If there was I never saw it, for years I have driven though ETX and its still nothing but podunk towns. Even the town square around the courthouse in Marshall was nothing special. It's simply a drive from Dallas you can make in a few hours. They have a airport but I hardly think that attorneys would do that over the drive.
As for any of those projects? Likely just a facade for what's really been going on which is essentially good ol' boy politics to keep the money flowing and people in power. The place you want to look at is Marshall, TX. It's not really that exciting of a town but you can find economic reports of that community so see that it's not really a hotbed of economic growth outside of the oil field business.
My opinion comes from many years of maintaining gas stations from DFW to Shreveport off I20 and all through ETX.
As for any of those projects? Likely just a facade for what's really been going on which is essentially good ol' boy politics to keep the money flowing and people in power. The place you want to look at is Marshall, TX. It's not really that exciting of a town but you can find economic reports of that community so see that it's not really a hotbed of economic growth outside of the oil field business.
My opinion comes from many years of maintaining gas stations from DFW to Shreveport off I20 and all through ETX.