Mike Copeland
Business Editor at Waco Tribune-Herald
News updates and other stuff of Central Texas interest from the Trib staff. Obligatory tagline: Not a feed.
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2 weeks ago |
wacotrib.com | Mike Copeland
Dallas developer Brian Glaser, confessing to being an "off-the-wall guy," slammed a sledgehammer against The Outlets at Hillsboro on Friday. Symbolically and literally he and his company will remove the stain on Hillsboro's reputation present since the mall disintegrated into an eyesore. Within 90 days, much of the 359,000-square-foot relic, a reminder of yesteryear's shopping habits, will fall to a professional wrecking crew.
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3 weeks ago |
wacotrib.com | Mike Copeland
CarMax, which operates used-car superstores, can place a dealership on the Interstate 35 frontage road near Gateway Boulevard in southwest Waco. The Waco City Council voted this week to issue CarMax a special permit to proceed with announced plans. It wants to build a store on 4.7 acres just north of where southbound I-35 will intersect with an extended Gateway Boulevard.
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3 weeks ago |
wacotrib.com | Mike Copeland
Waco will buy the nearly 200,000-square-foot Central Freight Lines complex on West Waco Drive, with plans to consolidate a dozen city departments and functions now scattered around the community. The city will pay $9.5 million for the 37-acre property where big rigs rumbled from 1958 until December 2021, when Central Freight announced it would cease operations. The company traced its humble beginnings to 1925, when William W.
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3 weeks ago |
wacotrib.com | Mike Copeland
Bad news has hit the pocketbooks of several local nonprofits, as the federal government has canceled an $18 million Environmental Protection Agency grant approved during the Biden administration. The grant became iffy shortly after the Trump administration assumed the White House, but officials including Mission Waco Executive Director John Calaway held out hope.
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3 weeks ago |
wacotrib.com | Mike Copeland
Converting McLennan County’s old downtown jail to a new justice center is moving into high gear. Anyone who does not believe that should check out the street closings around the courthouse at Fifth Street and Washington Avenue. The county is spending about $57 million transforming the lockup fronting Columbus Avenue near Fifth Street, which crews have gutted and readied for transformation into new space for courtrooms, jury rooms and office spaces for court staff and judges.
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