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The Consulate General of Mexico, shown here in 2007, could move soon. Texas is taking the land where the consulate currently sits in exchange for a state-owned parcel in Westchase to make way for expansion of Interstate 69.
Nathan Lindstrom / Para La VozThe Mexican consulate will relocate to southwest Houston next year to make way for the planned massive rebuild of the downtown freeway system, taking up residence on a parcel of land currently owned by the state of Texas.
The Texas Transportation Commission last week approved a plan to swap two parcels totaling about 1.7 acres near San Jacinto and Interstate 69 — now home to the Consulate of the United Mexican States — for three acres of state-owned land in Westchase at Richmond and Rogerdale, near the Sam Houston Tollway.
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