September 7, 2020 Dallas County reported 261 new coronavirus cases and zero deaths Monday. It was first day in two weeks, and only the third in nearly three months, that the county didn’t report additional deaths from COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus. The county said 177 of the newly reported cases came from […]
September 7, 2020 Athletics officials at Texas universities spent months planning for a fall football season during a pandemic. As conferences deliberated how teams could safely compete in the age of coronavirus, proponents hoped enhanced coronavirus testing for athletes would ease any lingering doubts. It worked. Within the month, five major Texas football programs are […]
September 6, 2020 Like many people, Jon Kollman is working from home, and he’s outfitted better than most. A sales manager for AmeriSave Mortgage Corp. in Plano, he has an upstairs office in his Frisco condo with a big computer, three monitors and plenty of privacy. Downstairs, he has a 49-inch screen to keep an […]
September 6, 2020 Going into the office every day, Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly describes the Dallas headquarters atmosphere as feeling a bit like the mountain hotel from the 1980s horror flick The Shining. “We’ve got a skeleton staff here,” he said. “Our headquarters can accommodate about 5,000 people roughly and there are maybe 100 […]
September 4, 2020 Tired of working from home and all the distractions it entails? The Omni Dallas and Statler would like to offer an alternative. The hotels have recently launched new initiatives, bucking traditional afternoon check-in times in hopes of appealing to workers who are still unable to safely return to their offices. Workers can […]
September 3, 2020 As commercial real estate investment in North Texas dipped 7.5 percent between second quarter of 2019 to second quarter of 2020, industrial real estate investment grew 24.8 percent, according to data from Real Capital Analytics compiled by CBRE. Industrial was the only local sector to see investment growth over the last four […]
September 4, 2020 The buildings we consider historic are usually architecturally distinctive or have played an outsize role in the story of a place. But sometimes there are buildings that, despite their humdrum past and unremarkable appearance, still deserve to be remembered. Pegasus Park—formerly known as Pegasus Place—is one such building. If that name doesn’t […]
September 4, 2020 7-Eleven says it’s trying to be as convenient as it possibly can. That’s the strategy behind the 93-year-old retailer’s new partnership with grocery delivery service Instacart. The world’s largest convenience store operator also partners with Postmates, DoorDash, Google Eats, Uber Eats, Grubhub and Favor Delivery. Linking with such platforms “enables us to […]
September 3, 2020 Southwest Airlines is launching new year-round routes later this year to Miami and Palm Springs – the first time the Dallas-based carrier is flying direct to the popular beach and desert locations. In a rare expansion move during a worldwide health pandemic that has devastated airlines, Southwest is adding the two markets […]
September 3, 2020 Dallas County reported 250 new cases of the coronavirus and eight deaths Thursday. The new cases include one from July and 121 from August. They bring the county’s total number of cases to 72,860, including 934 deaths. The deaths include four people from Dallas: two men in their 50s, a woman in […]