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Dallas’ Ashland Greene Capital Launches New Multifamily Real Estate Investment Fund

by | May 12, 2023
Ashland Greene is a vertically integrated real estate firm that has transacted over $1 billion in assets and more than 6,100 units in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Plans for its new fund include capital investments of roughly $11 million, the firm said.
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Savills Hires 2 Industry Veterans as Vice Chairmen of Dallas Office
by | May 12, 2023

London-based real estate firm Savills announced that Jihane Boury and Clay Vaughn have joined the firm as vice chairmen in the Dallas office.

The firm said that Boury and Vaughn are long recognized as accomplished professionals and bring over 25 years of combined commercial real estate experience.

“We are proud to announce the addition of Jihane and Clay to our team in Dallas-Fort Worth,” Savills Texas Region President Mark O’Donnell said in a statement....

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CBRE Report: DFW Among Leading U.S. Markets for Life Sciences Jobs and Labor Pool Growth
by | Apr 19, 2023
The report names Dallas-Fort Worth as "a top emerging life sciences market in terms of size, institutions, talent, and rapid growth, alongside Nashville and Atlanta." According to Chelsea Story, VP with CBRE’s Life Sciences practice in Dallas, "DFW has all of the pieces assembled to become a dominant force in the life sciences sector."
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Macfarlan Capital Partners Announces Longtime CBRE Exec as a Partner
by | Apr 14, 2023

Longtime CBRE executive Trevor Hightower has joined Dallas-based Macfarlan Capital Partners as a partner, coming at a time when MCP grows its leadership in the agricultural investing space....

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Newmark Hires Dallas Exec as President, Global Head of Industrial & Logistics

by | Mar 13, 2023

Dallas-based institutional capital markets expert Jack Fraker has joined Newmark Group Inc., a full-service commercial real estate firm, as president and global head of industrial and logistics.

Newmark has offices in Dallas and Plano.

“Newmark’s Capital Markets advisory group, which has seen dramatic growth, is a key component of our platform’s acceleration, nationally and globally,” Newmark Chief Executive Officer Barry Gosin said in a statement....

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CBRE Is Moving Its Global HQ to Park District Building with Klyde Warren Park Views
by | Mar 6, 2023
Commercial real estate giant CBRE Group—which moved its headquarters from California to Uptown Dallas in 2020—plans to move its HQ just a couple blocks away to the Park District complex, where it will have striking views of Klyde Warren Park below and the downtown Dallas skyline just to the south.

That's according to a report by Steve Brown in the Dallas Morning News, who says CBRE will be leasing two and a half floors of office space totaling 67,000 square feet that were originally snapped up by its coworking business, Hana, in 2019.
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Industry Veteran Returns to CBRE as Vice Chair of DFW Advisory, Transaction Services Team
by | Feb 10, 2023

Robert Blount has returned to CBRE’s Dallas-Fort Worth Advisory & Transaction Services team as a vice chairman, the company announced.

Blount will focus on representing office occupiers and offering strategic consulting services for his clients, Dallas-based CBRE said....

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CBRE Survey: DFW is Nation’s No. 1 Target for CRE Investment in 2023
by | Jan 27, 2023
Commercial real estate investors nationwide ranked Dallas-Fort Worth as the #1 market for investment among the top 10 U.S. metros, according to a 2023 U.S. Investor Intentions Survey conducted by Dallas-based CBRE. According to the survey, more investors are looking beyond gateway markets and prioritizing high-performing secondary markets in 2023. Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 1 among the most preferred U.S. markets for investment, and No. 1 among the top 10 markets expected to outperform.
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Dallas Forms Business Climate Leadership Group to Accelerate Climate Action

by | Dec 19, 2022
In a partnership with the City-Business Climate Alliance, the newly formed group met last month to begin pursuing initiatives aimed at climate targets in line with the Paris Agreement. Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson says the alliance will "help establish Dallas and its businesses as national leaders in implementing data-driven climate solutions to promote a vibrant, healthy, and resilient city.”
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CBRE Acquires Full Spectrum Group for $110M, Boosting Lab Solutions for Life Sciences Hubs
by | Nov 10, 2022
CBRE said the acquisition complements its existing global Integrated Laboratory Solutions capabilities for occupier clients in the fast-growing research and laboratory equipment sector. The deal "positions CBRE to self-deliver an impressive range of scientific laboratory maintenance and repair services," says John Dunstan, CEO of GWS/Enterprise at CBRE.
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DI People: Globe Life, Keurig Dr Pepper, ORCA AG, and More Make Leadership Moves
by | Oct 28, 2022
In this week’s roundup of hires, promotions, and accolades in North Texas, you’ll also find news from National HME, Brinker International, Robin Autopilot, GlassView, TPG, Weitzman, and others.
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DI People: Wingstop, JLL, EWF International, Starla Wines, and More Make Leadership Moves
by | Sep 23, 2022
In this week’s roundup of hires, promotions, and accolades in North Texas, you’ll also find news from CBRE, Merriman Anderson Architects, Bank of Texas, Quality Custom Distribution, EFG Cos., Dillas Quesadillas, BBG, the Catholic Foundation, and others.
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Follow the Money: Adwoa Beauty Raises $4M to ‘Keep Up With Demand,’ Dallas Venture Capital leads $5M in Revenue Growth Solutions Startup, and More

by | Sep 9, 2022
In this week’s North Texas deal flow, you’ll also find news about Dallas startup VRGL raising $15M six months after launching, S2 Capital’s $400M multifamily investment fund, CBRE leading $125M Series E for proptech firm VTS, CVS Health acquiring Signify Health for $8B, BenefitMall’s latest acquisition, and more.
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Dallas Startup TestFit Lands $20M for AI-powered Building Configurator Technology
by | Jul 26, 2022
Co-Founder Clifton Harness says TestFit is the first company to connect pro forma, construction cost, and asset design through building configurator software. The technology allows companies to "de-risk decisions" and log critical time savings when they develop new real estate. The funding will help the startup expand its R&D, quadruple its product and engineering teams, and build a new HQ.

“With TestFit, we see a disruptor driving a paradigm shift in the real estate industry,” said Gregg Hill, co-founder and managing partner at Parkway Venture Capital, which led the funding round.
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North Texas lands in the Top 10 of CBRE’s Annual Scoring Tech Talent Report
by | Jul 14, 2022
According to Dallas-based CBRE’s most recent annual Scoring Tech Talent report, Dallas-Fort Worth now stands in the No. 9 spot, jumping up four places from last year’s report—one of the biggest gains seen by any metro area. The region also ranks No. 5 for women in the tech workforce.

Over the past five years, DFW’s talent pool has grown by nearly 15%, with close to 188,000 residents employed in the industry.
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DI People: McKesson, CBRE, Axxess, RumbleOn, and More Make Leadership Moves
by | Jun 24, 2022
In this week’s roundup of hires, promotions, and accolades in North Texas, you’ll also find news from Gaedeke Group, Simpli.fi, Signify Health, Dallas Market Center, DartPoints, Mass Luminosity, and others.
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