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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.
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The Last Word: The DRC’s Jarrad Toussant on the New DFW Health Care and IT Talent Pipeline Portal
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Mar 21, 2024
To help fill those jobs, the DRC—with support from Bloomberg Philanthropies—recently launched a new workforce development tool called the DFW Health Care and IT Talent Pipeline Portal. The online tool provides "expansive, up-to-date data on the supply of and demand for talent for middle-skill jobs."
by David Seeley |
Mar 20, 2024
They say you gotta be a New Yorker to really know bagels—which may be just one reason for Shugrue's successful 2020 launch of Shug's Bagels at 3020 Mockingbird Lane in Park Cities Plaza near SMU.
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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.
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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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Simulated work environment of new Walmart fulfillment center in Lancaster [Photo: Business Wire]
The Last Word: Walmart’s Dave Guggina on Reinventing Company’s Supply Chain in DFW
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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by David Seeley |
Mar 12, 2024
In a new Dallas Fed research paper, Cheremukhin writes that the central bank may find it easier to avoid a recession, thanks to a key fact: while job vacancies are decreasing in the U.S., unemployment has remained steady.
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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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John Sloan, CEO of Sloan Capital, which advised AC Horn in its late February sale to a German company. [Photo: Sloan Capital]
The Last Word: Sloan Capital’s John Sloan on the Sale of Dallas’ 117-Year-Old AC Horn to German Company
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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by Quincy Preston |
Mar 5, 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 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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Dallas Public Library's J. Erik Jonsson Central Library is located in downtown Dallas. [Photo: Michael Samples]
The Last Word: How the USPTO’s Resource Centers Are Empowering Innovation by Expanding Access
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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by Quincy Preston |
Feb 23, 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 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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