Dallas–Fort Worth's Largest November Permits Total $698 Million — and a $200 Million Fort Worth Project Tops the List
Groundbreak's hourly count of the month's biggest DFW building permits is led by a single $200 million permit at Alliance in Fort Worth, with two $72.6 million data-center shells in Grand Prairie right behind it.
FORT WORTH — The 25 largest building permits issued in Dallas–Fort Worth so far this month add up to $698 million in declared valuation, according to Groundbreak's DFW permits report, computed at 3:30 a.m. ET on November 10 and read in full by this desk. The biggest single permit dwarfs the rest: $200 million for a commercial project at 15301 N. Beach St. in Fort Worth - the Alliance Center North 4 - West tenant-improvement file, issued Nov. 3 - more than a quarter of the entire top-25 total on one line.
The next tier is the data-center economy, in steel and precast. Two permits of $72.6 million each, issued Nov. 2 and Nov. 3, cover core-and-shell data-center buildings at 1081 Miller Road in Grand Prairie. Behind them come a $54.6 million warehouse shell filed as Project Oak on Nov. 9, the $47 million Carrier Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering Center (Project Jay) addition on Distribution Drive in Fort Worth, also Nov. 9, a $42 million LiteOn central utility plant in McKinney, and a $37.9 million, 505,178-square-foot speculative warehouse, EQT Airparq 820, in Fort Worth. The month's list also carries a $21 million athletic center for Southwest Christian School and a $7.8 million H-E-B accessory structure on Oakmont Boulevard in Fort Worth.
Groundbreak's own method notes are part of the story, and this desk carries them rather than smoothing them over. The counter is built from the city and county permit feeds it reads daily - Fort Worth's portal supplies contractor and value directly - while Dallas publishes no permit feed with a value or a contractor, so Dallas arrives through zoning cases, deeds and the DCAD roll instead; the feeds also lag the counter by a day or two. Read with those caveats, the list is still the clearest hourly snapshot available of where the Metroplex's building money is going in November: logistics and data centers first, at Fort Worth and Grand Prairie scale.
