With traveling out of the question for many, take advantage of the opportunity to explore your own city. You might be surprised how much there is to see, do and eat in Fair Park (and I’m not talking about the State Fair!) This area of Dallas boasts unique activities…
Archives: October 2020
700K-sf Amazon facility slated for Waco
WACO – Amazon Inc. is building a 700,218-sf distribution center and warehouse on 93 acres at 200 Exchange Pkwy. Developer BL Companies secured a permit to develop the project this summer. The project will create up to 1,000 jobs. Get more Waco-area industrial news on the Real Estate Center’s website: “Waco’s Wild Rise” Waco real estate news […]
Five-acre dog park coming to McAlister Park
LUBBOCK – Friends of McAlister Park and the city have broken ground on a five-acre dog park at Marsha Sharp Fwy. in the northeast portion of McAlister Park. The $800,000 dog park will have three fenced-in areas, benches, restrooms, food truck area, and walking trail. Construction will be complete next summer. Get more Lubbock real estate […]
188K-sf office building tops off in International Business Park
PLANO – Construction has wrapped up on the first of five buildings in the next phase of Billingsley Co.’s International Business Park. Work started on the buildings near the northwest corner of the Dallas North Tollway and Bush Turnpike early last year. The four-story, 187,100-sf office project includes a 9,000-sf amenity center building with conference […]
Canadian investor snaps up 400 acres for Cedar Hill housing project
CEDAR HILL – Canada-based Walton Group Holdings Ltd. has purchased 400 acres near Joe Pool Lake. The property on Lake Ridge Pkwy. west of US 67 will have 1,100 single-family homes. A builder will take majority of the land. Negotiations with rental home and senior housing developers are still in the works. Vanguard Real Estate Advisors brokered transaction. Get more DFW-area […]
Three Texas cities among top ten small cities in America
WASHINGTON – Three Texas cities have landed on WalletHub’s list of the top ten small cities to live in America. Sugar Land, ranking fifth overall, was second in economic health. It was 39th in affordability, 162nd in quality of life, 277th in safety, and 540th in education and health. No. 8 Southlake had the highest median annual household […]
Pandemic cost U.S. economic $16T
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The total cost of the pandemic is estimated at more than $16 trillion, or approximately 90 percent of the annual gross domestic product (GDP) of the U.S., according to researchers from Harvard University. Approximately half of this amount is the lost income from the COVID-19-induced recession; the remainder is the economic effects of shorter and less healthy […]
Work starts on tallest tower in West Campus
AUSTIN – Lincoln Ventures has broken ground on Waterloo, a 30-story student housing complex at 2400 Seton Ave. The 241-unit complex will offer studio and one- to six-bedroom units. It will have two stories of affordable housing at 50 percent and 60 percent median area income. In exchange for adding affordable units, the city has allowed for a […]
Why Today’s Options Will Save Homeowners from Foreclosure
Many housing experts originally voiced concern that the mortgage forbearance program (which allows families impacted financially by COVID to delay mortgage payments to a later date) could lead to an increase in foreclosures when forbearances end. Some originally forecasted that up to 30% of homeowners would choose to enter forbearance. Less than 10% actually did, […]
How to Celebrate Dia de los Muertos from home
Decorated sugar skulls, intricate altars, and colorful tissue paper. It seems like every year there is a growing interest in the traditional Mexican holiday Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead. So what exactly is Día de los Muertos? Well for one thing it is not “Mexican…