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nVenue Co-Founder/CEO Honored in Sports Business Journal’s List of Game Changers

by | Aug 9, 2024
Kelly Pracht was recently named to Sports Business Journal’s 2024 class of SBJ Game Changers, recognizing female sports business executives. She's the only technologist and one of only two women from the sports betting industry to be included.
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Toll Brothers Opens Luxe ‘Smart Home’ Remy Multifamily Community in Frisco
by | Aug 9, 2024
Featuring 357 studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments, Remy is the second collaboration between Pennsylvania-based Toll Brothers and Chicago's Equity Residential. Each apartment features smart home technology, including keyless entry, smart thermostats, and in-residence Wi-Fi.
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Topping Out Ceremony Held for Phase 1 of Fort Worth’s Convention Center Expansion
by | Aug 9, 2024
Thursday's topping out ceremony marked a key development in the $95 million Phase 1 expansion of the Fort Worth Convention Center, slated for completion in 2026. Up next: an even bigger Phase 2 expansion with an estimated price tag of $606 million.
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Lucchese Launches Dallas Cowboys Collection as the Team’s Official Boot Brand
by | Aug 9, 2024
Now those are what we call some "Cowboy" boots. To kick off a five-year partnership as the official boot of the Dallas Cowboys, Dallas-based Lucchese Bootmaker has launched a new Lucchese x Dallas Cowboys collaborative collection—for men, women, and even girls who like the 'Boys.
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Plan Your Week: The Ultimate Guide to Dallas Startup Week 2024

The DEC Network, organizers of Dallas Startup Week, are calling DSW24 “the second largest startup week in the USA” — and it kicks off this Sunday! The cornerstone event is gearing up to transform the DFW entrepreneurial landscape from August 11-15, promising five days of insights, connections, and opportunities.

With the event just around the corner, we’ve crafted this ultimate guide—a blueprint for making the most of your time at DSW24....

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New York-Based Blackstone Makes Majority Investment in North Texas’ Westwood Professional Services
by | Aug 8, 2024
Westwood—a Plano-based engineering and design firm with over 1,600 employees in more than two dozen offices across the U.S.—specializes in renewable energy projects, energy storage, and public and private infrastructure projects. It relocated its HQ from Minneapolis to North Texas late last year.
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Dallas Investment Banking Group Estrada Hinojosa & Co. Acquired by Texas Regional Bank
by | Aug 8, 2024
Texas Regional Bank said its acquisition of Estrada Hinojosa will add more than 50 people to the TRB team with offices in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Edinburg, Miami, Chicago, Denver, and New York City.
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Dallas’ Hunt Energy Network To Get $250M in Funding from Ontario-Based Manulife
by | Aug 8, 2024
"Over the past three years, our partnership with Manulife let us build a resilient network of dispatchable, distributed storage all across Texas," said Hunt Energy Network CEO Pat Wood. A Manulife leader said the partnership "will support the grid and allows us to drive innovation with a market leader in ERCOT."
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EDC Headhunter Merger: Dallas’ The PACE Group Teams With North Carolina’s Jorgensen Consulting

by | Aug 7, 2024
Known for their work in economic development, community development, and nonprofit, Jorgenson Pace will conduct high-level searches nationwide for leadership positions in economic development organizations, chambers of commerce, downtown development, government, and other not-for-profit organizations.
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Westlake-Based ECI Software Solutions Acquires Smart Manufacturing Software Co. ProfitKey
by | Aug 7, 2024
ECI—which has offices in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, the U.K., The Netherlands, and Australia—said the acquisition enhances its manufacturing software portfolio and further solidifies its commitment to supporting businesses within the industry.
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Surge Protection: Dallas’ CSW Industrials Acquires Virginia-Based PSP Products for $40M
by | Aug 7, 2024
The acquisition brings a family of superior surge protection and load management products to CSWI, the company said, adding that it funded the transaction with cash on hand and borrowings under its existing $500 million revolving credit facility.
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Mouth-Watering Photo Gallery: 2024 State Fair of Texas Big Tex Choice Finalists Fry Up Hippy Chips to Burnt End Bombs
by | Aug 7, 2024
The 2024 State Fair of Texas runs September 27 to October 20 in Dallas' Fair Park. This year's big question: What will we be eating? Here are the Big Tex Choice Awards finalists—from Texas Rush Sugar Pickles to Hot Chick-in Pancake Poppers to Cotton Candy Bacon on a Stick. (Yum.)
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A Daisy Duo: Dallas-Based Daisy Brand Partners with ‘Bachelor’ Star Daisy Kent

by | Aug 7, 2024
America's best-selling brand of cottage cheese and sour cream wooed Daisy Kent from afar by running commercials during her "most pivotal moments on screen." Now they've made their Daisy duopoly official with a new marketing partnership.
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With $3M+ in Prizes, Fortnite and Rocket League World Championships Coming to Fort Worth in September
by | Aug 6, 2024
Nearly 150 top esports players from 35 countries will compete at Fort Worth's Dickies Arena from September 7 through September 15. Competitors will include Texas-based Fortnite players Cooper and Clix and Rocket League players ApparentlyJack and Hockser.
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Overseeing $10B in Private Assets, Dallas’ Leon Capital Expands Access with iCapital Partners
by | Aug 6, 2024
Leon—a single-family office—said the collaboration marks a significant milestone for the firm, which until recently primarily utilized its balance sheet and only allowed co-investment from fellow single-family offices.
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UT Southwestern Researchers Target a Protein To Fight Leukemia, Lymphoma
by | Aug 6, 2024
A study co-led by UTSW's Jin Huk Choi, Ph.D., and Nobel Prize winner Bruce Beutler, M.D., found that targeting a gene-produced protein called ZFP574 "reduced the amount of malignant B cells by as much as 92%." Their findings could lead to new treatments for leukemias and lymphomas—and potentially other cancers, too.
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