East Houston 1912 Co.

William H. Van Pelt IV

President

Bill Van Pelt, IV provides strategic leadership to the East Houston 1912 Project. In addition to board and management responsibilities, Bill directly manages a significant number of client assignments throughout the country. He has more than 33 years of experience working with the most complex business and estate planning situations involving the owners of family controlled private and publicly held companies. Consequently, Bill is especially adept at identifying latent business planning, estate planning, people and tax issues, their likely impact on a company and its stakeholders, and devising strategies to effectively and efficiently preempt their manifestation. Bill possesses a broad, deep understanding of financial concepts, strategies and tools, and their creative application.

Patrick Van Pelt

Project Advisor

Patrick is a management consultant with broad experience in closely-held companies. Patrick has direct experience with financial consulting, risk management, real estate, residential construction, and historic restorations. He has deep knowledge of early-stage startups and emerging-growth companies. Patrick promotes families by focusing upon financial management, estate planning, family enterprise, family history and genealogy, the architecture of family residences, family homesteads, and the quality of urbanism.

Melvin Hughes

Chief Marketing Officer

Melvin Hughes has been in the landscaping business since 1980. Mr. Hughes has an esteemed record as a City of Houston maintenance mechanic. He organized and managed programs for ground water and surface water plants. Mr. Hughes is former president of the Houston Public Employees Union. Mr. Hughes enjoys working with the City of Houston to better the community through excellent service.

ABOUT US

Project Roots

East Houston 1912 Project’s vision for an elevated Settegast community isn’t new. In fact, it dates back to March 19, 1910 when Washington Zacharias Haight filed a revised map of east Houston on behalf of a partnership with his fellow investor, Hosiah Quimby. Their plans for east Houston suffered a severe blow with the death of Quimby in 1907 and the later passing of Haight in 1912. Over the next few decades, the neighborhood fell back into the grip of time and Mother Nature. Dirt streets became grassy lanes. Grassy lanes became woods. Time marched on, and the deteriorating state became status quo.

East Houston 1912 Project, with Van Pelt family members at the helm, is dusting off the dream for East Houston, creating a safer, more affordable Settegast community – a project that stalled with the last economic downturn – and reengaging in historic preservation and new urbanism.

The time is ripe to resurrect the 110-year-old vision of Haight and Quimby and lift up the Settegast community, and East Houston 1912 Project is proud to carry the torch of this master planned development to the finish line.

Great Design Creates Lovable Homes

Our team of architects and designers have great designs. We will work with you to develop the distinctive plan you envision. Make sure to check out our completed projects.

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