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Vacant commercial sites not easy to fill in San Antonio
Several San Antonio commercial locations are now empty thanks to large bankruptcies, including national retailers Mervyn's, Circuit City and Linens 'N Things.
Two Houston office buildings earn LEED gold
(Houston) - Two Houston buildings — Williams Tower and Bank of America Center — have been awarded the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification for an existing building.
Project could generate more wind power for Lubbock
(Hale County) - A rural electric provider will build 170 megawatts of new, quick-responding generators in a move county officials hope will entice more wind development.
Lubbock lowest in unemployment
Teachers coming back to their classrooms helped lower Lubbock's unemployment rate in October to a state-best 5.4 percent, down from its two-month plateau at 5.7 percent.
Ingleside residential home sales - October 2009
(Ingleside, Ingleside on the Bay) - Coldwell Banker The Ron Brown Company has released the October edition of the Swearingen Report for the Ingleside and Ingleside on the Bay MLS.
Andrews blossoms with homes, growth and jobs
(Andrews, Andrews County) - The rows of new homes are adding up in Andrews and the source of all that growth sits at the edge of Andrews County: the Waste Control plant in Andrews County brought in new workers from all over the U.S. including New ...
San Antonio hotel occupancy faces slower times
The San Antonio lodging industry attracted more revenue than projected in the third quarter but is facing five straight years of subpar occupancy rates because of a large influx of hotel rooms in the area, according to a new forecast from Houston- ...
Fort Worth offering gifts that keep on giving: free toilets
(Fort Worth) - Are you struggling for that perfect holiday gift idea, the one for the person who has everything?
Foreclosure filings drop 12 percent in Dallas County
(DFW) - Foreclosure filings for the upcoming December foreclosure auctions are down 12 percent in Dallas County when compared to the same period last year, according to a new report from Foreclosure Listing Service Inc. (FLS)
Richardson lures Paragon Innovations
(Richardson) - Paragon Innovations Inc. has bought a building in Richardson to move its corporate headquarters into in the first quarter 2010.
Fort Worth losing its Ranch Style Beans plant
(Fort Worth) - ConAgra Foods Inc. is closing the company’s Fort Worth plant on El Paso St., and laying off all of the plant’s 121 workers.
Victoria residential home sales - October 2009
(Victoria) - Coldwell Banker The Ron Brown Company has released the October edition of the Swearingen Report for the Victoria MLS.
H-E-B ready to expand footprint in DFW
(DFW) - H.E. Butt Grocery Co. (H-E-B) is setting its sights on the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.
$23M Armed Forces center going up in San Marcos
(San Marcos) - Satterfield & Pontikes has begun building a United States military complex on 19 acres on the south side of Clovis Barker Road in San Marcos, less than a mile from I-35.
Alamo Drafthouse picks site for new San Antonio theater
(San Antonio) - A new Alamo Drafthouse Cinema will open at the Village at Stone Oak during the fall 2010, according to Developers Diversified Realty Corp., the owner of the shopping center.
McAllen real estate market sluggish
A nationwide tax credit for homebuyers didn’t help Hidalgo County home sellers in the past two months. The number of homes sold dropped by nearly 15 percent in September and October this year compared to last year, said Dick Henry, president ...
$35M expansion for San Marcos CTMC
(San Marcos) - Central Texas Medical Center (CTMC) will open its $35 million expansion project on Nov. 30 at 1301 Wonder World Drive. The 64,000-sf addition includes:
Big flock of snowbirds! Rockport-Fulton, Port Aransas
(Rockport-Fulton, Port Aransas) - Rockport-Fulton and Port Aransas have the first flock annual flight of the snowbirds. Winter Texans migrate from northern, colder locales starting this month, bringing millions of tourism dollars to local economie ...
H-E-B breaks ground in Dripping Springs, New Braunfels
(Drippings Springs, New Braunfels) - Two new H-E-B grocery stores have broken ground in the area. One is a 68,000-sf location in Dripping Springs (Austin area) and the second is an 88,000-sf store in New Braunfels (San Antonio area).
Two cents worth: heavy metal gator freighter in Brownsville
(Brownsville) - The USS Saipan, a 27,000-ton, Tarawa-class amphibious assault ship launched in 1974, arrived at its final destination at the Port of Brownsville as it was nursed into a slip at International Shipbreaking Ltd.
