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GEICO's Richardson office. [Photo: Business Wire]
GEICO To Open 2nd Office Building in Richardson, Adding 1,000‑Plus New Jobs
by Lance Murray | Apr 1, 2025
GEICO's announcement comes three months after it revealed plans to add 500 jobs in Richardson. That's now been raised to a total of more than 1,500 new jobs in North Texas.
by Lance Murray |
Dec 5, 2024
GEICO said the expansion follows significant growth in its commercial insurance business over the last 18 months, driven by new products including long-haul trucking insurance.
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by David Seeley |
Sep 12, 2024
New fitness center brands have been pumping into North Texas lately, from Lumin Fitness in Las Colinas featuring gamification tech via wall-to-wall LED screens; Canyon Ranch in Fort Worth with its "world-class wellness" spa offerings and high-tech, high-end fitness; EoS Fitness locations across DFW featuring MOVEoS Cinema workouts; to Playkout, the "first-ever" pickleball-inspired fitness studio, which recently opened in Dallas and also features video-based gamification. But next month, yet another brand is launching in the region—and it's the only one with a women's-only "Babe Cave," complete with a neon-topped "Queen AF" throne.
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by Lance Murray |
Aug 23, 2024
Chris Shacklett has served since February as interim director. Previously, he was assistant director of development services and planning for the North Texas city—one of many roles he's held there over the last 17 years.
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Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in The Cedars neighborhood of Dallas [Photo: Alamo Drafthouse/Cedars ]
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema To Reopen All 5 of Its DFW Theaters in August
by Lance Murray | Jul 19, 2024
Alamo Drafthouse is set to reopen all of the theaters it acquired after their closure as part of a franchisee's Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing—including DFW’s Cedars, Lake Highlands, Las Colinas, Richardson, and Denton locations and the Woodbury location in Minnesota's Twin Cities. The reopenings will be rolled out throughout the month of August.
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by Lance Murray |
Jul 12, 2024
Ron Wozny has been appointed as senior vice president of marketing and business development and Jessica Zan has been named senior director of clinical implementations at Richardson-based MyDirectives, an innovator in digital advance care planning....
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by Lance Murray |
Apr 19, 2024
"Our culture is built on trust, teamwork and focus—and these individuals have been instrumental in our work to accelerate growth for our nonprofit partners," CEO Chris Pritcher said.
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by Lance Murray |
Apr 7, 2024
Richardson-based Service Experts has acquired 19 local HVAC and plumbing service centers from Connecticut-based HomeServe USA Corp., an acquisition that brings its total number of local service centers to 98, serving homeowners across 31 states.
With this expansion, Service Experts said it is building on its leading position of delivering “worry-free comfort” to more homes and businesses across the nation....
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Robert Paiva, general manager of Celestica's Richardson operation [Courtesy photo]
Celestica To Expand North Texas Operations with High-Tech Manufacturing, Adding Over 150 Jobs in Richardson
by Lance Murray | Mar 7, 2024
Toronto-based Celestica produces "groundbreaking, state-of-the-art equipment" based on artificial intelligence learning systems for its U.S.-based customers. Its newly announced expansion is being fueled by an economic redevelopment agreement with the city of Richardson.
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by Lance Murray |
Jan 22, 2024
Aiming for "a seismic impact" on the toy aisle, the Netherlands-based company—whose North American HQ is in Richardson— is leveraging its new worldwide license and distribution agreement with Funko Games. Throughout 2024, products will roll out in "action figure role play, construction, miniatures, impulse, interactive pets, small doll, licensed plush, and more," Goliath said.
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by Lance Murray |
Oct 20, 2023
The new DART board chair is CapitalSoft CEO and former Richardson mayor Gary Slagel. DART's other new board leaders include vice chair Rodney Schlosser, M. Nathan Barbera as new secretary, and Flora M. Hernandez as assistant secretary.
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by Lance Murray |
Sep 20, 2023
The foundation said the grants will be used to improve the well-being of children and families living in vulnerable communities by implementing initiatives focused on access to healthy food, exercise, and nutritional education.
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Richardson-based Texans Credit Union Hires New VP of IT Systems
by Lance Murray | Jun 2, 2023
Richardson-based Texans Credit Union announced that Ian Beirnes has joined the organization as vice president of IT systems, a post in which he will be responsible for managing the credit union’s technology infrastructure and operations department.
“We are very pleased to welcome Ian to our leadership team,” CEO David Frazier said in a statement....
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by Lance Murray |
May 24, 2023
At nearly 2.3 million-square-feet of space, the high-rise development is one of the largest corporate campuses in Dallas-Fort Worth. It last sold in 2016 for more than $800 million.
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by Lance Murray |
May 19, 2023
Richardson-based Texans Credit Union has promoted Tanya Patterson to vice president of strategic solutions, a role in which she will lead the newly formed Strategic Solutions department that will focus on identifying new growth opportunities for the credit union....
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
May 15, 2023
Texas Instruments broke ground on the new 300-millimeter semiconductor wafer fabrication plants in May 2022, noting that the project could ultimately support as many as 3,000 direct jobs. The new "fabs" will manufacture tens of millions of analog and embedded processing chips daily that will go into electronics everywhere.
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