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The Big Hat installation in Garland. [Photo: City of Garland]
The Last Word: On ‘The Big Hat’ Installation in Garland, Texas’ Cowboy Hat Capital
by David Seeley | Oct 2, 2025
Hats off to Garland, the Cowboy Hat Capital of Texas. It got that title from the Texas Legislature in 2013 in recognition of the city’s three hat manufacturers, HatCo, Master Hatters of Texas, and Dorfman Milano. Together, they roll out more than a million cowboy hats each year with labels including Stetson, Justin, Resistol, and Scala. The city only needed one more thing—a really big hat—and now it's got that, too.
by David Seeley |
Aug 26, 2025
The city council approved Tap Telehealth from Dallas-based MD Health Pathways. With that vote, Garland became the largest city so far to adopt the on-demand healthcare program, which will be offered as an opt-out service on residents’ utility bills.
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by Lance Murray |
Jan 2, 2025
In an all-cash deal valued at more than $57 million, Garland’s Micropac Industries Inc. and California-based Teledyne Technologies Inc. have completed a previously announced merger of Micropac with a wholly owned subsidiary of Teledyne.
Under the terms of the agreement, which was announced in early November, Micropac becomes a wholly owned Teledyne subsidiary....
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by David Seeley |
Jul 17, 2024
Garland-based Massimo Group—which went public on Nasdaq in April and announced a 90,000-SF expansion of its Garland factory in May—said the automated line "will increase assembly efficiency by 50% by minimizing manual handling, decreasing labor, and enhancing safety for assembly line workers."
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Inside Massimo Group's Garland facility [Video still: Massimo]
Massimo Group To Expand Its Manufacturing Plant Near Dallas
by David Seeley | May 21, 2024
A month after hitting the Nasdaq in a $5.85M IPO, Garland-based Massimo Group is expanding its manufacturing facility by 90,000 square feet to support both its pontoon boat production and its powersports vehicle operations.
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by Lance Murray |
May 2, 2024
Wendy Ward Roberts & Associates, a Garland-based, certified woman-owned agency, has been serving the legal community for over three decades. Now its capabilities are being combined with Houston-based U.S. Legal Support's digital infrastructure and nationwide teams, which offer on-demand access to more than 12,000 offices in 2,700 cities across the U.S.
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by Lance Murray |
Apr 11, 2024
The services may vary by location, Walmart said, but include same-day primary care, dental, behavioral health, labs, X-ray, community health, and telehealth.
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by David Seeley |
Dec 15, 2023
The historic 1966 Garland Bank and Trust building will have an even more '60s look when it becomes The Draper—part of a $30 million revitalization-redevelopment underway in a partnership between the city of Garland and Dallas-based GroundFloor Development.
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Frisco is one of the hottest high-income rental markets in North Texas. The luxury Remy apartments on Frisco Square are slated to open in early 2024. [Image: HEDK Architects]
Report: ‘Rich Renter’ Households in DFW Up as Much as 198% in Five Years
by Lance Murray | Feb 3, 2023
RentCafe said that while the number of high-income renters in Dallas rose by 74% and sits at 6% of the city's total renters between 2015 and 2020—peaking at 17,257— he number of high-income renters rose even more dramatically in other North Texas cities. Garland saw a rise of 198%, McKinney 186%, Plano 103%, and Frisco 93%.
High-income renters in Frisco may look into places like the luxury Remy apartments (above), coming to Frisco Square in 2024.
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by Alex Edwards |
Aug 26, 2020
Revolving Kitchen's ghost kitchens are equipped with the infrastructure necessary to develop a new concept or scale while driving costs down. Popular chains like Wingstop have taken notice—in a COVID-19 world, all you need is a kitchen.
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by Quincy Preston |
Jul 30, 2020
A virtual event will kick off the launch of two models—the K23 and K27. The price tag for its new compact EV starts at about $13,000 after incentives, Garland-based Kandi America says.
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by Quincy Preston and Alex Edwards |
May 26, 2020
The nonprofit North Texas Innovation Alliance—the largest of its kind in the U.S.—brings together cities, counties, municipalities, and agencies to tackle pressing challenges with innovative solutions. First up, the group will look at the effects of COVID-19. With the launch, NTXIA joins Mastercard's City Possible network that advances inclusive and sustainable development
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Dallas Startup Citadel is Lowering the Entry Barrier to AI
by Payton Potter | Jun 25, 2019
"There’s this big myth that AI is a $30 million investment," Citadel Analytic's CEO says. The startup is out to prove that wrong. Now it's setting up shop in RagingWire’s Dallas TX1 Data Center to help national and global companies unleash the power of their data.
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by Lance Murray |
Oct 18, 2018
From needles in 1785 in Germany to auto parts in 2018 at its Garland facility, Kirchhoff shows that innovation and adaptation can help a company stick around.
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by David Kirkpatrick |
Oct 11, 2018
The area 'hit the bullseye' in attributes RagingWire was looking for when planning its Dallas Data Center campus in Garland.
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by David Kirkpatrick |
Oct 10, 2018
Because of their unique value on the tax rolls, the stringent requirements to build them, and the technology needed to equip them, data centers have created a class of their own in real estate.
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