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Gary Gunter has been hired by Suffolk, a real estate and construction enterprise that’s been lauded for its tech adoption, as vice president of preconstruction for the South Central Region, which includes Dallas-Fort Worth.

Boston-headquartered Suffolk has an office in Dallas, among other cities.

“Gary is one of the most well-respected and successful preconstruction professionals in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, so we are very fortunate he has joined our expanding team,” Brad Brown, president of Suffolk’s South Central region, said in a statement....

In April of 2012, execs from State Farm got in touch with their longtime North Texas real estate brokers, Randy Cooper and Craig Wilson of Cassidy Turley, to talk about a top-secret expansion the company was considering. It was a deal that could potentially be as large as 500,000 square feet, maybe one day expanding up to 750,000 square feet....