Crossing office and retail development. Prior to the opening of Hwy. 290, which bisect the area, access to Houston was provided by the Hempstead Highway, which still is lined with a combination of aging retail developments, light industrial facilities and agricultural service businesses. Langwood is another notable neighborhood of small tract homes built in the 1950s on both sides of Hempstead Highway – the primary commuting route at the time. Today, the Northwest Freeway (US 290) forms the northeastern boundary of the primarily single-family residential neighborhood. Several large apartment complexes adjacent to the freeway are also part of the community. Three school districts serve the Carverdale, Fairbanks and Langwood communities: Spring Branch ISD serves the area southwest of Hempstead Highway. Cypress Fairbanks ISD and Houston ISD serve the area northwest of Hempstead Highway.

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