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Southwest files for permit to add international routes

Bill Hethcock — Wed, 14 May 2025 19:23:48 +0000

Southwest Airlines has filed an application seeking approval from the Department of Transportation to broaden its international flights. Approval would position the carrier to expand its international flights beyond its current network, which primarily...

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Fort Worth surpasses Austin in population; Houston barely grows

Bill Hethcock — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 13:49:58 +0000

Fort Worth has overtaken Austin as the fourth-largest city in Texas. But is Houston growing at all?

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Verizon to buy Dallas-based telecom in $20B deal to boost fiber network

Bill Hethcock — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 17:45:52 +0000

Verizon's acquisition of a pure-play fiber provider is aimed at expanding premium broadband and mobility services to more customers.

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Hines buys land for 1,000-acre Denton County community

Bill Hethcock — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 21:29:40 +0000

The co-CEO of Hines' longtime partner said the community will set "a new benchmark for master-planned community design."

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Incoming Granite Properties CEO pushes ‘experiential real estate’ amid lingering office concerns

Bill Hethcock — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 19:46:30 +0000

Driving growth through developments and property acquisitions will be the focus of the new CEO of one of North Texas’ busiest commercial real estate companies when he takes the helm next month in a daunting market. Will Hendrickson, the inbound CEO of ...

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Cuban casino dream finds powerful supporters in entertainment district visionaries

Bill Hethcock — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 12:48:30 +0000

A flashy new arena-anchored entertainment district with a resort-style casino envisioned by Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban would prove transformative for the city, raising nearby property values dramatically and revitalizing the area it might be bui...

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Exxon Mobil’s acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources to create over $1B in synergies

Bill Hethcock — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 19:59:54 +0000

"We're not looking at cutting either rig operations or people or headcount,” ExxonMobil Chairman and CEO Darren Woods said.

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Out-of-state turbine and propulsion company weighs North Texas for major factory site, HQ relocation

Bill Hethcock — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 17:51:48 +0000

Texas could land another headquarters move soon. Airborne Motorworks, a Washington-based company developing next-generation wind turbines and propulsion drive systems with wide-ranging applications, is strongly considering Dallas-Fort Worth for a poten...

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Texas building its case for cutting-edge semiconductor chip research center

Bill Hethcock — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 19:50:47 +0000

The race is on nationally to win a piece of the National Semiconductor Technology Center, a network of research-and-development facilities aimed at accelerating U.S. innovation in advanced semiconductor manufacturing, and Texas is positioned to capture...

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Exxon Mobil’s former headquarters in Irving ‘the best corporate campus that no one’s ever seen’

Bill Hethcock — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 13:36:59 +0000

Gated off from the rest of Las Colinas in Irving sits the former Exxon Mobil headquarters compound — a 290-acre master-planned campus centered around a large, slate-roofed, granite-exterior office building where former CEO Rex Tillerson and other titan...

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Sen. Ted Cruz: How an expanded spectrum pipeline could lead to ‘hundreds of thousands’ of jobs

Bill Hethcock — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 16:43:52 +0000

The U.S. Congress in March allowed the Federal Communications Commission’s authority to auction spectrum for broadband deployment to expire for the first time in 30 years.

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), ranking member of the Senate Commerce Committee, ...

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Texas should be site of $11B National Semiconductor Technology Center, Sen. Cruz says

Bill Hethcock — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 12:51:45 +0000

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz in a visit to Dallas renewed his call for Texas to be the site of an $11 billion center aimed at restoring the nation’s leadership in the advanced semiconductor manufacturing industry.

Tens of billions of dollars for new facilities ...

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Landsea to grow Texas homebuilding with headquarters move to Dallas

Bill Hethcock — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 17:37:36 +0000

National homebuilder Landsea Homes Corp. will grow its construction presence in Texas with its headquarters relocation to Dallas, the company’s founder and CEO John Ho said in an exclusive interview with the Dallas Business Journal.

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Universal heading to Frisco with ‘one-of-a-kind’ theme park

Bill Hethcock — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 19:14:28 +0000

The Frisco theme park, on 97 acres, will be a smaller version of Universal Studios’ parks in Orlando and Los Angeles. The land being sold for the theme park is in a more than 2,500-acre project under construction.

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Hotels face headwinds and tailwinds in 2023, new Remington president says

Bill Hethcock — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 12:15:00 +0000

Chris Green, the new president of Dallas-based Remington Hotels, talked with the Dallas Business Journal about the state of the hotel industry.

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YTexas CEO: Tech is ‘common theme’ of corporate relocations to Lone Star State

Bill Hethcock — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 12:50:15 +0000

Ed Curtis, CEO of YTexas, shares his take on the pace of corporate relocations and the state’s growing role in the production of semiconductors, among other topics. "It is starting to spread out. San Antonio is getting some, and Houston is getting some...

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Texas and Houston rank among smallest average home lot size in U.S.

Bill Hethcock — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 00:35:11 +0000

In terms of bang for your buck, Texas lawns are still relatively affordable, in large part because there are fewer limits on new housing development here than there are in many other states.

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Houston’s housing market is undersupplied and overpriced, studies find

Bill Hethcock — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 16:45:51 +0000

The Houston area ranks among the top 10 U.S. markets with the largest growth in housing over the past decade, but it's still not enough to keep up with the region's population growth, according to a new report.

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Bill to boost U.S. semiconductor manufacturing getting spotlight

Bill Hethcock — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 18:57:57 +0000

A set of bills that includes $52 billion in grants and other incentives for the computer chips industry is headed to the U.S. Senate floor soon, lawmakers said, containing big implications for the already large and growing semiconductor manufacturing s...

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‘This time is different’ — How corporate relocations are changing in Texas

Bill Hethcock — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 19:38:49 +0000

The nature of corporate migration is changing fast as companies chase talent around the country instead of people following employers. That pandemic-accelerated shift has big implications for Texas, being the relocation magnet that it is, says David O’...

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