A family real estate company that’s redeveloped one Deep Ellum landmarks is working on plans for a second project in the neighborhood just east of downtown. Dallas-based August Real Estate Co. for more than a year has been redeveloping the more than century old Continental Gin building on Elm Street near Baylor University Medical Center. The landmark brick and timber manufacturing building – ... Read More

Dallas-Fort Worth data center construction has slowed this year, as the industry lets demand catch up with recent increases in supply. In the first half of 2020, only 156,200 square feet of new data center projects were being built in North Texas, according to a new report by JLL. Another 1.4 million square feet of data centers are planned in the area. North Texas ranks seventh nationally in ... Read More

Sep. 18--Harris County Precincts 3 and 4 will collaborate to literally connect the two with a four-lane concrete boulevard and bridges over Little Cypress Creek. The Louetta Road project will construct a bridge on Louetta Road from Stablewood Farms Drive to Telge Road. "The Louetta Road project between Stablewood Farms Drive and Telge Road is a joint participation project between Harris County ... Read More

Texas is one of the states that has seen the largest loss of construction jobs in the last year. During the 12 months ending August, 39,000 construction sector jobs disappeared in the state as the pandemic hammered the building sector. Only California and New York lost more construction workers in the last year, according to a new report by Associated General Contractors of America. While ... Read More

A Chicago developer has broken ground on a huge distribution project in Wilmer south of Dallas. And Logistics Property Co. is working on another warehouse development near DFW International Airport. The company’s Southport Logistics Park 3 building is under construction off Interstate 45 in Wilmer. The 1 million square foot warehouse is part of a 3.55 million square foot, 252-acre business ... Read More

Sep. 17--Boulevard Place, a mix of housing and retail, is set for a construction start by next spring as design work proceeds on the eight-story tower to be built next to the new Omni Hotel. The construction start reflects a revised timetable that originally anticipated a start this month. Completion is now estimated for late 2022. Plans presented Wednesday to the Oklahoma City Urban Renewal ... Read More

A Houston commercial property firm with significant holdings in North Texas is planning a new industrial park in North Fort Worth. Hartman Income REIT has filed plans with the state for a two-building, almost 123,000-square-foot industrial project near Loop 820. The more than $6.5 million project was designed by RGA Architects. “We are in the final stages of collecting bids and expect to break ... Read More

Sep. 16--Woodforest National Bank announced plans to break ground on a new mixed-use business center at 400 W. Dallas in downtown Conroe. The project will be built on the site of one of the bank's oldest locations, which opened in 1996. The Woodlands-based bank will anchor the first floor of the new building, occupying 3,800 square feet for its branch with a full-service ATM and drive-thru. ... Read More

Sep. 16--Broad Reach Power, a power producer based in Houston, announced it is beginning construction on two, 100-megawatt stand-alone battery storage projects in the Texas Hill Country. One will be West of Austin in Mason County and the other in Williamson County which is North of Austin. The two batteries are expected to come online next year. The stand-alone batteries will be able to store ... Read More

Sep. 15--A long-planned tollway along Hempstead Road has new life, albeit without the tolls, as Texas Department of Transportation planners pitch an elevated system that could cater to carpools and transit. Specific designs are years away, but the concept TxDOT officials are pursuing, and recently inserted in the regional 10-year transportation plan updated annually by the Houston-Galveston ... Read More