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The Panther Island project, also known as Central City, is located in an industrial area north of downtown Fort Worth. The project will create a new urban district on an island combining mixed-use neighborhoods with a network of canals and a lake to control flooding. [Rendering: Courtesy of Trinity River Vision Authority ]
Fort Worth’s Panther Island Dream Gets More Real with $403M Federal Funding
by David Seeley | Jan 21, 2022
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced plans Wednesday to spend $403 million on the final design and build of a 1.5-mile flood-control bypass channel, which will reroute part of the Trinity River near downtown Fort Worth—and create Panther Island.
Fort Worth hopes the 800-acre island will become a massive housing and mixed-use entertainment and recreational district, connecting downtown Fort Worth to the city’s cultural district and the Stockyards.
by David Kirkpatrick |
Jan 20, 2022
o9’s Digital Brain AI platform addresses enterprise business planning and decision-making through enterprise modeling, big data analytics, and more.
A $100M investment by KKR in 2020 gave the firm unicorn status. Now o9's co-founder and CEO tells Dallas Innovates his company will grow even more in 2022—both globally and in its delivered solutions.
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by David Seeley |
Jan 20, 2022
To find the answer, host Stephen Dubner flew to DFW to see why the region is so business-friendly, why the people are so friendly too, why cities to the north are growing like hotcakes, and why a Basquiat got on the wall of the Dallas Museum of Art. Oh, and he ate a Meat Potato at Sonny Bryan's Smokehouse. (Thumbs up.)
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by David Kirkpatrick |
Jan 20, 2022
The Hedera Governing Council will buy the IP from Swirlds, a startup co-founded in 2015 by the inventor of the Hashgraph algorithm. Dallas mathematician and computer scientist Leemon Baird created the distributed ledger technology to outperform other protocols in power, security, and speed.
This could be a breakout moment.
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The world premier of the U.N.'s Don’t Choose Extinction campaign to end fossil fuel subsidies kicked off at COP26. The video features Frankie the Dino voiced by actor Jack Black. [Image: video screenshot]
‘Don’t Choose Extinction’ and Other Ways Innovators Can Make a Climate Difference
by David Seeley | Jan 19, 2022
Frankie the Dino says "Going extinct is a bad thing."
Dallas Innovates recently caught up with EarthX's Rose Stark about the talking dinosaur's world premiere at the COP26 U.N. Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland.
Here are takeaways.
Here are takeaways.
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by David Seeley |
Jan 19, 2022
The company has sold over 100 million bottles of Poo~Pourri—its "before-you-go" odor-eliminating toilet spray—since its launch in 2007. Now it's expanding its line to tackle odors everywhere: for homes, cars, cats, dogs, shoes, even (phew!) men.
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by Quincy Preston |
Jan 19, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 14 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: 7-Eleven's multi-camera image tracking on a global plane, Amazon's active safety systems for item sortation equipment, Brain Games' electronic all-in game, Fashion For Globe's searching and obtaining clothing designs while discouraging copying, IBM's data analytics and insights brokerage service, McAfee's detection and mitigation of fileless security threats, State Farm's facilitating real estate transactions by analyzing user-provided data, TazKai's real-time progressive examination preparation platform , TI's low-power wakeup pattern detection of multiple data streams, and UniWell's pharmaceutical compositions.
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Dallas ISD Superintendent Michael Hinojosa will leave the district by the end of 2022. [Image: DISD]
DISD Superintendent Hinojosa Is Leaving Post in December
by David Kirkpatrick | Jan 14, 2022
The move caps off Hinojosa's 42-year-career in education, including helming Dallas ISD for 13 years.
A roster of leading civic supporters stepped up to praise the superintendent.
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by David Kirkpatrick |
Jan 14, 2022
The hire follows the company's merger and rebranding in 2020. Dallas-based Outmatch joined forces with Amersterdam-based Harver in May and rebranded in November.
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by Maddie Preston |
Jan 14, 2022
In this week's roundup of hires, promotions, and accolades in North Texas, you'll also find news from CrossFirst Bankshares, Johnson & Sekin, DataBank, Balfour Beatty, Caspr Group, Mohr Partners, One Network, Kainos Capital, The Dallas Foundation, Denton County Transportation Authority and Indio Management.
Plus, the incoming AIA Dallas President charts a way forward for 2022 and Gov. Abbott appoints a North Texas to the Broadband Development Council.
Plus, the incoming AIA Dallas President charts a way forward for 2022 and Gov. Abbott appoints a North Texas to the Broadband Development Council.
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by David Seeley |
Jan 14, 2022
The expanded collaboration will lead to multiple pilot tests of robotically driven freight on I-45 between Fort Worth and Houston "in the same lane" as those conducted in 2021. The two companies plan "to complete fully autonomous transport in Texas in the next few years."
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Lay’s Uses ‘Sacred’ Cowboys Soil to Grow Spuds for Limited Edition Chips
by David Seeley | Jan 13, 2022
As we get ready for Sunday's Cowboys-49ers playoff game, our photo gallery shows you the journey the hallowed Dallas Cowboys soil took to a potato farm in Dalhart, Texas—where NFL chip history was soon made.
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by David Seeley |
Jan 13, 2022
Several large leases signed by social media and financial services users—whose identities were not disclosed—drove the swell of activity in Q4. That led to "incredibly strong" net leasing activity for the full year, CBRE says.
That's now driving lots of new data center construction here, and may increase asking rates in 2022 and beyond. With "no end in sight" to the market growth, CBRE's Brant Bernet believes we're only in the "early innings" of an extra-inning game.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jan 13, 2022
Dallas Innovates and D CEO celebrated 78 honorees and revealed the winners of our third-annual Innovation Awards at an event held at The Perot Museum of Nature and Science. Here's a full list of winners and finalists.
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by Dave Moore |
Jan 13, 2022
Employers in today’s white-hot job market need to cut to the chase when hiring rockstars. Here are 5 key takeaways from BGSF's new 2022 Salary Guide.
Plus, the workforce solutions expert will discuss the findings in a webinar on Jan. 14. It's not too late to sign up.
Plus, the workforce solutions expert will discuss the findings in a webinar on Jan. 14. It's not too late to sign up.
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