As the owners of Pennzoil Place, Metropolis Investment Holdings Inc. would like you to meet our new tenants who arrived in February 2021: honey bees! We’ve teamed up with Alvéole to move toward a more eco-conscious city, and give back to our community, by taking bees under our wing and hosting two hives on our 14th floor rooftop at our Walker @ Main Garage.

URBAN BEEKEEPING TAKES FLIGHT

• The population of honey bees, bumble bees, butterflies, and other pollinators are in rapid decline all over the world. Unfortunately, several species of bees are at risk for extinction in North America.
• More than 75% of the world’s food crops rely on pollinators. Through their pollination, bees not only promote biodiversity, but they also secure our food supply.
• Bee colonies flourish in urban areas because these environments lack pesticides, have an abundance of water and floral resources, and provide a temperate climate.
• Beekeeping was traditionally an agricultural practice based on the economic benefits of honey production. Today, urban beekeeping largely exceeds economic necessity and helps raise awareness surrounding industrial agriculture and its impact on the environment.

HONEY, THERE’S GOOD NEWS!

Our new winged friends will be hard at work! Thousands of new honey bees will pollinate the urban flora that surround us during the summer and we will harvest their honey at the end of the season to share with our community.

BEE SOCIAL WITH US

To learn more, follow us on Instagram @PennzoilPlace or visit our MyHive page for information on the bees, upcoming workshops and to meet our Alvéole beekeeper, Sierra!