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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.
Rendering of part of the Texas Research Quarter in Plano: West Plaza & Park. [Image: NexPoint]
The Last Word: Frank Zaccanelli on Renaming NexPoint’s Plano Life Sciences Project the ‘Texas Research Quarter’
by David Seeley | May 19, 2023
In February, Dallas-based multibillion-dollar alternative investment firm NexPoint revealed plans and renderings for a proposed 200-acre life sciences development in Plano that could eventually create over 4 million square feet of lab, office, and therapeutic production space.
At the time, the working title for the development was the TxS District, short for Technology x Science. But today NexPoint announced that the project has been renamed as something bigger and bolder: the "Texas Research Quarter," or TRQ.
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
May 18, 2023
The next World Cup is still three years away, but soccer fans in North Texas were already buzzing like crazy today. That roar you might have heard at the AT&T Discovery Center in downtown Dallas or the The Star’s Tostitos Plaza in Frisco coincided with the official unveiling of the FIFA World Cup 2026 Dallas logo and branding.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
May 17, 2023
Two months ago, Dallas-based ad agency TRG launched its new "whole human" approach, with the slogan "To earn people's attention, we must pay attention to people." Now the agency aims to do that with a whole new Brand Performance Group based around human attention metrics.
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by David Seeley |
May 16, 2023
Meow Wolf says its Grapevine exhibition is "a journey through a technicolor wonderland that blends storytelling, technology, and immersive art." Different dimensions of perspective and creativity will be on display through more than 30 rooms of "multidimensional art and compelling narrative."
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Tekwings Founder Sagar Pidathala
The Last Word: Tekwings’ Sagar Pidathala on the Value of ‘Horizontal Thinking’
by Lance Murray | May 12, 2023
Bio 9 Ventures, a Plano-based boutique healthcare ecosystem consulting firm, has merged its international healthcare IT division with three companies to form a new business called Kanectify. The new entity will add end-to-end integrated benefits to platform engineering, AI healthcare, and a portfolio of digital health R&D solutions.
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by David Seeley |
May 11, 2023
A certain percentage of Dallas Innovates readers must be salivating at the sight of the 1973 Ford Bronco above. If you'd like to own it, no problem—you just have to win the 2023 Charles Schwab Challenge, a PGA Tour event set for Memorial Day Weekend at the Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
May 10, 2023
“The average person is only productive for three hours.”
Lauren Lemunyan
Founder and CEO
Spitfire Coach
.…on why we need to focus on what matters most
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
May 9, 2023
Teresha Aird has used ChatGPT for her work with Dallas-based Offices.net, and she's a believer.
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Chad Cook, founder and Managing Member of Quadrant Investment Properties. [Photo: QIP]
The Last Word: Quadrant’s Chad Cook on His Plans for the Dallas Design District
by David Seeley | May 5, 2023
Quadrant Investment Properties has broken ground on two office buildings in the Dallas Design District, according to the Dallas Morning News' Steve Brown—a five-story building on Riveredge Drive and the 10-story Thirteen Thirty Three on Oak Lawn near Riverfront Boulevard. QIP's Chad Cook says he doesn't want the district "to become another Uptown."
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
May 4, 2023
Julie and Reid Robinson, former owners of the bars Brizo and The Forum in Richardson, are opening something new in the same city: Beyond the Bar, which they call the first alcohol-free "bottle shop" in the Dallas area.
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by David Seeley |
May 3, 2023
Glenn Smith was a junior in college when he got a part-time job as one of 12 employees in the warehouse of an electronics startup in San Diego. Unlike most college juniors, his job lasted longer than a semester—a lot longer. He's now celebrating his 50th anniversary at Mouser Electronics, a Berkshire Hathaway company whose HQ and central hub is in Mansfield, a suburb south of Arlington.
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by David Seeley |
May 2, 2023
On Wednesday at 6 p.m., Charania will host a "ChatGPT in Medicine" online meetup sponsored by Dallas AI, the largest nonprofit AI forum in North Texas. His guest: Harvey Castro, MD, author of "ChatGPT and Healthcare: The Key to the New Future of Medicine."
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[Photos: Dallas Museum of Art]
The Last Word: The DMA’s Agustín Arteaga on the Six Finalists of the Museum’s International Design Competition
by David Seeley | Apr 28, 2023
In February, the Dallas Museum of Art launched a “Reimagining the Dallas Museum of Art International Design Competition" for a major expansion that will add flexible gallery spaces, reorganized entrances and circulation, and a reapportioned interior.
The museum received 154 design submissions from all over the world. On Thursday, the DMA announced that it has selected six finalists.
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by David Seeley |
Apr 27, 2023
On Tuesday, the Fort Worth City Council approved an economic development agreement with Sinclair Digital, the smart buildings tech startup that brought The Sinclair—a Marriott Autograph Collection hotel called "the world's first all-digital hotel"—to downtown Fort Worth.
Under the agreement, Sinclair Digital will launch a new corporate R&D and tech center in downtown Fort Worth. According to the Star-Telegram, city tax incentives will enable the hiring of 30 to 40 new employees over the next few months, with programmers included in the new positions.
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by David Seeley |
Apr 26, 2023
Last year, Dallas Innovates introduced you to Preston just after the SMU grad had launched Afloat, an app that lets users send curated gifts from local retailers with same or next-day delivery. Just over a year after launching, Afloat now has 10 employees, 12,000 users, and connections to 70 local business in Dallas and Kansas City, the Dallas Morning News reports—and is looking to raise $3 million in growth funding after earlier raising over $1.5 million.
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by David Seeley |
Apr 25, 2023
Fort Worth-based Harvest Returns has found good soil to plant the seeds of investment success since its founding by Rawley and COO Austin Maness in 2016. The two military veterans created an online crowdfunding marketplace that brings agricultural producers together with investors, and today they announced that they've reaped a milestone: The company's platform has reached the $30 million mark in funding more than 50 farms, ranches, and other agribusinesses.
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