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A SLEW OF RIVALRIES MAKE THE DALLAS-FT. WORTH MEDIA LANDSCAPE ONE OF THE most competitive in the nation, with Dallas-based Belo Corp. the dominant player. The company's vast resources include [...]

DALLASITES HAVE A REPUTATION FOR SUPERSIZING everything: big cars, big mansions, big money and big hair--they also conduct business in a big way. The Dallas Fort Worth region has one [...]

Their numbers are gospel for Texas business, but their predictions vary widely -- even wildly. So which economic forecaster to believe? Depends on which you ask. Once the preserve of [...]

STATE OF THE STATES: TEXAS Texas. Just the mention of the name conjures up images of wide open spaces, panoramas of dust and desert, mesas and valleys, and boomtowns built […]

Joint economic development between Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas is seen most clearly in the cooperative efforts at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.

FORT WORTH Overall, area is seeing slow, but consistent upward trends Listening to the national news, it would appear that Fort Worth and the Mid-Cities are suffering with the layoffs [...]

Pharmacists at Harris Metho-dist Hospital in Fort Worth (HMFW) plan to move this month into a new state-of-the-art facility they expect will improve pharmacy services for patients even as it [...]

FORT WORTH -- When Kenneth Barr was first elected mayor of Fort Worth in 1996, he lamented the decline of the Polytechnic Heights neighborhood in Southeast Fort Worth, where he [...]

FORT WORTH -- Southeast Fort Worth could gain 8,000 new jobs and sustain $150 million in business investment in the next 10 years, if a new economic development plan for [...]

Frontier Equity's purchase of the Overton Centre is the largest office property purchase in North Texas up until July 2010. Frontier intends to spend $3.5 million to renovate the property. It is said that the sale of office buildings will increase as more bargains enter the market.

Several banks in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas are identified to be 'zombie banks' or ones which are 'too good to fail, too small to matter, and too stuck to grow'. These include Park Cities and LegacyTexas as well as Town North Bank and Jefferson Bank.

Fort Worth leads North Texas cities that are experiencing growth, adding 17,400 people in 2008 and bringing its population to 720,750. Land availability, cheap housing costs, and expansion related to the Barnett Shale natural gas field have contributed to regional growth. Other Texas cities' population are also listed.

Alliance Brokers Inc. leased 292,500 square feet of speculative warehouse space in Forth Worth, Texas. The company will add 20 full-time and 80 part-time jobs by June 2009 when they move into the new space. The new space will allow the company to handle containers that weigh as much as 56,000 pounds.

The city of Fort Worth is turning its convention center from a minor league sports venue into a concert location, as Fort Worth sports team such as the Fort Worth Brahmas hockey team stopped using the center. Concerts have also generated more income for the city than sports events have.

Many Fort Worth, Texas businesses lost their buildings when a tornado swept through the region. But the moving and storage industry has benefitted from the disaster as companies seek to protect their computer tapes and backup disks.

New Breed Logistics (High Point, North Carolina) has rented a 180,000-square-foot office/warehouse building at the Mercantile Center in North Fort Worth. Expectations are that the company will employ between 500 and 900 people at the location.

A table illustrates the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, market for office buildings.

Despite the current recession, banks are still lending money to small and mid-sized companies in the Dallas-Fort Worth region. Projections are that this trend will only increase.

The Dallas-Fort Worth Metropolitan Area boasts of a diverse mix of culture, arts and entertainment.

The regional controversy between Dallas and Fort Worth is being resolved by the Civil Aeronautics Board by the building of a new airport in Collin County.

Dallas-Forth Worth, Texas, is attracting new business with its strong labor force and strategic location as a logistics hub. Not only is the area in the center of the U.S., it is a key shipping point for Latin American destinations. Dallas officials are working on the development of a biotech incubator.

A critical year of contraction, consolidation It was a year not easily forgotten; a period local business executives would prefer to forget. Two extraordinary events seemed to sum up 1987 [...]

DOWNTOWN 'Cowtown' shut down recently for a film shoot. A camera-laden helicopter swept along Main Street, low enough to unsettle a few Stetsons, before sliding off into the tangerine dusk. [...]

The Southwestern Expo & Livestock Show, held Jan. 17-Feb. 2 in Fort Worth, Texas, was like a cowboy's New Year, with a record 813,000 partygoers on hand for the event. [...]

FORT WORTH, Tex. -- This city has survived the closing of its packing houses, the collapse of the oil industry, the failure of many of its financial institutions, and a [...]

1 Locals have been happily feasting on stacked chicken enchiladas and tenderloin tamales, among other fine Western dishes, at REATA for ten years now; repeat diners know not to pass […]

Renaissance Worthington and Marriott Blackstone-Downtown Fort Worth, two of the hotel properties operated by Marriott in Fort Worth region, are likely to be sold. Marriott may, however, continue operating these hotel properties despite changes in ownership.