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Home My WebLink About2007-08-07 Euless Articles 1 DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE / O �l� MAYOR CITY CNCL CITY ATTNY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT BROWN IYOUNG McDONALD COLLINS– C. BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARY ADMIN LIBRARY REF ANIMAL CNTR I DATE DISTRIBUTED 1 0 DATE OF ARTICLE g /.3 i /0 7 NEWSPAPER FWST I IJ MY OPINION DRAGONS UNLIKELY TO BE BURIED II BY THE HEAT THEYRETAKING - - 1 Caution travelers:Here there be dragons. ," . =k 4 ,." peewee football. • ' �' . '-' `What makes Southlake SbUTHLAKE—All is not well 1 , 4 .', °special is the small-town feelj Im the Dragon Nation, now mg, where you go to games under attack from both east LI f$ TOO N and see all your friends al}cli all �x� %AIN SOU=NI everybody you ever knew,,,he d west. , �a =First,Dallas-based D Mag : < 3FV� said. When you get.too bi§ 1 azzine published an issue with BUD KENNEDY "Joke" and add schools, you lost; tli'etongue-in-cheekheadline Joke T-shirt ata Willow Park that." "Whyr - bud@star-telegram.com eatery. S-T/JEFFERY WASHINGTON You Should Hate South The Dragons never cu• t an lake." II®I What do you think? player,and schedule extra BP Now :a new- restaurant ` To post a comment about this column, go to teams. i6rier football rival Aledo is pil- ®` www.star-telegram.com- "Every kid who wants to ir� on. play football gets to play;: II 'The Railhead Smokehouse; U Southlake seems to love D Magazine's article,but the cover is Jones said. "Everyone's `a BtO in Willow Park opened stil� � g Railhead feathersSmokehouse lights from ESPN. y ' Dragon."Carroll's football in: this week, selling pork ribsg team will~ alongside T-shirts,with the manager Tana Oakes used to ' D Magazine called it Per- visit Dallas in Septembet,t 1 urian social commentary run a clothes shop in South- 'feet City,U.S.A.and Pleasant- playing a Florida team iii; "Life Is Too Short to Live in .lake Town Square. She said ville, but it's more like Texas Southern Methodist'Univeir! Southlake." the T-shirts are a joke:"I deft- on a Disney movie set. The' sity's Ford Stadium. :c-, The gut punch comes just nitely don't hate Southlake." magazine credited the city's It• 's a chance for the Dragon. I when the No. 1-ranked Car- .Aledo and Carroll have a success to winning football Nation to annex Dallas. roll High School Dragon foot- long history as sports and ac- coaches and school leaders ball team must defend a 48- ademic rivals,and as compet- who stuck to having a single BUD KENNEDY'S COLUMN AP- , game winning streak. itors in the real estate market high school, but there's more PEARS SUNDAYS,WEDNESDAYS for families fleeing the big ci- to the story. AND FRIDAYS.817-390-7538 R If you're new around here' ; Southlake's success ought and wondering what to make "For years, everybody was to be credited to the 1960s •f all_ this mysterious,' cult-. moving to either Sc uthlake or mayors and city councils who1[k e behavior,let me explain: Aledo," Oakes said. "Now, annexed miles of farms to 1.This is high school foot- we've got a better lifestyle. build a city around its histor ball season in Texas. The T-shirt means that out ic,rural Carroll school. 11Eh2. Magazines prefer head- ere,life is slower paced,the Carroll could have built es that sell plenty of maga traffic's not as crazy and we two smaller high schools and es. ,, have just as good a football turned out twice as many 3.When so many nLteam. valedictorians,twice as many Imetropolitan area of 7 mil- Maybe so. football captains, twice as ' on spend a week arguing But in recent years,South- many drum majors and twice about whether they hate or lake has been ground zero for as ,many yearbook editors. Ulove one particular city and Texas high school football, But the city kept one school. gh school, that's flattering the place where the Friday Southlake' City Council- or that city and high school. Night Lights might be spot- man Greg Jones:also coaches After all,nobody on TV or adio was arguing this week bout whether to love or hate uless.Or Allen.Or Sachse. I I DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE / OF /3 MAI'OR CITY CNCL CITY ATTNY GRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT BROWN YOUNG McDONALD COLLINS //��C.BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARY ADMIN LIBRARYREF ANIMAL CNTR DATE DISTRIBUTED g j � / 0-7 DATE OF ARTICLE / /6 7 NEWSPAPER FWST EULESS • „ . 