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How DeSoto Is Planning to Make Southern Dallas a Key Part of the Life Science Pipeline

by | Feb 26, 2025

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.

Coupled with the fact that Dallas-Fort Worth is emerging as a top life science market, as documented in a 2023 CBRE report, you can see why the DeSoto Development Corp....

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Patented: Game Changer Patch Co.’s Transdermal Patches for Hangover Minimization and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by | Feb 26, 2025
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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Dallas’ Provident Data Centers, Virginia’s PowerHouse Partner on ‘Hyperscale’ North Texas Campus
by | Feb 25, 2025
The co-developed data center campus will encompass 24 buildings planned across three phases on a 768-acre campus just outside Grand Prairie. The project's first building is slated to be energized in May 2026.
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Animatronic dinosaurs coming to EpicCentral March 15-17 [Photo: EpicCentral]

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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Unleashed Brands Hires Former Burger King, Mountain Dew Exec as Its CMO
by | Feb 24, 2025
Marketing industry veteran Pat O'Toole is the former chief marketing officer for Burger King US & Canada. He previously served as CMO at Mountain Dew, overseeing PepsiCo Beverages North America's "Flavors" portfolio.
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Capital Southwest execs, left to right: Michael Sarner, President and CEO; Chris Rehberger, CFO, Treasurer & Secretary; and Tabitha Geiger, Chief Compliance Officer [Photos: Capital Southwest]

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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Austin-Based Flex Announces New Dallas Manufacturing Facility to Meet AI-Driven Power Demands
by | Feb 20, 2025
The facility at 4001 N. Prairie Creek Road in East Dallas "significantly boosts production capacity and efficiency" for Flex's grid-to-chip data center power infrastructure solutions, the company said.
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In November, former Secretary of the Army "Pete" Geren introduces M1 Support Services co-founder Kathleen Hildreth at the Texas Business Hall of Fame induction dinner in Dallas. [Photo: Grant Miller Photography]

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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Patented: McWane’s Remote Monitoring of Water Distribution and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by | Feb 18, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Jan. 14 with a total of 154 patents granted.
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