Islands of Activity

The Metroplex is home to fast-growing islands of business activity specifically designed to capitalize on the region's booming economy.

Fifteen miles north of Fort Worth, the Alliance Airport project, with more than 8.6 million square feet of space and growing, became home to 14 new companies this year alone. Citing its central location, multimodal transportation network and foreign trade zone status, Alliance already is home to major corporate facilities for American Airlines, Federal Express, Burlington Northern Santa Fe and Zenith Electronics.

Companies establishing or starting construction on distribution or manufacturing facilities this year include Mitsubishi Motor Sales of America, BFGoodrich Aerospace, J.C. Penney Co., Exel Logistics North America, and Tech Data Corp. Alliance is already adding 1 million square feet of new industrial space, and cites a long-range goal to construct 25 million square feet.

Las Colinas has become a benchmark for master-planned corporate communities. Las Colinas, only five minutes away from D/FW International Airport, is home to 17 million square feet of office space, 7 million square feet of light industrial and distribution space and 72,000 square feet of sound stage and production facilities. One-third of the 12,000-acre development is green space and waterways. The more than 2,000 corporate residents with a Las Colinas address now include Abbott Laboratories, Exxon, Fidelity Investments, Kimberly-Clark and Quaker State Corp.

EDS built its world headquarters at Legacy, a 2,665-acre master-planned business park also north of Dallas. Since then, Frito-Lay, PepsiCo Foods International have become its neighbors at Legacy.

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