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An MK30 drone on a landing pad. Amazon began commercial drone service with the MK30 in College Station, Texas, and the Phoenix metro area in November 2024. [Photo: Amazon]

Amazon Targets West Dallas for First of 22 Planned Texas ‘Drone Paddocks’

by Quincy Preston | Apr 23, 2026

CRE platform BLDUP reported the $25 million West Dallas filing on April 17. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy calls Prime Air's drone delivery effort "a multi-year invention cycle," with test flights from the new paddock possible as early as August.

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Hillwood EVP: Dallas-Fort Worth Is Now a ‘Gateway Market’

by Sandra Engelland | Apr 6, 2022

Hillwood's Bill Burton leads vision and strategy at AllianceTexas, which recently surpassed $100 billion in economic development for the region.

Burton is bullish on the continued growth of the industrial space in Dallas-Fort Worth—and the autonomous tech driving the future in the supply chain. Here's why.

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Flytrex and Brinker Are About to Drop Wings by Drone Into DFW Back Yards

by David Seeley | Mar 29, 2022

Yariv Bash, co-founder of Israel's SpaceIL, was part of the team behind the 2019 Beresheet moon mission. Now, as co-founder and CEO of Flytrex, he's partnering with Dallas-based Brinker International on drone deliveries of chicken wings to Dallas-Fort Worth back yards and businesses. The launch begins today in Granbury, 30 miles southwest of Fort Worth, with potential plans to expand to "a suburb east of Dallas" as Flytrex' footprint grows.

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Alphabet Startup and Walgreens Drone Delivery Service Takes Wing in Dallas-Fort Worth

by Alex Edwards | Oct 20, 2021

Frisco and Little Elm are the first cities to get a new drone delivery service from Wing, a sister company of Google, and Walgreens. The partners will operate on-demand air deliveries that bring essential items straight to your door.

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