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Joby Aviation has leased 45,000 square feet at Hillwood’s Perot Field Fort Worth Alliance Airport. The hub marks the first significant eVTOL aircraft company presence in Texas and will support future electric air taxi operations across Dallas-Fort Worth. [Photo: Joby Aviation]
Air Taxi Business Joby Aviation Establishes New Base at Perot Field
by Sandra Engelland | Aug 11, 2026
The California-based company’s 45,000-square-foot lease at Alliance Air Trade Center in Haslet is the first significant North Texas presence for the electric air taxi maker. Joby says it will test flights across Dallas-Fort Worth in September under the Federal Aviation Administration’s eVTOL Integration Pilot Program.
by Sandra Engelland |
Jul 21, 2026
The advanced manufacturing facility will assemble and test NVIDIA AI systems. It represents a $761 million investment and will employ close to 1,000 people by the end of the year.
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by Sandra Engelland |
Jul 16, 2026
The facility at 4600 Alliance Gateway Freeway, which will build electronic components, is expected to create some 900 jobs at full capacity. Production is set to begin next month.
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Bell Textron's V-280 Valor tiltrotor assault aircraft will replace the Army's Black Hawk combat attack helicopter fleet. It will now be known as the U.S. Army's Bell MV-75 Future Long Range Assault Aircraft. [Photo: Bell]
Bell Textron All Set to Build a $632M Army Assault Aircraft Parts Factory in North Fort Worth
by David Seeley | Mar 18, 2026
The factory in AllianceTexas will build parts for the U.S. Army's new Bell MV-75 Future Long Range Assault Aircraft, which replaces the famed Black Hawk helicopter. The project, which was awarded in late 2024, could potentially be worth around $70 billion across the life of the MV-75 fleet.
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by Quincy Preston |
Nov 12, 2025
“There used to be a time to say, ‘Let’s see how much pain this causes us, and we’ll see what we’re going to do.”
Shane Williams
Managing Director of Global Trade
Ernst & Young
…on the uncertainty around potential new tariffs, via The Dallas Morning News
At the annual Fort Worth Chamber Economic Impact Forum at the Kimbell Art Museum, EY trade expert Shane Williams told attendees that the old “wait it out” approach to tariffs no longer works, according to the DMN....
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by Quincy Preston |
Oct 23, 2025
Now in its seventh year, the annual D CEO and Dallas Innovates awards honor innovators shaping the future of North Texas.
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by Lance Murray |
Sep 16, 2025
An August exercise called FIRE SWARM 2 was held west of the Texas Motor Speedway within AllianceTexas, with drones and helicopters filling the skies to battle a simulated wildfire. What really made the operation hot? Unlike traditional operations, each aircraft was directed by advanced, fully autonomous technologies.
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The Wistron AI project's primary site is at 15200 Heritage Parkway, Fort Worth [Photo: Fort Worth Economic Development Partnership]
$761M Project: Wistron Selects Fort Worth’s AllianceTexas for Two AI Supercomputing Facilities
by David Seeley | Aug 21, 2025
The facilities—Wistron's first in the U.S.—will create more than 800 full-time jobs, the Fort Worth Economic Development Partnership said, firmly positioning Fort Worth "as a key player in the future of advanced technology manufacturing and the broader reshoring movement, bringing critical manufacturing, logistics and innovation back to the U.S."
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by Quincy Preston |
Aug 13, 2025
The Fort Worth City Council unanimously approved $15 million in incentives Tuesday night as founder John Lauer commits to making Fort Worth home for what he calls the world's first cloud-connected electronics prototyping facility. "This is going to completely revolutionize the electronics industry," he says.
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by Lance Murray |
Aug 13, 2025
Sheridan—the powerhouse behind hit shows like "Yellowstone" and "Landman"—is partnering with Paramount Television and Dallas-based Hillwood on the new production campus in AllianceTexas. Additional production campuses are now planned across the huge development, with a goal of making Texas "'a global force in the film industry."
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by Lance Murray |
Jul 16, 2025
Christopher Ash will oversee all operations at Perot Field, including management of the airport, fixed-base operations (FBO), and commercial fueling services, while advancing the airport’s position as one of the top 20 cargo hubs in the United States.
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A scene like this is coming to Fort Worth in 2025. [Photo: Torc Robotics]
Virginia-Based Torc Robotics To Open Autonomous Truck Hub in Fort Worth
by Lance Murray | Jan 8, 2025
Torc said its new facility in Hillwood’s AllianceTexas development will be a hub for its autonomous testing efforts, customer freight pilots, and future commercialization slated for 2027.
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by David Seeley |
Dec 18, 2024
Two years after winning the U.S. Army’s biggest helicopter competition in 40 years—replacing the famed Black Hawk with a Future Long Range Assault Aircraft—Fort Worth-based Bell Textron announced a new factory in AllianceTexas will manufacture components for the next-gen tilt-rotor aircraft.
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by Glenn Hunter |
Nov 12, 2024
While there's concern that government is "crowding out" innovation, it's the "smart minds and smart investors who discover the next best thing" that give the U.S. a comparative advantage over adversaries, Texas' senior senator said at the 2024 Venture Dallas summit.
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by Glenn Hunter |
Nov 7, 2024
Behind the scenes at an exclusive VIP event at the Perot family's Circle T Ranch in Westlake, where Ross Perot Jr. and Anurag Jain held forth in an annual highlight of the Venture Dallas summit.
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