My Hobby District
Family-owned Landscaping company plants and cleans around the Hobby District
Sonia Chavez of SMC Landscape Services Sonia Chavez of SMC Landscape Services takes pride in the fact that her crews are the ones who clean, mow and landscape the major corridors of the [...]
Video: Camp Bow Wow Open for Business
Camp Bow Wow is excited to begin creating wags for our Houston Hobby community! Bring in your pup for their free first day, and they'll take care of the rest. If you're a [...]
Siblings raised in Hobby area doggedly return with Camp Bow Wow
Chloe and George Andrade were born and raised in the Hobby area. When the sister and brother team decided to go into business together to pursue their passion for helping animals, they knew two things: [...]
HAD – Creating a Safer Community
Learn how the Hobby Area District's public safety programs help create safer, more attractive living and working spaces through urban design and additional patrols.
NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Center right off of… Telephone Road?
American manufacturing is alive and well in Houston and perhaps nowhere more than inside the cavernous gray building at 6040 Telephone Road that houses Ambox Limited in the heart of the Hobby Area District. The [...]
Dentist with deep roots cares for the Hobby area and its residents’ teeth
Dr. Ken Ellis, the smiling face behind Longhorn Dental on Bellfort, has deep roots in the Hobby Area. His dental office now sits on what was once the site of the apartment complex where his [...]
Interview with history-making County Attorney Christian Menefee
Christian Dashaun Menefee is the youngest elected Harris County attorney and the first African-American in the position. He has lived in Houston since early childhood and attended public schools in the area. Menefee, 32, attended [...]
Funeral home and name on Broadway have long history in Houston
Manuel Crespo was a generous and devoted funeral director who lived from 1903 to 1989 and made a name for himself by helping to build the Hispanic community in Houston. He was even named a [...]
Active, enthusiastic board members drive Hobby District decisions
The volunteer board of directors is the engine pushing for positive change in the Hobby Area District, from beautification of Broadway to creating an increased police presence on the commercial streets. The eight members [...]
Baby boomer gets expensive facelift. It’s an apartment complex.
The Reserve at Bellfort is not the first apartment complex that Elizabeth Castro Gray and her husband Jeffrey Gray have rehabbed, but her enthusiasm about the classic 1955 property is singular and irresistible. “There’s just [...]
Hobby Area District provides increased police presence
The Hobby Area District is ramping up police patrols and investing in new and better technology, like mobile surveillance cameras that capture clearer video, as the nation hopes to get emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic [...]
Character Building: Rebuilding the Hobby Area Management District
By CLARK CONDON With the Hobby Area Management District becoming a hub for transportation and a gateway to Houston, an opportunity arose to enhance the streetscapes and create a character for the emerging District. Clark [...]
