Hospital buildings, much like the patients they house and doctors they develop, have lifespans. After 50 or 60 years, once cutting-edge designs fade into the shadow of newer technologies. Children’s Medical Center Dallas, which opened in 1967, can’t grow up or out, having expanded to the edge of its plot on the corner of Harry Hines Boulevard and Medical District Drive. The space above the ...
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A Dallas-based data center company is planning a huge addition to its Plano tech buildings. Aligned Data Centers has operations in more than a markets in the U.S., Canada and Latin America. The company’s flagship data center campus is near Plano Parkway north of Bush Turnpike where the company already has two large buildings. Now Aligned Data Centers has filed plans with the city to construct ...
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Feb. 5—Houston's office market has long been bifurcated into the have's and have nots. Newer buildings account for the lion's share of office leasing, while high vacancy rates plague older buildings. The trend is so pronounced that the industry has a name for the phenomenon: flight to quality. And that flight has only sped up in this era of hybrid work. Houston landlords poured millions of ...
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Feb. 5—WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden came into office three years ago calling for a historic expansion of the nation's power grid to allow the movement of electricity from wind farms in Texas to cities in the east and the broader electrification of the U.S. economy. But the administration so far has struggled to make much progress in building out the network of power lines that allows ...
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Feb. 2—Four multibillion-dollar liquefied natural gas projects under development by Texas companies are in limbo after the Biden administration paused liquefied natural gas export permitting last week, jeopardizing hundreds of millions of dollars their developers have invested. The administration has said it is reviewing the export permitting process to see how these projects, largely ...
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DFW International Airport is laying the groundwork to begin construction on its long-awaited sixth terminal as early as next month. At a board committee meeting Tuesday, Tammy Huddleston, DFW Airport’s vice president of design, code and construction presented a contract for the construction of Terminal F and its Skylink station for up to $914 million. The contract is approval Thursday at the ...
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Jan. 29—British construction and agricultural equipment manufacturer JCB is eyeing a 400-acre site northwest of Toyota's plant and southwest of Texas A&M University-San Antonio for a factory it plans to build, adding to an expanding manufacturing hub on San Antonio's South Side. An application to rezone the land at 13610 Texas 16 from agribusiness to specialized center, a designation that ...
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Developers have gotten funding to kick off another huge industrial development in Mesquite. The big warehouse planned at 2800 Skyline Drive south of U.S. Highway 80 will total 756,668 square feet. Dallas-based Capstar Real Estate Advisors is building the project, which is scheduled to open early next year. Capstar is also the owner of a 91-acre industrial property on Skyline Drive that is ...
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Another massive data center project is on the way in North Fort Worth. QTS Data Centers plans to build the $220 million project near the AllianceTexas development, according to planning documents filed with the state. QTS already has an existing data center at the site, which is just east of Interstate 35W. The two-story building will contain more than 471,000 square feet of space, according ...
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Former employees of the Sandman Signature Hotel developer say they witnessed what they considered to be irregular construction practices during the renovation of the downtown Fort Worth tower, where an explosion likely involving a gas leak injured 21 people this month. The Jan. 8 blast, which originated in or near the 20-story hotel’s basement-level restaurant, happened roughly six months ...
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