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5/22/2003
Around Texas
Staffing Begins at Fort Worth Distribution Center
FORT WORTH, Tex (Dallas Business Journal—Michael Whiteley)—New Breed Logistics of High Point, N.C., whose clients include such high-tech companies as Panasonic, Siemens Medical Solutions, and Verizon Wireless, has begun moving people into the Mercantile Distribution Center in North Fort Worth. Sources close to the leasing transaction say the work force will increase to at least 500 people and could reach 900 by the time New Breed has finished staffing its Fort Worth location.
New Breed already operates two small warehouses in Grapevine that employ 60 people that handle both government and commercial distribution contracts.
Consulting Firm Plans to Cut 120 Jobs in Houston
HOUSTON, Tex (Houston Business Journal—Jenna Colley)—Accenture, formerly Andersen Consulting, plans to cut 120 area jobs starting in July. According to Roxanne Taylor, a spokeswoman for Accenture, "It will only affect about one percent of our company overall." Ms. Taylor added, "We have a global client that, as we’ve developed the relationship, we’ve realized that in order to maintain efficiency we have to trim staff." The Houston consulting office currently employs 1,200 workers with 3,000 being employed in Texas.
New Jobs Created in Waco
WACO, Tex (Waco Tribune-Herald—Mike Copeland)—Nearly 1,500 jobs are being created in southwest Waco at a retail center currently under construction. The Central Texas Marketplace will include a Wal-Mart merchandise return center and a Tractor Supply distribution center. Wal-Mart is expected to hire 300 employees. According to Donna Klein, a human resource coordinator for Tractor Supply, "Our target date to open is August 1st." The new Tractor Supply distribution center is expected to employ 170 workers, replacing a current center that employs 42.
Two Multi-Storied Hotels in Planning Stages
AUSTIN, Tex (Austin Business Journal—Matt Hudgins)—White Lodging Services Corp is seeking architectural proposals on two 16-story hotels as a single project that would provide 440 more hotel rooms in Austin. The towers would be built on East Fourth Street downtown. White Lodging has developed two dozen hotels in the Austin area and indicates the hotels might open in 2005 or 2006.
This announcement comes as construction continues on Austin’s largest hotel, a new Hilton hotel with 800 guestrooms located next to the Austin Convention Center. Todd Walker, vice president of San Antonio-based hotel consulting company Source Strategies Inc., says Austin’s hotel industry might be leveling off after a decline that began with the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
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