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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.
The Frankfurt sisters were the co-founders and the principal designer of Dallas-based Page Boy. [Photo: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office]
The Last Word: The USPTO on How Three Dallas Sisters Gave Maternity Wear a Stylish Innovation
by David Seeley | Jan 23, 2023
Long ago, maternity wear was one of the unmentionables of fashion. That changed forever in 1937, when sisters Elsie and Edna Frankfurt founded Page Boy, America's first high-end maternity wear firm, in Dallas. In 1939, the sisters patented their game-changing solution: an adjustable skirt design for pregnant women that "accommodated" a baby bump instead of clumsily trying to hide it. They engineered a "window" in front of the skirt that expanded using drawstrings—while keeping the hemline stylishly parallel to the ground.
by Lance Murray |
Jan 20, 2023
The Texas A&M University System announced the name Thursday at an event in Fort Worth. The downtown research campus is "moving ahead rapidly toward construction," TAMU says, as the anchor project for a technology and innovation district planned around the redevelopment of the city’s convention center.
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by Lance Murray |
Jan 19, 2023
Westlake-based Charles Schwab has partnered with Girls Scouts USA to modernize and relaunch the organization's financial literacy badges. The new financial literacy curriculum includes topics such as investing basics, building wealth, entrepreneurship, fraud awareness, and budgeting for different goals throughout life.
The goal is to help bridge the gap between what girls learn in school and what they need to feel confident managing finances in life and business,.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jan 18, 2023
Mervine capped off 2022 by celebrating a milestone for her Dallas-based startup Big Ass Luxuries, which she and her husband Trent co-founded in 2021. BAL makes and sells Big Ass Candles—long-lasting and aromatic candles made from natural eco-friendly scents and coconut soy wax. BAL surpassed $1.3M in 2022 sales, 10 times what it made in 2021.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Jan 17, 2023
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jan 13, 2023
Trinity Metro's TEXRail commuter rail line between the Fort Worth T&P Station and DFW Airport Terminal B Station is celebrating its fourth anniversary with free rides through Monday, January 16—as well as free passage on ZIPZONE rides that connect to a TEXRail station.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jan 12, 2023
Efforts to restore Black cemeteries and burial sites are increasing across the country—and now the unveiling of a buried past deep in East Texas's Piney Woods is the subject of an immersive visual and AR exhibition opening this weekend in Dallas' AT&T Discovery District.
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by Quincy Preston |
Jan 11, 2023
After a soft open two months ago, Two Bit Circus officially launched yesterday at Dallas' Shops of Park Lane, featuring 35,000 square feet of tech-enhanced entertainment. Attractions include arcade games; VR, AR, and "extended reality" experiences; "story rooms"; reimagined carnival games; and more.
We talked to the co-founders about how playing in groups is a big part of the fun, why their VR games prove "humans are hackable," and more.
Here's a look inside the Texas-sized micro-amusement park.
Here's a look inside the Texas-sized micro-amusement park.
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Tracy Irby
The Last Word: TWU’s Tracy Irby on How to Celebrate National Business Plan Month
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Dec 22, 2022
As New Year's Eve approaches, thoughts are turning to holidays, fireworks, and—yes—business plans for a whole new year. That may be why December is National Business Plan Month, and TWU's Tracy Irby has the perfect way to celebrate it—by avoiding 5 key business plan mistakes.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Dec 21, 2022
If you walk into Mosaic Makers Collective—a 2000-square-foot store at 8th Street and Bishop in Oak Cliff's Bishop Arts District—you can find everything from watercolor paintings to kitchen magnets shaped like sushi to casual fashions, wall hangings, jewelry, and more. And a sign on the wall—FEMALE DESIGNED LOCAL GOODS—tells it all.
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The Last Word: Caterpillar’s Denise Johnson on Scaling Self-Driving Trucks to the Aggregate Industry
by David Seeley |
Dec 20, 2022
Last week, Irving-based Caterpillar announced a collaboration with Luck Stone—the nation’s largest family-owned and operated producer of crushed stone, sand, and gravel—to roll out Caterpillar’s autonomous trucking solution at Luck Stone’s plant in Chantilly, Virginia. This will be Caterpillar’s first self-driving truck deployment in the aggregates industry, accelerating its solutions beyond mining, the company said. It expands Caterpillar's autonomous truck fleet to include the exceptionally burly Cat 777 seen above.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Dec 19, 2022
The city of Dallas announced last week that it has spent $82 million through the Dallas Housing Finance Corporation to acquire The Briscoe, a 322-unit class-A multifamily property at 12639 Coit Road in North Dallas. The Briscoe was previously charging tenants full market-rate rents. Now it will reserve 161 units for residents earning at or below 80% of the area median income.
Current residents who qualify will see their rents reduced at their next lease renewal, saving an average of $222 a month, or $2,659 a year.
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Guy Golan is an associate professor at Texas Christian University. [File photo]
The Last Word: TCU’s Guy Golan on Why Sharing Online Articles Doesn’t Make People Experts
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Dec 15, 2022
Researchers at UT Austin published a study in July called "I share, therefore I know? Sharing online content—even without reading it—inflates subjective knowledge." The study, published by the Society for Consumer Psychology, explored how sharing online content affects what people think they know.
Turns out, they think they know a lot—which isn't necessarily the case at all.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Dec 14, 2022
When you're president and CEO of Dallas' Cooper Aerobics, people expect you to be fit. But Dr. Cooper has gone above and beyond. Especially above.
In a D Magazine profile by Will Maddox, Cooper talks about his successful climbing of all 74 peaks in the contiguous U.S. that are 14,000 feet tall or higher.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Dec 13, 2022
Bradley's 7,000-square-foot house at 1809 Carl St.—currently listed at $745,000—features an indoor heated pool with a slide surrounded by artificial turf. An adjacent billiards lounge and family entertainment area promise more fun nearby. And did we mention the pingpong and air hockey tables?
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Dec 12, 2022
Entrepreneurs need to filter things out—which is why Kelly believes founders can ignore great advice at times.
"I hear a lot of founders get paralyzed because they don't know how to apply advice/feedback," Kelly wrote recently on LinkedIn. "If that's you, keep this in mind. There's a lot of great feedback that is irrelevant to you. It is up to you to understand what feedback is for you right now, what feedback should be set aside for later, and what feedback is meant for a different audience."
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