Some Plans in Their Wrench

10/26/10 6:13pm

Some Plans in Their Wrench

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SOME PLANS IN THEIR WRENCH And who thought a building shaped like a pipe wrench wouldn’t attract a natural-gas firm as its lead tenant? Hines announced yesterday that UK-based BG Group will move its Houston offices from the Panhandle Energy Tower where Westheimer hits Alabama in the Galleria to MainPlace, the Pickard Chilton-designed spec building still under construction at 811 Main St. Downtown. The company will take over floors 29 through 34 in the 46-story tower, but may fill up more later. And it’s changing the building’s name — no, not to Pez Tower — but to BG Group Place. KPMG put dibs on the building’s top 4 floors more than 2 years ago. [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot] Photo: Skyscraper Page user Johnme

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HardHatHelen October 27, 2010 at 4:49 pm

BG Group? Sooo many disco jokes to be made here. Where to start?
Dani October 28, 2010 at 5:11 pm

It’s actually called “Southern Union Tower”, and it won’t be that for very long. Southern Union (the company that owns Panhandle and a host of other subsidiaries) is moving to Galleria II in 2011.