3000SkylineDallas Location Map


Location

9 Miles East of Dallas CBD, 15 Miles to Dallas Love Field Airport, 25 Miles to DFW Airport
  1. Dallas / Fort Worth’s (DFW) central U.S. location is equally close to North America’s five largest business centers: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Mexico City and Toronto.
  2. The region’s central time zone location, one hour behind the east coast and two hours ahead of the west, extends the working day for companies doing business on both coasts.
  3. The North Texas weather combines sub-tropical and continental climates with a broad annual temperature range and the climate is generally temperate with limited extreme heat or cold.
  4. DFW International Airport is the third busiest airport in the United States and has nonstop service to 163 locations consisting of 37 international and 127 domestic destinations.
  1. The rapid influx of residents has created a very young and diverse population. In 2006, the median age in DFW was 33.1 compared to the U.S. average of 36.4. (U.S. Census Bureau)
  2. DFW’s population growth is already well on its way to a third consecutive decade of adding a million or more new residents to the Metroplex. According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2007 estimate, the area has grown 19 percent (983,490 people) since the 2000 census. (U.S. Census Bureau)
  3. The DFW Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) reported over 6 million residents making it the largest metropolitan area in Texas, the fourth largest metro in the country and larger than 35 U.S. states. (U.S. Census Bureau: American Community Survey)

Local Economy

  1. DFW posts a gross metro product exceeding $300 billion, supported by a local workforce of three million and more than six million residents.
  2. DFW Metropolitan area houses 25 Fortune 500 headquarters, 6 Global 500 headquarters and 900 other headquarter operations.
  3. Dallas ranked among the “Best Performing Cities: Where America’s Jobs are Created and Sustained” in 2007. (Milliken Institute)
  4. DFW offers the largest number of college educated residents of any metro in the state of Texas and among the highest in the nation. (U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2006)
  5. DFW has one of the most diverse economies in the nation, reporting between 3 and 22 percent of the workforce in the each of the major industrial sectors. (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
  1. DFW has a low cost of living; typically several points below the national average, and considerably lower than major East and West coast cities.
  2. There are over 145,000 business establishments in the Dallas / Fort Worth area and more than 1,500 regional and corporate headquarter operations. (Texas Workforce Commission)
  3. Texas is a right-to-work state with approximately 5.3 percent of all workers covered by union or similar employee contracts in 2010. DFW has 4.3 percent of all area workers unionized.
  4. Texas has no personal or corporate income tax and no state property or unitary state tax. (Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts)

Technology

  1. DFW’s early leadership in the semiconductor industry paved the way for the area to become a world presence in telecommunications, especially with Texas Instruments’ introduction of the Digital Signal Processor (DSP) in 1982. (Texas Instruments)
  2. The region’s rich historical ties and comparative advantages will spawn future growth and innovation in the high tech fields.
  3. The region’s technology sector employs over 233,000 workers. This figure is greater than the technology employment of Austin and Houston combined.
  4. In 2008, the American Electronics Association (AEA) ranked Texas as the #2 “cyberstate”.
  1. Dallas is home to technology leaders; AT&T, Electronic Data Systems (EDS), Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Research in Motion/Blackberry, and Texas Instruments.
  2. DFW has also been particularly adept in developing key information and data processing giants, beginning with Electronic Data Systems (EDS) in 1962 and continuing with ACS and Perot Systems.
  3. Cyberstates 2008: A State-by-State Overview of the High Technology Industry dubs Texas the second largest cyberstate in the nation with a total of approximately 492,400 high-tech workers. (American Electronics Association AEA, Cyberstates)


Marketing Brochure:
DOWNLOAD

For more information
call 972-692-1750

Chris Taylor
ctaylor@capstarcommercial.com

Trey Smith
tsmith@capstarcommercial.com

John Patterson
jpatterson@capstarcommercial.com