Deal Ticker: Longtime Vacant Garland Building Gets New Owner From Innovative Industry
Plus Trammell Crow Residential plans Ross Avenue multifamily, Frisco s Shops at Stonebrook exchanges hands, and more.
Garland has approved a deal with
Future Foam, Inc. to renovate and begin operations at 3000 W. Kingsley. Future Foam will spend $3 million renovating the 341,840 square feet facility and reactivate rail service to the facility with this project.
The building has remained vacant since 2015 when APEX Tool Group consolidated its operations from their Garland site into their South Carolina facility, resulting in the loss of 261 jobs.
Nearly $3 million will be invested in renovating the existing facility on the 19.69-acre site. An additional $6 million will be added to the City’s tax rolls from the transfer of operations and from additional machinery and equipment added through the expansion. Initial operations will create 104 full-time positions with plans for further expansion
Watch crews move an entire historic house in Richardson down Lookout Drive
Miss Belle’s Place was moved to make way for development at its former site.
Crews carefully move the historic Miss Belle s Place down Lookout Drive in Richardson.(City of Richardson)
4:48 PM on May 17, 2021 CDT
One of the oldest homes in Richardson is now at a temporary location near the Fire Training and Emergency Operations Center on Lookout Drive.
Last fall, the new owner of the property where it had been located asked the city to move the historic Miss Belle’s Place to make way for redevelopment.
Letters to the Editor: American Airlines, Richardson police, climber Jim Whittaker, ‘Mallard Fillmore’
Readers dislike American Airlines’ treatment of its flight attendants, question the quota system used by Richardson police, recall a story about Mount Everest climber Jim Whittaker and comment on the ‘Mallard Fillmore’ comic strip.
An American Airlines customer assistance representative checks-in a passenger in Terminal A at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, March 24, 2021.(Tom Fox)
Idea for American Airlines
Re: “AA flight attendants union slams memo Company’s urging to rush to flights, forgo food deemed ‘insulting’,” Saturday Metro & Business story.
For the past year, most companies have learned their employees can work from home and get their job done without the old-school managers hovering over their shoulders. The memo from American Airlines regarding attendants on standby status treats these highly trained workers like inexperienced newbie
Wed May 05, 2021 - West Edition #10
Irwin Rapoport â CEG Correspondent
Crews placed a major focus on the partial demolition of the I-635 mainlane bridge sections at Garland Avenue, Jupiter Road and Plano Road underpasses, which were completed in late spring.
Construction of the $1.7 billion 11-mi.â¯635â¯East Project that is reconstructing and widening I-635â¯from U.S. 75 to I-30, including the I-635/I-30 interchange, began in spring 2020.
Pegasus Link Constructors (PLC) was awarded the contract from the Texas Department of Transportation in May 2019, which has the joint-venture of Fluor Enterprises Inc. and Balfour Beatty Inc. managing the design and construction of the project. Substantial completion is anticipated in late 2024.
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