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(Bloomberg) – Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is seeking a new office campus in Dallas that could become the Wall Street bank’s largest presence in the United States outside of its Manhattan headquarters. Executives are in advanced talks with developers as the company seeks expansion space in North Texas, a state known for its steakhouses, high-end retail and low taxes. The move will increase Goldman's presence there to rival and eventually replace its old Jersey City outpost, which looms over much of the local skyline, according to people familiar with the situation. It is said that there is a possibility that…

Mayor Eric Johnson announced Thursday the creation of the Mayor's Safe Communities Initiative Fund. Sponsored by the Community Foundation of Texas, the fund accepts donations to fund crime reduction programs and initiatives recommended by the Mayor's Task Force on Safe Communities. The donor, who wished to remain anonymous, agreed to start the fund with a gift of $50,000. “Many of society's systemic negative effects are resolved in the hands of law enforcement. But public safety is not just the responsibility of law enforcement, it is everyone's responsibility,” Mayor Johnson said. “The task force has shown us how we can reduce…

All great companies have an interesting story, and that story is best told by the people behind its success. The following individuals —CEOs, executives, founders, and entrepreneurs—are all leaders in their respective fields. When you are in the market for the services featured on the following pages, these Faces of Dallas Business are the experts to call first. Bernard (Bernie) Uechtritz, ICON Global Face of Big Ranches, Record-Breaking Deals, Legacy & Legend Properties 3466 Gillespie Street Dallas, Texas |  214.855.4000 • The “Go-To, Can-Do Guy” and “Rainmaker of Real Estate” • International real estate advisor and leading specialist broker of…

The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas has permanently blocked a controversial Dallas ordinance that requires employers to provide paid sick leave benefits to certain employees. The permanent injunction went into effect on March 31, 2021. Dallas becomes the third city in Texas to enact a paid sick leave ordinance, following the adoption of nearly similar laws in Austin and San Antonio. All three required covered private employers to provide certain paid sick leave benefits to employees based on hours worked within city limits. While the Austin and San Antonio laws were ordered before they took…

Six more former students at Jesuit College Preparatory School in Dallas have joined the lawsuit, alleging they were abused by a priest while attending the school.The latest plaintiffs bring to eight the number of former students in a lawsuit first filed in Dallas County Civil Court in August 2019 against the school, the Catholic Diocese of Dallas and others dating back to the early 1980s. Five Jesuit preparatory priests.Six of the eight plaintiffs use false names in their lawsuits. Records show that all eight men taught, counseled, and mentored students at an exclusive Jesuit prep school in the late 1970s…

FedEx will open a new FedEx Ground sorting facility in south Dallas and will hire 1,200 people to help operate the facility. The 778,000-square-foot warehouse will be located at 3900 Cedardale Road, south of Interstate 20 near Lancaster, and will be able to process up to 15,500 packages per hour. In a press release, FedEx cited “explosive growth in e-commerce” and the need to “optimize package capacity in time for the holiday season” as key drivers for adding regional sorting facilities. “Regional sorting facilities are designed to alleviate hub capacity constraints by serving as regional direct input points for large…

Official announcement: CBRE is moving its headquarters from downtown Los Angeles to Dallas. Rumors of the move were reported on Wednesday but confirmed in an internal memo to CBRE employees on Thursday. Bisnow Have learned. “Designating Dallas as CBRE's global headquarters formalizes how we have operated over the past eight years,” Lou Horn, president of CBRE's Pacific Southwest Advisory Services, said in a statement. Stated. CBRE's former headquarters in Los Angeles While this move is an important symbolic move, it does not signal an immediate mass exodus of CBRE employees from Los Angeles or California. Rather, it is a great…

Nearly 50 years after The Grape opened in Dallas, new life will be breathed into the now-closed restaurant space. Chas Martin, owner of The Charles, an upscale Italian restaurant in Dallas' Design District, is working on a new restaurant in East Dallas that is expected to open in 2021.Martin's upcoming restaurant doesn't yet have a name or menu. It's not “The Charles 2.0,” he says. And it's not a reincarnation of The Grape.Restaurateur Chas Martin (right) is opening a new restaurant on Greenville Avenue, where The Grape used to be. Martin co-owns The Charles with chef J. Chastain.(Carly Geraci/Staff Photographer)“I…

Zach Weismann, founder of Dallas-based MAG Impact Collective, has his eye on the very future of work. And, ready or not, that future is now, he says. With large companies continuing to downsize and the sheer number of workers who have been laid off during the pandemic, many people are looking for a new way to earn a living, he explains. It’s time to start “changing the way we think about freelance or ‘gig’ work—less as a temporary transition and more as a permanent solution,” Weismann told Dallas Innovates in an email. The entrepreneur, a third-generation Dallas business owner, is…

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump chose Dallas for his first campaign stop since the pandemic began nearly three months ago, rubbing elbows at a June 11 dinner with big donors. .According to campaign officials, about 25 people are expected to be invited to the dinner party at a private residence.Participation fee: $580,600 per couple, or about $7 million. This includes two meals and a photo opportunity with the president, according to the invitation.The president plans to hold a similar event two days later at a golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, priced at $250,000 per person, Republican officials said. That…