Race Rock is cranking up its Houston-area presence, rolling out a new manufacturing plant in Brookshire that the company says will support roughly 200 jobs, while its fabrication arm Spitzer adds waterfront staging land and high-tech cutting equipment at its Houston yard. Together, the moves are aimed at handling more large transmission and substation structures and speeding delivery of oversized, factory-assembled electrical gear for energy and industrial projects. Work at the Brookshire site is slated to kick off this fall, and Spitzer says its yard upgrades are designed to cut fabrication lead times for pieces shipped by barge. Contractors and local officials say the extra floor space, robotic cutting and ship-channel access could help shorten the long waits that have become routine on major grid and industrial builds.
Brookshire Expansion Will Add Jobs And Heavy Steel Capacity
According to Race Rock, the new facility will grow its Brookshire campus to about 90 acres and more than 500,000 square feet under roof, with as much as 50,000 tons of additional annual production capacity. Construction is expected to begin in fall 2026, and the company says the expansion will push total Brookshire employment past 500. As reported by the Houston Business Journal, that buildout translates to roughly 200 new positions.
Spitzer Waterfront Yard Scores PythonX And Extra Staging Land
According to Race Rock, Spitzer has brought in a Lincoln Electric PythonX robotic plasma cutting system and leased an additional four acres of waterfront property at its Houston yard, upgrades the company says will slash cutting and cleanup time and free up thousands of labor hours every year. “This is about strengthening our foundation for the next phase of growth,” Ray Murphy, Spitzer’s vice president of operations, said in the announcement. Spitzer’s facilities page also flags its deep-water barge and ship-channel access, which allow single-piece shipments of large modules, a feature contractors prize on big energy and industrial jobs where breaking things into smaller loads can mean lost time and money.
Why Houston’s Project Pipeline Could Get A Lift
The Brookshire expansion and Spitzer yard upgrades follow Race Rock’s acquisition of Spitzer last October, a deal the Stephens Group summarized when it announced the sale. Stephens Group said the transaction folded Spitzer into Race Rock’s national platform while keeping Houston as Spitzer’s headquarters, a setup backers argued would broaden fabrication and waterfront logistics capacity across the combined company. Local contractors say the added shop space and barge staging could shave months off delivery schedules for large transmission and industrial projects, all while bringing more hiring to the parts of Texas where the work is actually being built.
