​​​NORTH TARRANT COUNTY – Officials announced “substantial completion” of the $1.6 billion I-35W reconstruction project—a stretch named one of the state's most congested highways​ by the Texas Department of Transportation.The ten-mile North Tarrant Express Project runs from the I-30 interchange with I-35W near downtown Fort Worth to North Tarrant Parkway at the US 287... Read more »

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​​​​​IRVING – Nokia signed a lease for 350,000 sf in The Sound at Cypress Waters to consolidate DFW operations and relocate its North American headquarters.Nokia will occupy two buildings in the new lakefront mixed-use development located along the 362-acre North Lake.Specifically, the company will occupy 100,000 sf at 3100 Olympus... Read more »

​​​​HOUSTON – Wilson Investment Properties, a Silicon Valley-based firm, acquired an industrial portfolio of 19 buildings across six industrial parks in July 2018.The 460,000-sf portfolio is primarily located on the northwest side of Houston.The portfolio is leased to a diversified set of 103 tenants, including manufacturing, fabrication, and many local service businesses.... Read more »

​​​​​HARLINGEN — City leaders and MRE Capital launched a $4.5 million project to turn the nine-story Baxter Building into Baxter Lofts, a largely low-income 24-unit apartment development.The nine-month renovation of the 91-year-old building​ caps a 30-year push to turn one of the city’s biggest eyesores into the downtown area’s crowning jewel.When the... Read more »

​​​​DFW – North Texas apartment building activity is down a tad so far this year, b​ut the 1.5 percent decline in apartment-building permits couldn't knock the metro off its perch as one of the country's busiest apartment-building markets.According to new data from RealPage, 20,191 multifamily homebuilding permits were recorded in the Dallas ​​​​​​area... Read more »

​​​THROCKMORTON COUNTY – The 10,3-acre Comanche Crest Ranch—on US 380 between the towns of Haskell and Throckmorton—is ​for sale.Located two hours west of Fort Worth, the hunting and cattle ranch has five large fenced pastures, more than two dozen small lakes and stock ponds, and miles of roads and fencing.Unlike other... Read more »

​​​​GRAND PRAIRIE – A California-based wireless products firm is opening a new distribution center in the Metroplex.C2 Wireless Inc. has leased 65,000 sf of industrial space in the Riverpark 1100 business park at 3275 W. Trinity Blvd.The company is consolidating warehouse operations currently located in New York and California to North... Read more »

​​DFW – The median time U.S. homeowners stay put has risen to 13.3 years—twice the time between moves back in the early 2000s.But in many Texas cities, homeowners are changing addresses more frequently.Frisco residents have one of the lowest median time between moving of any U.S. cities—just 7.5 years according to... Read more »

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​​​HOUSTON – Weingarten Realty Investors started demolition work in early July 2018 to clear the way for The Driscoll, a luxury high-rise that will tower above the River Oaks Shopping Center off West Gray St.The 30-story, 318-unit tower will sit atop 10,000 sf of retail.Units will range from 900 sf to a 3,000-sf... Read more »

​​​​​​CELINA, COLLIN COUNTY – Phase one of a new single-family development, called Chalk Hill, recently broke ground in far North Texas.The phase—consisting of 157 lots out of 440 planned in the development—will be located at the southeast corner of Preston Rd. and CR 102 in Collin County.The community will help... Read more »

​MANSFIELD – Texas Health Resources and Adventist Health System are building a new health care campus in North Texas.Texas Health Hospital Mansfield, scheduled to open in late 2020, will offer a full variety of services, including a 24/7 emergency room, general surgery, women’s care, orthopedics, and interventional cardiology.Construction on the... Read more »

​​HOUSTON – Hines began construction on its new tower at the former Houston Chronicle site downtown. It is expected to open in late 2021.The one ​million-sf, 47-story tower will be situated diagonally on the 800 block of Texas Ave. Law firm Vinson & Elkins and Hines will be the tower’s anchor tenants, leasing 212,000 sf and... Read more »

​​​RICHARDSON – State Farm Insurance and Dallas developer KDC have filed plans to build a major data center in Richardson's Telecom Corridor.The new tech center would be built on Lookout Dr. south of State Farm's regional office campus at the CityLine​ development.In 2015, KDC built a 129,180-sf data center at the... Read more »