A great honor for someone who never worked for Harris County in any capacity, but was a political ally of Boss Rodney:
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/houston/2025/12/17/538949/sylvester-turner-houston-downtown-building-harris-county/Historic downtown Houston building newly renamed in honor of Sylvester TurnerQuote:
Harris County Precinct 1 Commissioner Rodney Ellis, a fellow Democrat and political ally of Turner's, opened the ceremony by discussing the building's history and how that history exemplifies the changes Houston has undergone over the last three-quarters of a century. Ellis said the structure at 1010 Lamar St. used to serve as the Sackowitz building a high-end clothing store in the 1950s.
"This building has such a rich history opened, as I mentioned, in 1950," Ellis said. "Early on, until the mid-'60s, African Americans and Hispanics could buy clothes from Sackowitz, but you couldn't come in and try them on. ... So I was thinking, shortly after Sylvester passed, what would be the appropriate honor? This building just made sense. It's important."
The building will now be known as the Harris County Sylvester Turner Administration Building and will soon be the new offices of the county attorney's office, auditor's office and department of equity.
If the County Attorney's office is moving over there, I wonder what happens to Congress Plaza?