Location, Labor, and Love!!

Located at the Crossroads of Interstate Highways 45 and 20, more and more businesses are recognizing that Hutchins is a great place to live, work and play! There is an eager workforce of over 17,000 people within a 10 minute drive of Hutchins. The City offers an exceptionally friendly business climate and boasts one of the lowest property tax rates in Dallas County.

The City of Hutchins and the Hutchins Economic Development Corporation have teamed up with businesses and other organizations that understand it makes sense to be in Hutchins. As a result of these partnerships, several projects are underway that will reshape Hutchins.

Come be a part of our future.

If you'd like to be a part of our future, please contact the HEDC office. We'd love to hear about your next project.

Projects Map

1.

FedEx Ground Expansion

FedEx Ground, a leading small-package ground carrier and an operating company of FedEx Corporation, is in the process of a two-phase expansion in Hutchins.
The 460,000-square-foot facility, already the largest ground distribution hub outside of FedEx�s Memphis hub, will be expanded to 520,000-square-feet in phase one. Expansion plans in phase two includes increasing the package processing capability FedEx handles each day from 200,000 packages a day to 230,000 packages a day. It is expected that phase two will be completed in May, 2009. The company expects to hire an additional 150 package handlers and other workers to meet the new demand.

Completion Date: May 2009

2.

ADESA Auto Auction

ADESA�s new state-of-the-art auto auction facility will be located on 175 acres on Lancaster-Hutchins Road near Wintergreen Road. The property will house three buildings totaling approximately 196,000 square feet of space for an auction arena, administrative and financial offices and reconditioning facilities. It is expected that 400 jobs will be created when the facility opens in August 2009.

Completion Date: August 2009

3.

Lancaster-Hutchins Road Improvements

Road: Project Includes +/- 11,270 linear feet of full depth repair and reclamation of the existing road and the construction of one (1) left turn lane and one (1) deceleration lane for the ADESA facility using 12-inch thick CSB and 3-inches of TXDOT Type C HMAC wearing surface.  

Sanitary Sewer: Project Includes 8,300 linear feet of 12-inch sanitary sewer along Lancaster-Hutchins Road from Cleveland Road to Witt Road; approximately1,200 linear feet of 15-inch sanitary sewer along Lancaster-Hutchins Road to east of Interstate 45. 

Water: Project Includes about 4,650 linear feet of 12-inch waterline along Lancaster-Hutchins Road from Hutchins Elevated Storage Tank, located on the east side of Lancaster-Hutchins Road, to Witt Road.  

Completion Date: August 2009  

4.

West Wintergreen Road Improvements

Project Includes approximately 6,450 linear feet of full depth repair and reclamation of the existing road and approximately 3,448 linear feet of 4-lane divided concrete roadway with underground drainage system.

 Completion Date: August 2009

5.

Wintergreen Overpass Project

The Wintergreen Road Overpass is a grade separation bridge that will span the Union Pacific Railroad�s main-line track at the north end of the UP�s new Southern Dallas Intermodal Terminal and re-establish ingress and egress to a major portion of the City of Hutchins. The $5 million project is a result of broad community, private and public sector participation and support, led by Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, and other stakeholders in Dallas County, including the North Central Texas Council of Governments, Union Pacific Railroad, the cities of Hutchins and Wilmer, and The Allen Group. This new bridge will help restore critical circulation patterns within our community and is part of the initial infrastructure needed for the planned industrial development which will create much needed jobs in the city of Hutchins and the surrounding communities.  

Completion Date: August 2009

6.

East Wintergreen Road Improvements

The road project will extend the concrete road surface approximately 1,180 feet from east to Fire Station #2.

 Completion Date: May 2009

7.

Fire Station Number 2

Fire Station Number 2 is scheduled to open in December 2008. The station is located on the City�s eastside at 1525 E. Wintergreen Road between IH-45 and Trout Rd. Station 2 will house Engine 2, Medic 702, and Booster 2. It will have enough room to sleep 9 including the shift officer.  The $2 million facility is approximately 7,500 square-feet and is being constructed debt-free with funding from The Allen Group, The City of Hutchins and The Hutchins Economic Development Corporation.

Completion Date: December 2008

8.

Sunrise Creek Park Improvements

Improvements to the 8-acre park include new hike & bike trails and parking areas.

 Completion Date: July 2008

9.

La Quinta Inn & Suites

The 40,000 square-foot La Quinta Inn and Suites currently under construction on Dowdy Ferry Road near IH-45. The four-story facility will have 68 rooms, a small conference center and a business center.  

Completion Date: August 2009

10.

Bridge Terminal Transport

Bridge Terminal Transport, a market leader in worldwide container services, agency, logistics and terminal activities and one of the largest marine container haulers within the United States will relocate their container yard operations from an existing facility near the Love Field Airport area to East Wintergreen Road near IH-45. With close proximity to Union Pacific�s Dallas Intermodal Terminal (DIT) and Interstate 45, the container yard will store inbound and outbound containers that transfer through DIT, as well as chassis and trailers for customers.

Completion Date: March 2009