Dallas-Fort Worth’s Good News Keeps Coming!
Because I’ve bo
ught media from them, I get a newsletter from our local NBC affiliate (KXAS/5) every month that is always full of good news. It sometimes really makes my day and I want to thank them for it publicly. Since news organizations are inclined to lean on the very negative side of events in the community and the world it’s really refreshing to get this newsletter. These are the headlines in this month’s issue.
DFW Ranks 3rd Among 100 Metro Areas in Retail Job Growth (Behind NYC and Houston)
Top 2 Fastest Growing Cities in America: Frisco and McKinney
DFW Ranks 4th Among the Nation’s Top Moving Destinations (Behind Atlanta, Phoenix, and Orlando)
Dallas Retail Property Ranks 17 in Nation
DFW Ranks in Top 5 in Number of Affluent Households
DFW Among Few Labor Markets to Add Jobs Since 2006
Pace of Hiring by TX Factories Best Since 2006
Texas in Line for Continued Job Growth in 2012
Area New-Car Sales Increase a Healthy 21.8% in January
GM Reports Record Profit of $7.6 Billion
Dallas Home Sales Stats – January (“Posting a 14% increase over last year’s January sales)
Digital Realty Picks Up Lewisville Office Complex
Allstate to Expand Agency Network in DFW
Texas Helps Drive U.S. Exports to Record $1.48 Trillion
$1 Billion Mix-Used Development Planned for Flower Mound
For those of you not from or familiar with this neck of the woods, DFW is Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas. I don’t envy the person assembling this uplifting journal every month. It’s not always to find the upside to so many issues. But they do it. And they share it freely. My hat’s off to them.