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The city's planning commission recently recommended approval for the new projects in El Mirage, which has continued seeing an increase in industrial development along with the rest of the West Valley.

A Birmingham-based landscaper recently acquired operations in Atlanta.

The booming area has attracted several recent projects.

After weeks of consideration, Austin City Council has approved a new fee for commercial developers that will direct funds toward the city's Parks and Recreation department. It represents a victory for those who want to boost funding for parks in the fast growing and fast developing city. But the fees had been opposed by those concerned about the high cost of real estate development in Austin — which has fees far outpacing those in Texas' other big cities.

Dallas-Fort Worth and Austin both rank among the 10 U.S. housing markets most exposed to price corrections, meaning consumers in Texas’ two fastest-growing metro areas should strongly consider renting rather than buying, according to a new national report.

CASTLE ROCK — When the first houses go up in the Dawson Trails neighborhood in Castle Rock in a couple of years, it will mark the beginning of the end of metro Denver’s decades-long southward migration.

This fast-growing town in the heart of Douglas County has no plans to annex any land farther south for development, meaning that what lies between Monument and Castle Rock today — vast expanses of open space and natural landscape along with a few dispersed ranchettes — should remain that way for future generations.

In other words, there is a place where one can escape the clutches of Denver and the suburbs that encircle it. A place where the prospect of more homes and more shopping centers and more bumper-to-bumper traffic finally dies.

There is, in fact, an end to metro Denver.

“That’s as far south as the Douglas County master plan shows any urban development happening, outside the town of Larkspur,” said Steve Koster, assistant director of planning services for Douglas County.

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The hotel more than tripled in value.

This company recently opened its 19th inpatient facility in Florida.

A supermarket opened there in March.

The buyer is from the West Coast.