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Grandscape panorama [Photo: Grandscape]
North Texas’ Grandscape Named World’s ‘Most Innovative Retail and Entertainment Project’ at London’s RLI Awards
by David Seeley | Oct 25, 2021
The award is presented annually by Retail and Leisure International, the world's only global magazine for the retail and leisure industry. Grandscape was noted for innovative retail and entertainment offerings that range from the 180-foot Grandscape Wheel to new concepts like Puttery and Electric Gamebox, along with crowd-pleasing attractions like Jurassic Park: The Exhibition.
by Quincy Preston and Alex Edwards |
Oct 25, 2021
Wing will operate a drone delivery facility in Dallas-Fort Worth at the Frisco Station development with a small number of flights starting this week.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 25, 2021
The team is led by UTSW assistant professor Gary Hon, Ph.D., who developed Mosaic-seq, a gene engineering technique that helped lead to the grant award. UTSW will now become a research partner in a new $185M National Institutes of Health (NIH) initiative to build on findings of the Human Genome Project.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 22, 2021
Newsweek Magazine just released its first Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces rankings—and some Dallas-Fort Worth companies made the list. Fort Worth-based First Command Financial Services hit the list at No. 19. Dallas-based civil engineering giant Jacobs came in at No. 53. And Plano-based At Home Group followed up at No. 97.
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David J. Lockhart, CEO and president of ReCode Theraputics [Photo: ReCode Theraputics]
Dallas Biopharma ReCode Therapeutics Closes $80M Series B Round to Expand Drug Pipeline for Respiratory Diseases
by Alex Edwards | Oct 21, 2021
The funding, which was co-led by Pfizer Ventures and EcoR1 Capital, will help drive ReCode's therapy programs for primary ciliary dyskinesia and cystic fibrosis into human clinical studies.
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by Alex Edwards |
Oct 21, 2021
Germany-based FlixMobility operates Europe's FlixBus and FlixTrain brands—noted for their cool-factor mix of tech startup, e-commerce, and classic transportation traits.
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by Alex Edwards |
Oct 20, 2021
Frisco and Little Elm are the first cities to get a new drone delivery service from Wing, a sister company of Google, and Walgreens. The partners will operate on-demand air deliveries that bring essential items straight to your door.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 20, 2021
Dallas VC-turned-entrepreneur Joe Beard and financier Joel Radtke are innovating debt capital delivery at CollateralEdge.
It's a mission: The founders want to reduce the barriers for businesses to access lower-cost bank financing. By partnering with the banks, the founders can solve problems for all stakeholders with their tech solution that's backed by high-powered capital partners.
It's a mission: The founders want to reduce the barriers for businesses to access lower-cost bank financing. By partnering with the banks, the founders can solve problems for all stakeholders with their tech solution that's backed by high-powered capital partners.
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Parkland's SuperBetter app "takes the best of psychology and a seven-point methodology" to empower youth and other users to navigate life in a way to build resilience.
United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Awards $1M in Health Innovation Technology Prize Funding
by Quincy Preston | Oct 19, 2021
Five local winners received up to $200,000 in funding to activate their solutions throughout North Texas.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 19, 2021
The office will focus on redevelopment efforts in priority areas throughout the city—including the West Spring Valley Corridor, the Richardson CORE District (downtown, Richardson Heights and Lockwood), and the recently created Richardson Innovation Quarter, also known as The Richardson IQ.
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by Alex Edwards |
Oct 18, 2021
Following an extensive rebrand and the launch of next-gen professional audiovisual solutions, Hall Technologies is moving from California to DFW as part of an extensive growth plan. CEO Jason Schwartz says that "Texas checked off all the boxes."
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by David Seeley |
Oct 18, 2021
The private donations by local companies and foundations are for the Dallas R.E.A.L. Time Rapid Rehousing initiative. Its goal: house more than 2,700 homeless people and families over the next two years. The $10M in private funds will complement $62M in federal funds allocated by local governments and DHA, the North Texas housing authority.
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Red Bull Racing Show Run Roars Into Downtown Dallas’ Harwood District
by David Seeley | Oct 15, 2021
Red Bull Racing is revving things up for the Formula 1 Aramco U.S. Grand Prix in Austin on Oct. 24—by holding a "Show Run" tomorrow in downtown Dallas. The four-hour, multi-format event features four rounds of Red Bull Racing car runs on a 640-meter track, plus an exotic car parade, a UT Arlington SAE self-built car run, Moto stunt riding, and more.
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by Alex Edwards |
Oct 14, 2021
It's the San Franciso company's first office in Texas. Verily expects to hire as many as 115 employees by the end of 2022.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 14, 2021
A transportation study team is exploring a potential high-speed Dallas-Arlington-Fort Worth rail line along the I-30 corridor. The North Central Texas Council of Governments is holding open house presentations on the project—which could ultimately lead to a bullet train or hyperloop whizzing us between the cities.
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by Quincy Preston |
Oct 14, 2021
The Water Cooler at Pegasus Park—the largest shared nonprofit space in Texas — is a place designed to accelerate impact, together.
From Big Thought to SVP Dallas to The Trust for Public Land, the 15 ‘exceptional nonprofits' were picked after an application process last summer. They’ll join Water Cooler's five founding tenants.
From Big Thought to SVP Dallas to The Trust for Public Land, the 15 ‘exceptional nonprofits' were picked after an application process last summer. They’ll join Water Cooler's five founding tenants.
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