Dallas, Texas
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Dallas is the third-most-populous city in the state of Texas and the ninth-most-populous in the United States. The city is large in geographic area as it covers 385 square miles (997 km²) and is the county seat of Dallas County. Dallas is one of 11 U.S. global cities as it is ranked "Gamma World City" by the Globalization and World Cities Study Group & Network.
As of the 2000 U.S. Census, Dallas population was 1.1 million (though a 2006 estimate placed the population at more than 1.26 million). The city is the main cultural and economic center of the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area (colloquially referred to as Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex), which is the fifth-largest metropolitan area in the U.S. with a population of 5.7 million in 12 counties. The 16-county metropolitan area designated by the North Central Texas Council of Governments had a population of 6.2 million in 2006.
The local economy
Dallas and the surrounding Metroplex are very important economically. The city is sometimes referred to as Texas's Silicon Valley or the "Silicon Prairie" because of a high concentration of telecom companies. Originally seeded with a nexus of communications engineering and production talent following World War II by companies like Collins Radio Corp., the epicenter of the area's telecom industry is along the "Telecom Corridor" which is home to more than 5,700 companies [18] and regional offices for Alcatel, AT&T, Ericsson, Fujitsu, MCI, Nokia, Nortel, Rockwell, Sprint and Verizon. The headquarters for Texas Instruments is also located there.
AMR Corporation (parent company of American Airlines), Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation, Radio Shack, and Pier 1 Imports are based in Fort Worth. id Software is based in Mesquite. ExxonMobil, Kimberly-Clark, Michael's Stores, and Zale Corporation are headquartered in Irving. Electronic Data Systems, Frito Lay, Dr Pepper and JCPenney are headquartered in Plano. FUNimation is headquartered in North Richland Hills. Educational Products, Inc. is headquartered in Carrollton. Sabre Holdings, the owner of the Sabre System, is headquartered in Southlake. Halliburton Energy Services was once based in Dallas, but moved to Houston in 2003.
Recent Dallas business news
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- St. Patrick's Day parade on Greenvile Avenue in jeopardy
- It's a tradition that rolls along Greenville Avenue in Dallas every year - the St.
- Editorial: Southern Dallas had a week of progress
- For more than four years now, this newspaper has championed a renaissance for southern Dallas.
- Greenville Avenue St. Patrick's Day parade may be in jeopardy
- Joe Tone, editor of the Dallas Observer, writes that the annual St. Patrick's Day parade down Greenville Avenue, "that beloved march of green-tinted debauchery" that's been a Dallas institution since 1979, " appears to be on its deathbed ." The Observer had underwritten the parade every year since 1997, Tone says, but pulled its financial support ... (more)
- National NDAA protest day in Dallas, TX
- Today, February 3rd, 2012, across the United States, people have been out protesting section 1021 of the National Defense Authorization Act ; quietly signed into law by Barak Obama on New Years eve .
- Dallas Business Competes in Energy Challenge
- A local company is currently competing in the U.S. Department of Energy's "America's Next Top Energy Innovator Challenge." SH Coatings LP, a Dallas based business, is competing in the U.S. Department of Energy's "America's Next Top Energy Innovator Challenge." The competition allows Americans to vote online for the most promising start-up companies ... (more)
- Youth group occupies former Piccadilly location
- Vacant since June 2011, the former Piccadilly Cafeteria at 2781 South Cobb Drive is now home to Everybody's Good At Something Inc., or EGAS Inc.
- Sherman Police ask for help identifying counterfeit suspect
- Sherman Police are asking for your help to identify a man they think is passing counterfeit money all over Texoma.
- Sore Losers & Marty B at Trees and the Rest of Your Weekend
- This weekend is a big one for Sore Losers, who are celebrating the release of their new EP , We Are Sore Losers , at Trees on Saturday night.
See also
External links
- Official city website
- Dallas Public Library
- Dallas business Chamber of Commerce
