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SIOR is promoting parity, diversity and inclusion by encouraging and empowering members to extend relationships to CRE professionals, especially women who have considered SIOR membership or would be ideal candidates.

The goal for the hotel's renovation was to energize the interior spaces to represent Westin's Wellness brand, the airport location and its Texas roots, and it feeds off the positive energy of the nearby airport.

The space will include The Residences at The Allen and Lifestyle Pavilion, Thompson Hotel, a fitness club, two restaurants, retail spaces and an office building between downtown, Galleria/Uptown area, Midtown and the Texas Medical Center.

One 18,000-square-foot training facility in Grand Prairie will house two flight simulators, the first Level D full-motion flight simulators in North America for Airbus H145 and H175 helicopters.

Dermody Properties recently acquired a property in Fremont, which has long been a preferred industrial site due to accessibility to the Bay Area, access to engineering and manufacturing labor, and business-friendly environment.

Competentia has signed a lease agreement at West Memorial Place and plans to relocate its Houston office to the second floor of West Memorial Place I in early 2020.

Dallas is ranked seventh among the 30 largest US cities, based on the share of high-rise apartment buildings built in the last decade; between 2010 and 2018, 14% of new apartment complexes were high rise.

Karlin Conklin, an outspoken advocate on the importance of C-suite diversity, notes that females in principal and director roles in this industry are not the norm, but comprise more than half of IMG staff.