The Southwest Management District (formerly Greater Sharpstown Management District) defines it as being roughly bounded by Redding Rd and Gessner Rd to the East, Westpark Dr to the North, Beltway 8 to the West, and Beechnut St to the South.
The Greater Sharpstown Management District defines Chinatown within its borders as being a 2.37-square-mile (6.1 km²) area.

According to the Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau (GHCVB) it is roughly bounded by Fondren Road, Beechnut Street, State Highway 6, and Westpark Drive, and lies between Alief and the city of Bellaire.
The naming of the new Chinatown is disputed, as various ethnic groups, especially Vietnamese,  live within the community.
The half of the GHCVB definition of Chinatown inside Beltway 8 is within the Southwest Management District.
Much of western Chinatown under the GHCVB definition lies within the International Management District.
and with another portion within the Westchase district.

The Bellaire Chinatown is about 12 miles (19 km) southwest of Downtown Houston.
It is over 6 square miles (16 km²), making it among the largest automobile-centric Chinatowns in the Southern United States.
The Chinatown is located on a mostly treeless plain.
The community is between Westchase and the City of Sugar Land.
Katharine Shilcutt of the Houston Press said that Chinatown was "straddling Beltway 8 on the southwest side like an entire city unto itself."
Sarnoff stated that historically the intersection of Bellaire and Corporate Drive (合作路; Hézuò Lù) served as the center of Chinatown, though that this was moving to the west by 2004.

Much of the land of Chinatown is owned by private entities, so there are relatively few public areas.
The new Chinatown is located within a residential area of single-family houses and apartments, and its spread-out nature differs from the East Downtown Chinatown, which was in a relatively compact area.
Many of the surrounding residential areas and office developments were constructed in the 1990s and 2000s.

The businesses within the new Chinatown include a mall, supermarkets, shopping centers, restaurants, and bakeries.
The street signs have Chinese characters.
Knapp and Vojnovic identified Hong Kong City Mall as the "symbolic center", and "visual center", as it houses the paifang (Chinese arch).

The Bellaire Chinatown has many "retail condos," shopping centers in which spaces are owned instead of leased.
Many East Asian people prefer to own shopping places instead of renting them.
In the United States "retail condos" are rare outside areas populated by East Asian Americans.
The community has restaurants serving many kinds of cuisines, including Chinese, Hong Kong and Taiwanese, Filipino, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Malaysian, Thai, and Vietnamese.
In addition it has restaurants operated by ethnic Vietnamese that serve Louisiana-style crawfish.
The community also has many fusion cuisine restaurants.
Shilcutt said that "the restaurant density in this area is roughly equivalent to the population density of Vatican City."

Lisa Gray of the Houston Chronicle stated that this Chinatown resembles newer Chinatowns that opened in automobile-oriented metropolitan areas in the United States such as suburbs in Greater Los Angeles and the Silicon Valley, as opposed to older, uniformly Chinese, pedestrian-oriented Chinatowns in New York City and San Francisco.
Gray said that in older Chinatowns immigrant businesses cluster together by ethnic group, while in newer automobile oriented Chinatowns retail operations from different ethnic groups move in next door to each other.
The Southwest Management District (formerly Greater Sharpstown Management District) defines it as being roughly bounded by Redding Rd and Gessner Rd to the East, Westpark Dr to the North, Beltway 8 to the West, and Beechnut St to the South. The Greater Sharpstown Management District defines Chinatown within its borders as being a 2.37-square-mile (6.1 km²) area.
According to the Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau (GHCVB) it is roughly bounded by Fondren Road, Beechnut Street, State Highway 6, and Westpark Drive, and lies between Alief and the city of Bellaire. The naming of the new Chinatown is disputed, as various ethnic groups, especially Vietnamese,  live within the community. The half of the GHCVB definition of Chinatown inside Beltway 8 is within the Southwest Management District. Much of western Chinatown under the GHCVB definition lies within the International Management District. and with another portion within the Westchase district.
The Bellaire Chinatown is about 12 miles (19 km) southwest of Downtown Houston. It is over 6 square miles (16 km²), making it among the largest automobile-centric Chinatowns in the Southern United States. The Chinatown is located on a mostly treeless plain. The community is between Westchase and the City of Sugar Land. Katharine Shilcutt of the Houston Press said that Chinatown was "straddling Beltway 8 on the southwest side like an entire city unto itself." Sarnoff stated that historically the intersection of Bellaire and Corporate Drive (合作路; Hézuò Lù) served as the center of Chinatown, though that this was moving to the west by 2004.
Much of the land of Chinatown is owned by private entities, so there are relatively few public areas. The new Chinatown is located within a residential area of single-family houses and apartments, and its spread-out nature differs from the East Downtown Chinatown, which was in a relatively compact area. Many of the surrounding residential areas and office developments were constructed in the 1990s and 2000s.
The businesses within the new Chinatown include a mall, supermarkets, shopping centers, restaurants, and bakeries. The street signs have Chinese characters. Knapp and Vojnovic identified Hong Kong City Mall as the "symbolic center", and "visual center", as it houses the paifang (Chinese arch).
The Bellaire Chinatown has many "retail condos," shopping centers in which spaces are owned instead of leased. Many East Asian people prefer to own shopping places instead of renting them. In the United States "retail condos" are rare outside areas populated by East Asian Americans. The community has restaurants serving many kinds of cuisines, including Chinese, Hong Kong and Taiwanese, Filipino, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Malaysian, Thai, and Vietnamese. In addition it has restaurants operated by ethnic Vietnamese that serve Louisiana-style crawfish. The community also has many fusion cuisine restaurants. Shilcutt said that "the restaurant density in this area is roughly equivalent to the population density of Vatican City."
Lisa Gray of the Houston Chronicle stated that this Chinatown resembles newer Chinatowns that opened in automobile-oriented metropolitan areas in the United States such as suburbs in Greater Los Angeles and the Silicon Valley, as opposed to older, uniformly Chinese, pedestrian-oriented Chinatowns in New York City and San Francisco. Gray said that in older Chinatowns immigrant businesses cluster together by ethnic group, while in newer automobile oriented Chinatowns retail operations from different ethnic groups move in next door to each other.
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