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Henry C. Beck III ("Peter") (born 1955) is an American businessman, who was CEO [1] of The Beck Group [2] - an architecture, engineering, and construction firm based out of Dallas, with offices in Houston, Austin, Atlanta, Denver, Tampa, Florida, Mexico City and Cabo San Lucas, Mexico - for 20 years, and is executive chairman.
For a list of companies based within Dallas city limits, go to List of companies in Dallas. The Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex is home to over 20 corporate headquarters, making the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex one of the largest corporate headquarters concentration in the United States.
The Beck Group was founded in 1912 by Henry C. Beck [4] in Houston, Texas as a general contractor [2] as Central Contracting Company. In 1934, it moved its headquarters to Dallas, [1] a requirement for building the city's Cotton Exchange Building. [2]
2005 – Parent company's name changed to DGSE Companies, Inc 2007 – Dallas Gold & Silver Exchange acquires the assets of Euless Gold & Silver and opens Dallas Gold & Silver Exchange Fort Worth/Euless location 2007 – DGSE Companies, Inc. lists on the American Stock Exchange 2007 – The second Dallas area National Pawn store is opened.
Centex Corporation acquired these, and other regionally-based construction companies through the 1960s and 1970s to form Centex Construction, the commercial building arm of Centex Corporation. [2] Centex Construction operated through early 2007, when it was acquired by Balfour Beatty.
Commercial Metals Company (CMC), headquartered in Irving, Texas, is a producer of rebar and related products for the construction industry. Along with Nucor, it is one of two primary suppliers of steel used to reinforce concrete in buildings, bridges, roads, and infrastructure in the U.S. The company also owns Tensar, a producer of foundation ...
The company, first known as Trinity Steel, was founded by C. J. Bender in Dallas in 1933. W. Ray Wallace, an engineering graduate of Louisiana Tech, worked for Dallas's Austin Bridge Company in 1944 before joining the company in 1946 as its seventeenth employee. At the time Trinity Steel manufactured butane tanks in a Dallas County mule barn.
At this time, Wynn would also create the Great Southwest Corporation to oversee the project and appoint himself president of the company. [2] ' Construction would start in 1956 on what was the initial warehouse and by 1957 there were five buildings under construction across 750 acres of the industrial park land.