Air Service Location & Access • Direct flight time from DFW to nearly any city in the continental U.S. takes four hours or less. (DFW Airport)

DALLAS/FORT WORTH MSA

Delta

Denton Collin Hunt Travel Times by Air From DFW Wise City Miles/km Travel Time

Dallas Kaufman Rockwall New York, NY (NYC) 1371mi / 2205km 3 hrs. 15 min. Parker Tarrant Los Angeles, CA (LAX) 1247mi / 2006km 2 hrs. 56 min. Ellis Johnson Toronto, ON, Canada (YTO) 1202mi / 1934km 2 hrs. 50 min. DALLAS METROPOLITAN DIVISION Mexico City, Mexico (MEX) 931mi / 1497km 2 hrs. 32 min.

FORT WORTH Paris, France (PAR) 4926mi / 7925km 9 hrs. 30 min. METROPOLITAN DIVISION Tokyo, Japan (TYO) 6455mi / 10386km 14 hrs. 25 min. Source: OAG North America Executive Flight Guide • The Dallas region is served by 12 international and 22 domestic airlines, including DFW International based American Airlines and Dallas Love Field based Southwest Airlines. (DFW Airport)

Location Top 5 U.S. Airports Total Operations 2007 • The DFW Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) is comprised of two Atlanta (ATL) 994,346 Metropolitan Divisions, Dallas on the east and Fort Worth on the west. Chicago (ORD) 927,834 Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) 684,779 DFW Total 2007 Population Los Angeles (LAX) 681,445 Fort Worth Metropolitan Division Las Vegas (LAS) 614,169 County Name Population Source: www.airports.org/cda/aci/display/main/aci_content.jsp?zn=aci&cp=1-5-54-57_9_2_ Johnson 155,900 and www.dfwairport.com Parker 116,200 Note: Operations = Movements Tarrant 1,745,050 • DFW International Airport is the 3rd busiest airport in the United Wise 63,050 States and has nonstop service to 164 international (37) and domestic Metro Division Total 2,080,200 (127) destinations. (DFW Airport) Dallas Metropolitan Division DFW Airport – International Routes County Name Population Collin 724,900 Dallas 2,417,650 YYC YVR YUL LCW FRA Delta* 5,237 YYZ CDG ZRH

ICN Denton 599,350 NRT MTY CUU TRC NAS GDL AGU Ellis 144,500 CUN PVR MEX CZM MBJ ZIH SLP LIR BJX ACA GUA BZE Hunt 90,150 SAL CCS Kaufman 98,350 SJO

Rockwall* 73,500 14 – Mexico 4 – South America 4 – Canada Metro Division Total 4,153,727 5 – Central America GRU 4 – Europe 2 – Asia EZE Total MSA Population 6,233,927 2 – Caribbean SCL Sources: North Central Texas Council of Governments, Texas State Data Center 35 Nonstop International Routes *Estimate Source: DFW Airport D DFW Airport – Domestic Routes • DFW's central U.S. location is equally close to North America’s five to ANC SEA largest business centers: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Mexico PDX

SYR BOS MSP BDL City and Toronto. MSN ROC GRR BUF JAC MKE EWR LGA DTW PHL JFK Transit Time and U.S. Population Served from DFW CID ORD MDT • The region’s central time zone SMF RNO MDW CLE IAD OMA DSM MLI FWA BWI SFO OAK PIT SLC HDN PIA SJC DEN CMH DCA CMI IND DAY FAT EGE MCI location, one hour behind the CVG RIC MTJ COS STL ORF GUC EVV LAS SGF LEX GSO BUR ONT ICT BNA TYS RDU east coast and two hours ahead of JAC PSP CLT MEM CHS SNA OKC TUL XNA HSV GSP SBA JLN CHA CAE ABQ SAN LAW FSM LIT PHX AMA ATL the west, extends the working SPS HOT TUS BHM SAV to HNL LEB TXK ELD to OGG SHV ELP JAX day for companies doing busi- ABI GGG MEU MAF ACT TYR JAN MOB AEX VPS SJT BTR GPT GRK CLL PNS ness on both coasts. AUS LFT MSY MCO SAT HOU IAH TPA • More than 50 million people can PBI LRD CRP FLL RSW Source: DFW Airport to SJU be reached from DFW overnight by MFE MIA % of U.S. Ring Hours Miles Population truck or rail and 98 percent of the Served • DFW International Airport has an annual impact on the North 1 10 600 16% U.S. population can be reached 2 24 960 37% Texas economy of more than $16.6 billion and supports nearly 3 48 1800 93% within 48 hours. (DFW Airport) Source: U.S. Department of Transportation 305,000 jobs. (DFW Airport)

20 Winter 2008/2009 – LOCATION & ACCESS DALLAS INDUSTRIAL GUIDE Commercial Airports the world. Airports were rated on performance, value, facilities and Airport Runways Total Operations operations. (Air Cargo World, 2006) Lengths • In addition to DFW International, Love Field and Alliance Number (feet) 2007 2006 % Change Airports, the region claims 13 reliever airports in the area. DFW 8,500; 13,400; (Dallas Business Journal, Book of Lists, 2008) 7 13,400; 13,400; 685,491 699,344 -1.98% International 13,400; 9,000; 9,300 Dallas Love Reliever Airports 3 8,800; 7,750; 6,145 244,609 248,805 -1.68% Addison Airport Meacham International Airport Field Arlington Municipal Airport Fort Worth Alliance Airport Alliance 2 9,600; 8,200 236,801 250,479 -5.46% Collin County Regional Airport Grand Prairie Municipal Airport Airport Dallas Executive Airport Lancaster Municipal Airport Sources: DFW, Dallas Love Field and Alliance Airports Denton Municipal Airport Mesquite Metro Airport • Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) International Airport is the third largest Fort Worth Spinks Airport Terrell Municipal Airport in passenger activity in the world. DFW airport handled over Northwest Regional Airport 685,491 total operations in 2007 transporting over 797,511 tons of Source: Dallas Business Journal Book of Lists 2008 cargo and serving over 59 million passengers. (DFW Airport) • The Capital Development Program at DFW International has Roadways • Six interstate and seven other U.S. highways as well as numerous invested $2.7 billion into the Airport’s infrastructure over a five-year state highways serve the DFW region. time frame. This investment will generate an additional $34 billion in economic impact on the DFW regional economy and another Major Highways 77,000 new jobs over the next 15 years. (DFW Airport) • Dallas Love Field, conveniently located three miles from downtown Type ID Dallas, is a central hub for regional business and commuter travel. Interstate IH 20, IH 30, IH 35E, IH 45, IH35W, IH635 The Wright Amendment of 1979 originally limited most nonstop HWY 75, HWY 67, HWY 80, HWY 175, flights leaving Love Field to destinations within Texas and contigu- U.S. HWY 287, HWY 377, HWY 380 ous neighboring states. Additional flights were added in 1997 and • The NAFTA Superhighway (IH 35) extends from the Texas-Mexico 2005, and a law repealing the amendment was enacted in October border to northern Minnesota and serves both the Fort Worth and 2006 that effectively removes long-haul flight restrictions on Love Field by 2014. (Dallas Love Field) Dallas Central Business Districts. • Fort Worth Alliance Airport, located in North Tarrant County, is a • Fort Worth Alliance Airport an industrial facility designed to major industrial airport designed to meet air cargo needs. handle air cargo, offers access to three major highways, including the • DFW International Airport has almost 3 million square feet of “NAFTA” Interstate Highway 35, trunk lines to two trans-continental cargo facilities on site and is served by 56 carriers; 6 integrated, 21 rail carriers and one of the largest intermodal facilities in the country. all-cargo and 29 combination carriers, which offer local shippers and (Fort Worth Alliance Airport) forwarders access to markets throughout North America, South • Average commute time is 26.5 minutes in DFW. America, Europe and Asia. (DFW Airport) (U.S. Census Bureau) • Almost 65 percent of all international cargo in Texas is handled at DFW, some 797,511 tons in 2007. (DFW Airport) DFW Average Commute Times • An excellence survey administered in 2006 by Air Cargo World 2006 magazine rated DFW International Airport as the top cargo airport in Total Commuters 2,956,301 Mean Travel Time 26.8 DFW Freighter Destinations Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2007

13.5 hrs to Asia • Known as the nation’s largest inland port, DFW is a principal 9.5 hrs to Europe trucking and freight distribution center with over 600 motor/ trucking carriers and 100 freight forwarders. (North Central Texas Council of Governments)

6.5 hrs to South America Railways • All of the nation’s largest rail lines serve DFW and coordinate with motor and truck carriers at four intermodal freight centers. (North Source: DFW Airport Central Texas Council of Governments) • Dallas is a junction point on hundreds of rail through-routes. Approved New DFW International Service While most of the nation’s railroads are regional in nature, the estab- Carrier Serving Start Date KLM Droral Dutch Airlines Amsterdam, Netherlands March 2008 lishment of joint rates and routes by the carriers provides the con- American Airlines San Salvador, El Salvador April 2008 tinued movement of freight when more than one carrier is required American Airlines Tampico, Mexico April 2008 to transport a shipment. Because of these agreements, the Dallas Source: www.dfwairport.com shipper is assured of delivery to any point in the U.S. DALLAS INDUSTRIAL GUIDE WWW.DALLASCHAMBER.ORG LOCATION & ACCESS – Winter 2008/2009 21 Rail Carriers Residents Type of Service Name Phone Number Major Railroads Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (888) 428-2673 • The Dallas/Fort Worth Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) reported Kansas City Southern Railway (816) 983-1303 over 6 million residents in the U.S. Census 2006 American Community Union Pacific Railroad Company (402) 544-5000 Shortline Railroads Dallas, Garland & Northeastern Railroad (972) 808-9800 Survey, making it the largest metropolitan area in Texas, the fourth Fort Worth & Western Railroad Company (817) 763-8297 largest metro in the country and larger than 35 U.S. states. (U.S. Passenger Service Amtrak (800) 872-7245 Census Bureau, U.S. Census Bureau: American Community Survey) Mass Transit Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) (214) 979-1111 Fort Worth Transit Authority (The-T) (817) 215-8600 Rank Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) Population Estimate Trinity Railway Express (Dallas-Fort Worth) (972) 399-0244 New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, 1 18,815,988 Source: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration Office of Safety NY-NJ-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA 2 12,875,587 Public Transportation Metropolitan Statistical Area Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, IL-IN-WI Metropolitan • Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) provides a network covering 3 9,524,673 Statistical Area 700-square-miles in Dallas and 13 surrounding suburban communities, Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Metropolitan 4 6,145,037 serving 200,000 passengers per day. (DART) Statistical Area Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD • By 2013, DART plans to have more than 90 miles of light rail and 5 5,827,692 Metropolitan Statistical Area open at least 60 stations. (DART) Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates, July 2007 • DFW’s population growth is already well on its way to a third consecutive decade of adding a million or more new residents to the Metroplex. According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2007 esti- mate, the area has grown 19 percent (983,490 people) since the 2000 census. (U.S. Census Bureau) DFW Population Trends 1970-2030 10,000,000 9,107,900 9,000,000

