DALLAS — A major development in Southern Dallas has been named one of 16 finalists in a nationwide competition hosted by Elon Musk’s Boring Company in which the winner will have a mile-long tunnel built within its infrastructure for free.
University Hills, a 280-acre, $1 billion mixed-use project by developer Hoque Global, was named on of the contest’s finalists after being one of 487 entities to submit a proposal for the tunnel. According to a statement released by the City of Dallas, the proposed tunnel would connect the neighborhood to the University of North Texas Dallas DART Station nearby.
The competition, known as the “Tunnel Vision Challenge,” was announced in January by The Boring Company, the tunneling enterprise founded by Elon Musk. It encouraged companies to pitch tunnel concepts up to one mile long and 12 feet in diameter that would demonstrate innovative transportation or infrastructure solutions…