East Downtown (EaDo)

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.