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Veteran Land Professional Joins Stream Realty Partners as Vice President

by | May 5, 2023
Shawn M. Street will serve as a vice president of Dallas’ land division, working alongside Senior Vice President Demian Salmon to expand Stream's land brokerage business across the Metroplex.
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Wingstop Appoints Industry Veteran as SVP/President of International
by | May 5, 2023
Wingstop has nearly 2,000 restaurants globally. Kapoor will be responsible for driving the company's growth and development strategy for markets outside of the U.S. and overseeing the performance of the brand's existing international markets.
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Neovia Logistics Adds Industry Veteran as its Chief Operations Officer
by | May 5, 2023
Dave Moore comes to Neovia from Americold, where he was chief operations officer. Prior to that, he was COO for AGRO Merchants Group and held senior leadership roles at DHL Supply Chain, Ryder Logistics, and Daimler Chrysler.
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VALID Systems Adds 2 Innovative Leaders to Expand its Product Suite
by | May 5, 2023
Donna Cichani, a former exec with JPMorgan Chase & Co, has come aboard as senior vice president of product management, and Gaurav Jain, a former senior product manager at Capital One, has joined VALID as senior vice president of credit and product innovation.
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The Last Word: Quadrant’s Chad Cook on His Plans for the Dallas Design District

by | May 5, 2023
Quadrant Investment Properties has broken ground on two office buildings in the Dallas Design District, according to the Dallas Morning News' Steve Brown—a five-story building on Riveredge Drive and the 10-story Thirteen Thirty Three on Oak Lawn near Riverfront Boulevard. QIP's Chad Cook says he doesn't want the district "to become another Uptown."
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Longtime Former American Airlines CFO to Retire, Successor in Place
by | May 5, 2023
The airline said that Derek Kerr stepped down as CFO at the end of 2022 after 20 years in the role as part of a long-planned succession process. Devon May was named to succeed Kerr as CFO and assumed the role Jan. 1.
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Dala Communications Launches Nonprofit Practice Group with Hiring of Key DFW Nonprofit Leader
by | May 5, 2023
Stuart Williams' appointment to the role of Vice President of Operations and Senior Fundraising Consultant at Dala Communications brings over 17 years of nonprofit fundraising experience to the firm. Williams' impressive track record of securing donations in the five and six-figure range attests to his deep understanding that fundraising is both an art and a science.
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Hypergiant Awarded Over $16M from U.S. Air Force for Cloud-Based Command and Control UX
by | May 5, 2023
Hypergiant Galactic Systems Founder and Board Member Ben Lamm—who's also the co-founder and CEO of Texas-based Colossal Biosciences—tweeted out six rocket emojis to congratulate the Hypergiant team.
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Westmount Realty Capital Adds Industry Vet as Managing Director of Development

by | May 5, 2023
With the addition of Kyle Russell, Westmount said it is strengthening its growing portfolio and focus on the industrial market through the restoration of its development initiative, focusing first on the Dallas-Fort Worth region with plans to progress and broaden further development into a national footprint.
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Dallas Cowboys Help Net $113K for North Texas Nonprofits with Reliant Home Run Derby
Usually they race for the end zone, but Wednesday some of the Dallas Cowboys' top players swung for the fences at the Reliant Home Run Derby in Frisco. And whether they got dingers or popups, it was all for a good cause. Find out which Cowboy won for the second straight year—as two all-new 'Pokes players joined in the fun.
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DFW Airport To Demo Next-Gen EV Charging Solutions for Employees, Public
A series of five EV charging demonstrations will be offered from May through August at various customer parking lots across DFW Airport, hosted by the airport’s Innovation and Planning teams in partnership with consultant STV. The demos will offer the chance to test next-gen EV charging solutions—such as autonomous robotic wireless charging, on-demand charging, and apps that enable charging control from anywhere on earth.
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Dallas’ Common Ground Capital Launches $50M Fund and In-House Property Management Division
by | May 4, 2023
Common Ground Capital says it builds wealth through acquiring, renovating, leasing, and exiting well-located single-family homes. The firm currently owns and operates 45 properties throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth area. With its second fund, Managing Director Ty Lee aims to acquire over 300 more—initially in DFW before expanding its portfolio across Texas and the U.S.
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Would You Pay $670,000 for a Mattress? You Can at a New Hästens Store in Dallas

by | May 4, 2023
If you like to hide your money under a mattress, this one is probably not for you. Yes—around the corner from a Mattress Firm that sells a Sleepy's Basic Foam Mattress for $129—you can drop more than two-thirds of a million dollars on a mattress at the new Hästens store on McKinney Avenue just south of Knox Street in Dallas.
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Dallas-Based Alpine Partners with BlueHalo on Breakthrough Drones for Military, Commercial Use
by | May 4, 2023
The war in Ukraine has proven how critical drones are to a nation's defense. Now a new unmanned aerial system developed with technology from Dallas' Alpine Advanced Materials could represent a leap forward—both for military and commercial applications. Arlington, Virginia-based BlueHalo has launched the next generation of its Intense Eye UAS platform using HX5, a multi-scale reinforced polymer from Alpine.
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Is Confidence in the VC Industry on the Decline?
by | May 4, 2023
A Quarterly Wink and a Glance at Venture Capital – Q1 2023
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‘Air’ Producer Skydance Sports and NFL Films Are Doing a Docuseries on Jerry Jones
by | May 4, 2023
Skydance produced the hit movie “Air,” directed by Ben Affleck and starring Affleck, Matt Damon and Viola Davis, about the birth of the Air Jordan Brand. With "Jerrah" as the star of its new project, Skydance aims to mine "never before seen content" from the NFL Films vaults to reveal the Dallas Cowboys owner like never before.
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