Irving Mobile Healthcare Firm MedArrive Gets $8M in Funding To Help Reduce ER Visits, Hospitalizations
MedArrive, an Irving-based mobile-integrated care management platform company, has received $8 million in new funding led by Cobalt Ventures, a wholly owned subsidiary of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City (Blue KC). The investment follows MedArrive’s $25 million series A round in November 2021 and brings its total funding to $40.5 million to […]
New Cafe in Irving-Las Colinas Will Be Open Dawn to Dusk for Neighborhood Needs
A new cafe serving coffee, sandwiches, panini, tacos, salads, and soups is coming to Irving. Called Dawn to Dusk Cafe, it’ll open in mid-April at 6561 Riverside Dr., near Royal Lane, in Las Colinas. The cafe is from Vijay Babu, a former IT professional and entrepreneur who owns the shopping center where the café is located. […]
Irving-based NEC of America Appoints Chris Jackson to CEO, President
Irving-based technology enterprise NEC Corporation of America has appointed Chris Jackson as its new president and CEO, the company announced on Wednesday. He will begin the new role on April 1. Jackson succeeds Masahiro Ikeno, who was previously appointed to the position in 2017. Ikeno was with NEC for over 35 years. “I have great confidence in Chris to […]
Irving-based Christus Health Acquires Cardiology Group, Boosting East Texas Reach
Irving-based health care system Christus Health has purchased Tyler-based CardiaStream to form the largest cardiology group in East Texas, the company announced on Monday. Through the transaction, CardiaStream also known as Cardiovascular Associates of East Texas, will combine Christus Health’s Trinity Clinic Cardiology location in Tyler to form the Christus Heart and Vascular Institute. The […]
Kirk Franklin is Bringing His Exodus Music and Arts Festival to Irving
Fort Worth gospel artist Kirk Franklin is bringing the Exodus Music & Arts Festival back to Irving next month. Franklin, who won three Grammy awards in February, is collaborating with Live Nation Urban in expanding the show to two nights, May 20-21, at The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory. The festival, launched in 2018, will be at the Irving […]
Investor Buys Former Sears Store at Irving Mall
A California investor has acquired a vacant department store in Irving. The almost 15-acre property is located on the north side of Irving Mall. The 96,000-square-foot retail building with surrounding parking lots was once occupied by a Sears department store. The building, constructed in 1970, was left vacant when Sears shut down its North Texas locations. The site […]
Irving-Based NEC of America Appoints Chris Jackson to CEO, President
Irving-based technology enterprise NEC Corporation of America has appointed Chris Jackson as its new president and CEO, the company announced on Wednesday. He will begin the new role on April 1. Jackson succeeds Masahiro Ikeno, who was previously appointed to the position in 2017. Ikeno was with NEC for over 35 years. “I have great confidence in Chris to […]
Irving-Las Colinas Office Asset Changes Hands
Reserve Capital Partners and Trinity Investors have acquired Crestview Tower, a 262,962-square-foot office building in Irving, Texas, from CapRidge Partners. At the time of the sale, the property was 78 percent leased. The Class A office building last traded in 2014, when CapRidge purchased it from Codina Partners for $40.7 million, according to CommercialEdge data. Completed in 1982, the 12-story building […]
Irving-Las Colinas’ VicOne Expands DFI Partnership on Cybersecurity for Connected Cars and Smart Cities
VicOne—an Irving-based provider of automotive cybersecurity solutions—wants to make it safer to share data in “vehicle-to-everything environments.” To help do that, it’s expanding its partnership with Taiwan’s DFI, a global provider of embedded motherboards and industrial computers. By making it safer for vehicles, traffic signals, and infrastructure to share data with the internet, the collaboration aims […]
Exxon Mobil’s Campus Lures Global Investors Before Finding a Texas Fit
Exxon Mobil Corp., the largest U.S.-based energy company, sold its headquarters in Irving, Texas, in a sale-leaseback deal last year after a nearly year-long global marketing process that brought in investors from throughout Europe and the Middle East. In the deal closing last December, Exxon Mobil sold its 290-acre campus at 5959 Las Colinas Blvd. to Capital […]
