{"id":378787,"date":"2026-07-19T16:19:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T16:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/378787\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T16:19:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T16:19:30","slug":"houstons-first-official-walkable-neighborhood-is-a-1-billion-mixed-use-project-coming-to-westchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/378787\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston&#8217;s first official walkable neighborhood is a $1 billion mixed-use project coming to Westchase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FotoJet-2026-07-18T101152.772-1024x689.jpg\" class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\" alt=\"Rendering shows visual conception of Park Eight Place development in Houston\" width=\"1024\" height=\"689\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRendering via TGB Partners<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a data-force-follow=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/secrethouston.com\/author\/colby-smith\/\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784477969_324_556af78e12ad1cf6182ac1c5f5b7d35984e6ef73b60c69c3dec5f87ca6a70570.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-40 photo\" height=\"40\" width=\"40\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Park Eight Place is slated to take over the former Halliburton campus in Westchase in a massive $1 billion development. Upon completion, the roughly 2\u2011million\u2011square\u2011foot project is expected to include residential, office, retail, restaurant, and hotel space and is billed as Houston\u2019s first developer\u2011initiated \u2018Walkable Place\u2019 under the city program.<\/p>\n<p>Spearheaded by Johnson Development Services, Park Eight Place was announced as a 70\u2011acre mixed\u2011use \u2018urban village\u2019 in Westchase several years ago and advanced through key city approvals in 2024. In collaboration with Gensler, TBG, and BGE, the development is described as a 70-acre, urban village in the Westchase District near Bellaire Boulevard and Beltway 8.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"689\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FotoJet-2026-07-18T101138.078-1024x689.jpg\" alt=\"Rendering shows visual conception of Park Eight Place development in Houston\" class=\"wp-image-36143\"  \/>Rendering via TGB Partners<\/p>\n<p>Retail, residences, office, and green space at Park Eight Place<\/p>\n<p>The initial project includes retail, restaurants, office, hotel, and more than 2,000 residential units. Notably, developers aim to integrate the project into its natural surroundings. Among a dynamic network of plazas, trails, and green spaces, Park Eight Place will directly connect to the 200-acre Arthur Storey Park.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Park Eight Place will connect into the Brays Bayou Greenway system via Arthur Storey Park, creating a new destination along the Brays Bayou trail network.<\/p>\n<p>Walkability at Park Eight Place <\/p>\n<p>In November 2024, the City of Houston approved Walkable Places and Special Parking Area designations for Park Eight Place, making it the city\u2019s first developer\u2011initiated Walkable Place under the program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are developing Park Eight Place as a defined walkable place because it\u2019s the right thing to do,\u201d said Charles Lusk, General Manager of Park Eight Place in a press release. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"689\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FotoJet-2026-07-18T101104.742-1024x689.jpg\" alt=\"Rendering shows visual conception of Park Eight Place development in Houston\" class=\"wp-image-36142\"  \/>Rendering via TGB Partners<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s intended to benefit people who desire being outdoors and want more exercise \u2014 even in an urban setting \u2014 and it will create a framework to support local businesses that allows people to easily stop into those businesses. Additionally, companies located here will have the conveniences their employees desire all within a five-minute walk. And those are just some of the benefits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Timeline of Park Eight Place<\/p>\n<p>Site work on Park Eight Place began after demolition of the former Halliburton buildings, and infrastructure and road construction were projected to start in late 2024 or early 2025. The project is described as \u2018underway,\u2019 but no firm opening date has been publicly announced, and the official website still promotes it as \u2018coming soon.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rendering via TGB Partners Park Eight Place is slated to take over the former Halliburton campus in Westchase&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-378787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}