Even as the Texas economy begins climbing out of the doldrums, construction activity in the state will likely remain slow, leading economists say.
“Things will get better, but it is not going to be a sharply upward trend,” says Terry L. Clower, director of the Center for Economic Development and Research at the University of North Texas in Denton. “It will be a slow go and a bit of slogging through the mud for developers for the rest of 2010.”