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Blue Cross Blue Shield Workers Start to Fill New Headquarters

The first of the health insurer’s employees began setting up shop last week in a new $265 million headquarters in Richardson.

The 1-million-square-foot high-rise development on North Central Expressway at Glenville Drive is one of the biggest office projects to open in North Texas in years.
 
by STEVE BROWN / The Dallas Morning News 

Paragon Innovations plans Richardson move

Paragon Innovations Inc. has bought a building in Richardson to move its corporate headquarters into in the first quarter of 2010.
 
Dallas Business Journal – by Bill Hethcock Staff Writer 

Richardson industrial campus getting a makeover

A Richardson industrial campus is getting a makeover that will turn it into one of the region’s largest data and telecommunications complexes.
By STEVE BROWN / The Dallas Morning News  

Hitachi opens “4G” facility in Richardson

Hitachi Communication Technologies America Inc. has opened a new facility in Richardson’s Telecom Corridor. The operation will focus on developing network infrastructure support for what’s known as the fourth generation of mobile communications, or “4G.”

 
Dallas Business Journal 

Richardson One of 15 Government-Heavy (and Recession-Resistant) Cities

It’s been said that if there’s one type of job that’s recession proof, it’s a government job. After all, spending by federal and state governments tends to go up in recessions, and that’s been especially true with President Obama’s stimulus response. But it’s not exactly true that government jobs are recession proof. Government employment growth has slowed to a trickle: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, government employment has added an average of about 5,000 workers a month over the past year. In June, the government sector actually lost 52,000 jobs.
 
U.S. News & World Report

AT&T signs lease for Richardson building

The Dallas-based communications giant is renting more than 200,000 square feet of space – all of the seven-story building at 2270 Lakeside Blvd. just east of North Central Expressway.

By STEVE BROWN / The Dallas Morning News