New tenant setting up at TexAmericas Center

KBR Wyle Services, headquartered in Torrance, California, is a new tenant leasing warehouse space on TexAmericas Center’s Central Campus at 133 Miller Street, New Boston, Texas.

The 13,000 square foot space is being leased for warehousing and storage. The initial term of the lease is set to be 24 months. The space is approximately 13,000 square feet. The nature of work to be performed on-site is for warehousing and storage, and the company is expected to create five jobs while investing around $4.5 million.

“We have been working with KBR for about six months or so to get this contract in place,”

Scott Norton, TexAmericas Center executive director and CEO.

The lease began at the beginning of November of this year.

“We are happy to have them on the footprint and look forward to working with them for the duration of this lease and hopefully longer,” he said.

KBR Wyle Services is a company that is about 100 years old in existence, according to its website. it was founded by Morris Woodruff Kellog, originally known as M.W. Kellogg, a pipe fabrication enterprise in New York. As the business grew, it became known as an engineering firm. Kellog’s engineering expertise and push for innovation led his company to develop the first catalytic cracking facility and Europe’s first crude oilbased liquid ethylene cracking facility. Kellogg later worked in other such fields as fertilizer. Eventually, they would merge with Brown & Root Engineering and Construction in 1998. Brown& Root got their start in road building and eventually innovated in petrochemical tools and resources, as well as taking on many landmarks that set apart the Houston map, such as Rice University’s football stadium, Minute Maid Park and the Johnson Space Center.

In 2006, KBR separated from Halliburton. In 2016, it acquired Wyle Inc., a government services company, and became KBR Wyle Services.