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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas Accepting Applications for ‘Blue Impact’ Grants

by | Feb 28, 2023

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas is accepting applications for a new $2.93 million grant program as part of a refreshed community investment strategy focused on social determinants of health.

“For decades, we have worked in close collaboration with local community organizations and partners, leveraging their knowledge, experience and talents on a local level to help support healthier communities,” Sheena Payne, director of BCBSTX community investments, said in a statement....

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DallasCIO Announces Winners of 2023 Dallas ORBIE Awards
by | Feb 28, 2023
DallasCIO—a peer leadership network of North Texas chief information officers—announced the winners of its 2023 Dallas ORBIE Awards, including execs from Textron, CBRE, Reddy Ice, and more. The organization recognized chief information officers and chief information security officers in seven key categories: Leadership, Global, Large Enterprise, Enterprise, Large Corporate, Corporate, and for the first time ever, CISO.
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The Last Word: Dude Perfect’s Coby Cotton on Jumping from YouTube to a $100M Theme Park
by | Feb 28, 2023
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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Report: DFW is No. 6 Metro in U.S. for Relocators, with L.A. as the Top Source

by | Feb 27, 2023
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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AT&T, ServiceNow Announce Global Telecom Network Inventory Platform
by | Feb 27, 2023
AT&T provided strategic design and technical guidance for the development of ServiceNow Telecom Network Inventory, which aims to give telecom companies a consolidated view of their networks and a consistent workflow to connect and take action on data. "“As we approach our internal deployment, we also look forward to seeing how other operators around the globe might take advantage of it," said AT&T's Jon Summers.
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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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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.

“As the world’s largest commercial property manager, we have an outsized opportunity to influence sustainability across the built environment,” Bob Sulentic, CBRE’s president and chief executive officer, said in a statement....

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Insurer Globe Life Adds 2 New Members to its Board of Directors
by | Feb 24, 2023

McKinney-based Globe Life Inc. announced that Alice S. Cho, senior adviser to the Boston Consulting Group, and David A. Rodriguez, former EVP and global chief human resources officer of Marriott International Inc.,...

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Klyde Warren Park Once Again Voted One of Top 5 Best City Parks in U.S.
by | Feb 24, 2023
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
by | Feb 24, 2023
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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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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Plano-Based Rent-A-Center Rebrands Its Corporate Entity as Upbound Group
by | Feb 23, 2023
The company's new corporate Upbound name reflects both its growth—the 2020 acquisition of Acima lease-to-own solutions nearly doubled its business—and its mission. "Upbound can help elevate our customers, providing them with greater access and a path towards financial flexibility," says CEO Mitch Fadel. The name change will impact the company's stock ticker, but not its retail-facing businesses: Rent-A-Center and Acima will continue to operate under their existing names.
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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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