First came the need for 40,000 additional new housing units. And those filled up. Then came the need for 40,000 more and the people were already here. And then...they built more, and more, and even more.Then came the P.G.A. (Professional Golf Association) HQ with two new courses at the new HQs in the Metroplex. Toyota came, one of the big advertising firms came and then...Buc-ee's to gas-up and feed 'em all.
The big railroads created a north south and east west system for container shipments by rail. Dallas is in the cross hair with an inland port for containers. Called intermodals, meaning containers filled with goods that can be used for shipments using all three forms of transportation to move goods. Ocean-going vessels then moved to railroads for double stacked per car then loaded directly only a semi truck frame.
The BNSF ships massive amounts of traffic from west to east to north to south connecting Canada, US and Mexico shipments. The inland port in south Dallas receives containers from rail, stores and ships out by truck to the Gulf for shipments from Asia to the islands in the Caribbean Sea to South America, Iceland and Greenland. Newfoundland and Nova Scotia can also come cross Canada or the US. In short, besides good weather most of the time, Dallas sits in the perfect spot for most everything in terms of business and living. Especially living as there is no personal income tax.
Then came the need for even more services like parks, skate board parks,
and wider streets than 6-lanes. More restaurants, more entertainment
venues, faster trains, more trains, as the Metroplex hits 2.6 million
with 1.3 in Dallas itself.