8,000,000 7,646,600 7,000,000 6,328,200

6,000,000 5,221,801 5,000,000 4,037,282

Population 4,000,000 3,046,136 3,000,000 2,432,350 2,000,000 1,000,000 0 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 2030 Year Projected Sources: U.S. Census Bureau (1970–2000) & North Central Texas Council of Government 2030 Demographic Forecast (2010–2030)

• The Fort Worth Transportation Authority (The “T”) provides bus, rail and trolley services to a 302 square mile area. This includes the Trinity Railway Express that connects Fort Worth and downtown Dallas. (Fort Worth Transportation Authority)

Components of DFW Population Change 2006-2007 2000-2006* Natural Increase 69,925 66,921 Migration 92,563 75,775 Domestic 53,613 28,080 International 38,950 47,695 Total 162,250 140,408 Source: U.S. Census Bureau * Average annual, from April 1, 2000. All other years report July 1 estimates.

22 Winter 2008/2009 – LOCATION & ACCESS/RESIDENTS DALLAS INDUSTRIAL GUIDE • The rapid influx of residents has created a very young and diverse population. In 2006, the median age in DFW was 33.1 compared to the Local Economy U.S. average of 36.4 and 26.5 percent of DFW residents were Hispanic • The DFW job market grew by approximately 68,000 jobs from July compared to 14.8 of the total U.S. population. (U.S. Census Bureau) 2007 to July 2008. Among the largest metro areas in the U.S., DFW • Dallas is ranked as one of the top 5 cities for Hispanics (Hispanic ranks second only to Greater New York in job growth. (U.S. Bureau Magazine, August 2008) of Labor Statistics, U.S. Census Bureau) • Black Enterprise Magazine ranked Dallas as one of the ten best cities for African Americans. (Black Enterprise Magazine, May 2007) DFW Employment Trends 6,000,000 DFW Demographic Profile 5,416,700 4,658,700 2006 Estimate 5,000,000 Number Percent 4,000,000 3,897,000 Total Population 6,006,094 100.0% 3,000,000 2,881,841 2,083,950 Age 2,000,000 1,552,771 0-19 Years 1,823,363 30.4% 1,043,382 1,000,000 20-34 Years 1,368,456 22.8% Employment 0 35-54 Years 1,792,229 29.8% 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 2030 Year 55-74 Years 812,930 13.5% Projected

75+ Years 209,116 3.5% Sources: Bureau of Economic Analysis (1970-2000), North Central Texas Council of Governments: 2030 Demographic Forecast (2010-2030) Median Age 33.1 Foreign Born 17.7% • DFW claims 26 percent of the state’s population, 27 percent of the Education (25 Years & Older) labor force, 28 percent of all wage and salary jobs and produces 33 Less than 9th Grade 328,201 8.7% percent of the state’s total product as measured by Gross Domestic 9th to 12th grade, no diploma 380,830 10.1% Product (GDP). (Economy.com) • Total GDP for the DFW metro reached $315 billion in 2007. If High School Graduate/GED 931,816 24.7% DFW were a nation, its Gross Domestic Product would place it Some College No Degree 784,741 20.8% among small European countries. (United States Conference of Associate Degree 238,245 6.3% Mayors & Global Insight & Perryman Group) Bachelor’s Degree 760,418 20.1% Graduate/Professional Degree 349,570 9.3% DFW Key Economic Indicators 1990-2007 Race/Ethnicity 1990 2000 2007 White 4,103,642 54.0% ($ Billions) Hispanic 1,590,786 25.8% Real Gross Area Product $132.1 $240.0 $319.48 Real Personal Income $100.0 $162.9 $216.81 Black or African American 845,390 13.6% DFW CPI (Base: 1982-84=100) 125.1 164.7 193.3 Asian 284,084 4.6% Source: Perryman Group/BLS/economy.com One or more other Races 107,770 2.0% Households DFW Long-Term Forecast 2006-2030 Average Household Size 2.84 CAGR* DFW Household Income (Nominal) DFW Texas United States Employment 1.60% 1.51% 1.24% 0 - $34,999 33.0% Population 1.78% 1.68% 0.88% $35,000 - $74,999 34.4% Real Gross Product 3.93% 3.78% 3.45% Source: The Perryman Economic Outlook, 2006-2030 $75,000 - $149,999 25.0% * Compound Annual Growth Rate $150,000 + 9.0% Median Household Income $49,740 • Dallas-Fort Worth ranks first for communications equipment man- ufacturing employment (Cyberstates, AEA, 2008) Labor Force (Persons 16+) $3,194,755 71.2% • Dallas ranked among the “Best Performing Cities: Where America’s Source: Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2006 Jobs are Created and Sustained” in 2007. (Milken Institute)

DALLAS INDUSTRIAL GUIDE WWW.DALLASCHAMBER.ORG RESIDENTS/LOCAL ECONOMY – Winter 2008/2009 23 • Dallas Fort Worth is the #6 metro for relocations in 2007. (Site Selection Magazine) Education, Training & Workforce • DFW enrollment in both public and private four-year institutions Top 2007 Relocations & Expansions by Employment is over 125,000. The DFW area is home to five community college Company City County Industry/Service Type Jobs districts, several of which offer multiple campuses, enrolling just under CitiCorp Irving Dallas Financial Services Office 2,500 Tarrant & 142,000 students. (Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board) Fidelity Investments Westlake Denton Investment services Office 1,535 Maxim Integrated Products Irving Dallas Integrated circuit supplier Manufacturing 1,000 Four-Year Colleges, Universities and Professional Schools Blue Cross Blue Richardson Dallas “largest provider of Office (HQ) 1,000 Fall 2007 Enrollments Shield of Texas health benefits in the state”

Research in Motion Las Colinas Dallas Blackberry Office (HQ) 1,000 Name Undergraduate Graduate Total Rent-A-Center Plano Collin Rent-to-Own Office (HQ) 650 Part- Full- Part- Full- consumer goods Time Time Time Time American Marazzi Tile Sunnyvale Dallas Tile Manufacturing Manufacturing 650 Archon Group LP Irving Dallas Development group Office (HQ) 550 Public Institutions Alliance Data Systems Ennis Ellis Call center Call Center 546 PRC Carrollton Dallas Call center Call Center 530 Texas A&M University (TAMU) -Commerce 1,178 4,014 2,895 959 9,046 Source: Compiled by the Dallas Regional Chamber from surveys of local economic development agencies, local newspaper articles and other publications. Texas Woman's University (TWU)* 2,007 5,008 3,206 1,947 12,168 Texas A&M Health Science Center - • Dallas Market Center (DMC), is comprised of four buildings Baylor College of Dentistry * 0 58 101 374 533 containing 5 million square feet, making it the largest wholesale The University of Texas merchandise mart in the world. (Dallas Market Center) at Arlington (UTA) 5,794 13,009 3,309 2,767 24,879 • Trade, Transportation and Utilities is the largest employment The University of Texas sector in the Dallas/Fort Worth regional economy, accounting at Dallas (UTD) 2,536 6,703 2,885 2,405 14,529 for approximately 23 percent of all jobs. (U.S. Bureau of Labor The University of Texas Statistics) Southwestern Medical Center at • In 2007, the Texas Workforce Commission reported 2,978 layoffs, Dallas (UTSW)* 11 90 0 124 225 down 29 percent from the 4,208 layoffs in 2006. (Texas Workforce University of North Texas (UNT) Commission, WARN Reports) Denton 5,809 21,433 4,332 2,579 34,153 University of North Texas (UNT) Dallas 0 1,338 0 538 1,876 DFW Layoffs 2007 University of North Texas (UNT) Industry Total Layoffs Health Science Center at Fort Worth 0001,013 1,013 Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting - Public Subtotal 17,335 51,653 16,728 12,706 98,422 Mining - Utilities - Private Institutions Construction 199 Manufacturing 577 Amberton University* 302 285 702 415 1,704 Wholesale Trade - Dallas Baptist University (DBU) 1,379 2,202 1,111 552 5,244 Retail Trade 382 Devry University Irving (Dallas)* 1,039 662 246 56 2,003 Transportation & Warehousing 303 Northwood University 170 749 00919 Information 175 Paul Quinn College* 125 841 00966 Southern Methodist University Finance & Insurance 953 (SMU) 318 5,858 2,323 1,044 9,543 Real Estate and Rental and Leasing - Professional, Scientific and Technical Services 272 Southwestern Adventist University 138 736 14 6 894 Southwestern Assemblies of God Management of Companies & Enterprises - University 250 1,181 140 88 1,659 Administrative and Support and Waste Texas Christian University (TCU) 333 7,049 753 533 8,668 Management and Remediation - Texas Wesleyan University 546 1,094 545 902 3,087 Educational Services - University of Dallas (UD) 34 1,199 1,329 410 2,972 Health Care and Social Assistance 117 Private Subtotal 4,634 21,856 7,163 4,006 37,659 Arts, Entertainment & Recreation - Total Public and Private 21,969 73,509 23,891 16,712 136,081 Accommodation and Food Services - Other Services - * Fall 2006 Enrollment Public Administration - Definitions: Part-time: less than 12 semester credit hour load at the undergraduate level and less than 6 hours at the graduate level. Annual Total 2,978 Full-time: greater than 11 semester credit hour load at the undergraduate level and greater Source: Texas Workforce Commission, WARN Reports than 5 hours at the graduate level. Post-baccalaureate students are not included.

