TELECOM CORRIDOR

The 'Telecom Corridor' is a technology business center in Richardson, Texas (USA), a northern suburb of Dallas, which contains over 25 million square feet (2.3 million square meters) of office space and accounts for over 82,600 jobs.^[1] The Corridor is a strip about three miles long along U.S. Route 75 (the North Central Expressway), between President George Bush Turnpike and Interstate 635 and is often considered an area of the Silicon Prairie. More than 5,700 companies, including 600 technology companies are located in the area, including significant players such as Nortel, Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent, Tellabs, Texas Instruments, and AT&T. Some of these companies also have offices in Telecom Valley located in California. Although the Telecom Corridor was a booming area of Dallas's economy during the late 1990s, the dot-com bust of 2001 hit the region hard. However, it began recovering in 2004, and that recovery has since picked up momentum.^[2]

Contents

Transportation

Major Highways

Light rail

References

External link

Transportation

Major Highways

★ Interstate 635

★ U.S. Route 75 - (North Central Expressway)

★ President George Bush Turnpike (''toll'') (''frontage roads:'' State Highway 190)

Light rail

★ 'DART':

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★ Spring Valley Station

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★ Arapaho Center Station

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★ Galatyn Park Station

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★ Bush Turnpike Station

References

1. North Central Texas Council of Governments 2030 Demographic Forecast (+ relative historical census data) entry for ''Telecom Corridor''. Retrieved 22 January 2006.
2. Took Time, But Finally Tech Jobs Are Rising Reinhardt Krause

External link

★ Telecom Corridor Official Website