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== Economy == [[File:1 Bellaire Place.jpg|thumb|left|1 Bellaire Place, formerly [[Chevron Corporation|Chevron]] offices (now [[Harris Health System]] headquarters)]] The City of Bellaire has property zoned for light industrial, commercial, and mixed-use residential and commercial uses.<ref name="ZoningMap"/> Bellaire has some high-rise office buildings along Interstate 610.<ref name="Handbook"/> [[Frost Bank]]'s Houston-area offices are located in Bellaire.<ref>[https://www.frostbank.com/cgi-bin/ecomm/frost1/scripts/career/locations.jsp Career Opportunities] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716083646/https://www.frostbank.com/cgi-bin/ecomm/frost1/scripts/career/locations.jsp |date=July 16, 2011 }}. ''[[Frost Bank]]''. Retrieved on November 15, 2008.</ref> [[AT&T Inc.]] operates its Houston-area headquarters in an office building at 6500 [[Interstate 610 (Texas)|West Loop South]] in Bellaire; the building was with SBC Corporation before it absorbed [[American Telephone & Telegraph|the former AT&T]].<ref>[http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2006/08/14/daily9.html AT&T re-brands West Loop building]. ''[[Houston Business Journal]]''. Monday August 14, 2006. Retrieved on February 1, 2009.</ref><ref>[http://www.att.com/gen/careers?pid=9197 AT&T Occupational Recruiting Events - 2006]. Retrieved on November 15, 2008.</ref> The Houston Metropolitan Chamber, previously the Greater Southwest Houston Chamber of Commerce,<ref>"[http://swhoustontx.usachamber.com/virDirEditorAssets/SWHoustonTX/chamberAccess/docs/HMC%20Press%20Release.pdf Houston Chamber Re-Invents Itself after 61 years with a New Image]" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20140814000006/http://swhoustontx.usachamber.com/virDirEditorAssets/SWHoustonTX/chamberAccess/docs/HMC%20Press%20Release.pdf Archive]). Houston Metropolitan Chamber. January 7, 2011. Retrieved on April 23, 2014.</ref> assists economy activity in Bellaire.<ref>[http://www.gswhcc.org/custom2.asp?pageid=137 Welcome to Southwest Houston!] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120627202404/http://www.gswhcc.org/custom2.asp?pageid=137 |date=June 27, 2012 }}. ''The Greater Southwest Houston Chamber of Commerce''. Retrieved on December 11, 2008.</ref> The main offices of the Greater Southwest Houston Chamber of Commerce were previously located in Bellaire.<ref>[http://www.gswhcc.org/custom2.asp?pageid=120 Contact Us] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081118105834/http://www.gswhcc.org/custom2.asp?pageid=120 |date=November 18, 2008 }}. ''Greater Southwest Houston Chamber of Commerce''. Retrieved on November 22, 2008.</ref> In addition, South Texas Dental has its corporate headquarters in Bellaire.<ref>"[https://web.archive.org/web/20120426045852/http://www.southtexasdental.com/contact.html Contact Us]." South Texas Dental. Retrieved on September 7, 2013. "Houston 6300 West Loop South Ste. 650 Bellaire, TX 77401" and "Dallas 2501 Oaklawn Ste. 860 Dallas, TX 75219"</ref><ref>"[http://www.ethics.state.tx.us/tedd/2012_Lobby_List_by_Lobbyists.pdf 2012 LIST OF REGISTERED LOBBYISTS WITH EMPLOYERS/CLIENTS (EMP/C) SORTED BY LOBBYIST NAME] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130615202257/http://www.ethics.state.tx.us/tedd/2012_Lobby_List_by_Lobbyists.pdf |date=2013-06-15 }}." [[Texas Ethics Commission]]. February 13, 2013. p. 9. Retrieved on September 7, 2013. "South Texas Dental 6300 W. Loop S. Ste. 650 Bellaire, TX 77401"</ref> [[Chevron Corporation|Chevron]] has a {{convert|28.14|acre|m2|adj=on}} campus,<ref name=Smithvacate>{{cite news|author=Smith, Michelle Leigh|url=https://www.bauer.uh.edu/downloads/media/071216-SWN-Chevron.pdf|title=Chevron to Vacate Bellaire Location at Fournace/610|newspaper=[[Village News & Southwest News|Southwest News]]|date=July 12, 2016|volume=31|number=7|pages=1, 8}}</ref> at 4800 Fournace Place in Bellaire, that is the headquarters for the Chevron Pipe Line Company along with several other business units.<ref>[http://www.chevron.com/products/oronite/contact/americas.html Contact Us - Americas] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081218112357/http://www.chevron.com/products/oronite/contact/americas.html |date=December 18, 2008 }}. ''[[Chevron Corporation|Chevron]]''. Retrieved on December 24, 2008.</ref> S. I. Morris Architects Built the building in 1977. The land contains an 11-story building,<ref name=Smithvacate/> with {{convert|502000|sqft|sqm}} of area, that was built for [[Texaco]];<ref>Dawson, Jennifer. "[http://houston.