24 Winter 2008/2009 – LOCAL ECONOMY/EDUCATION, TRAINING & WORKFORCE DALLAS INDUSTRIAL GUIDE • Dallas/Fort Worth offers the largest number of college and high DFW Community Colleges – Fall 2007 Enrollments school educated residents of any metro in the state of Texas and among the highest in the nation. According to the Census Bureau, Institution Part-time Full-time Total more than 4.8 million residents in DFW hold high school diplomas Collin County Community College District* NA NA 20,001 Central Park Campus NA NA 2,918 and more than 1.8 million have completed at least four years of col- Courtyard NA NA 197 lege. (U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2006) Preston Ridge NA NA 4,601 • U.S. News and World Report (2008) ranked 16 graduate pro- Spring Creek NA NA 12,112 Distance Learning NA NA 3,213 grams at local public universities among the top 50 in their fields: Dallas County Community College District 44,801 13,955 58,756 UNT Health Librarianship (3rd), UTSWMC Physician Assistant Brookhaven College 7,612 2,022 9,634 (4th), UTD Audiology (4th), TWU Health Librarianship (5th), Cedar Valley College 3,143 1,214 4,357 Eastfield College 6,829 2,358 9,187 UNT City Planning and Urban Policy (9th), UTSWMC Biochem- El Centro College 5,108 1,421 6,529 istry (10th), UNT School Library Media (11th), UTD Mountain View College 5,178 1,588 6,766 Speech/Language (12th), UNT Student Counseling (15th), TWU North Lake College 6,449 2,381 8,830 Richland College 10,482 2,971 13,453 Occupational Therapy (17th), UNT Rehabilitation Counseling Tarrant County College District 29,224 9,227 38,451 (24th), TWU Physical Therapy (24th), TWU Occupational Ther- Northeast Campus 9,102 3,033 12,135 apy (24th), UNT Physician (34th), UTSWMC Physical Therapy Northwest Campus 5,854 1,692 7,546 (41st), UTA Social Work (42nd) South Campus 7,385 2,046 9,431 Southeast Campus 6,883 2,456 9,339 • University of North Texas was rated “Best of the West” by the Hill College - Johnson County NA NA 3,084 Princeton Review (2008) Navarro College - Ellis County 4,174 3,386 3,474 • Schools exclusively devoted to higher education in the health sci- Midlothian 582 358 940 Waxahachie NA NA 2,534 ences include Baylor College of Dentistry, Baylor University School Trinity Valley Community College* 3,281 2,328 5,609 of Nursing, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, UNT Health North Central Texas College NA NA 7,403 Science Center and the University of Southwestern Medical Center Gainsville NA NA 1,861 Corinth NA NA 5,100 at Dallas. Bowie NA NA 442 • The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center ranks 17 Weatherford College 2,183 2,196 4,379 among the top American Research Universities, while its faculty DFW Total Community College Students 83,663 31,092 141,157 ranks number 16 in the nation for faculty awards. Sources: Individual institutions, (telephone and internet survey) Fall 2007 Definitions: Part-time: less than 12 semester credit hour load. Full-time: greater than 11 (The Center 2005) semester credit hour load. * Some students enroll at more than one campus at once.

DFW Key Programs Enrollments Four-Year and Graduate Institutions Fall 2007 Institution Engineering Medical/ MIS-Computer Business Chemistry Biology Physics Total & Math Dental Science & Botany Amberton NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 0 Dallas Baptist University (DBU)* 25 65 167 1,543 0 126 0 1,926 DeVry University* 416 73 450 1,046 0901,994 Northwood University* NA NA NA 195 NA NA NA 195 Paul Quinn College* 13 160 35 112 0 81 39 440 Southern Methodist University (SMU) 129 0 76 2,078 52 304 25 2,664 Southwestern Adventist University* 10 176 26 116 6 89 1 424 Texas A&M University (TAMU) 157 0 270 1,322 49 236 33 2,067 -Commerce Texas Christian University 236 NA 50 2,765 62 354 285 3,752 Texas Wesleyan University NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 0 Texas Woman's University (TWU) 116 0 39 920 91 243 0 1,409 University of Dallas (UD) 25 0 32 1,463 17 95 16 1,648 University of North Texas 613 0 844 7,125 179 1,382 110 10,253 UNT Health Science Center 0 593 00000593 Texas A&M Health Science Center 0 353 00000353 - Baylor College of Dentistry The University of Texas at Arlington 3,043 0 288 5,123 165 1,476 72 10,167 (UTA) The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) 1,686 0 1,089 4,426 168 799 167 8,335 The University of Texas Southwestern 53 911 00000964 Medical Center at Dallas (UTSW) Total DFW 6,522 2,331 3,366 28,234 789 5,194 748 47,184 Sources: Individual institutions, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board; * Indicates Fall 2006 Enrollment; Notes: Majors are based on the following CIP codes from the CBM001, Student Report: Engineering (14), Math (27), Computer Science (11), Business (52), Medical (51120100, 51190100), Dental (51040100), Chemistry (40050100), Biology (26010100), Botany (26030100), Physics (40080100); Post-baccalaureate students are not included. DALLAS INDUSTRIAL GUIDE WWW.DALLASCHAMBER.ORG EDUCATION, TRAINING & WORKFORCE – Winter 2008/2009 25 Engineering Doctorates Awarded Science Doctorates Awarded by Major Field by Major Field Other Physical Sciences Agricultural & Institution Total Chemical Civil Electrical Mechanical Engineering Biological Sciences Southern Physics & Earth Biological Computer Methodist 15 017 3 4 Institution Astronomy Chemistry Sciences Sciences Mathematics Sciences Total University Southern Texas Christian 00 00 0 0 Methodist 00226 212 University University Texas A&M Texas University 00 00 0 0 Christian 13000 04 University Commerce Texas A&M Texas Woman’s 00 00 0 0 University 00000 00 University Commerce University of Texas 40 00 0 4 North Texas Woman’s 00060 06 University UNT Health University Science Ctr. 00 00 0 0 of Dallas 00000 00 Fort Worth University University of of North 25092 826 Texas at 28 017 3 17 Texas UNT Health Arlington Science Ctr. 00080 08 University of 21 0020 01 Fort Worth Texas at Dallas University University of Texas at 23084 825 00 00 0 0 Arlington of Dallas University UT of Texas at 65110 5 13 40 Southwestern 00 00 0 3 Dallas Medical Ctr. UT Dallas Southwestern Medical Ctr. 00057 0057 Dallas Dallas Theological 00 00 0 0 Dallas Seminary Theological 00000 00 DFW Total 68 0234 6 26 Seminary Texas Total 488 81 66 141 64 136 DFW Total 11 16 3 100 17 31 178 Texas Total 81 110 56 454 80 62 843 Sources: Science Resources Statistics/National Science Foundation, 2005 Sources: Science Resources Statistics/National Science Foundation, 2005

DFW Nobel Laureates Dallas/Fort Worth claims five of the eleven Texas Nobel Prize winners, the largest such gathering in the state. All five DFW Laureates are associated with the University of Texas (UT) System: three with UT Southwestern Medical Center and two with UT Dallas.

UT Southwestern Medical Center Michael Brown and Joseph L. Goldstein – Physiology or Medicine (1985) Johann Deisenhofer – Chemistry (1988) Alfred G. Gilman – Physiology or Medicine (1994)

University of Texas at Dallas Alan G. MacDiarmid – Chemistry (2001) Dr. Russell A. Hulse – Physics (1993)

DFW 2007 Labor Force Average Annual Civilian Labor Force 3,137,254 Total Employed 2,780,442 Total Unemployed 131,812 Unemployment Rate 4.2% Source: Texas Workforce Commission

26 Winter 2008/2009 – EDUCATION, TRAINING & WORKFORCE DALLAS INDUSTRIAL GUIDE DFW Labor Force 2007 Participation Rate DFW Average Wages by Major Occupation Groups # In % In Total # SOC Total Hourly Labor Force Labor Force Code Occupation Workers Wage Total Population 00-0000 All Occupations 2,897,810 $19.98 4,608,142 3,219,910 69.9% 16 years and over 11-0000 Management 145,680 $48.40 Males 16 years and over 2,300,368 1,799,518 78.2% 13-0000 Business & Financial Operations 149,950 $30.84 Females 16 years and over 2,307,774 1,420,392 61.5% 15-0000 Computer & Mathematical 104,270 $35.80 Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2007 17-0000 Architecture & Engineering 65,840 $34.94 19-0000 Life, Physical, & Social Science 22,930 $29.78 • DFW has one of the most diverse economies in the nation, 21-0000 Community & Social Services 18,370 $20.44 reporting between 3 and 22 percent of the workforce in each of the 23-0000 Legal 23,430 $43.64 major industrial sectors. (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics) 25-0000 Education, Training, & Library 160,600 $20.73 27-0000 Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, & Media 39,420 $22.27 DFW Nonfarm Wage & Salary Employment 29-0000 Healthcare Practitioners & Technical 123,060 $32.07 Construction 31-0000 Healthcare Support 57,780 $12.23 4.4% 33-0000 Protective Service 57,880 $18.34 Education & Trade, 35-0000 Food Preparation & Serving-Related 235,220 $8.70 Transportation & Health 10.5% 37-0000 Building & Grounds Cleaning & Maintenance 81,310 $9.93 Utilities 21.4% 39-0000 Personal Care & Service 61,760 $12.49 Financial 41-0000 Sales & Related 320,500 $18.21 Activities 8.0% 43-0000 Office & Administrative Support 558,510 $15.20 45-0000 Farming, Fishing, & Forestry 1,450 $10.13 47-0000 Construction & Extraction 127,890 $15.52 Professional & Business 49-0000 Installation, Maintenance, & Repair 119,310 $18.46 Services Government 51-0000 Production 209,830 $13.82 14.4% 12.7% 53-0000 Transportation & Material Moving 212,820 $14.94 Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Wages, 2007 Other Services Information 3.7% 3.2% Natural Key Occupations in DFW Target Industries Resources & Mining Leisure & SOC Total Hourly 1.8% Hospitality Occupation Manufacturing 9.3% Code Workers Wage 10.5% 11-3021 Computer and Information System Managers 7,060 $55.51 Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics 11-3031 Financial Managers 9,910 $54.51 13-2072 Loan Officers 8,390 $35.05 15-1021 Computer Programmers 15,010 $38.07 DFW Wage and Salary Employment 15-1031 Computer Software Engineers, Applications 12,640 $42.52 Current and Forecast 15-1032 Computer Software Engineers, Systems Software 16,380 $42.92 Employment Counts Share of Total 15-1041 Computer Support Specialists 16,720 $21.69 NAICS Sector (1000s) Employment (%) 15-1051 Computer Systems Analysts 17,190 $38.28 17-3023 Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technicians 6,830 $27.64 2001 2007 2012 2001 2007 2012 29-1051 Pharmacists 4,700 $52.15 29-2052 Pharmacy Technicians 6,020 $13.99 Agriculture 4.4 3.8 4.0 0.2% 0.1% 0.1% Securities, Commodities, & 6,670 $38.71 Mining 14.6 17.7 18.4 0.5% 0.6% 0.6% 41-3031 Financial Services Sales Agents Construction 165.1 173.2 179.2 5.7% 5.7% 5.4% First-Line Supervisors/Managers of 43-1011 37,320 $23.22 Total Manufacturing 339.9 309.7 326.7 11.8% 10.2% 9.8% Office and Administrative Support Workers Total Trade 514.0 508.9 547.5 17.8% 16.7% 16.4% 43-3011 Bill and Account Collectors 13,230 $15.22 Transportation, 43-4051 Customer Service Representatives 79,700 $15.02 43-4131 Loan Interviewers and Clerks 7,610 $17.71 Warehousing, 142.9 141.7 154.1 4.9% 4.6% 4.6% 43-6011 Executive Secretaries and Administrative Assistants 43,930 $19.40 and Utilities 43-9061 Office Clerks, General 52,700 $11.50 Information 122.9 94.9 102.6 4.3% 3.1% 3.1% First-Line Supervisors/ Finance, Insurance, 51-1011 14,500 $24.15 221.0 243.8 265.1 7.6% 8.0% 8.0% Managers of Production & Operating Workers Real Estate 51-2022 Electrical and Electronic Equipment Assemblers 5,820 $14.92 Total Services 1,029.0 1,171.3 1,321.2 35.6% 38.4% 39.6% 51-2092 Team Assemblers 22,380 $10.57 Government 336.4 384.5 413.7 11.6% 12.6% 12.4% 51-9061 Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers 10,000 $14.92 Total All Industries 2,890.1 3,049.7 3,332.2 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 51-9141 Semiconductor Processors 3,350 $14.80 Source: The Perryman Group Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Wages, 2007

