Part of DFW Airport sits inside Euless. The city’s fact sheet puts 3,228.6 of its 10,378 acres inside DFW Airport, and outside the airport it counts just 310.86 acres still undeveloped. So for a city of about 60,000 (60,008 in the Census Bureau’s July 2025 estimate), almost nothing gets built from scratch. The work is renovation: hotel lobbies on Airport Freeway, restaurants moving into somebody else’s kitchen, small suites changing hands, and houses built in the 1970s and 1980s.
We’re about 40 minutes away in Plano. We haven’t completed a project in Euless yet. Our nearest finished job is Pizza Twist in Irving, a 2,000-square-foot franchise restaurant we built in six to eight weeks while the restaurant stayed open, phasing the work around service hours. Plenty of Euless hotel and restaurant owners face the same problem: keeping the doors open while the space changes.
Airport Freeway, SH 121, and SH 10: the commercial map
TxDOT describes SH 121/183, the Airport Freeway, as an east-west corridor through North Richland Hills, Hurst, Bedford, Euless, and Fort Worth. The city’s zoning code singles out four roads in its distance rules: Airport Freeway/SH 183, SH 121, Euless Boulevard/SH 10, and FM 157/Industrial Boulevard.
A hotel town, by the city’s own count
The city’s where-to-stay list names twelve hotels. Seven have Airport Freeway addresses, two sit on SH 121, and the rest are on Chisholm Trail, East Harwood Road, and Global Drive. The city’s certificate of occupancy report for January through September 2026 lists new certificates for three of them: a Cambria Hotel on East Airport Freeway, a Motel 6 Studio Suites on West Airport Freeway, and a Holiday Inn Express & Suites on East Harwood Road.
In 2017, a La Quinta at 431 Airport Freeway registered a remodel with the state covering a new market in the lobby and a reworked business center, listed at 52,500 square feet.
Hotels rarely close for a lobby job. The front desk has to live somewhere while the new one gets built, so we phase it: a temporary desk, one zone at a time, dust walls, loud work kept away from the check-in rush. More on occupied renovations under commercial construction.
Restaurants in second-generation space
An IHOP and Applebee’s at 2309 West Airport Freeway registered a $300,000 alteration of a 4,332-square-foot existing building with the state in 2026. Second-generation space like that usually means an inherited kitchen, a hood that may or may not suit the new menu, and grease and plumbing lines somebody else laid out.
At Pizza Twist we ran the full kitchen installation and utility connections in phases so service never stopped. See restaurant construction for how we sequence food-service builds.
SH 121 north: Glade Parks
Up SH 121 toward Grapevine sits Glade Parks. Euless created the Glade Parks Public Improvement District on December 14, 2010, near SH 121 and Cheek Sparger Road, to pay for $12.1 million in public work, including Rio Grande Boulevard and its bridge. In 2026 the CO report shows an H-E-B grocery store, fuel station, and car wash opening on Rio Grande Boulevard, plus a few smaller suites along the same street.
Newer centers like this are where you’ll find first-generation shells: slab, demising walls, a utility stub. Finishing one is tenant improvement work in the plainest sense, and the city’s asbestos form, covered below, gives brand-new shells a shortcut.
Clinic Drive, Pipeline Road, and the small suites
One address says a lot about small-business demand here. Of the 61 new-business certificates of occupancy Euless issued from January through September 2026, ten went to suites at 901 Clinic Drive: lash and beauty studios, an artistry lounge, boutiques, a counseling practice, a concierge medical office, even a Boy Scout troop. Small rooms. Quick turnovers. Every one needs its own CO.
The city’s 2026 permit report shows interior finish-outs going suite by suite in Pipeline Business Park and a $383,000 renovation for a construction company’s space on South Pipeline Road West. Across the city, Euless issued 60 commercial remodel or addition permits in those nine months, carrying about $6.6 million in declared valuation.
Check the zoning before you sign
The Euless zoning code keeps certain uses, including tattoo studios, tobacco stores, and non-depository financial institutions, at least 500 feet from the right-of-way of Airport Freeway, SH 121, Euless Boulevard, and Industrial Boulevard. The same frontage that makes a lease attractive can rule a use out. The city’s commercial plan review checklist opens with “Verify Zoning for Proposed Building” and asks whether the use needs a specific use permit. We check both before you sign anything.
The building stock: 1980s houses and a renter majority
The Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 American Community Survey counts 25,795 housing units in Euless, and the median one was built in 1986. The 1980s were the biggest decade by far, with 7,347 units, about 28 percent of everything standing. Another 3,159 went up in the 1970s and 3,625 in the 1960s.
