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The HYC was founded in 1897. [3] Originally called the Houston Yacht & Powerboat Club, [4] [5] its name was changed to Houston Yacht Club in 1927, when its current Spanish-style clubhouse was built, [6] [7] which has been declared an historic landmark in the Galveston Bay area of the Gulf Coast.
Fortune 500 companies based in Houston [1]: Rank Company name 12: ExxonMobil: 48: Phillips 66: 60: Sysco: 105: Enterprise Products Partners: 106: Hewlett Packard Enterprise: 127: Plains GP Holdings
Brown Shipbuilding, Houston, Texas (1942–1985) Brown & Bell Shipyard, New York City (1824–1855) Burger Boat Company, Manitowoc, Wisconsin; California Shipbuilding Corporation, Terminal Island, Los Angeles County, California; Charleston Naval Shipyard, Charleston, South Carolina; Chesapeake Shipbuilding, Salisbury, Maryland
Lynn Cook of the Houston Business Journal described this as "an astonishing number for the size of Andersen Consulting's lease." [2] In 1999, realty firm Cushman & Wakefield moved its Houston office into the America Tower from the Wells Fargo Tower of Four Oaks Place in Uptown Houston. As of 1999 the building was 99% leased. [13]
Lakewood Yacht Club is a yacht club located in Seabrook, Texas, and is a member of the Gulf Yachting Association. The club sits on 38 acres of land, housing six sheds and seven docks. The facilities include over 250 covered slips for power boats and there are an additional 200+ open slips on fixed and floating piers.
On July 16, 1908 Charles L. Seabury & Co's shipyard launched the "largest yacht in the world driven by motor power ... in the presence of its owner Charles Henry Fletcher". She was 111 feet over all, with a 21-foot beam, and 260 horse power and an engineering feat for luxury yachts of the time. [5]
In 2005 Houston City Council Member Mark Goldberg and Jim Myers, head of the nonprofit group Southwest Houston 2000 Inc., lobbied the state government, asking the state to create what was originally called the Fondren Ranch Management District. [6] In June 2005 the 79th Texas Legislature created the Brays Oaks Management District in the area. [7]