DALLAS INDUSTRIAL GUIDE WWW.DALLASCHAMBER.ORG EDUCATION, TRAINING & WORKFORCE – Winter 2008/2009 27 • Business Facilities magazine ranked The State of Texas as the “Business Business Community Facilities state of the year”. (Business Facilities magazine, December 2007) • The 2008 top 200 public and private employers in the DFW region • Including AT&T, DFW is home to twenty-five Fortune 501 head- comprise less than half of one percent of all firms (116,820) in the quarters 2008. (Fortune Magazine) region, accounting for 26.2 percent of the region’s employment or some 762,856 jobs. (Texas Workforce Commission – Quarterly Employment & Wages and Greater Dallas Chamber Consolidated Business Survey) DFW 2008 Fortune 501 Companies Revenues Company Rank City ($ Millions) DFW Major Employers Exxon Mobil 2 372,824 Irving by NAICS Sector 2007 AMR 109 22,935 Fort Worth Company Headquarters Employees Electronic Data Systems 115 22,135 Plano Extraction and Construction Energy Transfer Partners 3,000 Dallas, TX J.C. Penney 126 19,860 Plano Austin Industries 1,800 Dallas, TX Naturalite Inc. 1,600 Terrell, TX Kimberly-Clark 136 18,266 Irving Potter Concrete 1,500 Dallas, TX Fluor 148 16,691 Irving Furmanite Corp 1,400 Richardson, TX Manufacturing Burlington Northern Santa Fe 160 15,802 Fort Worth Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company 13,647 Bethesda, MD Texas Instruments Inc. 9,700 Dallas, TX Centex 177 14,293 Dallas Raytheon Co. 7,440 Lexington, MA Texas Instruments 185 13,835 Dallas Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc. 7,300 Hurst, TX L-3 Communications 4,150 New York, NY Dean Foods 224 11,822 Dallas Transportation and Utilities D.R. Horton 235 11,297 Fort Worth AMR Corp. 25,150 Fort Worth, TX Energy Future Holdings 8,000 Dallas, TX Southwest Airlines 267 9,861 Dallas FedEX Corp. 7,500 Memphis, TN Southwest Airlines Co. 6,000 Dallas, TX Tenet Healthcare 280 9,358 Dallas Burlington Northern Santa Fe Co. 3,100 Fort Worth, TX Commercial Metals 303 8,751 Irving Trade Wal-Mart Stores Inc. 32,800 Bentonville, AR Energy Future Holdings 317 7,992 Dallas Kroger Co. 8,375 Cincinnati, OH GameStop 348 7,094 Grapevine Target Corporation 8,375 Minneapolis, MN Albertsons Inc. 8,300 Boise, ID Energy Transfer Equity 361 6,792 Dallas J.C. Penney Company, Inc. 7,500 Plano, TX Information Celanese 367 6,641 Dallas AT&T 16,600 Dallas, TX Atmos Energy 416 5,898 Dallas Verizon Communications Inc. 14,000 New York, NY Nortel Networks 3,900 Richardson, TX Affiliated Computer Services 423 5,773 Dallas Sprint Nextel Corp. 3,850 Reston, VA Sabre Holdings Corp 2,800 Southlake, TX Blockbuster 434 5,544 Dallas Financial Activities XTO Energy 436 5,513 Fort Worth Countrywide Home Loans 11,170 Calabasas, CA Citigroup Inc. 11,000 New York, NY Holly 484 4,792 Dallas JPMorganChase 8,900 New York, NY Comerica 501 4,618 Dallas Bank of America Corp. 7,750 Charlotte, NC Fidelity Investments 4,200 Boston, MA Source: Fortune Magazine, April 2008 Professional and Business Services Perot Systems Corp. 3,000 Plano, TX • Six of the year 2008 Global 500 companies are headquartered in ACS Inc. 2,500 Dallas, TX Ernst & Young LLP 1,450 New York, NY the Dallas/Fort Worth area. (Fortune magazine) KPMG LLC 1,200 New York, NY Benemax 1,200 Irving, TX DFW Global 500 Education and Health Care Services Global Revenues Dallas Independent School District 19,871 Dallas, TX Company City Texas Health Resources 17,000 Arlington, TX Rank ($ Millions) Baylor Health Care System 16,000 Dallas, TX HCA Inc. 12,130 Nashville, TN Exxon Mobil 2 $372,824 Irving Fort Worth Independent School District 10,031 Fort Worth, TX Leisure & Hospitality AMR 366 $22,935 Fort Worth Brinker International Inc. 8,728 Dallas, TX CG Management LLC 4,000 Irving, TX Electronic Data Systems 384 $22,135 Plano Pizza Hutt, Inc. 3,900 Dallas, TX Consolidated Restaurant Operations 3,800 Dallas, TX J.C. Penney 429 $19,860 Plano Carlson Restaurants Worldwide 2,500 Carrollton, TX Kimberly-Clark 458 $18,266 Irving Sources: Dallas Morning News 2008 Top 200, Dallas Business Journal: 2008 Book of Lists, Fort Worth Business Press: Book of Lists, and Dallas Regional Chamber 2008 Fluor 500 $16,691 Irving Consolidated Survey. Notes: Bold entries indicate companies headquartered in the DFW area. Source: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/global500/2007/countries/US.html

28 Winter 2008/2009 – BUSINESS COMMUNITY DALLAS INDUSTRIAL GUIDE • There are over 145,000 business establishments in the Dallas/Fort Worth area and more than 1,500 regional and corporate headquarters Business Costs operations. (Texas Workforce Commission) • Texas is a right-to-work state with approximately 5.2 percent of all workers covered by union or similar employee contracts in 2007. DFW Top 10 Corporate Headquarters Dallas/Fort Worth has 4.3 percent of all area workers unionized. DFW Company Name City Employment Total Employment (Union Membership and Coverage Database from Current Population AMR Corp. Fort Worth 24,790 85,600 Survey by Barry T. Hirsch and David A. Macpherson © 2008) Texas Instruments Inc. Dallas 9,700 31,000 Brinker International Inc. Dallas 8,728 105,716 DFW 2006 J.C. Penney Co. Plano 7,500 151,000 Unionized Workers Electronic Data Systems Plano 7,350 135,531 Employer Wage & Salary Union % (EDS) Corp. Sector % Members Southwest Airlines Co. Dallas 6,000 33,500 Sample Size Employment Members Covered Blockbuster Inc. Dallas 4,500 65,000 Total 2,440 2,758,710 143,274 5.2 6.0 RadioShack Corp. Fort Worth 3,100 37,000 Burlington Northern Fort Worth 3,100 40,000 Private 2,167 2,458,455 80,122 3.3 3.6 Santa Fe Corp. Perot Systems Corp. Plano 3,000 23,000 Public 273 300,255 63,152 21.0 25.9 Sources: Dallas Morning News 2008 Top 200, Dallas Business Journal: 2008 Book of Lists, Fort Notes: Employer sample size is the number of firms sampled in the Current Population Worth Business Press: Book of Lists, and Dallas Regional Chamber 2008 Consolidated Survey. Survey study. *Ranked by DFW Employment Source: Union Membership and Coverage Database from the Current Population Survey by Barry T. Hirsch and David A. Macpherson © 2007 (www.unionstats.com) • Dallas is home to a dynamic community of successful business- women. Between 1997 and 2006, the Center for Women’s Business Workers Comp and Research estimated that the number of privately held, 50 percent or Unemployment Insurance more women-owned firms in Dallas increased by 17.7 percent, Workers Compensation employment grew by 29.8 percent, and sales increased by 43.6 per- Average Rate for Office Workers (8810) $0.46 cent. (Center for Women’s Business Research) Maximum Weekly Benefit $674 DFW Top Local Revenue Generating Women-Owned Companies Unemployment Insurance Local Taxable Base $9,000 Name Nature of Business Revenue ($ Millions) Average Among Existing Employers 4-7.64% Sun Coast Resources, Inc. Fuel and lubricant supply $187.01 Average Among New Employers 2.70% Lucky Lady Oil Co. Wholesale fuel, transport $147.35 Levenson & Hill Inc. Advertising and public relations $114.91 Maximum Weekly Benefit $364 Frank Kent Motor Co. Automobile sales and service $105.19 Sources: Texas Workers’, Texas Department of Insurance; All States Tax Handbook 2007 Fast-Trak Construction LP General contractors, commercial construction $62.51 Karlee Inc. Sheet metal manufacturing, precision machining and integration $49.00 • Texas has one of the nation’s lowest unemployment insurance tax Business Interiors Office furniture sales and services $48.82 liabilities. For new employers, the unemployment insurance rate All-Tex Pipe & Supply Wholesale pipes, valves and fittings $39.52 is 2.7 percent for the first $9,000 of gross earnings per employee Pinnacle Technical Resources Inc. IT services and solutions $42.00 per year with a maximum of $364 per employee annually. (Texas BKM Total Office of Texas Office furniture, relocation services $40.40 furniture refurbishment and management Workers’ Compensation Rate Guide, January 2006) Source: Dallas Business Journal: 2008 Book of Lists • The pipeline of industrial projects underway at the end of 2007 totaled 18.1 million square feet.(CB Richard Ellis) DFW Top Local Revenue Generating Minority Owned • Commercial rents for office and industrial space are among the Name Minority Nature of Business Local Revenue most attractive in the nation for tenants. DFW experienced office Group ($ Millions) vacancies of 21 percent in second quarter 2008. Industrial vacancies Thomas S. Byrne Ltd. Hispanic Construction $165.00 Sun Holdings Hispanic Develop/operate franchise restaurants $140.00 were less than 10 percent. (CB Richard Ellis) Simeus Holdings, Inc African Processor of pre-cooked foods $94.00 American On-Target Supplies African & Logistics Ltd. American Logistics Management $58.70

