Roger Galatas Interests
Along roadways around Houston the landscape is changing in a way that is worrisome. Closely spaced houses replace trees and open fields in many areas. More houses each day. New billboards advertise our future.
But let's also recognize that the Houston region is rich in resources — with talented, caring people, attractive centers of commerce and many neat neighborhoods. For most, this is — and will continue to be — a great place to live and work.
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No matter how much he accomplishes, Roger Galatas seems destined to work in the shadow of his boss, oilman George P. Mitchell. But the president of The Woodlands Corp. prefers it that way.
When asked if he has full control of The Woodlands Corp., Galatas answers, “I have all I need.” And when he is quizzed about Mitchell’s influence on how the company operates, Galatas responds, “George gives us a sense of direction about where we need to go, but it’s up to us on how we get there.
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Loblolly pines still tower above the gently rolling, wooded land you find some 30 miles north and west of Houston. After years of timbering, though, far more populous young pine trees shoot up amid hardwoods – oaks, gums and clusters of dogwoods that catch your eye in some sunlit glen, and etch their beauty into your memory of the topography. Unpaved timber trails snake through the woods and wetlands of Woodard Ranch, in southwest Montgomery County, about 12 miles north and west of Interstate 45. Even a Ford Expedition can get stuck in a bog on those timber roads. In fact, it happened to Roger Galatas a month or so ago, as he gave an executive tour of the 6,634-acre ranch to a party interested in bidding to buy it for development.
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Business people are getting a bad rap these days. Much of it is deserved. We’ve seen the list of incompetent, failed and even crooked executives on the daily pages of this newspaper. But those headlines obscure the facts. The great majority of people running businesses large and small are competent and honest. Some are even brilliant. One of the best examples of that brilliance can be found here in Houston in the person of George P. Mitchell.
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A new $1.7 billion, 4,600-acre master-planned community called Tradition is underway on the Gulf Coast near the towns of Biloxi and Gulfport in Harrison County, Mississippi. Tradition’s developers say they are capitalizing on an unprecedented boom along the Mississippi Gulf Coast and the area’s emergence as the third-ranked casino gaming destination in the country. Harrison County draws approximately 20 million tourists each year, and Fodor’s Travel named the Mississippi Coast among its top ten destinations for 1999.
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Roger Galatas, former president and CEO of The Woodlands Corporation, now The Woodlands Operating Company, wrote a book about the master-planned community.
There are a lot of interesting stories about the people involved in The Woodlands and the institutions they built, he said. With so many new people moving into the area, a lot of the stories are disappearing.
“I felt the book was a good opportunity to record those stories in a more permanent method,” Galatas said.
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