CHILI’S DELIVERY SERVICE TEST RUN; UTA RESEARCHES FAIR PARK; HEALTH WILDCATTERS MOVING
Every day Dallas Innovates staffers scour websites looking for the most interesting, important, and unusual stories about innovation and creativity. Here are three we thought you’d like:
Chili’s Grill and Bar has teamed up with the Postmates food delivery service and began delivering food from seven Dallas area Chili’s locations this past Saturday. The casual dining concept of Dallas-based Brinker International (NYSE: EAT) has offered delivery before, but in a different way. In December 2013, it began offering deliveries on orders with a $125 minimum — more of a catering choice. Now, the test run with Postmates is geared towards individual meals, with a small delivery fee of $3.99. To see if Chili’s is delivering out of a location nearest you, check here.
A new study from University of Texas at Arlington shows that if more methods of transportation were available to Fair Park, more people would spend time there. Researchers think that if a “loop circulation pattern” were in place, visitors would be encouraged to hang out in more clustered, higher profit areas as well as adding more bike and walking lanes. It suggests more park land and parking structures. To read more about the students’ continuing research, click here. Fair Park is celebrating its 80th year with free admission to museums, concerts and exhibits. From Wednesday through Saturday, “Friends of Fair Park” will host the four-day festival in commemoration of the big anniversary. Along with the celebration, there will be the opening of a new Museum Green park for kids, encouraging attendees to look into the future of the park. For a full schedule of events and more information, check it out here.
Health Wildcatters, the Dallas-based accelerator for the health-care industry, will be moving its offices to downtown Dallas. The move is being made to allow for expansion, to have a more centrally located office, and to offer recent graduates opportunities for collaboration with big businesses. For more information about this move, check it out here.
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The Water Cooler at Pegasus Park—the largest shared nonprofit space in Texas — is a place designed to accelerate impact, together. From Big Thought to SVP Dallas to The Trust for Public Land, the 15 ‘exceptional nonprofits' were picked after an application process last summer. They’ll join Water Cooler's five founding tenants.
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"It's not an idea—it's happening," says April Allen, president of the Southern Gateway Public Green Foundation. Southern Gateway Park will be an engineering marvel over I-35E, with five acres of wooded slopes, water features, rocky escarpments, a restaurant/retail complex hidden under a hilltop, and one of the most awesome kids' playgrounds in North Texas. But its greatest achievement may be to make Oak Cliff whole again—and to bring all of Dallas together.
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BioLabs at Pegasus Park shared space and state-of-the-art lab is slated to open in December. It's a place where entrepreneurial innovators can test, develop, and grow their ideas.
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The Irving-based convenience store chain is partnering with robotics company Nuro to deliver goods to customers' doors in Mountain View, via autonomous Priuses. Nuro was the first autonomous vehicle company to receive a deployment permit from the California DMV in December 2020.
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With more than 165 locations in the U.S. and international franchises, Snapology expands Urban Air's offerings to include play-based STEM and STEAM learning. That should add even more momentum to Urban Air, ranked the #2 "Smartest-Growing Brand" in America by the Franchise Times.