Adea Solutions Inc. Indo Information Technology $56.00 American The Azteca Group Hispanic Construction $55.00 MasTech North America Inc Hispanic Communication/Utility Infrastructure $47.80 Facility Interiors African American Office Furniture and related services $47.60

Pinnacle Technical Hispanic Information Technology $42.00 Resources Inc. Stephens Automotive Group African American Automotive Dealer $36.85 Source: Dallas Business Journal: 2008 Book of Lists DALLAS INDUSTRIAL GUIDE WWW.DALLASCHAMBER.ORG BUSINESS COMMUNITY & BUSINESS COSTS – Winter 2008/2009 29 • The backbone of the state’s revenue structure is the state sales tax Sample Tax Information for DFW Communities of 6.25 percent, which applies to the sales of tangible personal Property Taxes – 2007 Rate Per $100 of Taxable Valuation property, with exemptions for items such as grocery food, utilities, raw materials and manufacturing equipment. Municipalities in Texas City County School Other Total may also levy in conjunction with sales tax a city sales tax of 1 per- District cent and certain mass transit authorities may levy a sales tax not to exceed 1 percent. (Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts) Plano $0.47350 Collin $0.24500 $1.2684 $0.086984 CCD $2.07388

DFW Communities Sales Taxes Sample $0.004714 SET 2007 Rates per $1.00 Dallas $0.74790 Dallas $0.22810 $1.1996 $0.25400 HD $2.51471 $0.0804 CCD City Name State Rate City Rate Other Rates Total Rate Plano $0.0625 $0.010 $0.010 MTA $0.0825 Denton $0.66652 Denton $0.23589 $1.4340 NA $2.33641 Dallas $0.0625 $0.010 $0.010 MTA $0.0825 Denton $0.0625 $0.015 $0.005 MTA $0.0825 Fort $0.02 WD $0.005 MTA Fort Worth $0.0625 $0.010 $0.0825 Worth $0.85500 Tarrant $0.26650 $1.1900 $0.230397 HD $2.70128 $0.005 CCD

$0.139380 CCD Notes: MTA=Metropolitan Transit Authorities, CCD=Crime Control District Source: Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts CCD=Community College District, SET=School Equalization Tax, HD=Hospital District, State and Local Income Taxes: None WD=Water District Sources: Collin County Appraisal District, Dallas County Appraisal District, Denton Sources: Collin, Dallas, Denton and Tarrant County Appraisal Districts County Appraisal District, and Tarrant County Appraisal District

30 Winter 2008/2009 – BUSINESS COSTS DALLAS INDUSTRIAL GUIDE DFW Office Market Statistics 4th Quarter 2007 Average Asking Lease Rate

Direct Vacancy Total Vacancy Net Market Net Rentable Area Direct Vacancy SF Industrial (All Bldgs.) Rate (%) Rate (%) Absorption

Central Expressway 11,891,195 2,189,184 18.41% 18.87% 19.25 181,205 Dallas CBD 26,714,939 7,121,102 26.66% 27.31% 18.67 476,673 East Dallas 4,729,102 612,113 12.94% 13.26% 14 38,274 Far North Dallas 30,283,194 5,592,017 18.47% 20.61% 20.28 275,112 Fort Worth CBD 8,025,921 784,684 9.78% 11.76% 18 45,799 Las Colinas 21,404,500 5,216,979 24.37% 25.93% 21.1 125,323 LBJ Freeway 19,923,102 4,345,153 21.81% 23.05% 16.89 267,159 Lewisville/Denton 4,446,759 855,391 19.24% 20.44% 17.05 9,326 Mid Cities 13,598,695 2,184,086 16.06% 16.86% 18.15 118,979 North Fort Worth 2,342,909 196,758 8.40% 9.80% 17.9 12,231 NE Fort Worth 1,711,781 282,621 16.51% 16.51% 16.2 8,936 Preston Center 3,720,575 321,782 8.65% 10.58% 27.15 39,994 Richardson/Plano 12,905,801 3,225,793 24.99% 26.71% 18.95 83,668 South Fort Worth 4,118,678 345,471 8.39% 9.75% 16 14,257 SW Dallas 1,428,873 186,046 13.02% 13.02% 15.25 3,490 Stemmons Freeway 9,587,295 3,383,780 35.29% 35.75% 14.62 118,377 Uptown/Turtle Creek 8,279,005 622,960 7.52% 7.97% 27.35 13,702 Total 185,112,324 37,465,920 20.24% 21.46% 19.08 679,059

Source: CB Richard Ellis - Market View Dallas Office 4th Q 2007

DFW Industrial Market Statistics 2nd Quarter 2007 Average Asking Lease Rate Net Rentable Area Direct Total Net Market Direct Vacancy SF Vacancy Vacancy Industrial Flex SF Rate Rate Absorption DFW Airport Ind 60,970,071 7,257,175 11.9% 13.6% $3.96 $8.20 560,937 East Dallas Ind 38,754,246 2,769,172 7.1% 7.3% $3.94 $5.31 235,006 Great SW/Arlington Ind 83,093,261 7,339,062 8.8% 9.5% $3.38 $5.94 281,418 North Fort Worth Ind 60,216,960 3,152,918 5.2% 5.4% $3.54 $7.52 358,837 Northeast Dallas Ind 94,316,777 9,420,695 10.0% 10.7% $4.10 $7.39 433,589 Northwest Dallas Ind 95,606,462 9,588,929 10.0% 11.2% $4.10 $7.39 1,245,080 South Dallas Ind 34,560,216 2,251,865 6.5% 7.0% $3.05 $6.40 121,418 South Fort Worth Ind 71,700,265 4,656,893 6.5% 6.6% $3.41 $5.33 554,484 South Stemmons Ind 126,325,286 8,475,820 6.7% 7.0% $4.11 $7.19 1,162,704 Market Totals 665,543,544 54,912,529 8.3% 8.9% $3.88 $6.89 3,831,599

Source: CB Richard Ellis - Market View Dallas Industrial 2nd Q 2007

DALLAS INDUSTRIAL GUIDE WWW.DALLASCHAMBER.ORG BUSINESS COSTS – Winter 2008/2009 31 Water, Electricity & Air Quality Counties Designated Nonattainment for 8-hour Ozone • The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) is the organization entrusted to keep electric power flowing to approximately 20 million Texas customers—representing 85 percent of the state’s electric load and about 75 percent of the Texas land area. As the Independent System Operator for its region, ERCOT manages the scheduling of power on an electric grid consisting of 70,000 megawatts of active generation capacity and 38,000 miles of transmission lines. (ERCOT) • ERCOT worked with TXU and the Texas Municipal Power Authority to identify short-term transmission improvements for 2006 that will reduce congestion for cost savings of $19 million annually in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. (ERCOT – 2005 Annual Report) Severe 17 Serious Moderate Texas Regional Electricity Demand and Capacity Marginal Texas Region: Net Internal Planned Reserve Capacity ERCOT Demand Capacity Margins Margins Marginal EAC Interconnection (MW) Resources (% of Net (% of Subpart 1 (MW) Internal Capacity Demand) Resources) Subpart 1 EAC Classification colors are shown for whole counties and denote the Summer 2007 62,072 70,384 13.5% 11.9% highest area classification that the county is in. Winter 2007/2008 44,184 72,642 72.2% 41.9% Summer 2011 67,884 70,330 11.3% 10.1% • The Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) defined 16 regional Winter 2011/2012 48,115 72,785 61.3% 38.0% water-planning areas in the state and established planning groups Source: Table 2: Demand and Capacity as Reported by the North American Electric that are charged with developing regional water plans. The TWDB is Reliability Council (NERC) Regions required to review and update the planning area boundaries at least once every five-years. Region C is responsible for North Texas water DFW Permit Contact Information planning and is located in the upper portion of the Trinity River Air, Water and Hazardous Waste Basin, with smaller parks in the Red, Brazos, Sulphur and Sabine Texas Commission on Environmental Quality River Basins. (Texas Water Development Board – Water for Texas 2002) 2301 Gravel Drive Fort Worth, TX 76118-6951 (817) 588-5800 Average permit approval time varies significantly

• DFW along with seven other top 10 U.S. metropolitan areas is classified as a moderate nonattainment site for U.S. air quality standards. Los Angeles is the only metro in the U.S. classified as severe and Miami is currently the only metro in the top 10 classified as marginal. (EPA Green Book)

DFW Air Pollution Attainment Status Pollutant Yes No Classification/ Affected Counties Ozone Moderate/Collin, Dallas, 8-Hour Standard X Denton, Ellis, Johnson, Kaufman, Parker, Rockwall, Tarrant • Region C’s 2006 water plan includes water management strategies Carbon Monoxide X NA to develop 2.7 million acre-feet per year of new supplies, for a total Particular Matter X NA available supply of 4.05 million acre-feet per year by 2060. The sup- Lead X NA ply is about 20 percent greater than the projected demand, Sulfur Dioxide X NA leaving a reasonable reserve to provide for difficulties: developing Nitrogen Dioxide X NA strategies in a timely manner, droughts worse than the drought of Source: Criteria Pollutant Area Summary Report, Green Book, EPA record and greater-than-expected growth. (Region C Water Planning http://www.eps.gov/air/oaqps/greenbk/cindex.html for North Texas – 2006 Water Plan) 32 Winter 2008/2009 – BUSINESS COSTS DALLAS INDUSTRIAL GUIDE 2060 Supplies for the Largest Wholesale Water Providers in Region C 2060 Supplies (Acre-Feet per Year) % of Total Supply Cost of Strategies Wholesale Water Provider from Conservation Currently Available New Strategies Total and Reuse (Millions) Dallas Water Utilities 422,647 758,328 1,180,975 26.2% $2,811 Tarrant Regional Water District 394,049 698,558 1,092,607 24.6% $3,562 North Texas Municipal Water District 254,020 792,355 1,046,375 25.7% $3,848 City of Fort Worth 249,483 429,987 679,470 24.1% $783 Trinity River Authority 96,060 225,076 321,136 59.1% $340 Upper Trinity Regional Water District 41,265 155,413 196,678 27.2% $858 Total $12,202 Source: Region C Water Planning for North Texas–2006 Water Plan

Note: Supplies do not total because of overlaps. For example, Tarrant Region Water District supplies Fort Worth and the Trinity River Authority, Dallas Water Utilities supplies Upper Trinity Regional Water District, etc.

