In this in 1999 photo, CEO Gordon Street stands as molten metal is poured inside Chattanooga’s Wheland Foundry.Gordon P. Street Jr., a longtime business leader in Chattanooga, has died.
Street long headed North American Royalties, a Chattanooga-based company that owned Wheland Foundry and had interests in oil and gas operations. At one time, Wheland had nearly 2,000 employees locally and produced castings to make automotive brake drums.
Street also was active in the renovation of downtown Chattanooga landmarks, including the Dome Building, long the home of The Chattanooga Times.
Street had become president of NAR in 1973, succeeding his father who remained chairman of the company. Later he had succeeded his late father as chairman of NAR.
Street was a graduate of Baylor School and the University of North Carolina and had been with NAR and its predecessor firm, Gordon Street Inc., since 1960.