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2006/03/06/story8.html Chevron ends space odyssey with landmark lease]." ''[[Houston Business Journal]]''. Friday March 3, 2006. Retrieved on November 11, 2009.</ref> In August 1963 officials from the company asked the city government to rezone a parcel of land so the laboratory could be built.<ref name=Smithvacate/> It belonged to the company prior to its merger with Chevron.<ref>Sarnoff, Nancy and Jenna Colley. "[http://houston.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2004/03/01/story7.html ChevronTexaco to acquire downtown tower intended for Enron]." ''[[Houston Business Journal]]''. Friday February 27, 2004. Retrieved on October 3, 2009.</ref><ref>Lezon, Dale. "[http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=2002_3606973 Herzog, 98, longtime Texaco geophysicist]." ''[[Houston Chronicle]]''. Sunday December 8, 2002. A43. Retrieved on October 3, 2009.</ref> The section of the street which the building was on was originally Gulfton Drive, but it was changed to Fournace, after Bellaire resident J.J. Fournace, because the Texaco management did not want their building on a street with a name similar to that of rival company [[Gulf Oil]].<ref name=Smithvacate/> In 2016 900 employees, working in company's pipeline division and other divisions, worked in the office.<ref name=Pulsinellitosell>{{cite news|author=Pulsinelli, Olivia|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2016/07/22/chevron-to-sell-bellaire-campus-and-major-site.html|title=Chevron to sell Bellaire campus and major site near Grand Parkway|newspaper=[[Houston Business Journal]]|date=July 22, 2016|access-date=January 12, 2017}}</ref> The parcel was the only portion of Bellaire zoned to be a "Technical Research Park" or TRP. That year Chevron announced that it was going to move the employees to its offices in [[Downtown Houston]] and sell the building.<ref name=Smithvacate/> The employees were scheduled to leave by the end of 2017.<ref name=Pulsinellitosell/> HISD officials considered the idea of buying the property so a new [[Bellaire High School (Texas)|Bellaire High School]] could be built there.<ref>{{cite news|author=Mellon, Ericka|url=http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/education/hall-pass/article/HISD-eyeing-Chevron-site-for-new-Bellaire-High-9645287.php|title=HISD eyeing Chevron site for new Bellaire High School|newspaper=[[Houston Chronicle]]|date=October 3, 2016|access-date=January 13, 2017}}</ref> In 1953, the [[Diplomatic missions of Sweden|Consulate-General of Sweden]] moved to Bellaire.<ref name="Handbook"/> At one point the [[Diplomatic missions of Honduras|Consulate-General of Honduras in Houston]] was located in Suite 360 at 6700 [[Interstate 610 (Texas)|West Loop South]] in Bellaire.<ref>[http://www.bcm.edu/medschool/tracks/international/REQ_Oct06.doc Baylor Shoulder to Shoulder Program] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090227014343/http://www.bcm.edu/medschool/tracks/international/REQ_Oct06.doc |date=February 27, 2009 }}. ''[[Baylor College of Medicine]]''. Retrieved on January 13, 2009.</ref> As of 2009 the Honduran Consulate-General and the Swedish Honorary Consulate are located in Houston.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070103185456/http://www.houston.org/tools/committeeRoster.asp?committee=CONSULAR Consular Corps]. ''Greater Houston Partnership''. Retrieved on January 13, 2009.</ref> Bellaire had 8,120 employed civilians as of the 2000 Census, including 3,835 females. Of the civilian workers, 5,368 (66.1%) were private, for-profit wage and salary workers. Of these, 689 (8.5% of the total Bellaire civilian workforce) were employees of their own corporations; 952 (11.7%) were private, non-profit wage and salary workers; 446 (5.5%) worked for local governments; 479 (5.9%) were state government workers; 111 (1.4%) were federal workers; 754 (9.3%) were self-employed; none of them worked in agriculture, forestry, fishing, or hunting; and 10 (.1%) were unpaid family workers.<ref>[http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/QTTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=16000US4807300&-qr_name=DEC_2000_SF3_U_QTP25&-ds_name=DEC_2000_SF3_U Class of Worker by Sex, Place of Work, and Veteran Status: 2000 - Bellaire, Texas] {{webarchive |url=https://archive.today/20200210213714/http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/QTTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=16000US4807300&-qr_name=DEC_2000_SF3_U_QTP25&-ds_name=DEC_2000_SF3_U |date=February 10, 2020 }}. ''[[US Census Bureau]]''. Retrieved on November 18, 2008.</ref>
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