MONDAY, MAY 22, 2023

STARTUP CENTERS 

The DEC Network Plans $2.1M Entrepreneurial Innovation Center at The Shops at RedBird

Besides housing The DEC Network's HQ, the RedBird Innovation Center will offer co-working space, provide business incubation, accelerator programs, podcasting rooms, an event space, and more. A public hard hat tour will be offered June 12 to coincide with The DEC Network's 10th anniversary.

The DEC Network Ventures West for Fort Worth Entrepreneurship Center

GENOMIC DATA 

Google Cloud Launches AI-Powered Multiomics Suite, Taps Dallas-Based Colossal and Form Bio To Help Accelerate Life Science Research

Google Cloud has unveiled its AI-powered Multiomics Suite, which aims to accelerate the discovery and interpretation of genomic data, helping companies design precision treatments. As part of the rollout, Google Cloud noted that Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences has adopted the Multiomics Suite, and that Colossal spinout Form Bio has been selected to help other organizations adopt it. See what the new suite can do—and how it could help life get scienced.

SPIRIT OF THE WEST 

Fort Worth Celebrity Chef Tim Love Launches Capsule Apparel 'Love Collection'

Love is far more than a celebrity chef with a long list of restaurant concepts under his belt. The Fort Worth entrepreneur has also launched into hospitality with the micro-resort Hotel Otto, cranked up the new music venue Tannahill's Tavern & Music Hall, and inaugurated the first annual Fort Worth Music Festival. Now he's dropped The Love Collection, a limited edition apparel brand. See what's in it—and how this taste of Texas fashion is already rocking the Stockyards.

Dallas' CyrusOne Announces Joint Venture for $7 Billion Project in Japan

In addition to forming CyrusOne KEP, the Japan joint venture with Kansai Electric Power Co., CyrusOne also announced that Chief Financial Officer Katherine Motlagh will step down from that role effective June 1, and that Michael Schafer, its SVP of finance, will assume the role of interim CFO. 

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Dallas County Breaks Ground on $32M Mesquite Government Center

The Mesquite Government Center will house a Tax Office, Constable Office, and Justice of the Peace and Juvenile Services offices, along with a community space and early voting operations area. Boston-based Suffolk—the company that built The Galbraith on Bryan Street, The Terminal at Katy Trail, and the Terminal C renovations at DFW Airport—is the contractor. See who's designing the center—and how it will impact Mesquite.

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Ability Connection Moves Its Nonprofit HQ and Training Facility to Bigger Space in Las Colinas

Ability Connection, which celebrates its 70th anniversary milestone this year, serves more than 900 people across Texas, and relies on a one-person focus, where skilled staffers learn what priorities individuals and families need and want. The organization serves people with all types of intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Read more in ICYMI.

TRG’s Scott Luther: 'People are not one-dimensional'

“I didn’t know people bought $250,000 cars. That was news to me.”

Chris Barta
Co-Founder
Tactical Fleet
.…on how he first got into the supercar sales business before co-founding Tactical Fleet in Farmers Branch, via the Dallas Morning News.

Tucked away among blocks of warehouses in Farmers Branch, an address without a sign offers no clues of the treasures within, which would make any supercar fan salivate—if they don't pass out from sheer overwhelmption. It's the 75,000-SF HQ home of Tactical Fleet, America's largest pre-owned supercar dealership, where hundreds of Lambos and stacked-to-the-ceiling Porsches and Ferraris glitter with the promise of speed.

"Porsche, Lamborghini, Bentley, and Rolls-Royce are our bread and butter,” Barta, who launched Tactical Fleet in 2018 with co-founder Jason Putnam, told the Morning News' Cheryl Hall. 

Read more.