Drone delivery company Wing is partnering with DoorDash and Brookfield Properties to offer ultra-fast drone delivery from two North Texas malls—just in time for the holidays.
The service is now available at Brookfield Properties’ Stonebriar Centre in Frisco and Hulen Mall in Fort Worth.
More than 50 merchants will be available for drone delivery through the DoorDash app. Wing’s “highly automated” drones can deliver items and meals to doorsteps in as little as 15 minutes. The drones can navigate to the delivery location at a speed of 65 miles per hour and a cruising height of about 150 feet before safely lowering the delivery to the ground.
California-based Wing has been operating in the U.S. for the past five years and has completed more than 400,000 commercial deliveries worldwide.
How it works
Photo: Wing + DoorDash
Beginning today, when DoorDash customers with an eligible address in Dallas-Fort Worth place a qualifying order in the DoorDash app, they’ll see the option to have their items delivered by drone on the checkout page. Once they select drone delivery and place their order, it will be prepared, packaged, and delivered via a Wing drone.
Wing said its partnership with DoorDash is guided by a shared goal of providing customers with the convenience and speed of air deliveries for the local products and brands they know and love. This partnership expansion follows pilot programs in Melbourne, Australia, and Christiansburg, Virginia, the companies said.
Photo: Wing + DoorDash
The companies said this expansion is made possible by a partnership with real estate management company Brookfield Properties. Via a “novel partnership” with Wing, Brookfield Properties said it will trial ways to incorporate drone delivery into its shopping centers.
The company said the goal is to enable businesses to take advantage of previously underutilized spaces—such as rooftops or excess parking—in order to reach more customers at home via drone delivery.
“We’re proud to be the first landlord to provide drone delivery as another avenue to help our tenants serve our communities,” Katie Kurtz, SVP of business development at Brookfield Properties, said in a statement. “We’re committed to meeting the changing needs of the ways people shop. Brookfield Properties has a strong track record of evolving our assets and leading ahead of the curve in retail.”
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