From a nearly $500 million mixed-use development to the new headquarters of Houston's largest nonprofit to the nation's first Islamic cultural center of its kind, Allen Parkway is taking off.
The recent spate of development along Allen Parkway has been anticipated since the opening of the newly renovated Buffalo Bayou Park in 2015. But the sheer size and number of projects in the area has caught even some of its biggest cheerleaders by surprise. Some of the largest proposed developments are already…