Sources of Water Available to Region C as of 2060 Current Groundwater 2% Active Landfills Current North Texas Region Surface Water 29% Landfill Name Owner/Operator McCommas Bluff Landfill Dallas, City of Conservation Turkey Creek Landfill Turkey Creek Landfill TX, LP and Reuse 28% Garland Landfill-Castle Drive Garland, City of

New IESI Weatherford Landfill Weatherford, City of Reservoirs Irving Hunter-Ferrell Landfill Irving, City of 18% Arlington Landfill Arlington, City of Connect Existing Supplies 23% Source: Region C Water Planning for North Texas–2006 Water Plan Grand Prairie Sanitary Landfill Grand Prairie, City of Fort Worth Southeast Landfill Fort Worth, City of Supply and Demand for Region C Trinity Lewisville BFI Waste Systems of N. America, Inc. with the Development of New Supplies WMI Fort Worth 4,500,000 Waste Management of North America, Inc. Westside Landfill 4,000,000 3,500,000 Denton Landfill Denton, City of 3,000,000 McKinney Landfill NTMWD 2,500,000 New Supplies Camelot Landfill Farmers Branch; Camelot Landfill TX, LP 2,000,000 Existing Corsicana Landfill Corsicana, City of 1,500,000 Supplies WMI DFW Landfill Waste Management of North America, Inc. 1,000,000 Demand 500,000 WMI Skyline Landfill Waste Management of North America, Inc. 0 ECD Landfill, Inc. Ellis County Landfill TX, LP Demand and Supply in Acre-Feet per Year 2010 2020 2030 2040 2050 2060 Trinity-Itasca Landfill BFI Waste Systems of N. America, Inc. Year Source: Region C Water Planning for North Texas–2006 Water Plan Republic CSC Republic Waste Industries 121 Regional Disposal Facility North Texas Municipal Water District Stephenville Landfill Stephenville, City of Republic Maloy Landfill Republic Maloy Charles M. Hinton Jr., Garland, City of Regional Landfield Cleburne Landfill Cleburne, City of

Source: Environmental Resource Department, North Central Texas Council of Governments DALLAS INDUSTRIAL GUIDE WWW.DALLASCHAMBER.ORG BUSINESS COSTS – Winter 2008/2009 33 • DFW has four Foreign Trade Zones (FTZs) that provide duty-free Incentives or deferred payments of goods processed at plants engaged in inter- national trade (Foreign Trade Zone Commission) State Incentives • Texas has no personal or corporate income tax and no state prop- Foreign Trade Zones erty or unitary state tax. (Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts) Zone No. 39 • The Texas Linked Deposit Program encourages lending to historically Grantee/Operator: Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Board underutilized businesses, childcare providers, non-profit corporations P.O. Drawer 619428, DFW Airport, TX 75261-9428 Michael Pyles [email protected] and/or small or medium-sized businesses located in an Enterprise Zone. Phone: (972) 574-3214 Fax: (972)574-8069 Proceeds may be used for working capital or the purchase, construction, Zone No. 113 or lease of capital assets. (Office of the Governor – Economic Development Operator: Trade Zone Operations, Inc. & Tourism) Grantee: Midlothian Trade Zone Operations 1500 North Service Road, Highway 67, Midlothian, TX 76065 • Texas Legislature appropriated $51 million for Skills Development Mark Nichols [email protected] Fund grants to be used during 2007-08. (Office of the Governor – 1 (800) 235-7378 Economic Development & Tourism) Zone No. 168 • In 2005, the Texas legislature enacted the Emerging Technology Operator: Foreign Trade Zone Operating Company of Texas Grantee: Metroplex International Trade Development Corporation Fund (ETF) to improve research at Texas Universities, help start-up P.O. Box 742916, Dallas, TX 75374-2916 technology firms and facilitate commercialization. Emerging technology (Ms.) Lou Thomas [email protected] projects are eligible for funding if they will result in the creation of Phone: (972) 915-0083 Fax: (972) 929-7228 high quality new jobs in Texas or have the potential to result in a Zone No. 196 Grantee/Operator: Alliance Corridor, Inc. medical or scientific breakthrough. (North Texas Regional Center for c/o Hillwood Development Corporation Innovation and Commercialization – NTXRCIC) 13600 Heritage Parkway, Suite 200, Fort Worth, TX 76177 • The 295 million dollar, Texas Enterprise Fund can be used for Tom Harris [email protected] infrastructure development, community development, job training Phone: (817) 224-6008 Fax: (817) 224-6060 Custom Ports of Entry programs and business incentives. To be eligible for Texas Enterprise Name/Location Location Type Fund, projects must demonstrate significant returns on the state’s Addison Airport User Fee Airport Alliance Airport User Fee Airport investment; have strong local support and unanimous support from DFW Airport, TX Service Port the Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Speaker. The fund has created McKinney, TX User Fee Airport 51,000 new jobs and 13.6 billion dollars in capital investment. Sources: U.S. Customs & Boarder Protection (www.customs.gov) and The National Association of Foreign Trade Zones (www.naftz.org) (Office of the Governor – Economic Development & Tourism) • The Texas Industrial Revenue Bond Program provides tax exempt DFW Foreign Trade Zones financing for land and depreciable property for industrial and man- & Custom Ports of Entry ufacturing projects. (Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts) • The Economic Development and Diversification Program is a tax incentive that offers an in-state tuition waiver for family members who have relocated their company to Texas. (Office of the Governor – Economic Development & Tourism)

Local Incentives • Tax abatements are offered by individual cities in DFW and are available to eligible properties to encourage businesses to invest and/or expand. Individual city taxing boards grant a taxpayer a stay of paying a tax for a short or long term, for a total or percentage of the tax. (Office of the Governor – Economic Development & Tourism) • Texas Enterprise Zones are designated by the state of Texas as any area that has a poverty level of 20 percent or greater. The federal gov- Legend ernment also may designate enterprise zones as a renewal community. - Custom Port & Trade Zone Many localities offer additional incentives within enterprise zones - Foreign Trade Zone including tax abatements, local tax refunds, reduced utilities and - Custom Port of Entry development participation. (Office of the Governor – Economic Devel- Sources: U.S. Customs & Border Protection (www.customs.gov) & The ational opment & Tourism) Association of Foreign Trade Zones (www.naftz.org)

34 Winter 2008/2009 – INCENTIVES DALLAS INDUSTRIAL GUIDE • All cities are eligible to adopt a 4B economic development sales tax DFW Total International Trade 2003-2007 that provides a wide range of funding for community development ($ Millions) or quality-of-life projects. Cities located in counties of less than $60,000 $58,275 $57,511 500,000 residents can also adopt a 4A economic development sales $49,601 $50,000 $43,979 tax that is restricted to fund more traditional industrial development $40,000 $36,197 projects. A number of cities in the DFW region have both 4A and 4B $30,000 sales tax bonds, which allows cities to generate more revenue to pro-

Dollars $20,000 vide funding for a broader scope of economic development projects. $10,000 (Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts) $0 • The Capital Access Program (Texas Capital Fund) is available to 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 eligible cities with fewer than 50,000 residents or counties with less Year than 200,000 residents to assist businesses that employ low-to- Source: USA Trade Online – www.usatradeonline.gov moderate-income persons and consists of programs administered by the Texas Department of Agriculture. (Office of the Governor – Economic • China was the region’s top-trading partner in 2007, with total trade Development & Tourism) reaching just under $17 billion. (U.S.A. Trade Online) • Cities offer the Freeport exemptions for various types of goods that are detained in Texas for short periods of time. The exemption allows products and goods to be moved through the state without incurring DFW 2007 International Trade inventory taxes, for products held for less than 175 days. Triple Country Exports Imports Total Trade Freeport exemptions, from city, county, and school district property World Total 20,735,785,796 36,775,874,315 57,511,660,111 taxes on inventory. (Office of the Governor – Economic Development China 1,607,959,623 15,624,220,257 17,232,179,880 & Tourism) Korea, South 1,402,514,477 3,245,113,111 4,647,627,588 • The Texas Leverage Fund (TLF) serves as additional source of Taiwan 2,731,686,808 1,285,262,708 4,016,949,516 financing to communities that have adopted the development sales tax. Japan 1,697,175,783 2,243,356,149 3,940,531,932 The fund allows communities to leverage future sales tax revenues to Singapore 1,849,588,277 2,060,511,989 3,910,100,266 provide financing for industry expansion, recruitment, industrial Malaysia 1,034,373,833 1,983,718,181 3,018,092,014 parks establishment and other community projects. (Office of the United Kingdom 976,981,667 1,179,735,389 2,156,717,056 Governor – Economic Development & Tourism) Federal Republic of Germany 1,027,849,510 966,065,087 1,993,914,597 • Local Government Loan Funds (chapter 380) provide legislative Israel 447,572,408 981,350,386 1,428,922,794 authority for Texas cities to provide a grant or a loan of city funds or Philippines 897,649,771 406,487,528 1,304,137,299 services in order to promote economic development. DFW cities have Total Top 10 Trading Partners $13,673,352,157 $29,975,820,785 $43,649,172,942 utilized the provisions to provide a wide array of incentives that have Top 10 Share of DFW Total 65.9% 81.5% 75.9% drawn businesses and industries to locales throughout the region. Source: USA Trade Online (Stat-USA and Foreign Trade Division of the U.S. • Tax increment financing (TIF) is a tool authorized by Texas Tax Census Bureau) Code that allows local governments to publicly finance infrastructure improvements within a defined area. (Texas Tax Code) DFW 2007 Top 10 International Trading Partner Shares • The County Development District Sales Tax enables counties of less than 45,000 residents to create county assistance districts and Taiwan 7% to adopt local sales taxes. Eligible counties must not contain a 4A Japan or 4B city or any transit authority territory. (Texas Comptroller of 6.9% Public Accounts) Philippines • The Rural Municipal Finance Program was created by the Texas China 2.3% Agricultural Finance Authority (TAFA) to improve or assist in the eco- 30% nomic development of rural areas. Eligible applicants include city and Singapore 6.8% county governments, economic development corporations, hospital districts, rail districts, utility districts, special districts, agricultural Israel districts, as well as private water and wastewater corporations (Texas 2.5% Department of Agriculture) Germany 3.5% United Kingdom 3.8% Lead Sectors Korea, South 8.1% Malaysia 5.2% International Business • Total world trade with DFW reached $57.5 billon in 2007, a 59% All Other Countries increase since the year 2003 ($36.1 billion). (U.S.A. Trade Online) 24.1%

