The Beck Group is a company that provides architecture, construction,

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, and

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and consulting, as well as finance and technology services. The company is based in

Dallas, Texas Dallas () is the third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people. It is the largest city in and seat of Dallas County w ...

and also has offices in

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Austin Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of Texas, as well as the seat and largest city of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties. Incorporated on December 27, 1839, it is the 11th-most-populous city ...

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Fort Worth Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Texas and the 13th-largest city in the United States. It is the county seat of Tarrant County, covering nearly into four other counties: Denton, Johnson, Parker, and Wise. According ...

Houston Houston (; ) is the most populous city in Texas, the most populous city in the Southern United States, the fourth-most populous city in the United States, and the sixth-most populous city in North America, with a population of 2,304,580 in ...

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, and

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. The Beck Group serves a diverse range of industries, including corporate, healthcare, entertainment, religious, and education. They also provide services based on the use of their software product, DESTINI. 1807 Ross Avenue

History

The Beck Group was founded in 1912 by Henry C. Beck in Houston, Texas as a general contractor and moved its headquarters to Dallas in 1924, a requirement for building the city's Cotton Exchange Building. The majority of their work throughout their history has been commercial, but realized they needed to expand beyond that. In the 1990s, the construction company began adding other services, such as design and real estate development. It also acquired a UK-developed software product (

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) and began to develop a proprietary software, DESTINI, which would provide immediate costs for buildings as they were modeled in the schematic design phase. In 1999, under the leadership of then-

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(present executive chairman)

Henry C. Beck III Henry C. Beck III ("Peter") (born 1955) is an American Texas-born businessman, who served as CEO of The Beck Group - an architecture, engineering, and construction firm based out of Dallas, with offices in Dallas, Houston, Austin, Atlanta, Denver, ...

, the company merged with Urban Architecture, a regional design firm. In 2013,

Fred Perpall Fred Perpall is an American business executive. He is best known as the first black person to be nominated as president-elect of the United States Golf Association. Since 2013, Perpall has served as CEO of The Beck Group, a US-based internatio ...

took over from Beck III as the fifth CEO of the design-build firm. The company is headquartered in the Arts District of

Downtown Dallas Downtown Dallas is the central business district (CBD) of Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States, located in the geographic center of the city. It is the second-largest business district in the state of Texas. The area termed "Downtown" has tradit ...

at the former Southwestern Life Insurance Building, designed by

George Dahl George Leighton Dahl (May 11, 1894 – July 18, 1987) was a prominent American architect based in Dallas, Texas during the 20th century. His most notable contributions include the Art Deco structures of Fair Park while he oversaw planning and con ...

, but announced a plan to relocate to

Thanksgiving Tower Santander Tower is a 50-story, skyscraper at 1601 Elm Street adjacent to Thanks-Giving Square in downtown Dallas Texas. At its completion in 1982, it was the second tallest building in Dallas, surpassing Elm Place. One year later, with the comp ...

in 2019.

Projects

AT&T AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications holding company headquartered at Whitacre Tower in Downtown Dallas, Texas. It is the world's largest telecommunications company by revenue and the third largest provider of mobile tel ...

Pinnacle Park – Dallas, Texas (Integrated: Architecture, Construction, Development) *

One Atlantic Center One Atlantic Center, also known as IBM Tower, is a skyscraper located in Midtown Atlanta, Georgia. It is the third tallest building in Atlanta. History It is the third-tallest in Atlanta, reaching a height of with 50 stories of office space wi ...

– Atlanta, Georgia (Construction) *

Baylor University Baylor University is a private Baptist Christian research university in Waco, Texas. Baylor was chartered in 1845 by the last Congress of the Republic of Texas. Baylor is the oldest continuously operating university in Texas and one of the fir ...

Sciences Building – Waco, Texas (Integrated: Construction, Development Management) * Baylor University – Baylor East Village *

Baylor Research and Innovation Collaborative The Baylor Research and Innovation Collaborative is a science research facility. It is the first, and cornerstone, facility of a 21-acre discovery complex that is expected to evolve into the Central Texas Technology and Research Park. Originally a ...

