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#1 Austin55

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Posted 21 March 2018 - 04:38 PM

Shared by economic development director Rob Sturns

 

 

Just heard about something cool, can’t share too many details now but stay tuned.

 

 

http://www.somethingnewfw.org

 

No idea what it means! Guess we wait 4 days



#2 JBB

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Posted 21 March 2018 - 10:16 PM

Back in the good ol' days, you could do a WHOIS search and find out who was behind a domain registration.  Now everyone registers through third parties to hide their identity.



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Posted 22 March 2018 - 07:16 AM

Wish list: SolarWorld Industries is moving Americas HQ to Downtown Fort Worth, plans Alliance area manufacturing facility with specific goal to help develop increase solar power to match wind power generation for the Texas Electric Grid. 



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Posted 22 March 2018 - 09:44 AM

Wish list: SolarWorld Industries is moving Americas HQ to Downtown Fort Worth, plans Alliance area manufacturing facility with specific goal to help develop increase solar power to match wind power generation for the Texas Electric Grid. 

 

And five years later SolarWorld Industries announced they are moving out of downtown Fort Worth and moving the HQs to Woodlands, Dallas, Frisco wherever. And the manufacturing plant to China. 

 

Or I hope that Fort Worth city leaders learned their lesson that half the battle is to keep companies from moving out. And that the western image of the city is not the problem. 



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Posted 22 March 2018 - 09:48 AM

I think we can safely assume that it won't be a creepy announcement about a theme park the size of Rhode Island that takes us back to 1950s values.



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Posted 22 March 2018 - 10:00 AM

Some snooping inside the website I came up with this pic

 

somethingnewdfw.png

 

Looks like the view from Ellis Pecan... Hmmm...



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Posted 22 March 2018 - 06:40 PM

 

Wish list: SolarWorld Industries is moving Americas HQ to Downtown Fort Worth, plans Alliance area manufacturing facility with specific goal to help develop increase solar power to match wind power generation for the Texas Electric Grid. 

 

And five years later SolarWorld Industries announced they are moving out of downtown Fort Worth and moving the HQs to Woodlands, Dallas, Frisco wherever. And the manufacturing plant to China. 

 

Or I hope that Fort Worth city leaders learned their lesson that half the battle is to keep companies from moving out. And that the western image of the city is not the problem. 

 

 

Thank goodness Fort Worth was able to retain American Airlines! They are now Fort Worth's only Fortune 500 company.

 

Fort Worth used to have five (5!) Fortune 500 companies: American Airlines, BNSF (no longer public), Radio Shack (basically dead), D.R. Horton (now in Arlington), and XTO Energy (now an ExxonMobil subsidiary; will soon move to Houston).

 

EDIT: I originally listed Pier 1 Imports instead of BNSF in the above list. Looks like I may have confused the two.

 

Found BNSF on a former Fortune 500 list while trying to find Pier 1 Imports without success.


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Posted 23 March 2018 - 02:35 PM

If it has anything to do with the refurbishment of the Ellis Pecan plant then I'm stoked.  It will be the first thing coming out of Panther Island heading north and it has so much potential to be something really cool.



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Posted 24 March 2018 - 09:41 PM

Anyone can see that it is not a view from the Ellis Pecan Building but a view that includes EPB in it.



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Posted 24 March 2018 - 10:40 PM

I'm pretty sure that the 2 story building at the bottom left of the pic with the single second story light on is one of the Texas Refinery Corp. buildings at NE 8th and Main.  If the pic isn't from Ellis Pecan, I'm not seeing it in that pic.



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Posted 25 March 2018 - 10:05 AM

I'm pretty sure that the 2 story building at the bottom left of the pic with the single second story light on is one of the Texas Refinery Corp. buildings at NE 8th and Main.....

 

Yes, that's looks more likely.



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Posted 25 March 2018 - 02:23 PM

 

 

Wish list: SolarWorld Industries is moving Americas HQ to Downtown Fort Worth, plans Alliance area manufacturing facility with specific goal to help develop increase solar power to match wind power generation for the Texas Electric Grid. 

 

And five years later SolarWorld Industries announced they are moving out of downtown Fort Worth and moving the HQs to Woodlands, Dallas, Frisco wherever. And the manufacturing plant to China. 

 

Or I hope that Fort Worth city leaders learned their lesson that half the battle is to keep companies from moving out. And that the western image of the city is not the problem. 

 

 

Thank goodness Fort Worth was able to retain American Airlines! They are now Fort Worth's only Fortune 500 company.

 

Fort Worth used to have five (5!) Fortune 500 companies: American Airlines, BNSF (no longer public), Radio Shack (basically dead), D.R. Horton (now in Arlington), and XTO Energy (now an ExxonMobil subsidiary; will soon move to Houston).

 

EDIT: I originally listed Pier 1 Imports instead of BNSF in the above list. Looks like I may have confused the two.

 

Found BNSF on a former Fortune 500 list while trying to find Pier 1 Imports without success.

 

 

 

Got me curious about P1. Wikipedia lists a revenue of $1.828B. Briggs and Stratton, dead last on the fortune 1000 list, has a listed revenue of $1.8B (perhaps rounded down?). Pier 1 is awful close to making that list.

 

GM Financial has a revenue of $6.45B which would put in into the 500 (at #418) if it were eligible. BNSF's #19B would put it around #150. Cash America only generates a little over a billion so it is'nt really close to even the 1000.

Alcon is based in Switzerland but has it's N American HQ here and makes a sizable $6B in revenue.



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Posted 25 March 2018 - 04:02 PM

Pier 1 Imports is #967 on the Fortune 1000 list.


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Posted 25 March 2018 - 05:54 PM

Oh nice. I was looking at one that didn't have listed.

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Posted 26 March 2018 - 08:51 AM

2 hours

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Posted 26 March 2018 - 12:00 PM

Well, timer went to zero and nothing happened. I hit refresh and got a "denied access" error. Anyboyd else?


Www.fortwortharchitecture.com

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Posted 26 March 2018 - 12:03 PM

Well, timer went to zero and nothing happened. I hit refresh and got a "denied access" error. Anyboyd else?

 

up now... but still a big question mark to me....



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Posted 26 March 2018 - 12:07 PM

umm 

 

all I see is this

 

LogoBlackGlow.png



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Posted 26 March 2018 - 12:22 PM

umm 

 

all I see is this

 

LogoBlackGlow.png

 

Is the Dharma Initiative back?

 

I'm LOST?! (hahahaha)



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Posted 26 March 2018 - 12:32 PM

Announcements for announcements are the worst

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Posted 26 March 2018 - 01:07 PM

move along folks...  nothing to see here.  Yawn!!  



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Posted 28 March 2018 - 07:44 AM

Might have been left by the DreamVision guys before they were sentenced to prison.



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Posted 02 April 2018 - 12:33 PM

It's entrepreneurship. 

 
Www.fortwortharchitecture.com

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Posted 02 April 2018 - 12:44 PM

Oh nice. I forgot there was another update. Sorry for the over hypedness.

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Posted 17 April 2018 - 10:08 AM

Well, there is a lot more content there now. I suppose you get an idea of what it's all about. A little buzzwordy though. 


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Posted 29 April 2018 - 03:41 PM

This is odd. Its hard to know what to make of this or Sturns.






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