Developers who want to restore a historic hotel on the edge of downtown Dallas are asking the city for $41 million in incentives. The long-vacant Cabana Hotel on Stemmons Freeway was gutted more than three years ago for a renovation. But that restoration of the more than 60-year-old hotel across the highway from Victory Park never moved ahead. Now Cabana Sycamore Development Inc. wants to ... Read More

Sep. 17—As they grapple with explosive growth, a group of Central Texas cities and water utilities have teamed up on a effort to bring more water to the Interstate 35 corridor — at cost of $350 million so far and counting. Called the Alliance Regional Water Authority, the new agency is a partnership between San Marcos, Kyle, Buda and the Canyon Regional Water Authority, which serves a number ... Read More

The expansion of gates and baggage claim facilities at Houston's William P. Hobby Airport took a step forward Wednesday with City Council's approval of the first round of funding. Council unanimously approved the $250 million appropriation, the first step in a $470 million project focused on Hobby's West Concourse. The expansion, scheduled to begin early next year, aims to bring seven ... Read More

A Chinese company has chosen southern Dallas County for its first solar panel manufacturing facility in the Western Hemisphere. Trina Solar, which has a U.S. headquarters in Fremont, Calif., will build a more than 1 million-square-foot plant in Wilmer, the company said Monday. The photovoltaic panel supplier said it is investing more than $200 million in property and equipment and will create ... Read More

When Larry Rooney was 15, he began working for his family business, pouring concrete for what was to become the multistory garage at Fine Airport Parking. "I was probably too young to even be there working (legally)," he said. "I just got a feel for it, and then I sort of already knew construction was a great business." Today, Rooney is president of Tulsa-based Manhattan Construction Group, ... Read More

Dallas officials at a committee meeting on Wednesday said they plan to update city code and policies to comply with a new state law that supporters say will expedite the construction of homes and other developments. House Bill 14 took effect Friday and allows those filing for building permit applications and inspections to hire a third-party reviewer to do the work if municipalities fail to ... Read More

A construction company’s Fort Worth office is accused of hanging nooses, displaying white supremacy symbols and using racial slurs to address Black employees in a new federal lawsuit. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says TNT Crane & Rigging violated federal law by harassing and discriminating against four Black employees. In addition, the agency says the company retaliated ... Read More

A New England-based energy firm has picked Irving as a location for one of several environmentally friendly data centers planned across the U.S. Connecticut-based Edged Energy is building a series of what it calls “carbon-neutral, zero-water data centers.” The company recently broke ground on one of the state-of-the-art, high-efficiency data centers in suburban Chicago. The tech facilities are ... Read More

Aug. 22—An energy company is looking at building a $426 million "green" hydrogen plant in Ascension Parish. Monarch Energy said it expects the plant would create 44 jobs with an average annual salary of more than $63,000. Louisiana Economic Development said the facility would create 105 indirect jobs and 300 construction jobs at its peak. The facility would use a carbon-free process to break ... Read More

Aug. 22—The longtime home of construction and engineering giant Fluor in Sugar Land could one day become a 53-acre mixed-use waterfront destination if one real estate firm's plans come to fruition over the next several years. Sugar Land-based Planned Community Developers said it had agreed to purchase the 1.2 million-square-foot Fluor campus near the junction of Highway 6 and Highway 59 in ... Read More