3 JESSICA DeLE(N jdeleon@star-telegrarn.com CITIZENS PATROL 'HAS A NEW SET OFWHEELS . r The Euless Citizens on Patrol group ;was recently given 'a' new red Dodge Nitro SUU from Allen Samuels Dodge.' The 30-member group,which began in Euless eight years ago, regularly conducts pa- ,trols in the city.Euless is one of the few,chapters that use'an official marked car. Bike safety tips ., Children;_can learn to ride safely on city streets at the Eu- less Bicycle Rodeo and Safe- ty Fair from 9 a.m. to noon Sept. 15 at the Parks at Texas Star, 1501 S. Pipeline Road. ,The event will include free re- freshments and bounce hous-' es.For more information, call 817-685-1666. ' ..r Get rid of crud The Crud Cruiser will visit Euless from 9 to 11 a.m.Sept. 29 at the municipal complex, - 201.N.Ector Drive. It will collect hazardous materials and small electrical products, such as computers,_ radios, VCRs, stereos, clocks. and televisions.Space is avail- able for only 125 households. mai JESSICA DeLEON COVERS EULESS: 817-685-3932 rr era IDISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE / OF l MAYOR CITY CNCL CITY ATTNY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT BROWN IYOUNG McDONALD COLLINS C. BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARY ADMIN LIBRARY REF ANIMAL CNTR DATE DISTRIBUTED 'g1110 -7 DATE OF ARTICLE 9 /3/ 07 NEWSPAPER FWST RALLYING AGAINST 1 A NEW CIGAR TAX The owners of a Euless cigar shop want to ensure ' that federal taxes don't add several dollars to the price of a smoke. ' The owners of a four-year-old Euless cigar shop are try- , ing to prevent the price of puffing from going up. They're rallying opposition at Town and Country Ci- gars of Euless against a proposed federal tax increase that could add several dollars to the cost of cigars. `We have an e-mail campaign going with a everyone on our e- ' " ` 1 e q mail list,'co -owner °o , w r 4ti4 Mike Peacock said. r "We have signs up m „a the shop.We're talking it up to everyone." ' SHLACHTER&CO. The merchants' complaints are aimed ' at legislation that would include higher cigar taxes as part of a strategy to pay for children's health insurance nationwide. "Cigars have always been taxed at a similar rate to a beer or to a glass of liquor, at about a nickel apiece on the federal end,"Peacock said. "Some of the proposals are up to a$10-per-stick tax." Large cigars;which are taxed differently than ciga- rettes,generally cost$2 to$30,Peacock said. The two proposals that have gotten the most traction in Congress call for taxes of$1 or$3 per cigar. 1 MI MI MN DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE l OF cA MAYOR CITY CNCL CITY ATTNY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT BROWN YOUNG IYIcDONALD COLLINS C. BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARY ADMIN LIBRARY REF ANIMAL CNTR DATE DISTRIBUTED 11 I 01 DATE OF ARTICLE q 13-C1 I 0 7 . NEWSPAPERir[,4.). 11.5/,�ess 7reSS Largest Shopping Centers and Malls Ranked by total gross leasable area Name Address City Postal Code Phone Total Gross Leasable Year Built Leasing Agent Fax Area Percent of Occupancy Year Last Company Owner Rank Web Site No.of Stores Parking Spaces Renovated Anchor Tenants Phone Manager North East Mall 1101 Melbourne Road Betty Haas Hurst 76053 1,647,000 DND 1971 Dillard's,JCPenney,Macy's, Simon Property Group 1 817-589-9603 140 DND 2000 Nordstrom and Sears Simon Property Group Steve Bowden 817-595-4471 817-589-9603 simon.com The Parks at Arlington 3811 S.Cooper St. Dillard's,Macy's,Dick's Sporting Steve Hughes Arlington 76015 1,527,878 97 1988 Goods,Sears,JCPenney,Circuit General Growth Properties 2 General Growth Properties 817-467-0200 180 7,300 2002 