DALLAS INDUSTRIAL GUIDE WWW.DALLASCHAMBER.ORG INCENTIVES/LEAD SECTORS – Winter 2008/2009 35 • DFW’s direct trade with North American Free Trade Agreement • In 2007, key components of DFW international trade included (NAFTA) countries was $1.3 billion in 2007. (U.S.A. Trade Online) exports of specialized instruments (optical, medical and surgical) and imports of vehicles (excluding railway and tramway). The top traded DFW commodity of both imports and exports included electrical 2007 NAFTA/DR-CAFTA Total and heavy machinery along with boilers, fuel elements, reactors and Country Imports Exports Total Trade parts. (U.S.A. Trade Online) NAFTA Mexico $158,272,987 $580,481,050 $738,754,037 DFW 2007 Top 5 International Trade by Commodity Canada $554,808,285 $62,233,706 $617,041,991 Commodity Total Commodity Value (Dollars) Value (Dollars) Total $713,081,272 $642,714,756 $1,355,796,028 ($ Millions) Imports Exports Electric Machinery Etc; DR-CAFTA Sound Equip; TV Equip; $24,203,792,562 $16,424,662,598 $7,779,129,964 Costa Rica $34,063,225 $15,872,993 $49,936,218 Pts Nuclear Reactors, Boilers, El Salvador $4,818,359 $1,985,483 $6,803,842 $14,096,205,549 $6,884,042,014 $7,212,163,535 Machinery Etc, Parts Honduras $79,990,761 $478,448 $80,469,209 Aircraft, Spacecraft, and $3,953,382,917 $1,283,964,626 $2,669,418,291 Guatemala $27,108,829 $2,738,257 $29,847,086 Parts Thereof Optic, Photo Etc, Medic Nicaragua $53,438,426 $406,318 $53,844,744 $2,375,430,235 $938,290,701 $1,437,139,534 or Surgical Instruments Etc Dominican Republic $18,813,542 $2,489,721 $21,303,263 Special Classification $1,559,604,694 $1,470,726,573 $88,878,121 Total $218,233,142 $23,971,220 $242,204,362 Provisions, Nesoi NAFTA/DR-CAFTA Total $931,314,414 $666,685,976 $1,598,000,390 Source: USA Trade Online, www.usatradeonline.gov Source: USA Trade Online (Stat-USA and Foreign Trade Division of the U.S. Census Bureau) • DFW is home to the regional office of the U.S. Department of Com- • The Dallas/Fort Worth area facilitates international business by merce, the district office of the U.S. Customs Service and a regional U.S. offering the services of 34 foreign consulate offices. Export Assistance Center. (Office of Texas Secretary of State) • DFW has nearly 200 international organizations that offer business, cul- tural and educational programming. There are also 14 sister cities in the region. (DFW International, Dallas Protocol, Fort Worth Sister Cities) DFW Foreign Consulates • The Organization for International Investment ranks Texas third in the As of January 2007 nation for the number of employees (341,200) supported by U.S. sub- Belgium Korea sidiaries, which is over 4 percent of Texas’ private-sector workforce. (2006) Belize Luxembourg Bolivia The Republic of Malta Canada Mexico DFW Top 10 Foreign-Owned Subsidiaries Chile The Principality of Monaco Name Ultimate Parent Home Country 2007 Local 2007 Total Costa Rica The Kingdom of Norway Employment Employment Nortel Royal Danish Consulate The Republic of Paraguay Nortel Networks Canada 4,200 34,000 Networks Corp. Ecuador The Republic of Peru Alcatel-Lucent Alcatel France 2,000 79,000 El Salvador The Republic of Peru Ericsson Inc. Telefon LM Ericsson AB Sweden 1,800 6,500 Republic of Fiji Islands Romania Finland The Republic of South Africa STMicroelectronics Inc. STMicroelectronics N.V. Switzerland 1,400 51,700 U.S. Commercial France Spain CompUSA Mexico 1,260 14,306 S.A. De C.V. France The Kingdom of Sweden Germany Switzerland Bimbo Bakeries USA Grupo Bimbo Mexico 1,225 7,388 Italy Republic of China on Taiwan Essilor of America Essilor International S.A. France 1,094 29,288 Siemens Energy Jamaica Thailand Siemens AG Germany 978 978 and Automation Japan Tunisia Fujitsu Network Fujitsu Limited Japan 946 1,945 Source: Office of the Texas Secretary of State & Individual Consulates Communications Nokia Siemens Nokia and Siemens Finland 900 60,000 Networks DFW Foreign Trade Offices Sources: Dallas Morning News 2006 Top 200, Dallas Business Journal: 2007 Book of Lists, Fort Name Phone Worth Business Press: Book of Lists, and Dallas Regional Chamber 2006 Consolidated Business Survey Dallas, Bahamas Tourist Office (214) 560-2280 Ranked by number of local employees. Canadian Trade Commission (214) 922-9806 Mexico Trade Commission (214) 688-4095 Technology Guanajuato Trade Office (214) 741-6486 • The Information Age was born in DFW with Nobel Laureate Jack Korea Trade Center of Dallas (KOTRA) (972) 243-9300 Kilby’s invention of the monolithic integrated circuit—the first Source: Individual Agencies microchip—at Texas Instruments in 1958. (Texas Instruments)

36 Winter 2008/2009 – LEAD SECTORS DALLAS INDUSTRIAL GUIDE • DFW’s early leadership in the semiconductor industry paved the way • EWEEK Magazine ranked Dallas as one of the top ten “Blooming for the area to become a world presence in telecommunications, espe- U.S. Cities for Tech.” (June 2006) cially with Texas Instruments’ introduction of the Digital Signal • The University of Texas System ranks fifth in the nation in terms of Processor (DSP) in 1982. (Texas Instruments) total biotech patents issued to universities. The University of Cali- • DFW has also been particularly adept in developing key information fornia system ranks first, followed by MIT, Stanford and CalTech. and data processing giants, beginning with Electronic Data Systems (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas) (EDS) in 1962 and continuing with ACS and Perot Systems. • Cyberstates 2008: A State-by-State Overview of the High Technol- • Latest DFW data shows 14 distinct technology industries in the DFW ogy Industry dubs Texas the second largest cyberstate in the nation region. Employment in these industries tops 227,350 workers, 8 with a total of approximately 459,000 high-tech workers. DFW percent of the region’s total job count. (Texas Workforce Commission, accounts for nearly one-half of the State’s high tech workforce. Quarterly Covered Employment and Wage Data) (American Electronics Association AeA, Cyberstates) • The many tech industries of Dallas/Fort Worth are best characterized in • Texas is ranked third for the greatest value of venture capital invest- four core segments: high-tech manufacturing, information activities, ments by state. (Cyberstates, 2008) professional/technical services and bio-life sciences. Health & Medicine Technology Sector • The total health industry for North Texas is greater than the Manufacturing Services health industry of 31 other states (Bureau of Labor Statistics, Cur- rent Employment Statistics) • DFW is a major medical center providing “state-of-the-art” health High-Tech Information care supported by aggressive research and education programs. The Software Publishers, Computer average cost for a doctor’s visit is $78. A visit to the Optometrist is Telecommunications, and Electronic, about $69 and a visit to the dentist will average about $76. Aerospace Data Processing, ISPs (ACCRA, 2008)

Bio-Life Sciences Professional/Technical Manufacturing: Services: Engineering, Computer Health Care Costs DFW* Chemical, Testing Labs, System Design, Doctor ($/visit) $78.84 Pharmaceutical, Scientific Computer Training Optometrist ($/visit) $69.41 Medical Device R&D Dentist ($/visit) $76.78 Source: ACCRA 1st Q 2008 * Average

• The DFW area is home to 90 hospitals, with more than 15,000 2007 Texas Technology Employment beds and over 11,000 physicians, practicing a total of 78 specialties. This includes general and psychiatric hospitals.

