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Despite Palm Closing, The Historic West End Is Booming By Kevin Cokely, NBCDFW.com, June 30, 2017 "We've seen companies like Blue Cross Blue Shield move in, Uber, Snapchat. So you're really seeing the West End come back in a new and different way," said Kortny Garrett, executive vice pres...

https://preview.ibb.co/ntHh2k/One_Uptown_Pool_Copy2.jpg [/url] https://ibb.co/jZON2k Very cool picture! Thank you for posting! What a view ... Dallas is looking so dense ... and to know there are many more towers yet to join that beautiful skyline view from One Uptown! I just wish One Uptown was 30...

Data Company Bringing 6,300 Jobs To Plano CBSDFW, June 28, 2017 3:55 PM AUSTIN (CBSDFW.COM) – NTT DATA Services is officially moving into its new North American headquarters in Plano according to Governor Greg Abbott’s Office Wednesday. NTT DATA Services is a division of Japan-based NTT DATA Corpor...

20 cities with the hottest housing markets this summer By Beth Rifkin, GoBankingRates.com, June 26, 2017 12:21PM From this study published today, out of the top twenty cities in America that are the hottest housing markets summer 2017, four are located right here: # 1, Plano # 4, Arlington # 10, Da...

Trump to Call for U.S. ‘Dominance’ in Global Energy Production By Jennifer A Dlouhy, Bloomberg, June 25, 2017, 6:00 AM CDT Donald Trump will tout surging U.S. exports of oil and natural gas during a week of events aimed at highlighting the country’s growing energy dominance. The president also plan...

Now almost three years into the oil plunge that started in November 2014, the new "normal" is clearly lower prices for oil that seem to struggle to stay in the lower $40 per barrel. This new "normal" has significant ramifications for certain Texas regions that had hyper-growth fo...

L.A.'s new tallest building is poised to become a lightsaber with massive LED displays http://www.trbimg.com/img-594d8568/turbine/la-1498252643-1atxg5i58u-snap-image/900/900x506 http://www.trbimg.com/img-594d866d/turbine/la-1498252902-z10q3lulj3-snap-image L.A.'s new tallest building is poised to b...

Any news on how the proposed park expansion is coming alone? The amount of development spurred around the park has been amazing. It will be interesting to see if the expansion will have the same effect spurring development a few blocks west around where the Perot Tower was announced and also on the...

Is a city you can't locate on a map about to become the world's hottest travel destination? By Hugh Morris, UK Telegraph, 23 June 2017, 4:04PM http://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/Travel/2017/june/astana%20GettyImages-544690274-large.jpg http://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/Travel/2016/November...

^I don't mean to diminish the accomplishments, DFW has been top ten, top five for decades and there's nothing on the 50 year horizon indicating things will change ... Zig Ziglar See you at the top. I'm super good, but I'll get better. I guess you're engaging in some hyper-cheerleading but you do re...

Dallas earns the strongest marks and ranks numero uno in the nation in 2017 as the top metro for the attraction of skilled talent. More and more recent surveys and indices are showing Dallas as either the leader or a top leader in so many of the most desirable categories that are drivers of economic...

Interesting that Chicago is the one city that is seeing a drop. ^^^^ Probably a symptomatic sign of larger problems for Chicago in particular and Illinois in general. Chicago was the only top 10 city to lose population in the most recent census bureau population estimates. The luster seems to be co...

Image of the two cranes erected for The Epic taken June 18, 2017, courtesy of Roman Reyna's flickr page. The Epic will visually expand Downtown in a fairly dramatic manner. The residential tower in the project will apparently be the height equivalent of the Anatole Hotel at 316' tall and the office ...

Dallas is second in the nation in hotel rooms under construction, second only to NYC. In May 2017 the year-over-year increase in hotel room construction for Dallas is a whopping 55.4% to 7,503 hotel rooms currently underway! http://www.hotelnewsnow.com/Media/Default/Images2017/Charts/20170614_PR_USP...

The swaths, patches, clumps of dense urban living will be lessened and disjointed without a regional binding plan establishing growth barriers and managed wilderness areas infused into the population center. Agreed. The single greatest regional binding plan that could cement Dallas' strong populati...

Maybe they annexed more land since then IDK. Yes, that is exactly what happened. By the end of 2012 Houston had grown to 662 square miles total and since then Houston has grown to 667 square miles of which 639.1 square miles is land. http://www.houstontx.gov/planning/Annexation/docs_pdfs/HoustonAnn...

The actual square miles of land in Houston is 639 square miles (not 599). Using that correct number results in a fairly big difference in density between the City of Dallas and City of Houston: Dallas: 1,317,929/340 land sq miles Dallas Density: 3,876 Houston: 2,303,482/639 land sq miles Houston De...

The actual square miles of land in Houston is 639 square miles (not 599). Using that correct number results in a fairly big difference in density between the City of Dallas and City of Houston: Dallas: 1,317,929/340 land sq miles Dallas Density: 3,876 Houston: 2,303,482/639 land sq miles Houston Den...

U.S. Census Bureau released population growth estimates for July 1, 2015-July 1, 2016 this morning: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2017/cb17-81-population-estimates-subcounty.html The City of Dallas was the 2nd fastest growing in Texas and the 6th fastest growing in the nation in act...

Interesting article today on Bloomberg concerning homebuilding in DFW:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... ut-of-room