Texas re-locations are tracked here (when I remember).
I've heard the announcement over the PA system many, many times when I've flown from DFW to PDX (north Texas to Portlland, OR) but I have never really paid attention and I never knew "it" was really a thing.
But it really is.
Every time I fly Alaska Airlines, the flight attendants remind the airline is part of the "oneworld alliance." Whatever that is.
Well, here it is and it's real.
And it's really big, and it just moved its headquarters from NYC to Fort Worth, TX.
Which brings us, of course, to the blog's tag, Texas_relocation. The original tag focused on California companies moving to Texas but the tag has now expanded to include New York.
And, now, there's a "Texas relocation" website.
Since we last visited that site, Obagi Cosmeceuticals has announced to relocate their headquarters froom California to The Woodlands.
The Woodlands is a special-purpose district and census-designated place (CDP) in the U.S. state of Texas in the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan statistical area.
The Woodlands is located 28 miles north of Houston along Interstate 45. The Woodlands is primarily located in Montgomery County, with portions extending into Harris County. The Woodlands is governed by The Woodlands Township, an organization that provides municipal services and is administered by an elected board of directors.
As of the 2020 U.S. Census, the township had a population of 114,436 people.
In 2021, The Howard Hughes Corporation estimated the population of The Woodlands was 119,000.
Though it began as an exurban development and a bedroom community, it has also attracted corporations and has several corporate campuses, most notably Occidental Petroleum Corporation, Chevron Phillips Chemical, Huntsman Corporation, Woodforest National Bank, Baker Hughes, McKesson Specialty Health, and Halliburton.
The community won a Special Award for Excellence in 1994 from the Urban Land Institute and in 2021 & 2022 was rated the #1 "Best City to Live in America" by Niche.
Obagi Cosmeceuticals, link here. And its website.
Samsung. A much, much bigger story, but slightly older, and perhaps discussed earlier on the blog (I've long forgotten), from a year ago, November 24, 2021:
Taylor, Texas, is in the Austin, Texas, area, about 29 miles northeast of Austin.
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, today announced that it would build a new semiconductor manufacturing facility in Taylor, Texas.
The estimated $17 billion investment in the United States will help boost production of advanced logic semiconductor solutions that power next-generation innovations and technologies. The new facility will manufacture products based on advanced process technologies for application in areas such as mobile, 5G, high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI).
Samsung remains committed to supporting customers globally by making advanced semiconductor fabrication more accessible and meeting surging demand for leading-edge products.
To put the $17 billion in perspective, let's take another look at another large investment, this time in Phoenix, Arizona: TSMC.
- TSMC: to build another fabrication plant in Arizona alongside the $12 billion factory it has already committed to in Phoenix. Link here.
ATI: a reminder that Allegheny Technologies, renamed ATI recently moved to Dallas:
ATI Inc. (previously Allegheny Technologies Incorporated) is an American producer of specialty materials, the company is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
ATI produces titanium and titanium alloys, nickel-based alloys and superalloys, grain-oriented electrical steel, stainless and specialty steels, zirconium, hafnium, and niobium, tungsten materials, forgings and castings.
ATI's key markets are aerospace and defense particularly commercial jet engines (over 50% of sales), oil & gas, chemical process industry, electrical energy, and medical.
The company's plants in Western Pennsylvania include facilities in Harrison Township (Allegheny Ludlum's Brackenridge Works), Vandergrift, and Washington. The company also has plants in: Illinois; Indiana; Ohio; Kentucky; California; South Carolina; Oregon; Alabama; Texas; Connecticut; Massachusetts; North Carolina; Wisconsin; New York; Shanghai, China; and several facilities in Europe.
Its titanium sponge plants are located in Albany, Oregon and Rowley, Utah. In total, ATI was said to have capacity for 40 million tons per annum.
Texas re-locations are tracked here (when I remember).
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Speaking of DFW
From the link:
The DFW to Auckland flight is one of only a handful of U.S. flights to New Zealand, and it is the only U.S. flight to New Zealand for the oneworld alliance.
This route connects customers to The City of Sails, located on the North Island of New Zealand, which is the country’s largest city and is host to major sporting events, festivals, high-end shopping, concerts, and world-class food and wine.
This new service connects New Zealand customers to over 200 destinations and builds on the strength of oneworld’s alliance and how it helps make DFW the second most connected airport in the world.
Flight duration: 15 hours.
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DFW: Not The Only Airport In The Metro Area
Love Field: SWA. Downtown Dallas. Passenger.
But this is "a" best-kept secret: Fort Worth Alliance Airport. Link here.
Right now, the "population" center of the DFW metroplex is north of Dallas: Plano, McKinney, Frisco -- some of the fastest growing cities in the US and some of the "richest" cities in the US, home of many, many Fortune 500 companies.
Texas DOT projects/predicts and is planning for the DFW metroplex "population center will move west and by 2050, that center will be north of Ft Worth, right over Westlake, Roanoke, Rhoame. And the airport located there? Fort Worth Alliance Airport .... the country’s first industrial airport, which began Hillwood’s flagship 27,000-acre AllianceTexas development.
DFW: 17,000 acres.
[The master-planned project] was named AllianceTexas because it was a true public-private partnership.
Froom Ross Perot, Jr, and the linked article:
Some 35 years ago, if you looked at a map of Dallas-Fort Worth, the last big piece in North Texas to be built out was the region northwest of DFW Airport. Like other developers, we started out buying land in North Dallas and up and down the Tollway. It was the classic Dallas play. Well, the land prices got too expensive. So, we moved over to north Fort Worth where the land was cheap. That’s where we started investing.
We had one piece of land—about 2,500 acres—and the FAA came to us and said they want to build another airport in North Texas. It was part of the DFW Master Plan, and they built four new airports in the region. We were the second of the four.
We were young. [AllianceTexas co-founder] Mike Berry and I were 26 or 27 years old at the time. What’s great about being young is that you don’t know what you don’t know. All of the established developers at the time told us it would take decades to build an airport.
So, in 1986 the idea was brought to us. We broke ground in the summer of 1988, and we were open by the fall of 1989.
We ended up developing a new generation of airport, called an industrial airport. At the time, the designation didn’t exist with the FAA. So, I went to see the Speaker of the House at the time, Jim Wright (D-Texas). He told me, ‘Don’t worry, Ross, we’ll have a new category in a couple of weeks.’ He wrote it into the budget. And that’s how it got done.
By the way: in the very same area -- GE locomotives for Burlington Northern (now, part of Warren Buffett's empire) --
GE Transportation is a division of Wabtec.
It was known as GE Rail and owned by General Electric until sold to Wabtec on February 25, 2019.
The organization manufactures equipment for the railroad, marine, mining, drilling and energy generation industries.
The company was founded in 1907. It is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, while its main manufacturing facility is located in Erie, Pennsylvania.
Locomotives are assembled at the Erie plant, while engine manufacturing takes place in Grove City, Pennsylvania.
In May 2011, the company announced plans to build a second locomotive factory in Fort Worth, Texas, which opened in January 2013.
I'm sort of expecting Wabtec to move to Texas some day.
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First, It Was DQ -- Now, Buc-ee's
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