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Relocation + Expansion in Dallas-Fort Worth
Company moves and expansions you need to know. Plus: openings, regional firsts, and newcomers making business news across Dallas-Fort Worth.
The high-rise Knox Street development includes a hotel and residences, nine stories of offices above two stories of retail, a 27-story multifamily building, and a half-acre park. [Images: Trammel Crow Co.]
Huge Knox Street Mixed-Use Project Gets Construction Start in Dallas
by Lance Murray | Dec 6, 2023
The high-rise Knox Street project sits on a four-acre site adjacent to the Katy Trail and Highland Park. Once completed, it will feature a luxury hotel and condominiums, a 27-story multifamily building, nine floors of offices above two stories of retail and restaurants, and a half-acre park connected to the Katy Trail.
by Lance Murray |
Dec 5, 2023
Aimed for preschooler fans of the British animated TV pig, the new park in North Richland Hills near Fort Worth will offer five rides, seven themed playscapes, a water play area, and other attractions. Here's an early look at what kids across DFW will be begging to visit when it opens in 2024.
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by David Seeley |
Dec 1, 2023
The "one-of-a-kind" Universal Kids Resort being built in Frisco is designed for families with young children. It will offer a 300-room themed hotel and a theme park featuring "immersive themed lands" that celebrate Universal's brand of entertainment, humor, and fun.
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by David Seeley |
Dec 1, 2023
Some 235,000 Indian Americans live in Dallas-Fort Worth, part of the 450,000 who live in Texas. India's leading jewelry retailer has taken notice—and opened stores in Frisco and Houston this week to bring "artfully crafted jewelry to the Indian diaspora" living in the communities.
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Avenida Carrollton, the area's first Actve Adult 55+ community, is now open for tours and accepting pre-leases.
Avenida Carrollton Begins Preleasing for Area’s First-of its-Kind Active Adult 55+ Community
by Lance Murray | Nov 22, 2023
Avenida Partners has launched pre-leasing and private tours for Avenida Carrollton, the first active adult 55+ community in Carrollton that features both boutique apartments and designer villas.
The leasing center, with villa models available to tour, is open every day, the company said. The first villa move-ins will be in November with apartment homes available in the spring, company said....
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by David Seeley |
Nov 15, 2023
Slated to open for golf in November 2024, 1876 Country Club is being built in the Legacy Hills development of fast-growing Celina, 40 miles north of Dallas. Centurion American Development Group is the developer behind both Legacy Hills and the new club.
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by David Seeley |
Nov 15, 2023
A football is round with points on each end. A bowling pin is tall and wobbly. They were never meant to mingle—but somehow they do at Fowling Warehouse, a 71,000-square-foot food-and-entertainment venue in Plano.
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by Glenn Hunter |
Nov 9, 2023
Christine Leong Connors, a former leader at J.P. Morgan’s Private Bank in Northern California, says EPIQ now has more people in Dallas than at its San Francisco headquarters.
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Video still of one of DrinkPAK's other beverage production faciities. [Image: DrinkPAK]
California DrinkPAK’s Texas‑Sized Plan: 1,000 Jobs to Pour Into Beverage Maker’s Fort Worth Expansion
by Quincy Preston and Lance Murray | Nov 7, 2023
Two massive facilities will cover more ground than 48 football fields in Fort Worth. With 2.8 million square feet of space where thousands of drinks from energy shots to cold brews will be made, DrinkPAK is pouring opportunity into North Texas.
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by David Seeley |
Nov 1, 2023
Texas just topped Site Selection’s annual ranking of state business climates. The state, typically in the top five business climate rankings, placed No. 3 last year. The No. 1 ranking follows another recent win—Texas won the publication's Governor's Cup for total capital investment projects for the 11th straight year in March.
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by Quincy Preston |
Oct 25, 2023
Emerging from stealth in North Texas after 10+ years of R&D in Canada, PUG Interactive is out to prove there's a better way for brands to engage people. "Dallas-Fort Worth is the birthplace of loyalty," says Steve Bocska, PUG's CEO. "We're disrupting loyalty. What better place to do it than where loyalty was created?"
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by Lance Murray |
Oct 18, 2023
Lone Star—a fast-growing provider of leading-edge predictive and prescriptive analytics and Evolved AI for aerospace, defense, and more—said the new office provides better access to more markets and enhanced service to an expanding overseas customer base.
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A simulated work environment at Walmart's new Lancaster fulfillment center. [Photo: Business Wire]
Walmart Opens Huge New Next-Gen Fulfillment Center in Lancaster
by Lance Murray | Oct 17, 2023
The new 1.5 million-square-foot, next-generation fulfillment center 15 miles south of Dallas will be home to roughly 1,000 Walmart associates, the company said. The center will combine people, technology, and machine learning to enable faster shipping and delivery.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 17, 2023
Frisco's 75034 zip code was the No. 5 hottest zip code in the U.S. for apartment construction from 2018 to 2022, according to a new report from RentCafe. Check out the other hottest apartment-construction zip codes in Dallas-Fort Worth.
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by Lance Murray |
Oct 16, 2023
Pickleball Kingdom is joining a hot list of other pickleball venues coming to North Texas, including Pickle and Social in Frisco, Picklemall in Dallas, and The Picklr in Dallas and Fort Worth. Additional Pickleball Kingdom facilities are slated for Keller and other North Texas locations.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 13, 2023
Double takes abounded in Dallas Friday. San Francisco-based Cruise began testing its robotaxis in the city without a human behind the wheel. For now, company employees are along for the ride in the back seat of "under 10" robotaxis in the last stage of testing before the service is opened to the public.
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