Short answers, pulled from the story.
EaDo stands for East Downtown, a name chosen in 2008 after the East Downtown Management District invited the public to suggest names for the district through the website namethedistrict.com. The name was selected from among the three most popular submissions and formally adopted through a re-branding effort that began in late 2009.
East Downtown Houston is located east of Downtown Houston and north of Interstate 45, between the George R. Brown Convention Center and the East End district. It is southwest of the Second Ward and within Houston City Council District I.
The old Chinatown in East Downtown traces back to the 1930s, when Cantonese immigrants moved from Downtown Houston seeking less expensive land. The neighborhood grew through the 1970s and 1980s with the addition of Vietnamese and other East Asian immigrants, but by the 1990s most businesses had relocated to the new Chinatown in southwest Houston. By 2022 few Chinese businesses remained in the area.
The Texas Guandi Temple is a Vietnamese-founded temple in East Downtown established in 1999 by Charles Loi Ngo and his wife Carolyn, who built it after surviving a robbery at their Fifth Ward store. A Vietnamese refugee named Charles Lee coordinated donations and funding for the temple; Lee said his motivation was to thank the United States for welcoming him when he arrived in 1978. The temple is open to followers of all religions.
Shell Energy Stadium, home to the Houston Dynamo and the Texas Southern University football team, is located in East Downtown on a tract bordered by Texas, Walker, Emancipation, and Hutchins streets. The stadium seats 22,039 people and also hosts concerts and boxing matches. Its predecessor name, BBVA Compass Park, was the first soccer-specific stadium in Major League Soccer located in a downtown area.
METRORail light rail has served East Downtown since 2015 through the EaDo/Stadium station on the Green and Purple lines, and the Leeland/Third Ward station on the Purple Line. The Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County also operates bus service through the area.