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originally known as 3 Houston Center. A part of the

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, United States, the tower has of

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''. May 5, 2005. Retrieved on November 11, 2009. The bottom seven levels were designed for four trading floors for commodities like electricity and natural gas. The building at one point was owned by ChevronTexaco. As of 2005, Crescent owns the tower in a joint venture with the affiliates of GE Asset Management and

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has its Houston office located in the Fulbright Tower, in Suite 5100. HoustonCenterFulbrightTower

History

Construction on the tower was scheduled to begin in November 1980. The building was built in 1982.Crescent Acquires Downtown Houston Office Property; Chevron Tower Acquisition Brings All of Houston Center Assets into Crescent's Portfolio.
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''. December 22, 2004. Retrieved on November 11, 2009. The tower property was developed in 1985.

Fulbright & Jaworski Fulbright & Jaworski was founded in Houston, Texas, in 1919 by Rufus Fulbright. Fulbright & Jaworski represented clients in the energy, financial, and healthcare industries. As trustees of the M.D. Anderson Foundation, Fulbright & Jaworski partn ...

became a tenant during that year. The original name of the structure was the Gulf Tower.

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became the building's main tenant, and its name became the Chevron Tower. Fulbright & Jaworski renegotiated and extended its lease in 2003 and retained the possibility of

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; as of 2005, the firm occupies of space. On February 24, 2005, Crescent completed the joint venture agreement involving the Fulbright Tower; a pension fund investor advised by JPMorgan Asset Management bought a 60% ownership interest in the building and an affiliate of GE Asset Management bought a 16.15% ownership interest. In 2004, ChevronTexaco sold the building to Crescent. During that year the tower was 49% occupied. By March 2005, ChevronTexaco planned to move its operations out of the tower after buying

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in Downtown Houston. Fulbright & Jaworski used their naming rights, and in 2005 the building gained the name ''Fulbright Tower''. In 2005, the Fulbright Tower was 57% occupied. In 2006,

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still occupied three floors at the Fulbright Tower. In 2009 Conway MacKenzie leased at the Fulbright Tower.

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, which acquired the Houston Center in 2017, began renovating the campus in 2019 alongside architectural firm

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. The first phase of the project was completed in 2021 and, as of March 2022, the final phase was underway.

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