Showing posts with label North dallas news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label North dallas news. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Economic development leaders bullish on Dallas area

Economic development leaders bullish on Dallas area
By Steve Brown / The Dallas Morning News
September 4, 2009

The Dallas-Fort Worth area is well-positioned to grow new business after the recession ends, economic development leaders predicted Thursday in a presentation to a local real estate group.

"We have a lot of things going for us," Karl Zavitkovsky, the city of Dallas' director of economic development, told executives at a meeting of the North Texas CCIM real estate property group. "I think we will come out of this earlier than elsewhere in the country and in a lot better shape."

North Texas is not at the epicenter of today's economic and housing downturn, as it was in two previous economic ones – the 1980s savings and loan crash and the more recent burst of the dot-com bubble.

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Friday, July 31, 2009

Forbes Names McKinney, TX 9th Best Place to Live in US

Pegasus News

July 13, 2009 - Pegasus News - McKinney was recently named as one of the 25 Best Places to Move in the country by Forbes.com, coming in at #9. Out of the list of 25, six cities are in the Dallas metropolitan area, including Flower Mound at #6, Frisco at #7, McKinney at #9, Carrollton at #12, Allen at #19, and Plano at #25.

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Monday, March 23, 2009

Collin, Denton debate future Dallas North Tollway extension

March 23, 2009
By ED HOUSEWRIGHT / The Dallas Morning News

A simple line on a map could translate into billions of dollars for either Collin County or Denton County.

That line represents a proposed extension of Dallas North Tollway, and the adjacent counties are squabbling over the alignment because of the economic bonanza it could bring as homes and businesses spring up around it.

Collin and Denton county officials had agreed the 7-mile stretch should be on the counties' common border to let each share in the riches.

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Thursday, February 26, 2009

Home sales, outlook getting better

Austin Business Journal
A February survey of public and private builders across the country from John Burns Real Estate Consulting shows that Texas saw new home sales, traffic and expectations pick up in January. The survey gathered information from 236 home building industry executives.

“I spent several days in Texas this month and can confirm that the pick-up is real and is driven by lower mortgage rates in an area where home price appreciation was insignificant and the economy is still OK,” said John Burns, CEO of Irvine, Calif.-based John Burns Real Estate Consulting.

However, Burns said, new home prices are still trending downward everywhere, including Texas.

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Friday, January 04, 2008

North Dallas Chamber Breakfast for 2008

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Jan. 4, 2008

The North Dallas Chamber of Commerce will host a breakfast forum from 7:30 to 9 a.m. Tuesday that will focus on the 2008 Economic Outlook. The conference at the Westin Park Central Hotel, 12720 Merit Drive, will feature a panel of experts discussing the impact of interest rates, tumultuous stock prices and implications of recession on the region and national economies.

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