City,Steve&Barry's and 972-g68-6534 Lone Lisius 817-468-5356 Cheesecake Factory theparksatarlington.com Ridgmar Mall 1888 Green Oaks Road 7 3 Neiman Marcus,Dillard's, Clay Walton Macerich/Walton Street Fart Worth 76116 1,270,813 DND 1976 817-731-0856 115 DND 2000 Macy's,JCPenney,Sears and Macerich Capital 817-763-5146 Rave Motion Pictures 972-386-0321 Robb Jackson ridgmar.com La Gran Plaza 4200 South Freeway Burlington Coat Factory,Cinema DND 4 Fort Worth 76115 1,100,000 82 DND LatinoCVS Pharmocy,Finta DND Grupo Zocalo , 817-922-8888 DND DND Under renovation DND 817-927-1833 Mart Grocery and W.E.Trading 817-922-8888 lagranplazamall.com Hulen Mall 4800 S.Hulen St. Steve Hughes/Kevin Davies 5 Fort Worth 76132 940,000 95 1977 Dillard'sMacy's and Sears General Growth Properties General Growth Properties , 817-294-1200 120 4,600 1994 817-294-1200 ext.7010 General Growth Properties 817-370-0932 hulenmall.com Southlake Town Square Harkins Theaters,Barnes and 1256 Main St. Noble,Coldwater Creek,Crate Mickey Ashmore Southlake 76092 600,000 98 1999 and Barrel,Banana Republic, Cooper and Stebbins 6 817-329-5566 121 DND DND Williams Sonoma,Pottery Barn, p 1405 6Ur6262 DND DND Container Store,Gap,Bombay southlaketownsquare.com and Eddie Bauer DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE OF M1YOR CITY CNCL CITY A TTNY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT BROWN YOUNG McDONALD COLLINS C. BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARY ADMIN LIBRARY REF ANIMAL CNTR DATE DISTRIBUTED b 11 ()-7 DATE OF ARTICLE C! 1-5 Cr I 7NEWSPAPER •asiness ress LincolnLiSquare Best Buy,Bed Bath&Beyond, 436 Arlington 76011 Square Pier 1 Imports,SteinMart, Wyatt Russo 7 817-46 - 534580 92 DND1983 PetsMart,Half Price Books,Gap, The Retail Connection DND 817-274-5574 80 DND DND Ann Taylor Loft,Nine West,Jones 214-572-8405 Pam Dawson 817-274-5574 lincolnsquarearlington.com NY,Lane Bryant and Kirkland's Shops at Vineyard Village Glade Road at State Highway 121 Lowe's,Staples,Ross, X 8 Charlotte Walley Euless 76039 420,490 97 2007 Marshall's,Bed Bath&Beyond, Burk Collins&Company 214-378-1212 28 DND New construction Shoe Pavilion,PetSmart,Party Venture Commercial Burk Collins&Company DND City and LA Fitness 214-378-1212 DND Ridgmar Town Square Highway 183 at Ridgmar Meadow SuperTarget,Sports Authority, 9 Road Chris Gibbons 392,417 64 1984 Ross Dress for Less,Joann's, Retail Plazas Inc. Fort Worth 76 33 DND DND PetsMart and Western Venture Commercial DND 972-250-1486 Warehouse 214-378-1212 972-931-0956 retailplazas.com Gateway Plaza E.Highway 114 at E.Southlake Blvd. Kohl's,TJ Maxx,Bed Bath& David Lewis DND 1 Q Southlake 76092 358,091 95 DND Beyond,Old Navy,Office Max and Lincoln Property Co. Inland Southwest 866-367-7600 35 DND NA Michaels 214-740-3347 Management DND inlandgroup.com/Inlandsw The Village at Camp Bowie • Frost BankBaker Street Pub Camp Bowie Blvd.between Bryant • , , Mike Geisler,Easley Waggoner Pickles cream,Starbucks,1 kl& Ie CStbk Irvin Road and Ridglea Blvd. Jr.,Eric Clayton Camp Bowie Interests 1 269 62 DND 2005 Jerry's, 75 : 's,Stanley Eisenman Shoes,1940s 1960s Eurotaaa,Hot Poppy,Ben& Fort Worth 76116 Venture Commercial Real Maureen Conner,Venture 817-738-5600 April Lane Shoes,Baker Brothers Estate Commercial Management 817-738-5609 and Duce 214-378-1212 villageatcampbowie.com Lake Worth Marketplace • Azle Avenue between Loop 820 and Boat Club Road Jim Pangman 225,000 95 2006 and 2007 Kohl's,Bed Bath&Beyond, Canyon Partners 214 12 214e 214-346-0660 Worth 76135 18 1,029 DND Marshall's and Kirkland's Canyon Partners 214-346-0660 Judy Davis Corner Realty 214-346-0336 canyonpartnersrealty.com Watauga Pavillon North Park Road at Highway 377 Pier 1 Imports,Bed Bath& David Levinson DND Watauga 76148 205,223 99 DND Beyond,Office Depot,Ross Dress 13 866-367-7600 20 DND NA for Less,Sports Authority, The Retail Connection Inland Southwest DND PetsMart and World Market 214-572-8448 Management www.lnlandgroup.com/tnlandsw NOTES: DND-Did not disclose Source: participating companies To be included in this list, please