Polk Street will be closed permanently where it meets the widened freeway, disrupting a protected bike lane and METRO bus routes #40 and #41.
Displaced businesses include (from north to south)
- SEARCH Homeless Services
- Loves & Fishes Soup Kitchen
- Lucky’s Lodge
- AHH, Coffee!
- Little Woodrows
- Huyen’s Restaurant
- Bayou City Barber Shop
- Super K Food Mart
- Neils Bar
- Silver House Theater
- Wah Nan Store
- St. Emmanuel Tattoos
- Lim’s Florist
- EaDo Glass & Smoke
- Britain Electric Company
- True Anomaly Brewing Company
- Yen Huong Bakery
- AABC Air Conditioning
- Mom’s Best Food
- RE/MAX Top Realty
- SBC Tax
- Concentra Urgent Care
- Blue Box Theater
- Kim Son Restaurant
- Houston Equipment Co.
- Cadillac Liquor
- The Cajun Stop restaurant
- Aerosol Warfare – art organization
- Bravo Lock & Key
- Temenos Place II – help for homeless
- May Food Produce Wholesale
Dozens of other businesses will be brought within 1 block of the expanded freeway. This will ruin their air quality and create excess noise pollution.