Union Pacific's Dallas Intermodal Terminal, spanning parts of Wilmer and Hutchins west of Interstate 45, is the Union Pacific rail yard at the heart of the International Inland Port of Dallas. The railroad held its grand opening on 19 September 2005 for a $100 million, 360-acre terminal, built from June 2004 and designed to handle 365,000 trailers and containers a year, which raised Union Pacific's container capacity in the Dallas and Fort Worth area more than five times. At opening it had one receiving and departure track, four loading tracks able to take 76 double-stack cars, five staging tracks, four GPS-equipped cranes and parking for more than 4,000 trailers and containers. John Kaiser, who ran Union Pacific's intermodal business, said it would let the railroad handle growing rail and truck freight traffic in the Dallas and Fort Worth area.
The developer Mike Rader spent about seven years persuading Union Pacific to build it, after an earlier deal with Burlington Northern fell apart days before signing, when that railroad announced its merger with the Santa Fe. Around the terminal grew a district of about 7,500 acres across Dallas, Lancaster, Hutchins, Wilmer and Ferris, bounded by Interstate 20 on the north, Interstate 35E on the west and Interstate 45 on the east, with the whole of Hutchins inside it. In 2008 about five million square feet of industrial space was built, under construction or planned there; by 2018 it was more than thirty-two million, and the tenants included Amazon, FedEx, Kohl's and Whirlpool.
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