City manager: Goodland could add 50,000 residents and become a 'city within a city'

City Manager Bill Hills described a multi-decade planning effort for the southern Goodland area, calling it a potential "city within a city" that could add roughly 50,000 new residents and help push Grand Prairie's population past 300,000. "Down south, we're looking at 50,000 new residents in the Goodland area," Hills said, framing the expansion as both a planning challenge and an opportunity.

Hills outlined the city's approach: large-area annexation decisions in prior decades enabled current planning, and the city has worked with private partners including Provident and the Huffines Group to build residential and industrial components. He said some development will be unannexed for about 20 years and that service provision during that phase will be handled by developer agreements and interlocal arrangements.