It’s a renter’s city, too. About 60 percent of occupied homes are rented, and roughly four in ten housing units sit in buildings with five or more units. Single-family detached houses make up about 42 percent.
Euless still issued 152 permits for new single-family homes in the first nine months of 2026, most of them on a cluster of new streets named for prairie plants: Crossvine, Snapdragon, Milkweed, Bluestem, Buffalo Grass. The core is older. Public Works lists sanitary sewer replacements in Oakwood Terrace North and on Milam Drive among its current construction projects.
Older commercial space means an asbestos survey
The city’s asbestos survey certification form cites Texas law requiring an asbestos survey in commercial buildings before any renovation or demolition. The survey report, or a sealed letter from a Texas engineer or architect, goes in with the building permit application. The exception is an original finish-out in a brand-new shell. That splits the city in two. A Glade Parks shell can usually certify its way past the survey. A suite on Airport Freeway that’s been built out twice needs the survey or the sealed letter.
Order the asbestos survey before the demolition drawings. The permit desk asks for it up front.
Permits, plan review, and the CO in Euless
Euless runs permitting through the Building Inspections Division of the Planning and Economic Development Department, at 201 North Ector Drive. Applications are filed online, and the city is moving its portal to Cityworks. Applications received since October 11, 2022 are reviewed under the 2021 international codes and the 2020 National Electrical Code, with local amendments.
Two rules in the city’s building code chapter shape the calendar. Contractors must be registered with the city before they can pull permits; homeowners working on their own homestead are exempt. And no permit is issued until the application has been on file with the building official for five full business days.
What needs a permit? The city’s list includes remodeling that involves demolition, moving walls, or structural changes; room additions; electrical upgrades; plumbing beyond simple fixture replacement; water heater, furnace, and condenser replacements; garage enclosures where zoning allows them; and certificates of occupancy for commercial and multifamily space. One local quirk: from May through September, inspectors won’t do attic or confined-space inspections after noon because of the heat. Book attic inspections for the morning.
Larger developments go to the city’s Development Services Group, which reviews projects every Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. For a tenant finish-out, the commercial plan review checklist is the guide: plans by a registered design professional, an exit and emergency lighting plan, ADA restroom fixtures, an energy compliance report, and a TDLR number for projects over $50,000. That last item is the state’s accessibility registration, with its own review clock.
The certificate of occupancy
The fire marshal’s guide to the CO process is plain about who needs one: every business, in a stand-alone building or a leased suite, before it occupies the space or opens to the public.
“A certificate of occupancy is not transferrable.”
From the Euless Fire Marshal’s Office information line on the CO process.
A new owner, address, or business name means a new certificate. Apply online, then allow up to seven business days of processing before scheduling initial inspections. Remodel permits are separate and generally come first, and all CO inspections, fire included, are booked through the building department.
Its list of common violations includes an emergency light breaker without a red indicator, an address under 8 inches tall, systems without a current inspection tag, and no key for the Knox box. The city’s tempered water notice adds one more: public restroom lavatories must deliver water between 85 and 110 degrees through an approved temperature-limiting device, checked at the CO inspection.
Food businesses answer to the city, not the county
Tarrant County Public Health regulates food establishments for Bedford, Hurst, Grapevine, and many other Tarrant cities, but it lists Euless among the cities it does not regulate. Here, a food business files a health license application with the city, which its development forms page groups with the CO application. Installing or modifying a hood’s chemical extinguishing system takes a fire construction permit, and a new CO2 beverage system over 100 pounds needs an installation permit with plans approved before work starts.
Fire marshal items that change the drawings
The city’s sprinkler rules include local amendments that matter on these corridors. New construction needs sprinklers at 6,000 square feet or more (a local threshold), in any hotel or motel, and in any multifamily building with three or more units. Expand an existing building to 6,000 square feet or more and the whole building gets sprinklers. An existing building over that size that changes to a more hazardous occupancy can trigger them too.
Knox key boxes are required on every new commercial building and on existing ones with sprinkler, alarm, or elevator systems, recessed on new construction and mounted 4 to 6 feet above grade, according to the city’s Knox device guidance. Orders need fire department authorization and can take weeks. And from the fire marshal’s information lines: battery-pack emergency lights get wired to the room’s normal lighting circuit, on the hot leg of the switch.
Remodeling a Euless house built in the 1980s
The permit report shows what homeowners actually did in the first nine months of 2026: 14 major and 31 minor remodel permits, covering room additions, garage conversions, sunrooms, kitchen remodels, a primary bath, and repairs after fire and water damage. The same report counts 31 residential foundation repair permits and 134 water heater replacements. The median house is 40 years old, and the permit list shows it.
