Texas Sprawl Goes Out With a Bang, Development Sprouts on Irving Transit Line

With 2,715 pounds of dynamite Sunday, 40-year-old Texas Stadium -- the one with the hole in its roof, "so God can watch his favorite team play" -- was reduced to 2 million pounds of steel scrap and 4 million pounds of (recyclable) concrete rubble. Thousands of die-hard Dallas Cowboys fans and former players showed up to tailgate once last time and cheer the early morning implosion.

One entity that isn't sad to see it go is its host city of Irving, Texas, which lost the new $1.3 billion...