If you take a short trip down a main road, you are more than likely going to pass a Shell fuel and service station. Shell Stations have been bringing quality gas and customer service to communities since 1912. Shell is viewed as one of the largest and most prolific oil and gas companies in the world. They merged with Texaco in 1997, which only accelerated their growth and reputation as the industry leader. The industry giant had humble beginnings going back to 1833 when a shopkeeper named Marcus Samuel decided to sell his antique business to pursue importing and exporting seashells, which were in high fashion at the time. His export and import business would soon expand from seashells to machinery, textiles, tools, rice, silk, sugar, wheat, flour and eventually oil when the first petrol powered internal combustion engines arrived in 1886. With the industrial revolution, the world would never be the same and communities would become reliant on gasoline to thrive. Shell built gas stations cross continentally to serve those communities. U-Haul couldn't let such an iconic building fall into ruin, so the site was acquired in 1979 and converted into a storage and dispatch center. 

Serving U-Haul customers since 1979, this facility was built through adaptive reuse of an abandoned building. Adaptive reuse promotes infill development in an effort to strengthen communities, with the following benefits achieved at this site:

• 12 tons of metal manufacturing & transportation prevented
• 544 tons of new concrete pours avoided
• 558.3 tons of construction and demolition debris prevented

Energy-efficiency and waste-reduction programs at this facility provide the following estimated benefits each year for the Baytown community:

• 47,846 kWh annual energy savings
• 293,128 lbs greenhouse gas emissions prevented

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  Steel Production 12 tons (11 tonnes) of steel manufacturing and delivery saved to date

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  Energy 47,846 kWh annual energy savings

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  Concrete 544 tons (494 tonnes) of new concrete pours avoided to date

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  Emissions 293,128 lbs (132,962 kgs) of greenhouse gas emissions prevented

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  Landfill Debris 558 lbs (253 kgs) of construction debris prevented

• Learn more about Shell's History.
• U-Haul Moving & Storage of Baytown