[Illustration: _Cullen Center_]
[Illustration: _Domed Sports Stadium_]
[Illustration: _Manned Spacecraft Center_]
[Illustration: _Jetero Airport_]
[Illustration: _Natural Science Museum, Planetarium_]
Five important Houston building projects, in various stages of
development late in 1962, totaled a minimum completion cost of
$347,500,000. Construction of a sixth, a new City Auditorium to be built
on the site of the old one, which was opened in 1910, will begin in 1963
or 1964; money for the new auditorium was given by Houston Endowment,
Inc., a foundation created by Jesse H. Jones.
The eventual cost of Cullen Center, which is being built on a six-block
site downtown, will be more than $100,000,000. The first two buildings,
which were nearing completion late in 1962, are a twenty-five-story
office building and the Hotel America. Cullen Center eventually will
include an office building of fifty stories or more, two high-rise
apartment towers, and other structures.
The other projects, and their estimated final costs, are an air
conditioned domed stadium for baseball and football games, $20,000,000;
the Houston Intercontinental Airport, called Jetero, $125,000,000; the
Manned Spacecraft Center, $100,000,000; and the Houston Museum of
Natural Science and Planetarium, $2,500,000.