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Fort Worth plans for larger-than-life industrial growth.

Fort Worth's tracts with the highest development density are all zoned for Industrial development. Zoning data is power. Not only can we identify where cities are placing their future density, but we can also see their zoning type. Fort Worth's top three development capacity tracts are in industrial zoning districts....

How to capture the direction of downtown expansion.

The juxtaposition of current and future density delivers direction for real estate growth. We separated the top five tracts with the highest current inventory density (in blue) and the top five with future development density (in red) to depict potential growth. In purple, we are showing tracts in the top...

Visualization of future density: the path of an expanding downtown.

Mapping the future of density delivers the direction of a city’s growth. As a real estate developer, I’ve always wondered about the direction in which downtowns grow. Instead of skyrocketing quickly, the wrong guess might leave you waiting twenty years to see desired returns. Deepblocks digitizes zoning to see future...

StartUp innovation techniques from Silicon Valley. 

Is investment automation possible in real estate development? Over the past two weeks, I’ve shared findings from an automated, data-driven investment method. The objective is to find investment opportunities instantly and at scale to increase investment funds’ efficiency and speed. Ultimately, our fund. Why Deepblocks spent so much time digitizing...

The Densest Neighborhoods in Irving, Texas

Is it possible that the highest density doesn’t always indicate a city’s downtown district? We expected to find downtown Irving within the top five densest census tracts based on total buildable, but to my dismay, downtown Irving was not one of them. It was troublesome because we wanted a data-driven...

What caused the 2018 construction boom in Irving, Texas?

Irving, Texas, went from building an average of five million square feet per year to 60 million square feet in 2018. Did Irving, Texas, really finish 60,000,000 SF of construction in 2018? When we compared construction activity within the last ten years across Fort Worth, Dallas, Irving, Garland, and Arlington....

Comparing 50-year construction trends between Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas.

Dallas and Forth Worth have inverse 50-year construction trends. How should we interpret these trend lines? According to our 50-year construction trend data, Fort Worth is increasingly bullish on new development, while Dallas is not so much. If we started the trend line in 1990, the two cities would look...

Are economic trends and construction activity correlated?

We have discovered a direct correlation between economic trends and construction activity in the Dallas-Fort Worth MSA. The correlation between construction activity and economic trends makes sense. It makes sense because construction loans are required, and given the tight margins, interest rates can break the bottom line of a new...

Deepblocks launches functionality to export development assumptions.

FEATURE FRIDAY With Deepblocks, you can export a CSV of the back-of-the-envelope development assumptions and integrate it into your pro forma. There is nothing like building your own real estate development pro-forma. Everyone has their flavor, from simple sketches to elaborate forty-tab masterpieces. A pro-forma is a perspective on the...

Ownership and crime in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area.

What is the relationship between ownership and crime trend lines in small versus large cities? One of the most interesting correlations from our Deepblocks density index report was between ownership and crime. At least in the five sampled cities of Dallas-Fort Worth MSA, the correlation between crime and ownership had...

Density growth index applied to Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area.

How to leverage data to detect investment opportunities automatically? The first step is determining which city has the best metrics. We conducted a pilot study on five cities in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area. We compared Irving, Fort Worth, Dallas, Arlington, and Garland across population density, economic growth, construction density,...

Density is the next level investment metric.

What is density, and how can we use it to identify early real estate investment opportunities? There are many ways to look at geographic data, and when we started developing a Deepblocks index for investment, we hit a few stumbling blocks. For example, when we looked for census tracts with...