contact listresearchibizpress.net. _ _ _ _ 11111 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE I OF MAYOR CITY CNCL CITY ATTNY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT BROWN YOUNG McDONALD COLLINS C. BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARY ADMIN LIBRARY REF ANIMAL CNTR ' DATE DISTRIBUTED 6 DATE OF ARTICLE (713 -q 107 NEWSPAPER F( J re 5s D/FW hopes to land retail, With developments ke this have an opportunity to createliDe we as a des tination, not just for people coming to the commercial development but foat rortaipthe whole Metor whooroplex rk the airport, According to Terrell, the airport has BY ROBERT FRANCIS restaurants, some nicer sit- 6,600 acres of developable land avail- Fort Worth Business Press down restaurants and a couple able for commercial and industrial of fast, casual-type restau- development. While the Dallas/Fort Worth rants." "That's over seven times more land 3 International Airport has set its Terrell said that since 9/11, than we have under development sights on new overseas destina- airports have struggled with today," he said. tions such as Beijing, the air- how to allow passengers to The airport will use its Barnett Shale port also has some ideas about intermingle with non-passen- gas-well drilling contract with creating new destinations of its gers. Chesapeake Energy Corp. as a model own. "It's difficult to do, but an for its agreements with developers, By the end of the year the area like Southgate Plaza Terrell said. The contract calls for at airport hopes to award con- would allow that to take place," least 20 percent participation by minori- tracts to begin development on he said. ty-owned or women-owned business Southgate Plaza, a 35-acre But Southgate Plaza is just a participation. mixed use development adja- small piece of D/FW's devel- "They've showed it can be done and cent to the airport's rental car opment plans,according to Jeff done successfully,so we'll continue that center. Fegan,CEO of the airport. in our future contracts," he said. "We hope to have shovels in "We're working on a master The airport also has its eye on other the ground by the end of the plan update for the airport and developments. It would like to develop year," said John Terrell, vice we've got more than 18,000 the 1,800-acre Bear Creek area on the president of commercial devel- acres of land and we have southwest side of the airport into a cor- opment for the airport. "We plenty of opportunities to porate campus while maintaining the want it to be a destination-type expand," he said. 36-hole golf course there. At an area development, not just a place Terrell said the development called Passport Park, at the intersection 3 where people come while of Southgate Plaza is the first of Highway 183 and Valley View Lane they're at the airport. So we're step in transforming the way on the southeast side of the airport,offi- not looking for typical strip- the airport is viewed by the cials would like to see a mixed-use center development. We're public. development of off-freeway retail, looking at something on the "We're considered by most a industrial and office space. At the order of two hotels, office connector airport," he said. Foreign Trade Zone area on the airport's buildings and seven to 10 northeast corner,there are approximate- 3 3 3 3 3 IDISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE OF MAYOR CITY CNCL CITY ATTNY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT BROWN IYOUNG McDONALD QCOLLINSl,C. BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARY ADMIN LIBRARY REF ANIMAL CNTR DATE DISTRIBUTED 0 I -7 /C-1 DATE OF ARTICLE q f 3 -q/ V 7 NEWSPAPERr,),Gil s Lae 5-5 I prc55 III I ly 112 acres remaining for development, Terrell said. The airport is also looking at developments in the Grapevine area. 1= Most of these developments will be = r ,f � made possible because of transportation f improvements in the area,Terrell said. "Without those improvements, we , I couldn't commit to these develop- �� ments,"he said. Among the transportation improve- -_" `_.