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Kenneth Perkins has been a contributing writer for Arlington Today for nearly a decade. He is a freelance writer, editor and photographer.

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If you’ve ever traversed the I-30 corridor, shopped ‘til you dropped at the Parks at Arlington Mall, cheered for the home teams at Globe Life Field or AT&T Stadium, or clocked in and out of Six Flags Over Texas via the employee all that has been made possible in part by the Graham Associates civil engineering has played an integral role in building Arlington this last shop in Arlington they may have only had a single client to their credit, but it was a doozy: - ration, spearheaded by Angussponsible for the development obtaining permission fromGraham Associates to Wagnon ed getting mentioned in newspapers a decade later, when in -

- per and I-30, a sorely needed as the roadway bottlenecked to the city simultaneously experienced an explosion of from a population of more - liams has had a hand in a lot engineer when he joined the In a recent conversation was eager to recognize his and within the city, who made “I want to express gratitude for giving us this great opporI want to express the respectand his great work and dedicahave been many great engineers and surveyors who have helped build and shape our them!”

As for the city itself, Williams says Arlington has been a great community to work in

“Because of the great people here in Arlington, it enabled a great leaders that did things

“Our city is called the can-do city because we get things been cultivated here since the beginning of our city’s founding.”

One of the most important projects that stands out to Williams is the Three Bridges Project over I-30, to be able to the Entertainment District,um.

“Three of our senior engineers Mark Burckhard, John night and day for a year for that project to be completed byum opened,” he said. Timing -

“It set a standard. It really helps set the design character for the city,” he said.

Bridges project completed, another design team led by Mike civil engineering for AT&T Staon time. hard not to feel like both the

Associates are really hitting their stride. Beyond Arlington, - liams’ leadership has played a and communities all acrossMart and related development That development necessitated-vergent Diamond Interchange They’re currently involved in the National Medal of Honor Museum, headquartered here in Arlington. They also have

Prairie and throughout North appeared on the “top 500

Since then, it’s continued - of the same–living out their ethos as an integral building partner to people and combeyond.

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