{"id":345878,"date":"2025-10-31T15:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T15:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/345878\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T15:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T15:47:11","slug":"how-downtown-houston-is-preparing-for-the-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/345878\/","title":{"rendered":"How downtown Houston is preparing for the World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Downtown Houston is preparing for the global spotlight ahead of the World Cup holding games in the city.<\/p>\n<p>HOUSTON \u2014 Don\u2019t call it a comeback, but downtown Houston is preparing to reintroduce itself to the world next year via a series of global sporting events. And Downtown Houston+ President and CEO Kris Larson thinks the city couldn\u2019t be better positioned for such an opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>During a packed \u201cState of Downtown\u201d event Oct. 30 at Post Houston\u2019s 713 Music Hall, Larson said the city\u2019s central business district is preparing to enter a new era just as it is set to host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/houston\/news\/sports\/world-cup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the 2026 FIFA World Cup<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/houston\/news\/2025\/04\/09\/world-baseball-classic-2026-daikin-park-teams.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the World Baseball Classic<\/a> \u2014 two events that are expected to draw huge crowds to Houston.<\/p>\n<p>A series of new development projects that are either planned or are already underway will only help to spur more economic activity downtown, he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/houston\/news\/2025\/10\/30\/downtown-houston-projects-visitor-growth-world-cup.html?utm_source=st&amp;utm_medium=en&amp;utm_campaign=me&amp;utm_content=HO&amp;ana=e_HO_me&amp;j=42277391&amp;senddate=2025-10-31&amp;utm_term=ep4&amp;empos=p4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><strong id=\"isPasted\">Continue reading this story<\/strong><\/a><strong id=\"isPasted\">\u00a0on the Houston Business Journal&#8217;s website.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This story came to us through our partnership with the Houston Business Journal. Keep up with the\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/houston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><strong>latest Houston business headlines here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Downtown Houston is preparing for the global spotlight ahead of the World Cup holding games in the city.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[4345,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-345878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-texas","10":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115469566342748890","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}