North Texas Real Estate Blog

When moving to Southlake, Trophy Club, or Keller, Texas real estate and other communities around Grapevine Lake in the heart of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, your entire family will find abundant opportunities for employment.  In fact the steadily improving economy is expected to lead the entire nation in employment growth through 2010.  Over 140,000 businesses and 6,000 corporate headquarters are located here. 
 

Your home in Southlake TX or Colleyville is within commute distance to 19 Fortune 500 company headquarters including Advance PCS, Dean Foods, ExxonMobil, Kimberly-Clark, Neiman Marcus, Southwest Airlines, and Texas Instruments.  If your present community economy is dragging, you will be amazed at the great selection of companies who have relocated to North Texas real estate because they know that their employees will experience a relatively low cost of living, a great quality of life, and are able to choose housing from a large variety of beautiful neighborhoods in Denton and Tarrant County real estate.
 

Forty-seven percent of all tech-related revenue in the state is located in the area.  There are a diverse mix of industries including defense, financial services, information technology and date, life sciences, semiconductors, telecommunications, transportation, real estate, processing, and tourism.  There are a number of fine colleges and universities and a cutting edge educational system for primary and secondary education. 
The Dallas Business Journal lists the following employers as the top 25 largest. 
AMR Corporation, the world’s largest airline, owns American, American Eagle, and American Connection.  Wal-Mart, a huge discount retailer operates large facilities here.  Texas Health Resources Inc is one of the largest faith-based nonprofit health care systems and serves 6.2 million people in the area.  Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. has a long history of building cutting-edge aircraft.  Baylor Health Care Services is one of the largest private-sector employers in the area with Baylor University Medical Center as a flagship hospital. 
Citigroup, Inc. is a global financial services company.  AT&T/SBC is one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world, employing 14,000 in Dallas alone.  Verizon Communications operated its Information Services division that offers publishing and content.  Texas Instruments Inc. designs and supplies digital signal processing solutions and semiconductor products.  Albertsons Inc. is a large grocery chain that also operates drug store chains.  Brinker International Inc. operated award-winning chain restaurants such as Chili’s and On the Border Mexican Grill.
Others include HCA Healthcare, Inc., JP Morgan Chase & Co., J.C. Penney Co., Kroger Co., Target Corp., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Bank of America Corp., Tom Thumb Food and Pharmacy, Southwest Airlines Co., Bell Helicopter Textron Inc., Minyard Food Stores, Inc., Blockbuster Inc., General Motors, and RadioShack Corp. 

These successful companies are just the beginning of a creative tapestry of industries serving the population.  An expanding fountain of jobs in the service sector and many entrepreneurial opportunities are here for the taking.