Kitchens. A 1980s kitchen often keeps its original cabinet boxes, a soffit over the uppers, and a wall between it and the family room. Kitchen remodeling here usually means taking the soffit down and opening that wall, with an engineer involved if it carries load and a Euless permit because it’s a wall move.
Baths. The common ask is a walk-in shower where a tub sat. In a slab house, moving the drain means cutting the slab, and plumbing beyond a fixture swap needs a permit. See bathroom remodeling.
Floors and the whole house. Trading carpet and worn sheet vinyl for one continuous floor changes how a 1980s house reads. When the floors, kitchen, baths, and lighting all need work, a whole-home remodel on one schedule beats four separate jobs.
Additions and garage conversions. These show up again and again in that permit list. The city requires permits for room additions and allows garage enclosures only where the ordinance permits them, so we check the rules for your lot before designing one. Home additions covers how we plan them.
Airport noise can matter if you’re adding space. The city’s residential plan review checklist asks for a sound reduction letter when construction is east of Main Street, and its residential construction packet describes the noise reduction letter for aircraft exposure zone B: an engineer or architect certifies the plans will deliver a shell isolation rating of at least 25. Both are written for new homes, so on an addition east of Main, ask the building division early whether it applies. The same checklist says no water heaters in attics.
Two Euless landmarks
DFW Airport, partly inside the city
The airport in the photo at the top of this page is DFW. The city’s transportation page describes it as halfway between Dallas and Fort Worth and partially in Euless, and the fact sheet counts 1,290 developed and 1,920 undeveloped acres of airport land inside the city. It explains a lot about building here: the dozen hotels, the noise letter, and so little open land.
The Euless School site and the Old Iron Bridge
At 605 South Main Street, a Texas Historical Commission marker marks the site of the old school. In 1913, patrons of three area schools formed the Euless Common School District, and a two-story brick schoolhouse opened for the 1914 to 1915 school year. Growth tied to the Bell Helicopter plant and Fort Worth Municipal Airport led Euless and Hurst to merge districts in 1955, and Bedford joined in 1958 to form Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD. The old school was razed in 1970, and South Euless Elementary stands on the site now.
Behind the school, in South Euless Park, sits the Old Iron Bridge, a truss bridge built in 1889 that has moved many times. The city’s historic places page pairs it with Heritage Park, about 0.6 miles away along Cullum Drive. According to the city’s history page, the park holds the restored Fuller House, the first brick house in Euless, plus the Himes Log House from the 1850s and the McCormick Barn, built with lumber from Camp Bowie after World War I.
How a Euless project runs with MASACO
Same six steps on every job, laid out on our process page, with the Euless pieces built in:
- Understand. We walk the space with you and check zoning and the corridor distance rules before you commit.
- Visualize. You see 3D renderings before we price anything.
- Plan. A fixed-scope proposal organized by trade, with allowances, plus the asbestos survey, TDLR registration, and fire items scheduled from day one.
- Execute. One project manager and a written photo update every week. We register with the city before pulling the first permit.
- Deliver. A close-out package: as-builts, permits, inspection records, the CO, and warranties.
- Support. We stay reachable after handover.
Running a hotel on Airport Freeway, leasing a suite at Glade Parks, or fixing a 1980s kitchen near Midway Park? Book a consultation. We’ll walk it with you and bring back a plan you can hold us to.
Building in Euless: what to know.
Euless counts 3,228.6 of its 10,378 acres inside DFW Airport, and the city's fact sheet lists only about 311 undeveloped acres left outside the airport, so most work here reworks buildings that already stand. Commercial space lines Airport Freeway (SH 183 and SH 121), Euless Boulevard (SH 10), Industrial Boulevard, and SH 121 north to Glade Parks, with a dozen hotels on the city's own lodging list. The Building Inspections Division at 201 North Ector Drive issues permits and certificates of occupancy under the 2021 international codes, and the city, not Tarrant County, licenses food businesses.
Euless neighborhoods and districts.
- Glade Parks
- Villages of Bear Creek
- Oakwood Terrace
- Midway Park
- Wilshire
- Heritage Park and South Main Street
- Parks at Texas Star
- Airport Freeway hotel corridor
- Euless Boulevard (SH 10)
- Industrial Boulevard (FM 157)
- Pipeline Road business parks
- Westpark Way
- Clinic Drive
Euless on the map.
Open Euless, TX in Google Maps
Photo credits
- Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport Aerial (50430797863).jpg by formulanone, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
- TX121 North - TX360 Exit TX10 One Mile (49166738027).jpg by formulanone from Huntsville, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
- MVI 2745 Euless, TX, welcome sign.jpg by Billy Hathorn, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
- South Euless Elementary School with marker (42353754781).jpg by QuesterMark from Where the West Begins, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
