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Comerica Bank Tower. The following are the Fortune 500 companies headquartered in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex: [2] 9 McKesson (Irving) 13 AT&T (Dallas) 54 Energy Transfer Partners (Dallas) 73 Caterpillar (Irving) 114 American Airlines Group (Fort Worth) 124 DR Horton (Arlington)
A number of electric companies formed in the years that followed: TXU Energy's direct forerunners, the Texas Power & Light Company (TP&L); Dallas Power & Light (DP&L), to serve the Dallas area; and Texas Electric Service Company (TESCO) to serve Fort Worth and areas west of Abilene. [4]
The Kress Building, also known as S.H. Kress and Co. Building, is a Classical Moderne Art Deco building in downtown Fort Worth.Designed by New York architect Edward F. Sibbert, the five-story Kress building served the “five-and-dime” chain from 1936 through 1960 and was one of the only major construction projects in Fort Worth built using private money during the Great Depression.
The Northern Texas Traction Company was a subsidiary of Stone & Webster that operated the streetcar system and interurban lines in Fort Worth, Texas . The Northern Texas Traction Company began with the purchase of the City Railway of Fort Worth by George T. Bishop in 1900. Bishop also acquired the Dallas and Oak Cliff Elevated Railway to gain ...
Gearhart Industries, The GO Company (formerly GO Oil Well Services, Gearhart-Owen Industries) was an oil well service company founded by Marvin Gearhart and Harrold Owen in 1955 and based in Fort Worth, Texas, United States. It provided well logging and well perforating services to both domestic and international customers. On February 24, 1988 ...
The airport opened for commercial service as Dallas/Fort Worth Regional Airport on January 13, 1974, at a cost of $875 million (equivalent to $5.5 billion in 2024), which included $65 million for the land and $810 million in total construction costs.
The Fort Worth Gas Company was created in 1909 and began serving almost 4,000 customers via a 90 miles (140 km) pipeline from Petrolia, Texas. W.K. Gordon, superintendent of the Texas Pacific Coal Company, believed there was oil in the town of Ranger, 90 miles (140 km) away from Fort Worth. While he was testing for oil, a message came in from ...
May 26, 1978. Designated RTHL. 1980. Texas and Pacific Station, commonly known as T&P Station, is a terminal Trinity Railway Express and TEXRail commuter railroad station is located at 1600 Throckmorton Street in Fort Worth, Texas, on the south side of downtown. It is the current western terminus of the TRE commuter line, and is located near ...