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Republic Property Group Proposes McKinney Development With 10K Homes, $2B in Taxable Value

by | Jan 9, 2023
Republic Property Group presented a proposal in December to the McKinney City Council for Honey Creek, a property west of Highway 75 and next to the future U.S. Route 380 bypass. Along with the proposed homes, the development would include commercial and office space.
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100-Year-Old Dickie’s Is Moving Into a Stylish New HQ in Downtown Fort Worth
by | Jan 9, 2023
Dickie's—the Fort Worth-founded world leader in work apparel—has been around for a century. That seems like a great time to spiff things up with a stylish new HQ, and Dickie's is doing just that, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports.
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Brita Andercheck, chief data officer and director of the Office of Data Analytics and Business Intelligence
How Dallas’ Chief Data Officer Tackles Urban Challenges as a ‘Data Surgeon’
by | Jan 5, 2023
Andercheck is leading a charge to create a data culture in Dallas that empowers everyone to speak, understand, and access data.

As the Dallas data chief, she was recently featured in Data-Smart City Solutions, a project by the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University. In the feature, Anderchief discussed how CDOs use data on income and infrastructure to identify areas in need of additional assistance.
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Trive Capital Forms Tri-Trade Home Services Platform with Partners
by | Jan 2, 2023
Cascade Services was created through a partnership between Trive, LP First Capital, and an experienced management team to pursue acquisition opportunities in the residential HVAC, plumbing, and electrical services sector.

The Cascade team includes CEO Tyrone "Ty" Johnson, who previously was a Trive operating partner and chief executive officer of publicly traded Select Interior Concepts.
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Exponential Technology Group Buys Australian Tech Business Braemac

by | Dec 29, 2022
As a subsidiary of TTI Inc., XTG and its parent company, Mansfield-based Mouser, are part of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies run by billionaire Warren Buffett.  Braemac, based in Sydney, Australia, has 17 offices globally and offers support from design through to product realization.
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Barnston Agtech showed off its swarm farming robotic driverless tractors at the Barnstorm R&D Center in a recent YouTube video. [Video screenshot]
Robotic Agtech Startup Closes $217K Equity Raise for ‘Barnstorming’ Autonomous Tractor Swarms via Fort Worth’s Harvest Returns
by | Dec 28, 2022
Barnstorm Agtech, a Canadian startup developing driverless robotic tractors known as 'Barnstormers,' has closed on a $217,500 equity capital raise through Fort Worth-based Harvest Returns' investment platform.

The company, co-founded by a fourth-generation farmer and a robotics expert, plans to deploy 'swarms' of the tractors as a service to farmers in the U.S. Midwest and Canadian Prairies to address chronic labor scarcity and other "pain points" of traditional tractor systems.
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Dallas Invents: 135 Patents Granted for Week of November 29
by | Dec 28, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Akamai Technologies' device discovery for cloud-based network security gateways, Amazon's identity-aware filtering proxy for virtual networks, BMIC's asphalt shingle waste coatings in roofing materials, Capital One's sorted parallel processing of a large dataset, EarthSystems Technologies' predictive monitoring geological and meteorological effects on subsurface infrastructure systems and reporting emergency conditions, Google's methods and computer program products for providing data use options, Halliburton's sealing apparatus with swellable metal, Toyota's managing drones in vehicular system, USAA's voice synthesis for virtual agents, and more.
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Bank of America Contributes Nearly $4M to North Texas Nonprofits in 2022
by | Dec 28, 2022
Bank of America has donated nearly $4 million to North Texas nonprofits this year, including local food banks and two 2022 Bank of America Neighborhood Builder® awardees.
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Caterpillar Adds Chief Sustainability Officer Role to Energy and Transportation Exec’s Scope

by | Dec 24, 2022
Lou Balmer-Millar will take on the role of chief sustainability officer at Caterpillar, succeeding Julie Lagacy who is retiring after 35 years with the company. In addition to her new position, Balmer-Millar will remain the senior vice president of the Large Power Systems Division within the Energy and Transportation segment.
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Comerica Bank Names New National Community Affairs Manager
by | Dec 24, 2022
LaToya Rowell will oversee the company's national volunteer program and continue to manage community initiatives and partnerships across the bank's footprint in partnership with the external affairs market team and social impact manager.
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DRC Names 3 Companies in Best Places for Working Parents Dallas Innovator Awards
by | Dec 22, 2022

The Dallas Regional Chamber has named three local companies as recipients of the inaugural Best Place for Working Parents Dallas Innovator Awards.

The companies are:

Micro/Small Business (under 200 employees): Barnes & Thornburg

Medium Business (between 201 and 999 employees): Corgan

Large Business (more than 1,000 employees): Children’s Health

The Best Place for Working Parents Dallas is a local partner of the Best Place for Working Parents national initiative that recognizes family-friendly workplaces in the Dallas Region through a proprietary business self-assessment and it seeks to raise awareness of the importance of family-friendly benefits and policies for employers and workers, the DRC said....

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Partnership Acquires Four Seasons Golf & Sports Club of Las Colinas
by | Dec 22, 2022
Dallas-based Century Golf Partners and Japan-based HKI America have teamed up to buy the storied Four Seasons Golf & Sports Club of Las Colinas. Century Golf Partners, one of the world's leading golf and club ownership and management teams, was founded in 2005 for the purpose of acquiring and managing private clubs, public courses, and golf resorts and is the partnership’s managing partner. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Lantern Pharma’s New Drug Candidate for Mantle Cell Lymphoma Shows Promise

by | Dec 22, 2022
The Dallas-based biopharmaceutical company expects to begin testing the drug candidate in a “first in human” trial in mid-2023. The drug was developed using the publicly traded company’s AI/ML drug development platform.

Lantern, in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute, recently published insights on how AI can be used to find new indications for cancer drugs in record times with significant reductions in costs.
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Metropolitan Life Unit Takes Over Ownership of Galleria Dallas Mall and the Westin Galleria
st days before Christmas—amid the busiest shopping week of the year—an iconic mall in North Dallas just changed hands. According to the Dallas Morning News, a unit of Metropolitan Life Insurance has taken over the deeds to both Galleria Dallas and the Westin Galleria, the 432-room hotel that looms above it.
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COMSovereign Sells Sky Sapience Tethered Drone Unit for $1.8M Cash
by | Dec 22, 2022
COMSovereign Holding Corp., the Dallas-based developer of 4G LTE Advanced and 5G communication systems and solutions, is selling its Israel-based Sky Sapience tethered drone unit to Titan Innovations for $1.8 million. The deal will allow COMSovereign to refocus efforts on its 4G LTE and 5G wireless connectivity solutions, the company said. "Sky Sapience's proprietary fiber optic tether technology makes it an ideal platform for military, borders, and civilian applications," said Titan Innovations CEO Yahav Regev.
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UT Southwestern Team’s Gene Editing Battles 1-in-250 Heart Condition
by | Dec 21, 2022
UT Southwestern researchers have used gene editing technology to develop what could be a breakthrough for dilated cardiomyopathy, a heart condition that affects one in 250 people worldwide. “The pace of this field is really breathtaking,” said Eric Olson, Ph.D., who co-led the study. “I expect that if this moves forward into patients, we’re not talking within decades—we’re talking within years.”​ 
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