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AllianceTexas is a master planned business community comprising some 15,000 acres centred around Fort Worth Alliance Airport. The project was conceived by Ross Perot Jr., founder of Hillwood Development Corporation, the real estate development and investment firm responsible for AllianceTexas.

AllianceTexas is divided into three phases:

• Circle T Ranch – A 2,500 acre master planned

community including a golf course and recreation community, a 1.6 million square foot retail project,

and 800 acres of corporate campuses and office sites. Circle T Ranch is some 6 kilometres from Alliance Airport

• Heritage (Future Development) – a 2,300 acre

“wired” residential community with a 10-acre recreation centre, about 7 kilometres from Alliance Airport.

• Alliance – A 9,600 acre manufacturing, trade and

logistics centre developed around Fort Worth Alliance Airport. The components of Alliance include:

Ø Fort Worth Alliance Airport – An industrial (cargo exclusive) airport owned by the City of Fort Worth and managed by Alliance Air Services, a subsidiary of Hillwood. Ø Alliance Center – A business complex

predominantly made up of air-related companies.

Ø Westport at Alliance – Incorporates 1,500 acres surrounding the Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) main north-south line and its associated Intermodal Hub Centre.

Ø Alliance Crossing – A business and service area for Alliance residents and employees located on 170 acres along Interstate 35W and Westport Parkway.

Ø Alliance Gateway – Located on the eastern

section of the Alliance complex, this 2,400- acre area offers access to Union Pacific Railroads north-south line, as well as, Fort Worth Alliance Airport and Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.

Ø Alliance Advanced Technology Center – Intended to serve as a high technology corridor with access to nearby Fort Worth Alliance Airport and Interstate 35W.

Ø Alliance Commerce Center – Located on the north side of the airport, this is a 300-acre business park designed to accommodate small to medium-sized enterprises.

These components are illustrated on the Master Plan shown in Figure 5-1.

Alliance

Alliance is the 9,600 acre manufacturing, trade and

logistics centre serving as the anchor of the AllianceTexas development which was initiated in 1989 with the opening of Fort Worth Alliance Airport, a joint initiative between the City of Fort Worth, the Federal Aviation

Administration and Hillwood. Fort Worth Alliance Airport proclaims that it is the world’s first industrial airport to utilize its multi- modal transportation capability to link manufacturing and distribution facilities with telecommunications, materials handling systems and

logistics operations. Aggressive recruitment of firms by airport management has led to an extensive list of tenants that now numbers over 100. Thirty three (33) of which are Fortune 500 firms. Top employers at AllianceTexas are listed in the following table.

Figure 5-2

Alliance Major Employers Summary

Company Name Employees

Nokia 2,800

American Airlines 2,350

Fidelity 1,400

Southwestern Bell Telephone 1,069

Fed Ex 863

Burlington Northern Santa Fe 495

Gulfstream Aerospace 450

Perlos 445

Randalls Food Markets 442

AdvancePCS 425

AT&T 420

DaimlerChrysler 400

Texas Instruments 256

GM 250

Mitsubishi Motor Sales 250

Kraft Foods 238

Tech Data 238

Michaels Stores 231

JC Penney 225

A listing of companies located at, or near Fort Worth

Alliance Airport and two other major airports are provided in Appendix B. These lists were extracted using Dun & Bradstreet’s business database for zip codes surrounding each cargo airport.

Alliance was initiated in 1989 and by 2002, approximately 3,000 acres have been developed over this 13 year period averaging between 200 and 250 acres per year.

Alliance represents a multi- modal facility due to its highly accessible air, rail and highway infrastructure. Alliance Air Services operates a Fixed Base Operation (FBO) for corporate and general aviation purposes. The airport has 24/7 operations and provides direct taxiway access to business facilities at Alliance Center. The airport’s parallel runways of 9,600 feet and 8,200 feet accommodate the full range of commercial aircraft currently in operation. Plans are in place for a future extension of the primary runway to 13,000 feet. Union Pacific and BNSF, two major US rail carriers have lines on the east and west borders of the development. BNSF also operates one of the nation’s largest intermodal yards at Alliance. Alliance is

intersected by Interstate 35W, referred to as the NAFTA superhighway due to its connection to Mexico and Canada.

A number of facilities have been developed at Alliance as a result of the airport’s central location within North America and to support the incoming industries to the

development. FedEx operates its Southwest Regional Hub

at Alliance. This facility represents the only fully

automated hub in Fed Ex’s distribution network. It is also unique facility in that it was designed for throughput operations, similar to the Memphis and Indianapolis national hubs. Throughput operations handle packages that do not originate nor are destined for their respective regions. Alliance’s facility is referred to as a regional operations centre, serving the surrounding market with distribution into southwest and west coast Regions. Alliance Air Trade Center is a 53-acre air cargo facility that is under development. Despite its early success in drawing manufacturing, distribution, logistics and high- tech tenants, huge tracts of land remain available for expansion at AllianceTexas.

In addition to the facilities provided at AllianceTexas, a wide array of services are available to expedite shipping and lure firms to the area. Major services at AllianceTexas include the following:

• Free Trade Zone status,

• On-site US Customs office,

• Freeport tax exemption; and

• User- free airport status.

Success of the AllianceTexas project is evident in a recent study that measured the economic impact of the project at $1.99 Billion for 2001, and $19.13 Billion between 1990 to 2001. The number of jobs created from 1990 to 2001 is estimated at 20,317 and over 20 million square feet of commercial space has been developed in this period.

Figure 5-1

AllianceTexas Master Plan

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