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Avocados From Mexico Announces PANTONE Color, Home Accessories Line, Multisensory Experience
by Lance Murray | Jan 19, 2023
As you'd expect, the PANTONE color emulates the tones you see when you cut into a perfectly ripe avocado. The company has timed the color release and its home and kitchen accessories launch ahead of this year's Super Bowl. The company's "multisensory" marketing strategy also includes a new Sonic DNA audio identity.
by David Seeley |
Jan 19, 2023
Credit Bureau Connection—a Fresno, California-based provider of credit-focused lead generation, credit report and compliance solutions—has moved its headquarters to Frisco and rebranded as Informativ.
Serving automotive dealers, lenders, and other end markets, Informativ is backed by Capstreet, a Houston-based lower middle market private equity firm. Its former HQ in Fresno will now serve as its Innovation & Client Success Center.
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by David Seeley |
Jan 18, 2023
From Big Ben to the Parthenon to the Leaning Tower of Pisa, nothing beats flying there and seeing it yourself. Except maybe one thing—a new exhibition at AD EX on North St. Paul in downtown Dallas.
AD EX, also known as the Architecture and Design Exchange, is currently showing an exhibition called “Building Toys & Toy Buildings: Brickitecture,” through February 11. The exhibition was curated by AIA architect Blane Ladymon.
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by David Seeley |
Jan 18, 2023
Founded in 2019, newly rebranded Kindly Human is a "mental well-being platform" providing 24/7 preclinical call-based support, with trained "peer listeners" helping employees navigate life stressors including financial, relationship, work, and health concerns.
"At Kindly Human, it's all about humans helping humans and giving employees the fastest path to support through shared connection." says co-founder and CEO Cole Egger.
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Zillow's 2023 hottest markets.
Zillow Predicts Dallas to Be the No. 4 Hottest Housing Market in U.S. for 2023
by David Seeley | Jan 12, 2023
Zillow's predictions for the Hottest Real Estate Markets of 2023 are out—and Dallas clocks in at No. 4 on the list. Dallas follows Charlotte, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh on the list, and is the only Texas city that made the cut. Austin, 2021's hottest market, fell all the way to 29th on this year's list—largely because it now ranks "among the country's most expensive large markets," Zillow said.
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by Lance Murray |
Jan 12, 2023
More than 30 local artists are teaming up to help bring a one-of-a-kind experience to Meow Wolf's first permanent installation in Texas this summer. The Sante Fe-based boundary-pushing interactive art company's debut in North Texas will have 30 rooms to feature their unique visions.
Here's a sneak peek of the work in progress for the 29,000 square-foot immersive experience, set to transport visitors to a fantastical realm at Grapevine Mills.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jan 12, 2023
The former "SMU in Plano" campus, a four-building, 16-acre site at at 5228 Tennyson Parkway, is being renovated into a creative office and tech hub called Elevar, the Dallas Morning News reports.
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by Lance Murray |
Jan 12, 2023
The company said that the moves position LanCarte Commercial to provide creative solutions and proactive partnerships to its clients. Launched in Fort Worth in 2018, the company said it continues to grow by prioritizing collaboration and partnership.
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Cornerstone Crossroads Academy shares the Phillis Wheatley School with community partners. [Photo: Cornerstone]
Chick-fil-A Gives a Total of $5M to 46 Nonprofits, Including Three in Dallas and Plano
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Jan 10, 2023
The 2023 Chick-fil-A True Inspiration Awards program awarded $5 million in total grants to nonprofits across the country. The local recipients include Mercy Street and Cornerstone Crossroads Academy in Dallas and City House in Plano. "Through our True Inspiration Awards grant program, Chick-fil-A helps empower local nonprofits that are leading positive change and creating tangible impact throughout the communities they serve," said Chick-fil-A's Brent Fielder.
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by David Seeley |
Jan 10, 2023
The course of true love never did run smooth. But lately it's been running downright dangerous—with dating scams emptying victims' bank accounts and leaving would-be sweethearts broken both emotionally and financially. Today Dallas-based Match Group tried to do something about it by launching a global public awareness campaign to help daters and consumers "date safer" and "stay protected against the different forms of online fraud."
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by David Seeley |
Jan 10, 2023
Dallas has increasingly been putting apartments into historic downtown buildings. In the past week, Fort Worth made its own one-two punch in the same direction.
First, Dallas-based Bluelofts Inc. acquired the historic Oil & Gas building on West 7th Street in downtown Fort Worth (above), for conversion into 180 apartments with ground-floor retail. Now Chicago's 3L Real Estate has acquired the 16-story former Oncor Building on the very same street for conversion into—you guessed it—apartments.
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by David Seeley |
Jan 9, 2023
Dickie's—the Fort Worth-founded world leader in work apparel—has been around for a century. That seems like a great time to spiff things up with a stylish new HQ, and Dickie's is doing just that, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports.
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The tallest indoor Christmas tree in the U.S. is now on display at Galleria Dallas. [Photo Galleria Dallas]
Metropolitan Life Unit Takes Over Ownership of Galleria Dallas Mall and the Westin Galleria
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Dec 22, 2022
st days before Christmas—amid the busiest shopping week of the year—an iconic mall in North Dallas just changed hands. According to the Dallas Morning News, a unit of Metropolitan Life Insurance has taken over the deeds to both Galleria Dallas and the Westin Galleria, the 432-room hotel that looms above it.
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by Lance Murray |
Dec 21, 2022
UT Southwestern researchers have used gene editing technology to develop what could be a breakthrough for dilated cardiomyopathy, a heart condition that affects one in 250 people worldwide.
“The pace of this field is really breathtaking,” said Eric Olson, Ph.D., who co-led the study. “I expect that if this moves forward into patients, we’re not talking within decades—we’re talking within years.”
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by Lance Murray |
Dec 21, 2022
The El Corazón exhibition—inspired by a card from the beloved Mexican game of Lotería—features a stunning array of artistic interpretations of the human heart, from the fiery passion of love to the heart-wrenching sorrow of loss.
Artists can submit entries for the unique show through Jan. 7.
Artists can submit entries for the unique show through Jan. 7.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Dec 21, 2022
Mail may soon come to addresses across North Texas with an electric whisper—instead of a roar and a cloud of diesel exhaust. The U.S. Postal Service announced plans Tuesday to acquire at least 66,000 battery electric delivery vehicles between now and 2028, in a move to begin replacing its aging delivery fleet of over 220,000 vehicles.
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