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Published Nationally ® May 13 2018 Vol. IX • No. 10
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$250M Texas Live! on Schedule to Open This Year By Cindy Riley CEG CORRESPONDENT
Caltrans Lines Up Bridge, Highway Projects...13
A $250 million mixed-used project known as Texas Live! is expected to attract as many as three million new visitors to the Arlington entertainment district when it opens later this year. Developed in partnership among The Cordish Companies, the Texas Rangers and the city of Arlington, it will feature in excess of 200,000 sq. ft. of dining and entertainment space over two levels, including an outdoor event pavilion. “The district will be a gathering place for the local community, as well as visitors, near and far,” said Cari Furman, spokesperson of The Cordish Companies.
Customers Drive Growth of Employee-Owned Firm...57
Crews used a 100-ton crawler crane for the basement cast-in-place concrete structure, and a 350-ton crawler crane for the structural steel erection.
Jeff Martin Holds Permian Basin Public Auction...70
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A $250 million mixed-used project known as Texas Live! is expected to attract as many as three million new visitors to the Arlington entertainment district when it opens later this year.
“Texas Live! is creating 3,025 new jobs for the city of Arlington and Tarrant County, including 2,000 new construction jobs and 1,025 permanent jobs. The project is projected to significantly exceed $100 million per year in economic output to the city of Arlington and Tarrant County, and more than $2 billion in direct and indirect salaries dur-
ing its first 40 years.” The world-class dining, entertainment and hospitality district is situated between the Texas Rangers’ Globe Life Park and the Dallas Cowboys AT&T Stadium. The project is part of a $1.25 billion vision for the stadium district that features a new Rangers ballpark, 200,000 sq. ft. of best-in-class restaurants, retail and entertainsee LIVE! page 30
New Resting Place for Colorado Veterans
California Section.....13-19 By Jennifer Rupp
Attachment Section..31-45 Paving Section ..........57-67 Auction Section ........70-73 Business Calendar..........70 Advertisers Index...........74
CEG CORRESPONDENT
Pikes Peak National Cemetery is a new 374-acre Veterans national cemetery in the southeast portion of Colorado Springs. The cemetery will serve the burial needs of more than 95,000 Veterans and their spouses in the cemetery’s service area for the next 100 years. Pikes Peak National Cemetery takes its name
The ground has been prepped and survey stakes placed for the cemetery maintenance building.
from the highest summit of the southern Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, located just 12 miles from downtown Colorado Springs. In January 2014, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) purchased the land, known as the Rolling Hills Ranch, located east of Marksheffel Road, between Bradley and Drennan Roads for $4.49 million. The see VETERANS page 48