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Give your Houston buildings an engagement program tenants talk about.

Alvéole runs managed urban beekeeping programs across Houston. Our team handles the hives, the workshops, and the honey harvests at your buildings, while MyHive keeps tenants close to it all.

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Why urban beeking works for Houston buildings

Houston's warm subtropical climate gives hives one of the longest foraging seasons in the country, and green space runs through the city along Buffalo Bayou, Memorial Park, and the Bayou Greenways.

Alvéole's conservation work is recognized by Texan by Nature, which certifies Texas organizations making meaningful conservation efforts that benefit people, prosperity, and natural resources.

Two Alvéole beehives on a Houston rooftop with a pollinator mural in the background

How an urban beekeeping program works in Houston

Houston's warm subtropical climate keeps the foraging season long, from early spring bloom well into the fall. Bees here forage off Buffalo Bayou, Memorial Park, Hermann Park, Discovery Green, and the Bayou Greenways, green space threaded right through the city's densest blocks.

A living amenity tenants actually use

A rooftop beehive gives your building a physical anchor for programming, workshops, and honey harvests. Something no other building on the block has.

JLL hives and BeeHomes installed by Alvéole

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Year-round events

Beekeeping workshops, honey harvests, seasonal activations. Alvéole runs all of it.

Participation data that compounds

Every workshop attended, every harvest event, every honey jar delivered generates documentation. By year three, you have a three-year participation record across every tenant.

Meet the neighborhood bees

FIVE Houston Center is a 580,000-square-foot office building in downtown Houston, TX. It's one of 45+ JLL-managed buildings across North America running Alvéole's year-round tenant engagement programs.

“When you have something highly visible like this, it becomes a major stop for every broker tour that comes through the building. It becomes an amenity. These kinds of initiatives help with renewals and expansions, too.” – Scott Talbert, General Manager

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Alvéole beehives on the FIVE Houston Center rooftop garden with the downtown Houston skyline in the background

"Tenants love the honey, and prospects never forget it. It’s thoughtful, unexpected, and a constant reminder of what makes this building different."

- Leasing Director, Philadelphia

Nature and biodiversity monitoring

Turning your hives into insight

Data collection and instant reporting

Remote sensing establishes baseline indicators across your portfolio, while onsite monitoring (bioacoustics and eDNA) captures species presence and habitat quality at each property. That data feeds directly into TNFD, CSRD, and GRESB reports, generated in minutes from pre-filled templates, with audit trails showing exactly where each number comes from.

Portfolio dashboard and AI agent

See biodiversity trends across all assets, benchmark each property against portfolio average, and export site-level data for individual disclosures. Ask the AI agent questions about TNFD requirements, GRESB scoring, or site-specific risks, and get answers that reference your actual portfolio data and current framework standards.

Where we install across Greater Houston

We service hives across Houston and the Greater Houston area, including:

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The Woodlands
Spring
Aldine
Jersey Village
Bellaire
West University Place
Sugar Land
Missouri City
Pasadena
Baytown
Dickinson

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and more...

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Buzzy beekeeping activities for all land on Houston retail center roof

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FAQ

Answers to the questions we hear most in Houston

What are the legal requirements or regulations in Houston for urban beekeeping?

Houston permits beekeeping, with simple setback rules for hive placement. Texas is one of the most beekeeper-friendly states and doesn't require beekeeper registration, so getting started is low-friction. Alvéole handles siting and compliance for every install.

Is urban beekeeping in Houston safe?

Yes. Alvéole keeps Italian honey bees, a breed known for its docility. Honey bees are not aggressive away from the hive and rarely sting unless it's disturbed. Our beekeepers site hives away from high-traffic rooftop areas and manage all hive access, so tenants interact with the program through workshops and events, not the hive directly.

How does a bee program align with Houston's commitment to environmental sustainability?

Alvéole's conservation work is recognized by Texan by Nature, and a rooftop program supports biodiversity right in the urban core. Each honeybee hive is paired with wild bee habitat to support native pollinators, and Alvéole's biodiversity monitoring turns your building's nature data into reporting you can use for GRESB, BOMA BEST, LEED, WELL, and other certifications.