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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.
Left to right: Cypress Growth Capital Managing Director Vik Thapar and firm Co-Founders Barton Goodwin and Ed Mello
The Last Word: Cypress Growth Capital’s Vik Thapar on the Dallas Entrepeneur Difference
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Aug 10, 2023
Dallas has proven to be an ideal home base for Cypress Growth Capital, Quincy Preston wrote last week in Dallas Innovates. The firm's unique model is defying norms in the funding landscape by fostering rapid growth without diluting entrepreneurial control.
by David Seeley |
Aug 9, 2023
One Rangers Way—an architecturally striking luxury residential project being built in the Arlington Entertainment District—isn't slated for completion until December 2024. But pre-leasing has been underway for three weeks now, triggering "incredible interest and momentum," according to The Cordish Companies, the building's developer.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Aug 7, 2023
The Loop Dallas—a 50-mile, $120 million urban bike trail with a goal of uniting neighborhoods around much of the city’s core—is turning what Ellerman calls "a spaghetti map of trails" into one big soaring loop he says will one day be known by all.
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by David Seeley |
Aug 4, 2023
"No matter where you are in your startup journey, the City of Fort Worth's "Guide to Starting a Small Business" webpage directs small business owners to local resources—all in an easy-to-understand, step-by-step guide," the post reads.
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Artist Nic Nicosia with his sculptural work "The Twins" on the Katy Trail in Dallas. The Spring 2023 Katy Trail Art installation is presented in partnership with Nasher Public and will be on view through November 20. [Photo: The Loop Dallas]
The Last Word: The Loop Dallas on Nic Nicosia’s ‘The Twins’ on the Katy Trail
by David Seeley | Aug 2, 2023
Watch out for something curious the next time you walk, run, or bike down Dallas' Katy Trail at the Thomson Overlook. There you'll find the two "alien avatars" created by artist Nic Nicosia after a commission by The Austin Contemporary.
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by David Seeley |
Jul 31, 2023
Johnson and four other U.S. mayors recently joined with the coalition to announce a project to cool cities and metropolitan areas with "Smart Surfaces"—an integrated solution that aims to reduce heat and fight climate change through the use of reflective "cool" roofs and pavements, green roofs, solar energy, porous pavements, rain gardens, and trees.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jul 28, 2023
In a Q&A with the DBJ's David Moreno, Sarracino said he aims to "plant a flag [in Dallas] permanently" and to build Turvo into "a billion-dollar company through M&As and innovation" in the next four or five years.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jul 27, 2023
During a keynote discussion at MassChallenge's recent MC | Innovate 2023, event at Pegasus Park, Khawaja stressed the importance of trust and community-building in the innovation process.
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Exhibition detail of Meow Wolf Grapevine’s "The Real Unreal" immersive art exhibition. [Photo: Jess Gallo/Courtesy of Meow Wolf]
The Last Word: Dale Sheehan on the Newly Opened Meow Wolf Grapevine
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Jul 25, 2023
Sheehan, who joined the experiential art collective Meow Wolf in 2019 after working at Walt Disney Imagineering for a decade, spoke with ArtNet about the collective's recently opened permanent exhibition at Grapevine Mills mall in Grapevine.
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by David Seeley |
Jul 24, 2023
Now, instead of building its prefab houses on home sites, HiFAB is putting them together at the plant in three or four Lake|Flato-designed "modules." Later, they'll be put together like Lego blocks once they arrive at their permanent addresses.
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by David Seeley |
Jul 21, 2023
"What we've built is a family of brands that try to make it feel like you’re at home anywhere you go," Merris says on the podcast. "Our focus is really around good moments and lasting memories, helping people put smiles on their faces with friends and family and people they love."
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by David Seeley |
Jul 20, 2023
"This is the equivalent of having a wearable health sensor on your body that tells you in real-time what’s happening," Prasad said. "Think of it as a wearable for the soil."
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ORCA AG President Charmaine Tang
The Last Word: ORCA AG’s Charmaine Tang on Her Wall Street Beginnings
by David Seeley | Jul 18, 2023
The daughter of Filipino immigrants took a long, winding road to get to her office at Old Parkland, from a coveted spot at New York City's public Stuyvesant High School to a $5-an-hour job at JPMorgan Chase tugging bond trades out of pneumatic tubes to a finance and accounting degree at New York University.
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by David Seeley |
Jul 17, 2023
Sunday was national AI Appreciation Day, so to mark it, the Dallas Regional Chamber did a Q&A with Charania and Babar Bhatti, co-founder and EVP of DallasAI, a nonprofit forum to accelerate learning and adoption of artificial intelligence.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jul 14, 2023
A holder of 34 patents, Sherry was a pioneer in designing molecular materials for use in medical imaging. His work on chemicals called macrocyclic ligands led to their use in carrying "a payload of metallic radiotherapeutic compounds that can kill cancer cells on contact, while the outside molecular structure can be designed to bind to a specific protein that ensures precise delivery to only diseased tissue," Amanda Siegfried writes in UT Dallas Magazine.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jul 13, 2023
$2.3 billion in real estate projects are in the pipeline or currently under construction in Fort Worth, said Todd Burnette, Managing Director at JLL, drawing parallels to Austin in the Wall Street Journal.
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