[OBW]

Ohio,

At the time of the sale and the building in Irving, flights were going directly overhead already without the new runway. Southeast take-offs were quickly turned to the right to a due South direction to avoid going over more expensive houses to the Southeast. And they put extra insulation in the exterior walls, roof and upper ceilings because of it.

They eventually stopped the takeoffs from that runway, but when they built the new East-most runway years later, the planes were essentially landing to the North (obviously not the main air-traffic direction in Dallas) less than a block to the West of the building. But they seldom use it for take-offs.

At some level, I believe that the airport is being used as an excuse to try to get the airport or the city to pay for the building. A building that was put where it was to take advantage of the proximity of the airport.

And the plans for that new runway existed long before the idea of a church/print shop/training facility was hatched.