May 22—Work on a $1.5 billion project targeting traffic congestion on Interstate 35 is getting underway. The I-35 NEX Central project, which will run along 9.5 miles from Loop 410 North in San Antonio to FM 3009 in Schertz, should be complete by 2027. Here's everything you need to know about what you will see in the area as the Texas Department of Transportation's project gets rolling. 1) ... Read More

ALBEQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — More than 5,000 firefighters battled multiple wildland blazes in dry, windy weather across the Southwest on Thursday, including a fire that has destroyed dozens of structures in west Texas and another that's picking up steam again in New Mexico. Evacuation orders remained in place for residents near the wildfires in Texas, Colorado and New Mexico. Dangerous fire ... Read More

Another huge speculative industrial park has broken ground in Oklahoma, this one in Tulsa, and property brokers say neither war, pestilence, nor the usual bane of economic growth — rising interest rates — is likely to tamp down the building boom. The boom is largely fueled by continued changes in the way people shop. Online retail, and demand for faster delivery times, keep growing. Add to ... Read More

A slowdown in March wasn’t enough to cool a rise in first-quarter Dallas-Fort Worth building starts. North Texas construction activity in the first three months of 2022 totaled more than $9.2 billion — up 19% from first-quarter 2021, according to the latest report from Dodge Data & Analytics. D-FW ranked third in the country, behind Phoenix and New York City, in first-quarter building starts. ... Read More

May 10—Two of Houston's busy interstates are now lined with new plastic barriers in an effort to reduce the number of people killed while crossing the freeway on foot. Crews with the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) are working to complete installing two-foot plastic barriers along the center concrete median of Interstate 45 North and Interstate 69 southwest of town, which experts ... Read More

Construction has kicked off on a new apartment complex in Plano. Dallas-based Rosewood Property Co. has started construction of an apartment complex at 601 Belpree Drive in its Heritage Creekside mixed-use development, the company said Monday. The site is near the intersection of Central Expressway and President George Bush Turnpike. The four-story community across more than 4 acres will ... Read More

Developers are signaling a start of a new Plano office tower. The 24-story high-rise will go up near the southwest corner of the Dallas North Tollway and State Highway 121 in the $3 billion Legacy West development. Dallas tax services firm Ryan LLC is building the project with Minneapolis-based Ryan Cos. U.S., a major commercial builder. The 426,009 square-foot development is set to start next ... Read More

SEMINOLE, Okla. (AP) — A suspected tornado touched down outside Oklahoma City on Wednesday, causing what appeared from televised reports to be minor damage and briefly trapping some people who were later rescued, authorities said. Seminole County Undersheriff Matt Haley told KOCO-TV that there were reports of people trapped because of the damage in the community of Seminole, but crews were ... Read More

A Dallas developer is teaming up with a global investor to build more than a dozen cold storage facilities. And the first project by Dallas’ Barber Partners LLC is a more than 300,000-square-foot project in Denton. The more than $52 million industrial project is scheduled to start construction next month on Corbin Road in Denton, planning documents filed with the state show. Designed by Dallas ... Read More

May 2—Port of Muskogee officials turned the corner this week as they locked down funding for the construction of an industrial access road expected to serve two development projects planned on the city's south side. Port Director Kimbra Scott said an out-of-cycle grant worth up to $1 million was secured April 25 from the City of Muskogee Foundation. The Oklahoma Transportation Commission ... Read More