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For a list of companies based within Dallas city limits, go to List of companies in Dallas. The Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex is home to over 20 corporate headquarters, making the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex one of the largest corporate headquarters concentration in the United States.
Walter P. Moore and Associates, Inc. (d/b/a Walter P Moore) is an international company providing structural engineering, diagnostics, civil engineering, traffic engineering, parking consulting, facade engineering, transportation engineering, intelligent transportation systems (ITS) engineering, and water resources engineering services.
According to the 2000 U.S. census, 5,762 ethnic Chinese lived in Dallas County. [32] Plano, along with Houston, has one of the state's two major settlements of Chinese Americans. [33] As of 2011, 5% Plano's population is ethnic Chinese. [34] As of the 2000 U.S. census, of the foreign-born residents of Plano, 17% originated from China. [35]
The Beck Group was founded in 1912 by Henry C. Beck [4] in Houston, Texas as a general contractor [2] as Central Contracting Company. In 1934, it moved its headquarters to Dallas, [1] a requirement for building the city's Cotton Exchange Building. [2]
Dallas is the ninth-most populous city in the U.S. and third in Texas after Houston and San Antonio. [1] At the 2010 U.S. census, Dallas had a population of 1,197,816. In July 2018, the population estimate of the city of Dallas was 1,345,076, an increase of 147,260 since the 2010 United States Census.
The Cedar Ridge Preserve was known as the Dallas Nature Center, but the Audubon Dallas group now manages the 633-acre (2.56 km 2) natural habitat park on behalf of the city of Dallas and Dallas County. The preserve sits at an elevation of 755 feet (230 m) above sea level and offers a variety of outdoor activities, including 10 miles (16 km) of ...
The building is the headquarters for AT&T and Southwestern Bell Telephone, which operates as "AT&T Southwest". It is 580 feet (177 m) tall, the 13th-tallest building in the city. The Continental Buff Travertine (provided by Idaho Travertine, now Yellowstone Rock) and glass skyscraper has over 1,000,000 square feet (93,000 m 2 ) of office space.
In 2014 Toyota announced it was moving its United States headquarters to Plano, Texas in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. [4] The new headquarters will have around 4,000 total employees, including about 2,000 employees from the current headquarters and 1,000 employees from Toyota Financial Services, which also was in Torrance.