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Every Last Word
Dallas Innovates’ signature series capturing what leaders across North Texas are saying — in their own words — about innovation, impact, and what’s next.
Deborah Heisz, co-founder, CEO, and editorial director of Live Happy [Image sources: Courtesy photo; istockphoto; DI Studio]
The Last Word: Live Happy’s Deborah Heisz on Wednesday’s International Day of Happiness
by David Seeley | Mar 19, 2024
Wednesday March 20 is the International Day of Happiness. Established by the United Nations in 2012, the day promotes happiness and well-being as universal goals and aspirations in the lives of human beings, in their families, and in their communities. But for Heisz's Dallas-based media company Live Happy, that's the goal 365 days of the year.
by David Seeley |
Mar 18, 2024
Puopolo told Cities Today that leaders at DFW Airport have "identified a location and are developing our strategy" for moving air taxis forward—and upward—in the region.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Mar 14, 2024
In 2022, we told you about two next-gen, robotics-packed Walmart facilities that were coming to Lancaster, just south of Dallas: a 1.5 million-square-foot automated fulfillment center and a 730,000 square-foot automated grocery distribution center. The first opened last year and the second is still under construction. When it's completed, it will complete a trifecta of transformation in the region, including a retrofitted 1.2-million-square-foot distribution center in Sanger, north of Denton.
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by David Seeley |
Mar 13, 2024
In 2022, we told you about two next-gen, robotics-packed Walmart facilities that were coming to Lancaster, just south of Dallas: a 1.5 million-square-foot automated fulfillment center and a 730,000 square-foot automated grocery distribution center. The first opened last year and the second is still under construction. When it's completed, it will complete a trifecta of transformation in the region, including a retrofitted 1.2-million-square-foot distribution center in Sanger, north of Denton.
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Dallas-based Smoothie King has partnered with Dude Perfect on new limited-edition Dude Perfect Smoothies. [Photo: Business Wire]
The Last Word: Dude Perfect’s Coby Cotton on Moving to a New $3M Frisco HQ This Summer
by David Seeley | Mar 11, 2024
Dude Perfect is about to move into a new stepping stone: a $3 million new HQ in Jerry Jones' Star Business Park in Frisco, leaving behind their Frisco HQ 10 minutes to the south, where they've shot videos for the last seven years.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Mar 8, 2024
Today is International Women's Day, and many women entrepreneurs across North Texas are still basking in the glow of something that happened Thursday night: As Alballero said in her post, The DEC Network's 2024 State of Entrepreneurship event featured an all-star cast of women among its entrepreneur award winners.
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by David Seeley |
Mar 7, 2024
Christopher has held key fundraising and relationship building posts over the past 25 years at Communities Foundation of Texas, The Dallas Morning News, and WFAA, and is the the former chair of the Dallas Regional Chamber’s Leadership Dallas Alumni.
On February 1, she became the inaugural president of TWU's Dallas campus, the T. Boone Pickens Institute of Health Sciences-Dallas Center, located in an eight-story, 190,000-square-foot building in the heart of the Southwestern Medical District.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Mar 6, 2024
Dallas-based M&A advisory firm Sloan Capital advised the 117-year-old Dallas company AC Horn in its late-February sale to Probat Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Germany-based Probat S.
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Rendering of Skybox Datacenter's PowerCampus Dallas in Lancaster, one of many new data center developments coming to North Texas. [Image: Skybox]
The Last Word: JLL Data Center Report Looks Into the Future—and Sees Growth
by David Seeley | Mar 1, 2024
According to a new report from Dallas-based JLL, society is accelerating the volume of data it creates at a rapid rate—and that data is foundational to how we work, live, and play. That's led to sharply increasing demand for data centers in a time of tightening supply, forcing a shift toward secondary and new, emerging markets.
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by Quincy Preston |
Feb 29, 2024
Princeton Mayor Brianna Chacón says new deputy city manager John Land's "leadership and expertise, especially in economic and community development, will be exponentially valuable" to the growing city.
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by David Seeley |
Feb 28, 2024
Princeton Mayor Brianna Chacón says new deputy city manager John Land's "leadership and expertise, especially in economic and community development, will be exponentially valuable" to the growing city.
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by David Seeley |
Feb 27, 2024
The downtown Dallas Public Library is the only public library in the state of Texas to offer a Patent and Trademark Resource Center from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. PTRCs are part of a national network of public, state, and academic libraries in partnership with the USPTO to offer trademark and patent assistance to the public.
The USPTO aims to empower innovation by expanding access—so it recently put out a call to 600 libraries and historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) around the country, inviting each institution to consider becoming PTRCs to assist their local innovators.
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[Toyota Music Factory rendering via City of Irving]
The Last Word: Irving Mayor On $30M in Improvements Coming to Toyota Music Factory
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Feb 23, 2024
Irving's Toyota Music Factory is getting a splashy makeover to the tune of $30 million, thanks to a unanimous January 25 vote by the Irving City Council. The updates include improvements to the plaza and outdoor stage, new signage and architectural graphics, and enhancement to the store fronts of several tenant spaces, the city said.
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by David Seeley |
Feb 22, 2024
At Capital Factory's "Future of AI" salon Tuesday, the AI 75 list—a new program recognizing the most innovative people in artificial intelligence in Dallas-Fort Worth—was officially announced by Dallas Innovates in partnership with the Dallas Regional Chamber, and Dallas AI.
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by David Seeley |
Feb 21, 2024
There's a reason Opal Lee's portrait is on permanent display in the Texas Senate chamber in Austin. Known as the Grandmother of Juneteenth, the 97-year-old social activist worked tirelessly to ensure that Juneteenth would be recognized as a federal holiday. Earlier this month, she passed along some of her wisdom to a new generation at a Lake Highlands Girl Scouts "3 C's" speaker event in Dallas.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Feb 20, 2024
Global accounting and consulting giant Deloitte aims to invest at least $300 million in the ongoing expansion of its Deloitte University cultural hub in Westlake, northwest of Dallas. The sprawling center, which opened in 2011, is "where learning meets leadership" for Deloitte employees and guests, offering multiple venues for learning, eating, networking, and well-being.
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