Left: Dallas Businessman and Philanthropist Pete Schenkel; Right: Cropped early rendering of the proposed Cotton Bowl Plaza [Images: National Football Foundation Gridiron Club of Dallas/Overland Partners]
Pete Schenkel—who owned Dallas-based Schepps Dairy before its sale to Suiza Foods in 2000—led a long, accomplished life of leadership in Dallas before his death Wednesday at age 89. But the former board chair of the State Fair of Texas, DFW Airport, and the Methodist Health System Foundation may be best known for preserving something truly valuable: keeping the Texas-OU game at the Cotton Bowl at least through 2036.
Dallas-based Broadwing Capital Management LLC, a private equity firm targeting lower-middle-market manufacturers and service providers, closed its inaugural Broadwing Capital Fund I LP. The $440 million fundraise exceeded the initial $350 million goal....
At a new training center in Dallas, claims professionals from insurance giant Allstate Corp. can now immerse themselves in real-world scenarios policyholders face.
Two labs at the 33,000-square-foot Allstate Claims University campus enable claims professionals to learn from re-created situations that replicate damage to homes and cars....
Fort Worth-based agtech company Ranchbot, which provides remote satellite-anchored, water-monitoring technology for livestock producers, raised more than $15 million in a Series B funding round.
In conjunction with the fundraise, the company put itself under a new corporate umbrella, Ranchbot Technology Holdings Inc.,...
Dallas-based Broadwing Capital Management LLC, a private equity firm targeting lower-middle-market manufacturers and service providers, closed its inaugural Broadwing Capital Fund I LP. The $440 million fundraise exceeded the initial $350 million goal....
At a new training center in Dallas, claims professionals from insurance giant Allstate Corp. can now immerse themselves in real-world scenarios policyholders face.
Two labs at the 33,000-square-foot Allstate Claims University campus enable claims professionals to learn from re-created situations that replicate damage to homes and cars....
Fort Worth-based agtech company Ranchbot, which provides remote satellite-anchored, water-monitoring technology for livestock producers, raised more than $15 million in a Series B funding round.
In conjunction with the fundraise, the company put itself under a new corporate umbrella, Ranchbot Technology Holdings Inc.,...