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The Houston Business Development, Inc. (HBD) and the Business Information Center (BIC) are in Palm Center. [19] Over 40 small businesses are in the complex. [18] The Houston Texans YMCA was built on 5-acre (2.0 ha) of land, [20] on the site of a previous building that had been abandoned; this building had the original Palms Center sign. [18]
The first YMCA in the United States opened on December 29, 1851, in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1851 by Captain Thomas Valentine Sullivan (1800–59), an American seaman and missionary.
YMCA, sometimes regionally called the Y, is a worldwide youth organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 64 million beneficiaries in 120 countries.It has nearly 90,000 staff, some 920,000 volunteers and 12,000 branches worldwide. [1]
The community houses the Weekley Family YMCA, which replaced the previous Southwest Branch YMCA in West University Place. The groundbreaking of the original $3.5 million facility occurred in September 2001. It houses office spaces, a gymnasium, an outdoor pool, an outdoor field, and a weight room. [42] The Southwest YMCA opened in 1951. [43]
The Weekley Family YMCA is in the area. It opened in 1951 as the Southwest YMCA, [61] in West University Place. The current facility in Braeswood Place, Houston broke ground in 2001. [62] In 2023, Helix Park opened as part of the Texas Medical Center complex with six parks shaped around a double-helix and a campus collaboration building.
The Houston Texans YMCA, serving the Third Ward, is located in Palm Center. [132] The previous YMCA facility in the Third Ward was the South Central YMCA, between the two universities. [133] This YMCA, in the era of de jure racial segregation, was open to African-Americans. Civil rights activist Quentin Mease found a previous facility and ...
KBR Tower (formerly the M. W. Kellogg Tower) is a 550 ft (167.6 m) tall skyscraper in Downtown Houston, Texas, United States; it is a part of the Cullen Center complex. The KBR Tower has the headquarters of KBR, Inc., an engineering, procurement, and construction company. [2] [3] [4]
Floating cube at ExxonMobil headquarters Sysco headquarters Hewlett Packard Enterprise headquarters Post Oak Tower in Uptown Houston, the headquarters for Landry's and Fertitta Entertainment Crown Castle headquarters KBR Tower, KBR's headquarters Academy Sports + Outdoors headquarters in Katy, Texas