Fort Worth Business Press, June 2, 2014 Vol. 26, No. 21 | Page 10
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Hillwood exec mulls expanded
Panama Canal’s local impact
A. Lee Graham n [email protected]
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he jury’s still out on how an expanded Panama Canal
will affect the AllianceTexas development in North Fort
Worth, according to a Hillwood Properties executive.
“Who really knows what’s going to happen. All that is
still up in the air,” said Mike Berry, president of Hillwood Properties, the Perot company that’s made AllianceTexas land surrounding Fort Worth Alliance Airport an industrial, transportation and logistics powerhouse.
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“We’re hitching our wagons to the fact that the
West Coast to Texas connection is still going to
be a strong growth corridor in the future and the
Panama Canal is not going to have a huge impact.”
– Mike Berry, president of Hillwood Properties