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Home My WebLink About2000-04-14 Euless Articles DISTRIBUTED TO: Page of MAYOR CITY COUNCIL CITY ATTORNEY S. CRIM J. HENNIG G. McKAMIE R. YOUNG T. COX BO BASS J. KRATZ R. HEROLD C. GRIFFITH L. GETCHELL S. WILLIAMS A. BAXTER J. ROGERS LIBRARY REFERENCE DESK DATE DISTRIBUTED: -DO DATE OF ARTICLE: 7 f/ DD NEWSPAPER FWST Stagram PINI E. D: I T o ^R I r A L S. On Board The Trinity Railway Express is those that have not yet signed to con- building support. tribute a total of$775,000 a year to help cover operating costs. Count another Northeast Tarrant The North Central Texas Council of County city on board with the Trinity Governments is negotiating contracts Railway Express.That's good news, and with the remaining cities,with costs it will get even better when the six addi- based on estimated ridership. Service tional cities that have been invited to join between Dallas and stations in Richland the commuter rail project finally agree to Hills and Hurst is expected to begin in contribute money. September. Service to Fort Worth is The latest to join is Haltom City, scheduled to start next year,following a where the City Council has voted unani- delay in building that city's terminal. mously to pay$10,000 a year to the rail It has been a long process to get the line connecting Fort Worth and Dallas. Tit,Express trains rolling.Rail service Colleyville decided last month to pay in Dallas County,reaching as far west as $25,000 a year, and North Richland Hills Irving,has proved popular beyond all agreed in January to contribute$55,000 expectations,and the same result can be annually.Richland Hills, as a member of anticipated in Tarrant County. the Fort Worth Transportation Authority, The cities that have not yet signed on already supports the future rail line. Arlington,Bedford,Euless,Grand have mostly indicated willingness to Prairie,Hurst and Grapevine have not join,but officials are still negotiating the yet reached agreements to back the costs. Nobody can blame them for being Trinity Express.The Fort Worth careful about getting their contracts in Transportation Authority and Dallas Area order. In the end, all of these cities. Rapid Transit,developers of the service, should join in support of this transporta- are asking the cities that have joined and tion innovation for Tarrant County. CIWPWIMDOCIDISTFWST FRM DISTRIBUTED TO: Page / ofL. MAYOR CITY COUNCIL CITY ATTORNEY S. CRIM J. HENNIG G. McKAMIE R. YOUNG T. COX BO BASS J. KRATZ R. HEROLD C. GRIFFITH L. GETCHELL S. WILLIAMS A. BAXTER J. ROGERS LIBRARY REFERENCE DESK DATE DISTRIBUTED: 941-07 DATE OF ARTICLE: *6 -00a of 'SPAPER FWST Fort Wortb . , -it - ram .p1/4 5 SuperTargety ey es north Euless site Store would anchor shopping center BY BILL W.HORNADAY At least � � Star-Telegram Staff Writer three more EULESS — The fourth retail sites on consumers SuperTarget store announced for with a corn- Tarrant County since June will bined 60,000 square feet and two anchor a 242,000-square-foot restaurant sites with a combined shopping center planned for 10,000 square feet compose the north Euless,city officials say. rest of the 27-acre project. But About 70 percent of Heritage the southwest corner of Texas Towne Crossing will consist of 121 and Glade Road will be the combination grocery and dis- more than Euless' largest shop- count store, which will be simi- ping center when the project lar to the SuperTargets planned opens in October 2001,city Eco- for Hurst, Watauga and south- nomic Development Director west Fort Worth,officials said. (More on TARGET on Page 21 A) 0.2 DISTRIBUTED TO: Page ,2. of MAYOR CITY COUNCIL CITY ATTORNEY S. CRIM J. HENNIG G. McKAMIE R. YOUNG T. COX BO BASS J. KRATZ R. HEROLD C. GRIFFITH L. GETCHELL S. WILLIAMS A. BAXTER J. ROGERS LIBRARY REFERENCE DESK DATE DISTRIBUTED: 11 DO DATE OF ARTICLE: V -DID NEWSPAPER • FWST TARGET SuperTarget in Euless That's what Euless is banking j on, Baxter said. Estimates show A shopping center \ Idg that the city could net at least From Page l A will be anchored by a 4. $500,000 a year in property and 172,000-square-foot sales tax revenue — and every SuperTarget,city cent is welcome,she said. Andrea Baxter said. officials say. The addition of a street linking It also will kick off develop- Heritage Towne Crossing with ment in the city's 121co Gateway �ladg Euless Cheek-Sparger Road, plus signal District, a 526-acre corridor that Euless rezoned two years ago, ..> and surface renovations on Glade Baxter said. The initiative is ® - Road, would aid the flow of traf- designed to prevent haphazard 'MCheek$� -. I fic that now is limited mostly to - access roads. building such as that along Texas �� I 8edfuru �y -Pela lt' Two proposed residential pro- 10(Euless Boulevard) and to pro- , ar a , jects — a 354-unit luxury mote upscale business, entertain- wo , i , ment complex north of The apart- ment and residential uses, offi Ij, odRd Man- cials said. `` lions by the Vineyards and more v-° "This will be the catalyst for 6 .. .. _ -:� than 300 upscale houses on 60 the entire 121 project,"City Man- , acres between Mid-Cities Boule- ager Joe Hennig said. "It should star-Telegram/T,M BEDP3ON yard and Priest Lane east of Texas. draw from a large portion of tion for discount stores and super- 121 — also would bring Super- Northeast Tarrant County, and markets in Tarrant County has Target shoppers,Baxter said. because we have land on both intensified. Euless officials said the store sides of 121, there will be much But Metroplex real estate ana- agreement is final, but officials more to come.As a city, we have lysts said the market can support with Minneapolis-based Target been fortunate enough to learn the influx: would say only that they are con- from our mistakes and have "Wal-Mart and Target compete sidering Euless for a SuperTarget. enough land left to do things to a certain extent. But they've Target officials made similar corn- right." also developed enough of a niche ments before SuperTarget sites . With Colleyville and that they give their target audi- were announced in Hurst and Grapevine north of Glade Road, ence what they want, so they're Watauga. and affluent areas of Bedford and also complementary in a sense," SuperTargets are 170,000 to Euless to the south, Heritage said Ian Pierce of The Weitzman 175,000 square feet and feature Towne Crossing is nestled in a Group, which tracks commercial the chair's Archer Farms Market prime demographic area. House- real estate in the Metroplex. brand of groceries, as well as dis- hold income for the four cities "Another interesting thing count items.Target plans to even- averages about $88,000 annually. we've seen is that stores like Tar tually roll out about 260 Super . It tops out at $139,000 in Col- get or Wal-Mart, which used to Targets nationwide to compete leyville. share shopping centers with' g p With a Wal-Mart store less supermarkets, are now going up with Wal-Mart Supercenters. than a mile away in Bedford, a across the street from them.But it Heritage Towne Crossing is Target in Grapevine, a SuperTar- doesn't seem to hurt either one. being developed by Dallas based get being built in Hurst and super- The increased traffic that two or Weber&Co.,Baxter said. markets such as Albertsons and more stores Bring to an intersec- Bill W.Hornaday,(817)685-3804 t Winn-Dixie nearby, the competi- tion seems to help everyone." hornaday@star-relegram.com I C:I WPWI NIDOCIDISTFWST.FRM