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Home Solutions Co. GoldenHome Is Developing an AI‑Driven ‘Smart Manufacturing Hub’ in North Texas

by | Feb 26, 2025
The 130,000-SF facility in Cedar Hill "integrates AI-driven automation with master-level craftsmanship to deliver bespoke home solutions at unprecedented speed," the company said.
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How DeSoto Is Planning to Make Southern Dallas a Key Part of the Life Science Pipeline

The southern half of Dallas County is home to just over 1.05 million residents. That’s about 40% of the total number of people who call Dallas County home—and roughly 200,000 more than the entire population of San Francisco....

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Patented: Game Changer Patch Co.’s Transdermal Patches for Hangover Minimization and More North Texas Inventive Activity
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Jan. 21 with a total of 138 patents granted.
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The Last Word: Inside the ‘Trick Shot’ World of Dude Perfect’s Epic New Frisco Headquarters
by | Feb 25, 2025
What do you get when you combine a giant smoke-ring cannon, a chocolate-covered bone-in ice cream, and an 80,000-square-foot facility that its CEO describes as a "sports lover's Barbie Dream House"? The answer: A tour of Dude Perfect's jaw-dropping new headquarters in Frisco at The Star Business Park.
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Aligned Data Centers Expands DFW Footprint as It Races to Serve AI/Cloud Workloads

by | Feb 25, 2025
With more than a decade of innovation in cooling technologies and 5,000+ MW of future capacity, Plano-based Aligned plans to open a new data center on a 27-acre site in Mansfield.
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Life-Like Dinosaurs Roaring into Grand Prairie’s EpicCentral in March
by | Feb 25, 2025
An animatronic T-Rex, a Stegosaurus, a Brachiosaurus, and other Jurassic favorites will be part of the Ext-ROAR-dinary Dino Fest coming to EpicCentral March 15-17.
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Dallas EDC Names Arts Leader, Former Ambassador as Board Members
by | Feb 24, 2025
Chris Heinbaugh is the chief advocacy officer at the AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas. Ambassador Jeanne Johnson Phillips chairs the Mayor's International Advisory Council for Dallas.
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From Shrek to SpongeBob: ‘Themed Lands’ Revealed for Universal Kids Resort in Frisco
by | Feb 24, 2025
Opening next year, the resort will feature lands themed around kid-favorite characters including DreamWorks Animation’s Shrek, Puss in Boots, Trolls, and Gabby’s Dollhouse; Nickelodeon’s SpongeBob SquarePants; Illumination’s Minions; and Jurassic World.
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Online Credit Solutions Company Elevate Appoints 2 C‑Suite Leaders

by | Feb 20, 2025
Kerry Miles has been promoted to chief operating officer from chief product officer and Michael Bailey has joined Elevate as chief marketing officer.
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Capital Southwest Announces New President & CEO, 2 Other C‑Suite Moves
by | Feb 20, 2025
Michael Sarner has been appointed president and CEO, succeeding Bowen Diehl, who will continue to serve the company in an advisory capacity for at least another year.
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North Texas Rent-A-Center Parent Upbound Group Announces CEO Transition
by | Feb 20, 2025
After 40 years with Upbound, Mitch Fadel has decided to retire as CEO and step down from the board. EVP and CFO Fahmi Karam is succeeding him; a search for a new CFO is underway.
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UT Arlington and Texas A&M to Launch Biomanufacturing Hub at Dallas’ Pegasus Park
by | Feb 20, 2025
The new center at Bridge Labs will train the workforce powering North Texas’ biotech boom—helping startups speed therapies, vaccines, and breakthrough biologics from lab bench to patients. Funded in part by Lyda Hill Philanthropies, the National Center for Therapeutics Manufacturing Satellite Campus is set to open this summer.
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Dallas’ Spark Biomedical Partners with Air Force to Reduce Motion Sickness, Spatial Disorientation

by | Feb 20, 2025
Whether in a cockpit, a tank, or a heaving ship, America's warfighters face an unseen enemy: sudden bouts of nausea and disorientation that can make them lose their bearings in life-or-death situations. Armed with a $480K grant, Spark Biomedical will test its Sparrow Ascent neurostimulation device as a way to reduce the risk.
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How Ex-Army Helicopter Pilot Kathleen Hildreth Co‑Founded a Billion-Dollar, Denton-Based Defense Contractor
by | Feb 19, 2025
Innovation, competence, and confidence paid dividends for the Michigan native, who helped start and build M1 Support Services en route to becoming one of America’s richest self-made women.
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Michaels Companies Appoints Former Staples Canada CEO as its New Chief Executive
by | Feb 19, 2025
David Boone is currently the interim CEO of Essendant, a wholesale, e-commerce, and 3PL company.
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$4B+ Deal: Fort Worth’s Double Eagle Sells Oil & Gas Assets to Diamondback Energy for $3B Cash, 6.9M Shares
by | Feb 19, 2025
Here's an oil & gas deal so big, it would even raise eyebrows on the hit Paramount+ series "Landman." The acquisition by Midland-based Diamondback Energy includes around 40,000 net acres that Diamondback CEO Travis Stice called "the most attractive asset remaining in the Midland basin."
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