“Too far away from their distribution center and Houston area leadership has been hostile”
Say what? We are well within their range. I certainly see the special interests lining up against them, as they clean the clocks of their competitors when they do show up, but I doubt that Dallas would have been any friendlier.
Not to mention that there are a lot of counties and cities in the Houston area - I doubt they all lined up against them.
No, Houston is still too far away, per what INO management have said. They simply do not currently have the resources at the Dallas facility to service what they have now plus support a Houston venture. What I think they’re going to do is slowly expand in that direction, down I-45 etc., and add transport and throughput capability incrementally as needed. It isn’t a bad plan.