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Dallas Area Is Fastest Growing in the U.S.

Posted on March 27th, 2008 8:33am by Trey Garrison
Filed under Local News

The Census Bureau says The DFW added 162,000 people between July 2006 and July 2007, 90 percent of whom prefer to be in front of me on the highway when I have to be somewhere important and I’m running late.

3 Comments to “Dallas Area Is Fastest Growing in the U.S.”

Stephen Edmondson @ March 27th, 2008 at 8:53 am

Sounds like more and more are realizing how undervalued the housing market here is.

“Home prices continue to be a big factor. A report earlier this month by Global Insight found that housing prices in the Dallas area were undervalued by as much as 30 percent.”

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....ing_cities
Lee, Dallas, Texas @ March 27th, 2008 at 10:14 am

All that growth and so little evidence of any type of planning for growth. There should be regional planning, coordination and discussion.
Tey @ March 27th, 2008 at 10:36 am

True dat, Lee. Too bad we’d have to outsource the planning otherwise, we’d be covered up with DART-like agencies.

It’s no secret that Lubbock, Abilene and San Angelo have better designed, faster and higher volume loop systems than Ft Worth and their fruit-loop 820. Wonder how they managed to look ahead and anticipate…