DFW Top 10 Largest Hospitals Facility Location Active Licensed Doctor beds All Other Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas Dallas 1,250 997 23% Dallas Parkland Health & Hospital System Dallas 999 968 40% Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas Dallas 1,199 866

Houston Harris Methodist Fort Worth Hospital Fort Worth 890 710 25% Medical City Dallas Dallas 839 660 Austin Baylor All Saints Medical Center at Fort Worth Fort Worth 545 537 13% Methodist Dallas Medical Center Dallas 544 515 Dallas John Peter Smith Hospital Fort Worth 545 459 Austin Medical Center of Plano Plano 982 427 Houston UT Southwestern Medical Center Dallas 1,875 424 All Other Source: Book of Lists 2008 Source: Texas Workforce Commission, www.tracer2.com Ranked by number of licensed beds in 2006

DALLAS INDUSTRIAL GUIDE WWW.DALLASCHAMBER.ORG LEAD SECTORS – Winter 2008/2009 37 • Seventeen of the nineteen DFW members of the National Academy of Sciences and four active Nobel Laureates are on faculty at the Uni- Quality of Life versity of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. (UTSWMC) • The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center of Dallas Climate, Cost of Living & Housing (UTSMC) ranked 22nd among research medical schools and 26th • The region has a mild year-round climate with an average daily low among primary care medical schools in the U.S. The Baylor College temperature of 55 degrees and an average daily high temperature of of Medicine, ranked 13th, in research and 7th in primary care, was 76 degrees. (Weatherbase) the only other Texas school named in the top 20. (U.S. News and World Report, 2008) DFW Climate • The Dallas region is an international medical center for burns and Average Daily Temperature High Low trauma care and a leading transplant center of the Southwest. The January 54 34 area also has the largest single-site delivery facility in the nation. In April 76 55 2006, more than 16,489 babies were born at Parkland Memorial July 96 75 Hospital. (Parkland Hospital) October 79 56 • DFW ranks first in Texas in conducting major surgeries including Annual Average 76 55 pediatric heart surgery, percutaneous transluminal coronary angio- Weather Category Annual Average plasty, coronary artery bypass, and carotid endarterectomy. DFW also Average No. of Clear or Partly Cloudy Days 232 Days ranks second in Texas in performing major operations such as abdom- Average No. of Rainy Days 79 days inal aortic aneurysm repair and pancreatic resections. (Texas Health Average Precipitation 33.3 inches Care Information Council) Average Snowfall 2.7 inches • UT Southwestern Medical Center’s Southwestern Center for Average Wind Speed 12 mph Minimally Invasive Surgery is one of seven facilities across the Note: Based on 48 yrs. of recorded data for Dallas, TX. United States and Canada, and the only one in Texas, to garner Source: Weatherbase first-time accreditation from the American College of Surgeons for it’s $2 million training lab. (UT Southwestern Medical Center) • Dallas/Fort Worth has a low cost of living, typically several points • Two DFW Hospitals, Parkland Memorial and Baylor University below the national average, and considerably lower than major east Medical Center, are ranked among the best in the country. Parkland and west coast cities. (ACCRA) Memorial Hospital ranks in the top 50 in the fields of Gynecology (14th), Baylor registers in the fields of Gynecology (35th), Kidney DFW Cost of Living Disease (30th), Endocrinology (32st), Orthopedics (33rd), Respira- CONSUMER PRICE INDEX - URBAN CPI-U CPI-U Annual tory Disorders and (36th). UT Southwestern also ranked in the (Base 1982-84=100) 2007 2006 Inflation Neurology & Neurosurgery (18th) field. (U.S. News and World DFW MSA 193.25 190.1 1.6% Reports 2008) U.S. City Average 207.3 201.6 2.8% Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics

U.S. News & World Report – Top 2008 • ACCRA Cost of Living Index consistently reports that housing in the DFW Hospitals DFW area is one of the least expensive metropolitan markets in the nation. With a 2nd quarter 2008 score of 69.0, local housing is 31 per- cent below the U.S. average of 100. (ACCRA, Greater Dallas Chamber)

DFW ACCRA Cost of Living Index Hospital (2nd Quarter 2008) 150 U.S. Average=100 125 107.6 104.2 90.1 98.2 99.4 95.3 100 69.0 Endocrinology Gynecology Kidney Disease Neurology & Neurosurgery Orthopedics Rehabilitation Respiratory Disorders 75 50 Baylor University Medical Center 32nd 35th 30th 33rd 13th 35th 25 0 Parkland Memorial Hospital 14th Composite Grocery Housing Utilities Transportation Health Care Misc. Goods (All Items) Items & Services

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center 36th 18th Sources: ACCRA, (American Chamber of Commerce Researchers Association), Dallas Regional Chamber Source: U.S. News & World Report Note: DFW figures estimated as a weighted average of Dallas and Fort Worth

38 Winter 2008/2009 – LEAD SECTORS/QUALITY OF LIFE DALLAS INDUSTRIAL GUIDE • The market reported apartment occupancy at 92.7 percent in the second quarter of 2007, down .5 percent from the prior year. (MPF YieldStar) Major DFW Art & Culture Attractions • As Reported by M/PF YieldStar in 2nd quarter of 2008, the average The Crow Collection of Asian Art monthly rent for a 2 bedroom unfurnished apartment in the DFW area Dallas Fair Park was $752. (M/PF YieldStar Executive Summary, 2nd Quarter 2008) Dallas Museum of Art Fort Worth Museum of Science & History/Omni Theatre Kimball Art Museum DFW Home Sales Activity Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Year End Sales Price Nasher Sculpture Center MLS Board 2007 Number of Sales Average Median Stockyards Museum Collin County 14,941 $247,042 $199,675 Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame The Crow Collection of Asian Art Dallas Area 57,332 $217,950 $160,308 The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza Fort Worth 11,415 $142,067 $118,050 The Women’s Museum Denton County 8,085 $206,350 $165,191 Irving 1,677 $183,875 $143,217 • The combined economic impact on North Texas of the Texas State NE Tarrant County 8,811 $231,867 $163,950 Fair and Texas/OU weekend is about $362 million, with each con- Source: Texas A&M Real Estate Center tributing $350 million and $12 million respectively. (Marketing Research at the Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau) • As reported by the Texas A&M Real Estate Center the number of • DFW has more shopping centers and restaurants per capita than homes sold in 2007 in the Dallas area was 86,356 and the average any other United States city and metro. (Dallas Convention and sale price was $201,568. Visitors Bureau) • New building permits for single-family homes in 2007 remains steady at just over 42,000. Multi-family activity, however, grew by Major DFW Attractions 13.6 percent, from 12,000 to 13,614 units. (U.S Census Bureau) Dallas Arboretum & Botanical Garden Dallas Farmers Market Arts, Culture, Sports and Recreation Dallas Galleria • DFW claims two major arts districts. The Dallas Arts District, with more Dallas Zoo Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo than 60 acres is anchored by the Dallas Museum of Art, the Morton Fort Worth Zoo H. Meyerson Symphony Center and the Nasher Sculpture Garden, is the Hurricane Harbor largest urban arts district in the country.The Fort Worth Cultural District Lone Star Park at Grand Prairie - Horse Racing claims several of the top museums in the state, including the Kimball, the Mesquite Championship Rodeo Amon Carter, and the Museum of Modern Art. (Arts District Friends, Fort Six Flags Over Texas Worth Visitors and Convention Bureau) State Fair of Texas • Within 100 miles of DFW there are more than 400 public parks, Stockyards Station covering nearly 23,000 acres, and more than 60 lakes and reservoirs, Texas Motor Speedway - Auto Racing covering approximately 550,000 acres. (Texas Almanac, Texas Parks & Wildlife) • DFW is home to five major league sports teams including NFL • There are approximately 150 private and municipal golf courses in Cowboys football, NBA Mavericks basketball, MLB Rangers baseball, the Dallas/Fort Worth area. (Dallas and Fort Worth Convention and NHL Stars hockey and NSL FC Dallas soccer. (Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau) Visitors Bureaus and Mapsco) • In the Dallas metro area, cultural arts contribute more than $57.6 bil- lion to the local economy, which is 30.3 percent of the state total. DFW DFW Professional Sports is also Texas’ most “arts intensive” metro area on a per capita basis, with Team Sport $6,654 expended per person on cultural arts. (The Perryman Group). Dallas Cowboys NFL • Beyond the two central cultural districts, DFW offers more than Dallas Mavericks NBA 175 museums and galleries, more than 50 professional and commu- Dallas Stars NHL nity theaters and dozens of local symphony and chamber orchestras, FC Dallas Soccer NSL ballet groups and opera associations. (Dallas and Fort Worth Con- Texas Rangers MLB vention & Visitors Bureaus) • Fair Park, just southeast of downtown Dallas, is the site of the State Public and Private Schools Fair of Texas, the largest annual state fair in the United States and • Two education service regions serve Dallas/Fort Worth and home to a variety of museums and theaters. It is a historic landmark surrounding counties with more than 1,800 schools in 157 independent with the largest collection of 1930s art deco architecture collection school districts (ISDs) enrolling over 1 million students in 2006-07. within the U.S. (Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau) (Texas Education Agency)

DALLAS INDUSTRIAL GUIDE WWW.DALLASCHAMBER.ORG QUALITY OF LIFE – Winter 2008/2009 39 • Together Dallas and Fort Worth Independent School districts • In 2007, over 150 public schools in the Dallas/Fort Worth area ranked fifth among the largest school districts in the nation. were recognized as exemplary campuses by the Texas Education (National Center for Education Statistics) Agency. The TEA also recognized more than 300 schools in the DFW • More than 240 accredited private and parochial schools are located area for academic performance. in the DFW area and enroll more than 100,000 primary and sec- ondary students. (Texas Private School Accreditation Commission)

DFW Public School Districts 2006/2007 Regional Summary

Service Region Composition Region 10 Region 11

Collin, Dallas, Denton, Hood, Ellis, Kaufman, Johnson, Parker, 1 Counties in Service Region Hunt, Rockwall, Tarrant, Cooke, Fannin, Grayson, Erath, Palo Pinto, Van Zandt Somervell, Wise Total Number of Districts 113 90 Total Number of Schools 1,059 800

Student Profile

Total Number of Students 694,194 498,041 Secondary Enrollment (Grades 9-12) 190,163 (27.5%) 138,987 (28%) Career and Technology Education Enrollment 20.0% 18.0% Gifted and Talented Program Enrollment 9.0% 9.0% Number of Graduates (Class of 2005) 35,235 26,492 % Graduated (Class of 2005) 79.8% 84.4% Average Class Size 19-24 students 19-26 students Number of Students Per Teacher 14.8 15.2

Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) 7th Grade Passing Rates

Reading 87% 88% Math 89% 79% Writing 94% 94% All Tests 74% 74%

Operational Expenses (2004-2005)

Total Operational Spending Per Pupil $6,176 $6,048 Instructional Spending Per Pupil $3,740 $3,651

College Admission Tests – Class of 2005

Percent Tested 66.1% 66.7% Percent At or Above Criterion 32.7% 33.3% SAT I: Mean Total Score 1,012 1,025 ACT: Mean Composite Score 21.1 21.2

1 DFW Metro counties in Italics Sources: Texas Education Agency–Snapshot 2006 & AEIS Reports (2006-2007)

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