- Waco, Texas (Construction) * Crescent Pavilion - Dallas, Texas (Construction) * Dallas Arboretum *

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Corporate Headquarters – Burbank, California (Construction) *

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

Basketball Practice Facility – Durham, North Carolina (Integrated: Architecture, Construction, Programming) * The Domain – Austin, Texas (Construction) *

Fellowship Church Fellowship Church (FC) is Baptist Evangelical multi-site megachurch located in Grapevine, Texas, a suburb of Fort Worth, that is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. FC's lead pastor has been Ed Young since its opening in 1989. Hi ...

- Grapevine, Texas (construction of both the original main facility and the bookstore expansion; in addition, Beck also renovated the facility now hosting its Downtown Dallas campus) *

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Regional Center – Westlake, Texas (Construction) *

Firewheel Town Center Firewheel Town Center is a open-air regional shopping mall in Garland, Texas. The mall is located on the northeast corner of President George Bush Turnpike and State Highway 78. The mall opened on October 7, 2005. Although "coming soon" signs ...

– Garland, Texas (Integrated: Architect of Record, Construction) * First National Bank Plaza – Phoenix, Arizona (Construction) *

Fountain Place Fountain Place is a 60-story Modern architecture, late-modernist skyscraper in downtown Dallas, Texas. Standing at a structural height of , it is the List of tallest buildings in Dallas, fifth-tallest building in Dallas, and the Tallest buildings ...

– Dallas, Texas (Construction) * Gateway Church - Southlake main campus (Architect), North Fort Worth site (Architect), and Grand Prairie site (Architect and Construction) * Guarantee Bank Tower – Phoenix, Arizona (Construction) * Hunt Corporate Headquarters – Dallas, Texas (Architecture) *

Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) is a contemporary art museum with two locations in greater Los Angeles, California. The main branch is located on Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, near the Walt Disney Concert Hall. MOCA's or ...

– Los Angeles, California (Construction) *

Mary Kay Mary Kay Inc. is an American privately owned multi-level marketing company. According to '' Direct Selling News'', Mary Kay was the sixth largest network marketing company in the world in 2018, with a wholesale volume of US$3.25 billion.

Headquarters – Dallas, Texas (Construction) *

Phoenix Financial Center The Phoenix Financial Center consists of a high-rise office building and two adjacent rotunda buildings located along Central Avenue in the Midtown district of Phoenix, Arizona, United States. They were built in 1963 by the Financial Corporati ...

– Phoenix, Arizona (Construction) * The Nasher Sculpture Center – Dallas, Texas (Integrated: Associate Architect of Record, Construction) * Piano Pavilion at the Kimbell Museum of Art in Fort Worth. *

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Headquarters – Fort Worth, Texas (Construction) *

Southlake Town Square Southlake Town Square is a shopping precinct located in the city of Southlake, in the U.S. state of Texas. Owned and managed by Kite Realty Group. History The plans to develop open pastures into an upscale downtown for the City of Southlake be ...

– Southlake, Texas (Integrated: Architect of Record, Construction) *

Shake Shack Shake Shack is an American fast casual restaurant chain based in New York City. It started out as a hot dog cart inside Madison Square Park in 2001, and its popularity steadily grew. In 2004, it received a permit to open a permanent kiosk with ...

- Dallas, Texas (Integrated: Architect of Record, Construction) *

Texas Motor Speedway Texas Motor Speedway is a speedway located in the northernmost portion of the U.S. city of Fort Worth, Texas – the portion located in Denton County, Texas. The reconfigured track measures with banked 20° in turns 1 and 2 and banked 24° ...

– Fort Worth, Texas (Construction) *

USAA The United Services Automobile Association (USAA) is a San Antonio-based Fortune 500 diversified financial services group of companies including a Texas Department of Insurance-regulated reciprocal inter-insurance exchange and subsidiaries offeri ...

Southeast Regional Office – Tampa, Florida (Construction) * Valley Center – Phoenix, Arizona (Construction) *

Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall The Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall is a performing arts venue located at 777 North Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, Florida neighboring the Sarasota Bay. The main theater of the facility contains 1,741 seats. History The initial construction of the 1, ...

– Sarasota, Florida (Construction) * Victory Lofts – Tampa, Florida (Integrated: Architecture, Construction, Development, Media) * Victory Plaza at Victory Park – Dallas, Texas (Construction)

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