•, I ments on the horizon are light rail,corn- R z � " �. muter rail, upgrades to area roadways i1 "=' t' ,t, � °,.4..z.. t___.: _moi„ Pg y _�. and the D/FW Connector project that --�– � _ _ c �tks�2� A –_ __- c�r� . GN Iwill be the largest project in the history ` s= —t._ � c a „�,:, v of the Texas Department of 8 yF r ' Transportation. "' 7,5,1,:;17-1, 771,;:t,, LIi � 1 'L .1�'rf'"ihTY' tt .r �.+F�y j.. d, k^r � n,�` grr tr N ... L r4 "Over the next 10 years, we'll see ,,,R a��r rE�«; F��y.� V `��`` ��;., A,�- �t*��k �� , r,�� „k� ,,� 111 some major improvements to access in w l 4 bye'",4 �,,� ,�r„t, "g '� 'rg" x `h ,rs A w :}r{�� 3 lland around the ;}, i � x. "� f+' h i .tsr!"55. r"' ' 1 y � t` ,P��. ,+9 Frz� 't �'' F �' airport,"Terrell said. � �;4,04v6 �s � �a f� „y '`Y �9 xi t g ce, i z All these developments are tied to a '" ' �..,�..z A�"$'!{..'�i..C'n �L.k � ,;.. 0 �i,��li -af:..... „�J• �'la "".1b�T` .Kik ^r WNL � concept called "Airport Cities" or . � �} '"` . '' ��" �',,sr A ; V A 4 "Aerotro olis" that isjust v ��^' ' P gaining trac y g � ' T , i 'Y�".',ktt p' � ,� ,fa'x.. 5x z`yfs•.a tp6�g74..;: I tion in the aviation world, according to e�,f ,�h,�� ,�,,,�� ; `��:� .� � �•-� ,� ��''�_� " m John D. Kasarda, a professor at the „t 4 Ai{ � 't � ' ¢'�* f` ",st o se„.i-,, 4'.*sys..v„,,, ' r t, t 4 ? -,:4—A_ , - a w+!�' } � "r�:s.•/ad,.''a.,s y tai �-�;:• a I University of North Carolina at Chapel Terminal Dot D/FW International Airport. Hill. Kasarda recently visited D/FW to consult with the airport on its master make that a fact," he said. "Airports D/FW International Airport is one of I plan. allow that face to face interaction that is the few in the U.S. well-positioned to "Urban economic development is key to making the global supply chain take advantage of this trend, said driven by airports," he said. "The 20th work." century was highway-centric, but I Kasarda. Kasarda said that international air "There is a lot of land to work with believe the 21st century will be airport- ports in Dubai and Hong Kong have Iand the infrastructure is coming," he centric." already recognized this trend. said. "That's not true for many airports Kasarda said there are three factors "Those communities realize that their in this country.Most are landlocked." Idriving this trend: globalization, time- airports drive development," he said. D/FW International Airport will be based competition and large,high-speed "In Asia, airports are viewed as a chief the host for the Airport Cities World jet transportation. competitive asset. Here, I believe Conference in April of 2008. I "We talk about connectivity making they're viewed as an environmental the world flat,but it's really airports that threat to be controlled." Contact Francis at rfrancis@bizpress.net I DISTRIBUTED TO: PAGE / OF 1 MAYOR CITY CNCL CITY ATTNY CRIM HENNIG MCKAMIE RIDGWAY(2) BOYETT BROWN YOUNG McDONALD COLLINS C.BARKER GETCHELL LIBRARY ADMIN LIBRARY REF ANIMAL CNTR DATE DISTRIBUTED g I 107 DATE OF ARTICLE 9/4' /0 -7 NEWSPAPER FWST Conservation: North Texas cities high in water usage Comparison of city water use San Antonio uses less water per capita each day than any other major city in Texas.Among cities in and ' around Tarrant County,Westover Hills and Southlake { use the most water per person. San Antonio • 143 Daily gallons Houston 161.8 used per capita Austin 164.4 2000-04 El Paso 169.2 Fort Worth 186.8 Dallas 247.4 Blue Mound 87 Flower Mound 88.2 Everman 89.8 Forest Hill '104.2 Richland Hills 117 Watauga 119.4 Crowley 127.4 Azle 127.6 Haltom City 129.4 White Settlement • 132.6 Saginaw . 134 Euless 139 North Richland Hills 144.2 River Oaks 147.4 Hurst 150.2 Lake Worth 156.2 Cleburne 160.8 Weatherford 163.2 Arlington 164.6 Mansfield 171.4 Roanoke , 173 Bedford 174.4 Keller . :177.6 Fort Worth 186.80 Benbrook 187.8 Irving 111111111111.111111M 209.2 Granbury 222.6 Colleyville 11.11111111111111111111111111111 240 Grapevine 251.8 TrophyClub 262 Southlake 277 Westover Hills 379 Sources:Texas Warer Development Board City of Fort Worth,'anous cities STAR-TELEGRAM