May 14—More traffic headaches lie ahead for San Antonio drivers as the Texas Department of Transportation begins a new phase of Interstate 35 construction that's expected to take four years. TxDOT began work Tuesday on the southern portion of the I-35 Northeast Expansion (NEX) Project , a $3 billion plan to expand 20 miles of the interstate throughout Bexar, Comal and Guadalupe counties. The ...
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May 10—A new "green" office building going up in Cypress may become a blueprint for the real estate sector in the Houston area. The Woodlands-based Howard Hughes will use North American timber and low-carbon materials to construct Houston's first mass timber office building. The project, christened One Bridgeland Green, will be located within the 70-acre Village Green at Bridgeland Central, ...
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Dallas-based Prime Data Centers has massive plans for Dallas-Fort Worth. The company, which has existing Dallas data center space off Interstate 35 near Regal Row, is in the early stages of planning three two-story facilities for a site near Aledo and Chapin School roads in southwest Fort Worth, along with three additional ones in Garland. The new data center spaces collectively span six ...
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May 3—The first phase of a long-awaited 30-acre, $600 million medical park project owned by physicians has broken ground in Cypress. Physician investor group North Cypress Land Ventures has broken ground on Grand Cypress Doctors Pavilion One, a 60,000-square-foot project slated to be completed in June of 2025. Most of the first building has been preleased with tenants across multiple ...
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AUSTIN - State energy regulators have finalized rules for a taxpayer-backed multibillion-dollar program designed to encourage the construction of new natural gas power plants. The Public Utility Commission cleared one of the final hurdles for the Texas Energy Fund, a $10 billion voter-approved program crafted during 2023 s legislative session, by establishing rules allowing companies to be ...
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Frisco’s Planning & Zoning Commission will review the site plan for a project once zoned to hold up to 4,000 apartments, offices and retail across millions of square feet of development. Dallas-based Zarky Development LLC is behind the project located at the southwest corner of Dallas Parkway and Main Street in the Denton County section of the city. The city approved a development agreement ...
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The east bank regional levee authority has formally asked the Army Corps of Engineers to prevent contractors from rebuilding pumps at the 17th Street Canal lakefront pumping station during the 2024 hurricane season, which begins June 1. According to a Corps spokesperson, PCCP JV, the contractor that built the three combination surge barrier-pumping stations at the ends of the 17th Street, ...
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Apr. 19—The long-awaited Texas bullet train from Houston to Dallas could be built within ten years, according to an Amtrak executive. During the Southwestern Regional Rail Conference, Amtrak's Senior Vice President, Andy Byford, reaffirmed that the national rail company is collaborating with its partner, Texas Central, to develop a high-speed train. Byford stated that the construction of this ...
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Apr. 8—An energy company filed a request with a federal regulator, claiming another company's pipeline carrying natural gas to the Gulf Coast has been intentionally misclassified by its owner. Energy Transfer (ET), the Dallas-based energy infrastructure company, filed a petition with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Monday requesting oversight of the Louisiana Energy Gateway ...
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Ron Kirk knew going in what the lifespan would be for a replacement for Reunion Arena. “Thirty years,” he said. Kirk was the foremost political figure to lead the American Airlines Center project from its conception to construction. The AAC cost $420 million to build, and it opened in October of 2001. Both the Mavericks and Stars will soon play in the 2024 NBA playoffs and 2024 NHL playoffs, ...
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