A report, including a projected future impact, will be finishedby month's end. AllianceHTexas includes the developments ofAlliance, Circle T Ranch and Heritage, totaling 15,000 acres in 65square miles. It encompasses Ft. Worth, Haslet, Roanoke andWestlake situated in Denton and Tarrant counties and two publicschool districts.

"In the past we've talked about the number of jobs created, theamount of property taxes paid and the amount of private investment,but we've never done a full economic impact study that includesincomes from the employees and sales taxes from the businesses atAlliance, as well as the indirect benefit from the salaries andtaxes," explains Mike Berry, president of Hillwood Properties, thedevelopment overseer for AllianceHTexas.

Insight Research will be evaluating the 9,600-acre Allianceproject, 2,500-acre Circle T Ranch and 2,500-acre community ofHeritage. Alliance consists of 94 companies that have built morethan 15 million sf, creating 17,000 full-time jobs. Circle T Ranch,in its early developmental stages, contains the 332-acre corporatecampus for Fidelity Investments and a 400-acre golf community ofthe Discovery Land Co. Heritage, still in its first phase, is amaster-planned community of single-family homes, five school sitesthat include a public and prive high school campus and a 50-acrecity park.