Gideon Toal announces firm name change
By Aleshia Howe
Managing Editor
Citing a change in leadership and a “new day” for the firm, well-known Fort Worth architecture organization Gideon Toal announced plans to change the name of the company to Bennett Benner Pettit.
“Our new name, our new identity and even the new design of our website and our office space all speak to the fact that this is a new day for our firm,” said CEO Michael Bennett. “At the same time, we are truly proud of this firm’s history and we fully appreciate all the work that has gotten us to this point.”
Since 2008, the firm has been led by principals Bennett, Bruce Benner, president and COO, and David Pettit, principal and director of economic development.
After doing business as Gideon Toal since 1993, Randy Gideon and James Toal completed the sale of their ownership of the company in 2008 and announced last year that they would be leaving the firm.
Bennett joined the firm in 2004 as a principal and has served as CEO since 2008. Benner has been with the firm since 1984 and was named principal, president and COO in 2001. Pettit joined the firm in 2003. The company has been continuously in business since 1956 and has been 100 percent employee-owned since 2008.
“Bennett Benner Pettit carries forward a strong tradition of being more than an architecture firm, more than a design firm,” Pettit said.
Gideon Toal has been architect of record on a multitude of high profile projects in Fort Worth incuding the Museum of Living Art (MOLA) at the Fort Worth Zoo, Acme Brick Corporate Headquarters, TCU’s Jarvis Hall and Erma Lowe Hall, West 7th, West Bend and BNSF Railway Headquarters Campus.
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