April 20, 2016

Southwest Airlines ready to take off with $143M Love Field operations center expansion

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(David Woo/The Dallas Morning News)

 

Dallas Morning News: Southwest Airlines ready to take off with $143M Love Field operations center expansion
By STEVE BROWN
Real Estate Editor

Southwest Airlines hopes to break ground in early June on a major expansion of its facilities at Dallas’ Love Field.

Southwest for months has been working on plans for a new flight training facility to be built on more than 14-acre tract of land on Denton Drive west of Love Field.

The Dallas-based airline has filed building permits to construct a $145 million “office building and flight simulator building” at 2175 Research Row.

The new complex would contain more than 865,000 square feet and will be six stories, according to the building permits.

McCarthy Building Cos. is the general contractor. BOKA Powell is the architect.

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