Texas
Tower Envisioned on 1968 World’s Fair Site in San Antonio
A mixed-use, 28-story tower designed by FitzGerald Associates Architects is envisioned as part of the US$340-million redevelopment of Hemisphere, an iconic park in San Antonio, Texas, that is home to...
ERS Lands 170-Unit Maintenance Contract for Houston Airports
Houston-based Elevator Repair Service, Inc. (ERS) in September was awarded a five-year contract by the City of Houston Finance Department to operate and maintain more than 170 vertical-transportation units at...
Mitsubishi Electric US Opens Offices in Houston and Austin
The Elevator and Escalator Division of Mitsubishi Electric US, Inc., headquartered in Cypress, California, announced new offices in Houston and Austin, Texas, on October 4. The company cited the "favorable...
Ground Broken on Texas’ Tallest Building
Kohn Pedersen Fox has designed a 311-m mixed-use tower in downtown Austin that will become Texas’ tallest building when it opens in late 2026, Arch Daily reports. Targeting LEED Gold...
Kings III Acquired by Arcline Investment Management
Kings III, a Coppell, Texas-based provider of emergency monitoring solutions for elevator and other systems across North America, has been acquired by Arcline Investment Management, a private equity firm with...
Elevators at Tower Shut Down Amid Structural Safety Concerns
Structural safety concerns about the 33-story The Royalton at River Oaks condominium tower in Houston west of downtown prompted city officials to pull its occupancy permit and suddenly evacuate residents...
Elevator Sill Solutions by Archi-Tread Opens Texas Facility
Scott Akin, owner of New Jersey-based Archi-Tread, Inc., recently announced the opening of an Elevator Sills Solutions (ESS) by Archi-Tread facility in Rosenberg, Texas. The 15,000-ft2 manufacturing and warehouse facility...
Texas Courthouse Upgrade Considerations Include Elevator
At a meeting of the Presidio County Commissioners Court in Texas in June, William Helm of In*Situ Architecture in El Paso gave a presentation, part of a larger discussion on...
TKE Elevator Modernization at Historic Texas Tower
TK Elevator (TKE) is modernizing six elevators at the historic ALICO office building in Waco, Texas, a 111-year-old, 282-ft-tall structure that was once the tallest U.S. building west of the...
PEAK ELEVATOR PARTS Opens Dallas Distribution Center
PEAK ELEVATOR PARTSTM celebrated the opening of its Dallas distribution center on May 13 with a grand opening. PEAK ELEVATOR PARTS is a division of privately owned PEAK ELEVATORTM, which...
