Is the Waco/Temple/Killeen area the next DFW? (Houston: high school, live in)

[JamesAbilene]

Originally Posted by Kofi713

Why would the city council deny more business to the city?

We used to have the same problem in Abilene. The old guard wanted to limit growth because they owned the businesses here and controlled the city. Growth brings in big box stores, malls, and other entities that are not controlled by local people. Sometime when we passed about 100,000 people, that attitude mostly changed. There are still a few folks who despise the growth and want us to be a small town.

[Kofi713]

100,000 is like the psychological mark I guess, but 100,000 is still small town .

[jluke65780]

Originally Posted by Kofi713

100,000 is like the psychological mark I guess, but 100,000 is still small town .

If you say so.

[harleytexas]

Originally Posted by bellestaroftexas

drive down Hwy 190 through Harker Heights and Killeen......lots of construction right now. lots of new shopping centers etc. in the big center they are building right now in Harker Heights, there will be a Target...but interesting to note, there is a Target just a few minutes drive down from there in Killeen.........i dont get it, but if a large chain like Target is putting up another store just a few exits away, then they must see the growth here

Target is closing the old store in Killeen and just keeping the new one in Harker Heights open, same with the Circuit city.

[NOTAM]

ah ok. that makes sense. i assume this one in harker heights is going to be a SUPER Target, right?

Originally Posted by harleytexas

Target is closing the old store in Killeen and just keeping the new one in Harker Heights open, same with the Circuit city.

[nicole6]

I wish I would've seen the original post a few months ago, i worked at Target part time.

I personally think Killeen will become a rat hole. So many stores are packing up and leaving for Harker Heights, the latest being Old Navy. All the new restaurants are in Harker Heights. The nicer Walmart is in HH. HH will grow and prosper, and Killeen will do the opposite. Copperas Cove will stay kind of country. HH-Belton-Temple might grow into each other, but I think they will leave Killeen behind, with Fort Hood. And even together, they will in no way be big enough to ever be another DFW.

I do live in Killeen, btw.

[KerrTown]

Originally Posted by Rakin

Let's hope not. We already have an area named DFW and it would be real confusing to have DFW 2. Especially if they built another big airport and named it DFW 2 Airport. Planes wouldn't know where to land.

How about we name it WTK or KTW ? We could have a drawing to see which initials come 1st.

No, the Waco Airport would be expanded and renamed Waco International Airport (George W. Bush International to match IAH was scrapped a few years ago.).

[KerrTown]

Originally Posted by JVTX72

But I agree that Waco should just go ahead and annex Beverly Hills, they use Waco ISD and Waco city services. The only thing they have is their own police department, if you can call it that.

Isn't Beverly Hills an incorporated City? There's no way Waco could get them unless they agree to a merger like Houston and Houston Heights.

Houston needs a mayor who is aggressive in annexation. I think the next mayor should appeal to Houston patriotism but needs to be careful in what areas to annex. (The ulterior motive is that the council members are trying to keep it very Democratic and don't want to risk a power shift to the R's if they annexed the suburbesque fringes of the ETJ.)

[Mark-Tyler is Special]

This area could actually LOSE population do to the down sizing of the military that will be taking place. And gee, just how would the area gain 5,000,000 people before the end of times, unless God waits for several 1,000 years to return?

[NOTAM]

i doubt our post will downsize. it is the largest military installation in the world. if anything, BRAC closures might consolidate smaller posts, and bring battalions/units/divisions and incoporate them here.

Originally Posted by Mark-Tyler is Special

This area could actually LOSE population do to the down sizing of the military that will be taking place. And gee, just how would the area gain 5,000,000 people before the end of times, unless God waits for several 1,000 years to return?