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Ken Hersh [Sources: Photo, Grant Miller Photography; DI Studio]

Bush Center’s Kenneth A. Hersh To Receive 2024 Horatio Alger Award for Lifetime Achievements and Philanthropy

by | Feb 9, 2024

Kenneth A. Hersh, president and CEO of the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas has been selected for membership in the prestigious Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans Inc., a nonprofit educational organization honoring the achievements of outstanding individuals and encouraging youth to pursue their dreams through higher education.

He joins 10 other business, civic, and cultural leaders from across North America in receiving 2024 honors, the organization said....

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Southlake’s Sabre Corp. Adds Former Lyft CFO to Its Board
by | Feb 9, 2024
Elaine Paul, the former CFO of Lyft, Amazon Studios, and Hulu, has been elected to Sabre's board, effective Feb. 16. On that same day, Zane Rowe and Rachel Gonzalez will retire from the board.
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MoneyGram Adds 4 New Leaders to Accelerate Global Digital Strategy
by | Feb 9, 2024
The company said the new leaders will partner closely with the executive leadership team and will report directly to MoneyGram Chief Digital Officer Seth Ross.
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‘Architects’ Engineer’ Joins DeSimone Consulting Engineering Dallas as Principal/Director
by | Feb 9, 2024

Industry leader Thomas W. Taylor, PE, has joined DeSimone Consulting Engineering as principal and director, helping to lead its structural engineering practice in Dallas.

DeSimone is a leading engineering and construction services consulting firm based in New York City....

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RobotLAB is expanding its distribution agreement with LG Business Solutions USA [Photo: Business Wire]

DFW-Based RobotLAB Expands Distribution Agreement with LG Business Solutions

by | Feb 9, 2024
Last March, RobotLAB inked a deal with LG Business Solutions USA to expand deployment of LG's hospitality robots—including a restaurant servebot named ClOi. The new collaboration will make the entirety of LG’s robotics portfolio more widely available and tailored via RobotLAB’s network and expertise.
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AllianceTexas at 35: How a Pioneering Vision Led to a $120 Billion Game Changer
by | Feb 8, 2024
When Ross Perot Jr. and Mike Berry were in their mid-20s, they set out to defy skeptics and fast-track a first-of-its-kind industrial airport in North Fort Worth. Today, AllianceTexas stands as a 27,000-acre global nexus fueled by that same trailblazing spirit—and public-private collaboration on a grand scale.
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The Last Word: Mayor Eric Johnson on New Law Enforcement Training Center Coming to UNT Dallas
by | Feb 8, 2024
The University of North Texas at Dallas and the city of Dallas have announced a $10 million grant from the Communities Foundation of Texas toward the new law enforcement training center coming to the university's campus. Once built, it will become the new home of the Dallas Police Training Academy.
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Dallas’ Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope Acquires Midwest Glass Fabricators
by | Feb 8, 2024
Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope CEO Bruno Biasiotta said his company's customers and partners "will benefit from the combined expertise of OBE and Midwest Glass through a broader portfolio of products, expanded geographic coverage, and access to OBE’s industry-leading tools and services.”
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Kelly Stark, former founder and principal of Forward Vision, is now EVP of account management at JSA [Photo: LinkedIn]

North Texas’ Forward Vision Acquired by Las Vegas Branding & PR Agency

by | Feb 8, 2024
JSA said the addition of Forward Vision's B2B marketing team—including its top executives, creatives, and digital, social and PR professionals—will allow for the same "seamless dedication to customer service" that Forward Vision customers have come to depend upon.
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Dallas’ Trive Capital Is Taking a U.K. Bowling and Entertainment Company Private
by | Feb 8, 2024
Tenpin offers customers a unique experience via a mix of bowling lanes, video arcades, escape rooms, karaoke, laser tag, pool, table tennis, and soft play across 53 centers. The partnership with Trive will allow Tenpin to accelerate its expansion strategy in the U.K. and continue to invest in its site portfolio to enhance customer experience, the Dallas PE firm said.
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Flipping into Frisco: 20th Texas Pinball Festival Rolls In March 15-17
by | Feb 8, 2024
Where the pinball stops, nobody knows. But pinball lovers? Next month they'll be pinging their way to Frisco for the 20th anniversary edition of the Texas Pinball Festival. Once you pay your way inside, you'll have "free play" access to more than 400 pinball machines, classic video games, and other "game room goodies"—along with tournaments, seminars, and more.
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‘Walk this Way’ Exhibit Tells Stories Through Nearly 200 Years of Women’s Shoes
by | Feb 8, 2024
Opening this Friday, the exhibition at the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum offers a pathway to stories centered around "women's labor activism, the fight for suffrage and equal rights, the sexual revolution, and more."
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Rendering of Children’s Health and UT Southwestern's new pediatric campus [Image: Children’s Health]

Children’s Health and UT Southwestern Are Bringing a $5B New Pediatric Campus to Dallas

by | Feb 7, 2024
The new campus in Dallas' Southwestern Medical District will "enhance our shared capacity to provide comprehensive care for children, including those with the most complex medical and surgical needs," said Christopher Durovich, president and CEO of Children's Health.
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Dallas-Plano-Irving Metro Ranked No. 8 Among Best-Performing Cities in U.S.
by | Feb 7, 2024
According to the 2024 Milken Institute Best-Performing Cities Index, the Dallas-Plano-Irving metro division earned its top 10 spot "largely because of the continued strength of its labor market." The metro "ranked in the top 10 large cities in all job growth categories and in one-year wage growth," the report said, while performing well "in most components" of the report's rankings.
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The Last Word: Visit Dallas’ Craig Davis On City’s Renovated Convention Center Getting 41 Bookings—Years Before Completion
by | Feb 7, 2024
Dallas' Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center is poised for a mega-makeover via a nearly $2 billion redevelopment. When completed, the expanded convention center will offer 170,000 square feet of ballroom space, 260,000 square feet of meeting rooms, and 800,000 square feet of exhibit space. Not to mention a new deck park over I-30 and attractions like a sprawling roof terrace with jaw-dropping views, 
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Patented: Textron Innovations’ VTOL Aircraft and More North Texas Invetive Activity
by | Feb 7, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 8 for patents out of 250 metros. 129 patents granted for the week of 1/16/24 include: Equifax’s secure online access control to prevent identification information misuse, Musarubra’s system and method for automatically prioritizing rules for cyber-threat detection and mitigation, Max-IR Labs’ IR radiation and fluid channel to detect contaminants and salts in fluids, Meta Platforms’ systems and methods for determining hand poses in artificial reality environments, Textron’s VTOL aircraft with tilting rotors and tilting ducted fans.
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