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Rendering of $200M Cannon Beach mixed-use development in McKinney [Image: McKinney EDC]
New Waves in McKinney: $200M Cannon Beach Development To Break Ground in 2025
by David Seeley | Dec 13, 2024
You used to have drive to Lake Travis to go cliff jumping and head for the Gulf Coast to find waves on a beach. Soon, all that will be right in McKinney's own backyard. Breaking ground in 2025, the mixed-use Cannon Beach development is expected to provide more than 700 local jobs, generate over $2 billion in economic impact over the next 20 years, and welcome 300,000 visitors annually.
by Lance Murray |
Nov 13, 2024
Boosting its Innovation Fund grant program, McKinney EDC is now offering non-diluted capital of up to $200K for qualifying early-stage startups—and up to half a million dollars in support for established or relocating later-stage startups who set up their HQs in the city.
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by Quincy Preston and David Seeley |
Dec 21, 2023
Sherif Saadawi, VP of partnerships at Plug and Play, calls his platform "the most active VC in the world by volume of deals"—and that's just one of three pillars it's bringing to Frisco and McKinney, along with corporate-startup matchmaking and sector-focused accelerators.
"In almost every metric that we look for that makes a good ecosystem, DFW really ticks all the boxes," he tells Dallas Innovates.
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by David Seeley |
Sep 26, 2022
The delegation—including Texas First Lady Cecilia Abbott, Texas' secretary of state; leaders from TxEDC, the Dallas Regional Chamber, and EDCs from across North Texas; and more—will travel to London, Paris, and Frankfurt in the next few days. Its mission: sell three of Europe's leading business centers on doing business in Texas.
"We look forward to strengthening our business relationships in Europe as well as developing new ones," says Robert Allen, TxEDC president and CEO.
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The ‘Bloomberg Terminal of Real Estate’ Relocates to McKinney With Grant From MEDC’s Innovation Fund
by Alex Edwards | Nov 11, 2021
Spatial Laser is joining the more than 20 tech companies that have expanded in or relocated to McKinney. The proptech startup uses a cloud solution to assist bulk buyers in quickly identifying real estate properties that have high rental returns with low risk.
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by Alex Edwards |
Aug 18, 2021
Xcelerate is a sustainable transportation company that offers funding support and ancillary products to EV manufacturers like Tesla. With the move, the team hopes to "put McKinney on the EV map."
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by Alex Edwards |
May 27, 2021
The young startup, which makes scalable artificial intelligence solutions, is using a grant from the McKinney Economic Development Corporation’s Innovation Fund to establish a headquarters in McKinney and drastically add to its team.
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by Alex Edwards |
Feb 3, 2021
The GoLexi Pet Telehealth service, powered by MyTelemedicine, offers pet owners around-the-clock, expert-level virtual consultations by phone or video call. It's not meant to replace in-office visits or life-threatening situations, though: The platform's licensed veterinarians can give users advice, a second opinion, or treatment options.
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Dallas Innovates 2021 Thought Leaders: Unique McKinney
by Unique McKinney | Feb 1, 2021
In 10 months, the McKinney Economic Development Corporation's Innovation Fund was able to close 14 projects with 300 total planned jobs and has 50 more applicants in the works.
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by Alex Edwards |
Oct 12, 2020
The incentive-based innovation fund, launched just this year, continues to fuel the growth of tech startups in McKinney. The latest is MyTelemedicine, a SaaS platform that powers modern remote healthcare technologies.
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