Houston Center
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Houston Center is a retail and office complex in Downtown Houston, Texas, United States. It is owned by Brookfield Property Partners and Spear Street Capital, LLC, and operated separately by Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) and Brookfield Property Management.
The three towers in Houston Center have almost 3,400,000 square feet (320,000 m2) of Class A office space.[1] The buildings in Houston Center include:
- LyondellBasell Tower (formerly 1 Houston Center)
- 2 Houston Center [2]
- Fulbright Tower (formerly 3 Houston Center)
- 4 Houston Center
- 5 Houston Center (individually owned) [3]
- The Highlight at Houston Center (formerly The Shops in Houston Center and previously The Park Shops[4][5])
- The Shops, built in 1982, is an enclosed shopping mall.
- Four Seasons Hotel Houston
History
Crescent purchased Houston Center in 1997 for $328 million.[8] In 2000 Crescent sold the Four Seasons Hotel Houston, a hotel that is a part of Houston Center, to Maritz, Wolff & Co., a hotel investment group, for $105 million.[9]
In October 2002 Houston Center was 95% leased.[10]
In 2004 Crescent attempted to sell a 50% equity position in both Greenway Plaza and Houston Center. During that year the Class A office space in the entire complex was 94% leased.[1] In addition, in 2004 many of the 32 blocks that were originally scheduled to be a part of the Houston Center development remained undeveloped.[6]
In 2009 Castle Brands (USA) Corp., R.F. Borghese, LLC, Bennett G. Fisher, and Third Planet Windpower, LLC renewed their leases in their sections of Houston Center. Together they held 6,758 square feet (627.8 m2) of space.[11]
In September 2017 Houston Center's offices were 75% leased and its retail area was 70% leased.[12] In December of that year Brookfield Property Partners finalized plans to buy the center.[13]
LyondellBasell Tower
Opened in 1978, this building, originally called 1 Houston Center, has 46 floors with Class A office space[14][15][16] and is located at 1200 block of McKinney Street. The building is 678 feet (207 m) tall.[17][15][16] It was designed by Caudill Rowlett Scott and built by W.S. Bellows Construction.[15] LyondellBasell has its Houston offices in 1 Houston Center.[18] When Lyondell was an independent company, its headquarters were in 1 Houston Center.[19] As of January 2012, the Lyondell/LyondellBasell operation has been at 1 Houston Center for 25 years.[20]
In 1999
As of January 2012, the tower was given its current name, the LyondellBasell Tower. Around that time, LyondellBasell renewed its lease for 358,138 square feet (33,272.1 m2) of space in 1 Houston Center.[20]
2 Houston Center
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Two Houston Center | |
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General information | |
Type | Office |
Location | 909 Fannin Street, Houston, Texas |
Coordinates | 29°45′23″N 95°21′48″W / 29.7564°N 95.3632°W |
Completed | 1974 |
Height | |
Roof | 579 ft (176 m) |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 40 |
Floor area | 1,024,950 sq ft (95,221 m2) |
Lifts/elevators | 29, including 6 shuttle and 2 freight |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | Pierce Goodwin Flanagan |
Opened in 1974, this building has 40 floors with
In 1999 former
The United States Postal Service operates a center in 2 Houston Center.[32] In July 2011 the USPS announced that the post office may close.[33]
The
The lobby of 2 Houston Center was used as a filming location for The Swarm back in 1978.
4 Houston Center
4 Houston Center is a 674,246 square feet (62,639.5 m2) office building. In 2001 the building was 97% leased. The lower levels of 4 Houston Center have the Shops at Houston Center.[36]
In 2001 RWE Trading Americas leased 25,000 square feet (2,300 m2) of space in 4 Houston Center for its United States headquarters. The firm had the option to lease an additional 50,000 square feet (4,600 m2) of space in the following 18 months. Candace Baggett, the president of the real estate firm Calibre Group, said that the building is attractive to firms which need space for energy trading firms since the building has broad floors, each with over 50,000 square feet (4,600 m2) of space. Energy trading companies typically have wide-open trading floors. Many office buildings have half of the amount of space per floor that 5 Houston Center has. Marian Livingston of Calibre said that in 2001 it was difficult for an energy firm to find a large block of vacant space in Downtown Houston because of the tight market. Calibre represented RWE in the lease.[36]
5 Houston Center
5 Houston Center, a 27-story 580,875 square feet (53,965.1 m2) tower, has Class A Office space. Each floor of the tower has 29,000 square feet (2,700 m2) of space. When the building opened, every floor had broadband internet capability. The tower was worth $117 million in 2002.[10] At one time Halliburton had its world headquarters in 5 Houston Center.
