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The Last Word: Dude Perfect’s Coby Cotton on Jumping from YouTube to a $100M Theme Park

Dude Perfect told the Wall Street Journal they've sent out bid requests for their proposed $100 million theme park/HQ "to Frisco and other cities" and asked for responses within two months. Meanwhile, the team said, they've been talking with potential fundraisers for the project. 
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Fort Worth’s VALID Systems Launches Service that Makes 99% of Bank Deposits ‘Instantly Available’
by | Feb 27, 2023
A leader in "account-based decisioning" and real-time machine learning models, VALID announced its launch of InteliFUNDS, a new service that enables banks to make up to 99% of check deposits "instantly available with no risk to the institution." Founded in 2003, the pioneer in check authentication and risk decisioning says it has "more than $200 billion in decisioned checks under our belt."
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Texas In Line to Receive $1.6B of $54B in National Opioid Settlement Funds
by | Feb 27, 2023
State governments affected by the opioid epidemic were locked in intense litigation with pharmaceutical companies for years. Now the settlement money is being distributed, earmarked for treatment centers, recovery services, transitional housing needs and more.
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Report: DFW is No. 6 Metro in U.S. for Relocators, with L.A. as the Top Source
According to a new report from Redfin, Dallas-Fort Worth's gravitational pull continued to exert itself in January. DFW was the No. 6 metro in the U.S. among the Top 10 Metros Homebuyers Are Moving Into, the report shows. And the metro that lost the most residents to DFW-bound homebuyers was Los Angeles. The report says DFW homes sell "for roughly half" of the typical L.A. home, which costs $800,000.
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Common Desk Plans 23K-SF Coworking Space in Dallas’ The Hill Shopping Center

by | Feb 27, 2023
Common Desk, a coworking space company that launched in Deep Ellum and now has nearly two dozen locations in North Texas, Austin, Houston, and North Carolina—has its eyes on The Hill. The Hill Shopping Center, that is—a trendy retail development on Walnut Hill Lane near U.S. 75.
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Irving-Based Pei Wei’s Expansion Plans Include Food Trucks, College Campuses, and Digital-Only Restaurants
by | Feb 27, 2023
Pei Wei Asian Kitchen plans to bring its "wok'd-to-order" dishes to 10 to 15 new locations this year in Texas, Arizona, and Florida, and is expanding its footprint in unexpected places like food trucks, airports, and even inside Kroger Grocery stores. The company has introduced a new "light and bright design" in several new DFW traditional locations, as well as at its first digital location on Dallas' Greenville Avenue.
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Theme Park Giant Six Flags Entertainment Corp. Names New Chief Marketing Officer
by | Feb 24, 2023

Edithann Velez Ramey has been appointed chief marketing officer of Arlington-based Six Flags Entertainment Corp., the world’s largest regional theme park company and the largest operator of waterparks in North America....

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Former Microsoft Environmental Strategist Robert Bernard Joins CBRE as Chief Sustainability Officer
by | Feb 24, 2023

Former Microsoft executive Robert Bernard has joined Dallas-based real estate services giant CBRE Group as chief sustainability officer and senior vice president of client sustainability solutions, bringing with him more than two decades of environmental sustainability experience....

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Klyde Warren Park Once Again Voted One of Top 5 Best City Parks in U.S.

Klyde Warren Park is the jewel in the crown of downtown Dallas, and now it's gotten some extra sparkle. The park has been ranked No. 5 of all city parks in the U.S. in USA Today's 10Best Readers' Choice list for 2023. "Perched atop a sunken freeway, this nationally acclaimed 5-acre oasis is just one of the examples of what makes Dallas' downtown area so dynamic," USA Today writes. 
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The Last Word: Texas Motor Speedway’s Mark Faber on Making Some Fast Company
This week the Texas Motor Speedway announced the renewal of multiple commercial partnerships as well as two new partnerships with Texas-based companies.
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Former Richards Group Building to Be Renovated, Rebranded as One West Village
Just north of downtown Dallas, one of the city's most stand-out buildings is getting a new name along with some new internal looks. The former HQ of The Richards Group at 2801 North Central Expressway is being rebranded as One West Village and will begin undergoing renovations soon. Dallas-based CRE company OliveMill Holdings is doing the renovation after acquiring the building last year in a partnership with Dallas' Hunt Realty Investments and New York's Angelo Gordon.
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The Last Word: Hotels.com’s Melanie Fish on the Rise of ‘Thirst Trips’
by | Feb 23, 2023
If you saw HBO's "The Last of Us" this week, you know all about the Death Zone—a perilous place full of zombies and murderous raiders. Well, we've all now entered our own real-life Death Zone, and it's on the calendar—the nearly 100-day stretch between President's Day and Memorial Day weekend is the longest 3-day weekend drought of the year.
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A Robot Is Changing Tires in Arlington

by | Feb 23, 2023
Michigan-based RoboTire uses "state-of-the-art robotics and advanced algorithms" to change a vehicle's tires in a fraction of the time it takes humans to do it, "reducing an hour-long experience to under 25 minutes while maintaining the highest levels of safety." The Arlington location is the second of Discount Tire's 1,100 stores to implement the system. And it's not a coincidence—Discount Tire is a RoboTire investor.
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Toyota Offers New Tool to Help Customers Find Electric Vehicle Incentives
by | Feb 23, 2023
The Toyota EV Incentive Finder is available on Toyota.com and is powered by EV Life. It makes finding federal, state, and even municipal incentives much simpler, the company says. Using EV Life's proprietary "Incentives Engine," Toyota customers will be presented with potential incentives of the available 470+ EV tax credits, rebates, and other benefits such as HOV carpool decals and toll discounts.
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Home Loan Servicer Mr. Cooper Appoints EVP/Chief Legal Officer
by | Feb 23, 2023

Carlos M. Pelayo has been appointed executive vice president and chief legal officer of Coppell-based Mr. Cooper Group Inc.

Pelayo will lead the company’s legal department and corporate governance functions and will serve on the executive leadership team....

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Trend Micro Acquires Security Operations Center Tech Provider Anlyz
by | Feb 23, 2023
Trend Micro says its acquisition of the Delaware-based company will extend its orchestration, automation, and integration capabilities. It will also enable enterprises and Managed Security Service Providers to improve operational efficiencies, cost effectiveness, and security outcomes.
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