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Dallas’ Surgical Notes Announces New Chief Financial Officer

by | Apr 5, 2024

Dallas-based Surgical Notes announced that healthcare finance veteran Dominic (Nick) Brignola has joined the company as chief financial officer.

The company, backed by Capstreet, a Houston-based lower middle market private equity firm, is a nationwide provider of billing services and solutions for the ambulatory surgery center (ASC) and surgical hospital markets....

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Landsea Homes Names President for New Dallas-Fort Worth Division
by | Apr 5, 2024

Melissa Kelly has been named president of Dallas-based Landsea Homes Corp.’s new Dallas-Fort Worth division, which was created when Landsea acquired Antares Homes.

“Melissa brings more than two decades of homebuilding experience with the Dallas-Fort Worth housing market and is well equipped to guide the introduction of Landsea Homes to this important region,” Mike Forsum, president and chief operating officer, Landsea Homes, said in a statement....

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Longtime Healthcare Exec Named Chair‑Elect of Greater Irving-Las Colinas Chamber
by | Apr 5, 2024

W. Stephen Love, president and CEO of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council has been named chair-elect of the board of directors of the Greater Irving-Las Colinas Chamber of Commerce, the chamber announced....

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CBRE Announces Leadership Moves in 2 Real Estate Services Segments
by | Apr 5, 2024

Dallas-based real estate services company CBRE Group Inc.’s Chief Operating Officer Vikram Kohli will assume direct oversight of the company’s two real estate services business segments — Advisory Services and Global Workplace Solutions (GWS), the company announced....

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Dallas’ Historic Forest Theater Takes First Step To Become an Arts and Community Hub

by | Apr 5, 2024
The iconic 1949 theater has been a vacant presence in South Dallas for 15 years. But it's about to get a vibrant new life as an arts and community cultural hub though a $75 million renovation and expansion, led by the nonprofit Forest Forward.
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Japan-Based UNIQLO Is Bringing Its Innovative ‘LifeWear’ To 3 Locations in North Texas
by | Apr 5, 2024
From clothes that keep you cool to moisture-transforming fabrics that keep you warm, UNIQLO is on the cutting edge of high-tech casualwear. It's also known for its innovative collaborations—including a new "attitude dressing" line from the designer of Meghan Markle's 2018 wedding dress.
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Known as the IO, Everon opened its Innovation and Operations HQ in Irving in 2024. [Photo: Everon]
Everon Opens Innovation & Operations HQ in Irving
by | Apr 4, 2024
Known as the iO, the facility aims to be a hub of learning, innovation, and industry-leading collaboration for Everon, which announced its rebranding from ADT Commercial in October. The iO is home to Everon's dedicated monitoring and customer operations center, groundbreaking Innovation Lab, and Solutions Showcase demo area.
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Dallas’ Leeward Energy Launches Operations at Huge South Texas Solar Project
by | Apr 4, 2024
The 200-MW project will provide Verizon Communications with renewable energy under a previously announced agreement. Avoided greenhouse gas emissions over the project's lifespan are estimated to be equivalent to "powering 1.2 million Texan households."
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Align Capital Partners Establishes Specialty Tax Platform via 2 Acquisitions

by | Apr 4, 2024

Dallas and Cleveland-based Align Capital Partners announced the formation of a specialty tax consulting platform with the acquisitions of Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based Cost Segregation Services Inc. (CSSI) and TaxIncennovations LLC.

Allied Capital Partners’ core services lines include cost segregation, research & development tax credits, and energy efficiency tax credit consulting services....

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Largest Panoramic ScreenX Auditorium in North America Opens South of Dallas
by | Apr 4, 2024
B&B Theatre's Red Oak 12 multiplex in Red Oak has opened two new auditorium experiences with technology by CJ 4DPLEX. One feaures a 270-degree panoramic screen that's 7 stories wide and 4 stories tall. The other offers motion and environmental effects like "vibration, water, wind, snow, lightning, and scents."
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The Last Word: Sportec Solutions’ Christian Holzer on Planting a U.S. HQ in Arlington
by | Apr 4, 2024
"All of that will happen at our Arlington operations center," Holzer adds in our story about Munich-based Sportec Solutions establishing its U.S. headquarters in Arlington.
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The Last Word: Dallas Mayor Invites Kansas City Chiefs To Move Back to Dallas
by | Apr 4, 2024
Kansas City Chiefs fans love their football team—but they hate taxes more. Jackson County, Mo., residents voted down a proposed 40-year, three-eighths of a cent sales tax that would have helped fund an $800 million renovation of Arrow Stadium. Now Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson has invited the Chiefs to come back home to Dallas.
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Clockwise from left: Andrew Denton, Anisha Holla, Ralph Yongoueth, Ananya Sammidi, Asad Moulvi, Sahil Patel, and Rick Tett will pitch in UT Dallas' Big Idea Competition 2024 student and alumni track finals on April 17. [Photos via UT Dallas and the entrepreneurs; Graphics: DI Studio, istockphoto]

UT Dallas’ Big Idea Competition 2024 Expands Its Spotlight On Breakthrough Innovation—And Gives Judges a Larger Role

by | Apr 4, 2024
The University of Texas at Dallas' largest startup pitch event, now in its 17th year, isn't sitting on its laurels. Here's what's new this year, and who made the finals. With dual events, a fireside chat, and judge-powered prize allocations, it's set to unfold on April 5 and 17.
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Commercial Operations Begin at Panda Biotech’s Massive Wichita Falls Hemp Gin
The Panda Hemp Gin is Dallas-based Panda Biotech's landmark industrial hemp processing facility in Wichita Falls—a 500,000-square-foot building with three miles of overhead pneumatic duct lines and a 600-yard-long processing line. The gin is the first of its kind and the largest industrial hemp facility in the Western Hemisphere.
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Patented: OxeFit’s Motorized Strength Training Apparatus With Selectable ‘Force Multiplication’ and More North Texas Inventive Activity
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of March 12, 2024. 109 patents granted include: Acquolina Il Mondo’s systems and methods for desalination of liquids, Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University’s systems and methods for failure detection tools in large-scale maintenance operations, Avodah’s visual sign language translation training device and method, Bank of America’s threat detection and prevention for information systems, COSM’s panoramic picture-in-picture video, OxeFit’s motorized strength training apparatus with selectable force multiplication, Reddy Ice’s bagged ice dispensing machine, Worlds Enterprises’ systems and methods for 2D to 3D conversion, and ZixCorp Systems’ delivery of an electronic message using a machine learning policy.
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German Sports Tech Company Plants Its U.S. Headquarters in Arlington
by | Apr 3, 2024
Based in Munich, Sportec Solutions maintains a long-term agreement with Major League Soccer as the official provider for live data and video assistant referee services.
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