In 2000
Halliburton, which signed its lease to occupy a portion of 5 Houston Center in 2002,[10] moved its headquarters there by July 2003.[23] Halliburton occupied 26,000 square feet (2,400 m2) of space on the 24th Floor in 5 Houston Center.[37][38] The occupancy rate at 5 Houston Center became 80% after Halliburton signed the lease agreement.[38] In addition Jackson Walker, a law firm, moved into 5 Houston Center by 2003.[23] Halliburton planned to move its headquarters to another site in Houston by 2012.[39] By 2009 the Halliburton headquarters had moved.[40]
Fulbright Tower
Fulbright Tower | |
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Houston, Texas | |
Coordinates | 29°45′20″N 95°21′42″W / 29.75556°N 95.36169°W |
Completed | 1982 |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 52 |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | Caudill Rowlett Scott |
Main contractor | W.S. Bellows Construction Corporation |
The Fulbright Tower is a 52-story skyscraper originally known as 3 Houston Center.
Construction on the tower was scheduled to begin in November 1980.
Proposed additions
Crescent proposed the building of 6 Houston Center in the 2000s. As of 2009 the plans did not materialize.[47]
The Shops at Houston Center
METRO Routes 11, 40, 41, 51, 52, 137, 202, 212, 228, 255, 262, 412 | |
Website | www.shopsathc.com |
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As of 2010 4 Houston Center's Shops at Houston Center has over 35 specialty retailers and 30 restaurants; as of the same year 14,000 people per day shop at the Shops at Houston Center.[49] The Houston Chronicle said that the shops are "a haven for the lunch-hour shopping fix."[50] In 2003 a major renovation by Development Design Group of Baltimore was enacted.[51]
Retail operations at The Shops at Houston Center include:[52]
- 1 Houston Center: 1221 McKinney Street
- P3 Level: Kelsey-Seybold Clinic (Suite 300)
- ChevronTexacoCredit Union (Suite 469)
- 2 Houston Center: 909 Fannin Street
- Bank of America (Suite 2)
- 4 Houston Center: 1200 McKinney Street
- Jos. A. Bank (Suite 105)
- T-Mobile (Suite 305)
- Subway (Suite 343)
- Chick-fil-A (Suite 363)
- Great American Cookies (Suite 369)
- Starbucks (Suites 373 and 496)
- DressBarn(Suite 395)
- Quizno's(Suite 402)
- General Nutrition Centers(Suite 421)
- Starship Hallmark Cards (Suite 429)
- Chase(Suite 433)
- Potbelly Sandwich Works
In 2010 Kelsey-Seybold Clinic stated that it would move from its original location at 1 Houston Center to the Shops at Houston Center at 4 Houston Center. Kelsey-Seybold will take 23,000 square feet (2,100 m2) of space and will house an imaging center, a clinical laboratory, a pharmacy, and primary care and specialty physicians. The construction of the center was scheduled to begin in July 2010, and completion was scheduled to occur in December 2010. The Kelsey Seybold in 1 Houston Center has 12,700 square feet (1,180 m2). Nicholas Ro, Kelsey-Seybold's vice president of strategic and legal affairs, said that if a customer walked into the lobby of 1 Houston Center, he or she would be unable to see the original clinic. Ro said that the clinic will move to gain a more visible location.[49] The current Kelsey Seybold pharmacy opened on Monday January 17, 2011.[53]
In 1995 the complex held the "Park Shops Holiday Trolley Tour" which traveled to several sites in Downtown with no admission cost.[57]
Gallery
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5 Houston Center parking
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Consulate-General of Japan in Houstonin Suite 3000 in 2 Houston Center
See also
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