Épingles correspondant à place:Houston

The Houston Astrodome, the world's first fixed-roof, air-conditioned multipurpose stadium, opened on 9 April 1965 with an exhibition game between the Astros and Yankees — though it's stood closed and searching for a new use since 2008.

After 56 days of trial and six days of deliberation, a federal jury in Houston convicted Enron's two former chief executives. Kenneth Lay was found guilty on all six counts he faced; Jeffrey Skilling was convicted on conspiracy, securities fraud, false statements and insider trading counts, closing the criminal case over the largest US corporate collapse of its time.

Texas kicked off construction on its $13 billion North Houston Highway Improvement Project, a decades-long rebuild of one of America's deadliest interstates.

Sable Offshore a accusé une perte nette de 197,0 millions de dollars au premier trimestre 2026 après avoir repris les ventes de pétrole de la Santa Ynez Unit en vertu d'un ordre du ministère américain de l'Énergie pris au titre du Defense Production Act, et a terminé le trimestre avec 956,3 millions de dollars de dette à court terme pour 52,2 millions de dollars de trésorerie.

Sable Offshore a réalisé un chiffre d'affaires de 137,1 millions de dollars et un flux de trésorerie d'exploitation de 9,4 millions de dollars au deuxième trimestre 2026, son premier trimestre complet de ventes depuis le redémarrage de la Santa Ynez Unit, et a terminé juin en vendant environ 40 000 barils nets de pétrole par jour.

Une usine de 236 acres qui produira le principe actif de la pilule amaigrissante Foundayo de Lilly, avec plus de 600 emplois permanents et environ 4 000 emplois de chantier. Lilly la prévoit opérationnelle d'ici 2030.

The new North Concourse at George Bush Intercontinental replaces the 1969-era flight stations with about 765,000 square feet on three levels, 22 gates for United and a 54,000-square-foot United Club, the largest in the airline's network. It is the centrepiece of the $2.5 billion Terminal B Transformation, which closed the old Terminal B lobby in January 2025.

A 700,000-square-foot building joined to the George R. Brown Convention Center, holding two exhibition halls, an atrium hall and the largest ballroom in Texas, plus a 100,000-square-foot pedestrian plaza linking it to the Toyota Center. Houston First financed this first phase of its $2 billion convention district transformation with about $1.38 billion of hotel occupancy tax and special revenue bonds.

Project 11 widens the channel by 170 feet along its Galveston Bay reach, from 530 to 700 feet, and deepens upstream segments to 46.5 feet so the largest container ships can pass one another. Dredging began in 2022; Port Houston finished its own segments in October 2025 and the US Army Corps of Engineers is completing the rest, with the spoil building bird islands, marsh and oyster reef.

Phase 2 tears down the convention center's 1968 arena and replaces it with a four-storey building and a new ballroom, finishing a rebuild whose first phase added 76,000 square feet and wrapped up in winter 2025. The centre stays open to events through the work.

NASA plans to retire the 25-year-old ISS by guiding it into a remote stretch of the South Pacific using a purpose-built SpaceX deorbit vehicle.