September 21, 2020 Dallas-Fort Worth data center construction has slowed this year, as the industry lets demand catch up with recent increases in supply. In the first half of 2020, only 156,200 square feet of new data center projects were being built in North Texas, according to a new report by JLL. Another 1.4 million […]
September 20, 2020 The jolt of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death – and of the vacancy she left behind – was so fully felt across Texas this weekend that even the state’s most hardened political players conceded they didn’t have a handle on the implications. What they do expect: an apocalyptic fight […]
September 20, 2020 Restaurants across the state of Texas are preparing to increase their capacity to 75% on Monday, after Governor Greg Abbott announced the change Thursday. Though some bigger restaurants will benefit, smaller ones may not see as much of a change. Tim Love owns six D-FW restaurants and though his restaurants are smaller, […]
September 18, 2020 U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the high court, died Friday due to complications from cancer. Nominated in 1993 by former President Bill Clinton, the liberal justice was the legal force behind many of the successes of the women’s movement and a cult figure in […]
September 20, 2020 Life won’t return to normal until there’s a COVID-19 vaccine, and that poses a big challenge, especially for Texas. Many people are already skeptical, with a majority saying they wouldn’t get a vaccine if it were available by Election Day. In that Kaiser Family Foundation poll, taken about a month ago, 62% […]
September 20, 2020 After struggling with declining traffic for years, malls took an unprecedented hit when the pandemic shut down nonessential retail stores in March. Coresight Research projects that 25% of the more than 1,000 U.S. malls will close over the next five years. As many as 20,000 stores are expected to shutter this year, […]
September 20, 2020 It’s been almost nine months since the NHL celebrated Southern hockey with a party at the Cotton Bowl, a raucous crowd of more than 85,000 people piled in to watch the southernmost outdoor game in league history and the first Winter Classic between two Sun Belt franchises. Now, it’ll be days before […]
September 18, 2020 A New Jersey logistics firm that just did a big distribution deal in southern Dallas County is gearing up for another project. NFI Industries landed a major tenant for its building at 9890 Bonnie View Road this summer when consumer products firm Ocean Spray leased the space for a large shipping center. […]
September 20, 2020 Dallas County reported 771 more coronavirus cases Sunday, along with one new death. The latest victim was a Garland man in his 80s who had been critically ill at a hospital and had underlying health problems. The county said 572 of the newly announced cases came from the state’s reporting system, including […]
September 17, 2020 There have been 4,519 documented cases of COVID-19 in Texas public schools since the start of the 2020-21 school year, according to new state data released by the Texas Education Agency and the Department of State Health Services. Thursday’s announcement, which only included a statewide aggregate, is the first attempt to track […]