Dallas Fort Worth Urban Forum

https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=PEP_2016_GCTPEPTCOM.US24&prodType=table Released this morning. DFW metropolitan statistical area passed Houston in '15-'16 to be first in the nation once again for net domestic migration, as it was before the shale...

http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/content-tracks/colo-cloud/why-data-centers-are-heading-for-dallas/97180.article In the twelve months covering Q4 2015 through Q3 2016, datacenterhawk David Liggitt estimated the Metroplex data center market grew "from 252MW to 275MW of commissioned power,"...

Factoid I found out: if you add the 7/1/2015 estimated populations of Dallas and its three surrounded towns, they are the same population as A/FW plus their sixteen surrounded towns. Which means when new 7/1/16 ests come out, FW+A > D (granted, D occupies only 70% of their land area)...

To recognize both of your excellent points, I've taken time to make a little illustration for us all. I used the latest GIS maps online for the extraterritorial jurisdictions (ETJs) of Burleson, Fort Worth, Grand Prairie, Mansfield, Midlothian, and Waxahachie, and roughly transcribed them here. Red...

The first of the Census Bureau's July 2016 metro/micro/county-level (and I think possibly city-level) population estimates should come out within the next three weeks. I fully expect the Metroplex will re-pass Greater Houston as the largest net domestic migration gaining U.S. metro since the 2010 Ce...