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Alexa, Turn Around This Lousy Day

By Shelby Skrhak / June 8, 2018 /

“What am I doing wrong in this world,” my husband asked, walking out the door one Monday morning, a lousy day that began wrong right from the start. Blasting us awake, Livin’ on a Prayer streamed loudly on our Amazon Echo Dot that we use as our alarm clock. Though we’re an Amazon-enabled home with…

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Jeff Bezos is Speaking at SMU’s Bush Center Forum on Leadership Next April

By Candy Evans / November 15, 2017 /

Tate Lecture Series ticket holders get the first shot to buy tickets to hear Jeff, but I wonder if this has any connection to the news that the Wall Street Journal thinks Amazon is headed our way for sure for sure. I mean, Jeff Bezos could be coming here to just check out Whole Foods…

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THIS IS NOT A DRILL: Wall Street Journal Says Amazon HQ2 is Headed For Big D

By Joanna England / November 14, 2017 /

Right when you think that we’ve talked it absolutely to death, the Wall Street Journal had to go and breathe life into the corpse of the Amazon HQ2 story. But wait! Do all of these fancy pie charts mean what we think they mean? Is Dallas proper about to get the crown after finding ourselves at…

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Amazon HQ2 Could Mean Higher Rents For Dallas Area

By Joanna England / October 19, 2017 /

What would it take to get Amazon to locate it’s HQ2 here in Dallas? Jon Anderson says you don’t want to know, and we shouldn’t be so sure we want the e-retailer here anyway. And according to new stats from ApartmentList, if Seattle’s fallout from HQ1 is any indication, Dallas and Austin renters should expect…

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Will Amazon Be Your Next Real Estate Broker… Parked at Whole Foods?

By Candy Evans / July 13, 2017 /

Amazon.com, the online, no-bricks-or-mortar, mega e-commerce consumer sales site that just bought Texas-based Whole Foods, may be getting into the real estate business. Holy canoli — I just had a thought: What better place to advertise local listings than the local grocery store! Inman reported yesterday that, on Tuesday, while we were all thinking of what…

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