Maybe we can actually lure a company to downtown or better yet help one of our own expand.
Thanks Doug!
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Posted 28 January 2015 - 12:42 PM
Maybe we can actually lure a company to downtown or better yet help one of our own expand.
Thanks Doug!
http://www.bizjourna...o-corrects.html
Posted 28 January 2015 - 01:25 PM
What company would you propose deserves that?
Posted 28 January 2015 - 01:43 PM
Please...the way Fort Worth kisses American's butt, he can say they're located on the moon and it wouldn't make any difference. Fort Wort will do anything to keep that company in this city. It's not like we have many big name corporations here.
Posted 28 January 2015 - 04:05 PM
I think there are some organizations that actually want to be here that would use that money wisely.
Posted 28 January 2015 - 04:07 PM
What company would you propose deserves that?
Any but AA. Maybe they should talk to Gary Patterson about finding diamonds in the rough. lol
Posted 30 January 2015 - 01:34 PM
Please...the way Fort Worth kisses American's butt.....
Is this a generally held principle of yours or is this only applicable when Fort Worth does it for AA but not when Dallas does it for SWA?
Posted 30 January 2015 - 02:17 PM
Please...the way Fort Worth kisses American's butt.....
Is this a generally held principle of yours or is this only applicable when Fort Worth does it for AA but not when Dallas does it for SWA?
When Southwest starts floating rumors that they're looking to move, I'll see how Dallas reacts. But with the instant success Lovefield is seeing after the end of the Wright Amendment,Southwest is probably very happy to be in Dallas as I've yet to hear SWA's CEO forget where his company is located. Dallas seems to be in the business of ponying up money to attract new companies (maybe that's why they have so many) , not continually bribing them to stay with incentives and basically building new office buildings for them. You can't blame AA, they know how Fort Worth works: mention you're looking to move and the city will start throwing money at you. Hopefully if they stay in Fort Worth, their new building will be nice, because we're gonna pay for it. Anything to stop them from moving seven miles down 183.
Posted 30 January 2015 - 02:38 PM
Posted 30 January 2015 - 02:55 PM
Offering incentives to companies to attract them to move to town or entice them to stay is far from something that's exclusive to FW and AA.
Didn't say it was. But I see little in the way of attracting companies here. When was the last MAJOR corporate move to Fort Worth? C'mon Fort Worth, open your wallet. We need someone to fill those whopping 6 story office buildings downtown.
Posted 30 January 2015 - 10:11 PM
Didn't say it was. But I see little in the way of attracting companies here. When was the last MAJOR corporate move to Fort Worth? C'mon Fort Worth, open your wallet. We need someone to fill those whopping 6 story office buildings downtown
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Posted 31 January 2015 - 02:55 PM
When Southwest starts floating rumors that they're looking to move, I'll see how Dallas reacts. But with the instant success Lovefield is seeing after the end of the Wright Amendment,Southwest is probably very happy to be in Dallas as I've yet to hear SWA's CEO forget where his company is located.....You can't blame AA, they know how Fort Worth works: mention you're looking to move and the city will start throwing money at you. Hopefully if they stay in Fort Worth, their new building will be nice, because we're gonna pay for it. .....
Slightly off topic but since what cities do or do not do to keep their corporate citizens, this may be food for your thoughts -
Southwest Airlines is preparing itself unbeknownst to many in metroplex, but not so much unbeknownst from the watchful eyes of Dallas’ leaders, to be able to shift more and more of its flights to what is now its largest domestic hub, Houston Hobby. The fear is that SWA will not hesitate to relocate its headquarters to Houston when Dallas, if it ever does, takes a stronger stand on HSR than it is now. IMO, this fear is how Dallas is being effectively stifled and remains conspicuously taciturn about HSR because of a perceived threat for SWA to go to Houston. I am curious that you seem unaware of the inside politics being played by SWA who has repeatedly made its feelings known not only in rumors and public statements, but by its investment in Houston Hobby Airport. Below you will find Hobby Airport with its SWA colors.
What is the difference if Fort Worth pays to keep AA in the city or Dallas gives in to corporate blackmailing and strong arming by SWA?
Posted 31 January 2015 - 10:05 PM
Super mega conspiracy theory here.
FW is paying XTO to drill so much in the Dallas/Irving and cause the earthquakes (because fracking causes earthquakes right? Right.) to scare AA away from building in the area.
Boom.
Posted 01 February 2015 - 09:08 AM
.....Dallas seems to be in the business of ponying up money to attract new companies (maybe that's why they have so many) , not continually bribing them to stay with incentives and basically building new office buildings for them. You can't blame AA, they know how Fort Worth works: mention you're looking to move and the city will start throwing money at you.......
Please...the way Fort Worth kisses American's butt..
Or keeping old ones just like this one, right? -
Net 25 jobs/year is equivalent to what 1 Starbucks franchise can do; BTW does also mean potentially adding yet another zombie highrise to the Northpark area?
Source: Forum Dallasmetroplis.com
Richards Group HQ (~238 FT) - In recent months our Steve Brown[DMN] has written about The Richards Group’s search for a site for its new HQ — maybe in Uptown, possibly downtown, probably near Cityplace.... Make that definitely near Cityplace — on N. Central Expressway at Blackburn Street, to be specific, next to Forest City’s planned 20-story residential tower in the West Village.
That’s according to Assistant City Manager Ryan Evans, who says a memo will be sent to the Dallas City Council tonight concerning incentives the city is offering the advertising-and-marketing agency to build a 250,000-square foot office building on the 2.5-acre site. We called Evans this morning after noticing a very brief mention of it on the agenda for Monday’s meeting of the council’s Economic Development Committee, which says only: “The Richards Group/SBR Real Estate Holdings, LP.”
According to Evans, the development will be 15 stories, and is expected to cost $45 million. He says The Richards Group, which has been in its current HQ across from NorthPark Center since 1995, wants the city to help defray some of those costs by offering a 10-year, 50-percent real property tax abatement. Evans will recommend that the council OK the deal, saying that it comes to about $1,795,000 in incentives while the “net fiscal impact for the city comes to about $4.3 million” in new tax revenue.
Evans says the site will house The Richards Group’s HQ, and that the agency is promising not only to keep its 600 existing employees but add 50 more within the next two years. Evans adds that the development group, consisting of Richards Group namesake Stan Richards and PBRS Development, will put 10,000 square feet of retail and residential on the ground floor of the office building; there will also be a multi-level office structure.
Posted 03 February 2015 - 11:12 AM
The Richards Group building is finished and it looks awesome--right next to the West Village development.
Posted 03 February 2015 - 07:00 PM
The Richards Group building is finished and it looks awesome--right next to the West Village development.
Paid partially by you, the taxpayer...see paragraph #3 in post #13.
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