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Dallas Council Does About Face on TxDOT I-345 Hybrid Plan

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Council members are calling foul and will decide at a June meeting whether to commission its own feasibility study into the future of the elevated highway near downtown.

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FEATURE STORY: Talking The Talk And Backing It Up With Results

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billion project to connect West Texas wind farms with the power grid serving Dallas and Houston. Perry has supported pilot projects to assess the feasibility of large-scale seawater desalination plants on the Texas Gulf Coast. Perry supporting a referendum to fund the State Water Plan. Credit: [link]. SMART GRIDS, DESALINIZATION.

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BUSINESS REPORT: Texas – Innovation Moves Front And Center In Austin

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Largest Cities (2011): Houston, 2,145,146; San Antonio, 1,359,758; Dallas, 1,223,229; Austin, 820,611; Fort Worth, 758,738. Fridays and is expanding to other cities including Seattle, San Francisco, Portland, Denver, DC, Dallas and Houston. TEXAS FAST FACTS. Population (2011 Est.): 25,674,681.

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COVER STORY: 2013 Business Facilities Rankings Report – Metro And Global Rankings

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Jindal said the company is examining the feasibility of additional Louisiana projects that would bring the total new capital investment at its sites in the state to $1.2 San Antonio appears in sixth place while Dallas grabbed eighth. “It billion over 10 years. Austin, TX tops the list, followed by El Paso, McCallen and Houston.

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Home Builder Success and the Fragility of Good Things

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Growth rate—Fast growth, which enables economic feasibility. For example, Atlanta, Dallas, and Phoenix have long been hot markets, but go into those and you’re competing with every national builder, a host of strong regionals, and more locals than you can count. Diet—not finicky, easy to feed, with plentiful food. .

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Flying Without Altitude

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PIT sits on 12,900 acres (making it the fourth-largest airport by land in the nation, behind only Denver International Airport, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Orlando International Airport) and has the longest commercial aircraft runways in Pennsylvania at 11,500 feet.

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LOCATION FOCUS: Texas: Big Heart, Country, Business

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Conveniently situated at the intersection of Interstate 35 and Highway 287, this prime location is less than 35 minutes to Downtown Dallas to the north, less than 60 minutes to Waco and the Texas Hill Country to the south, 18 miles to I-45 and the Piney Woods to the East, and 45 minutes to Downtown Fort Worth to the west.

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