Downtown Dallas, Inc. hosted another sold-out fall luncheon at the Omni Dallas Hotel featuring Mayor Mike Rawlings’ State of Downtown Address. In his remarks, Mayor Rawlings focused on Downtown’s recent successes, and on our desirability to companies large and small based on a talent pool that wants to work in a vibrant urban core.  Mayor Rawlings spoke about his last year in office, and about all things Downtown in our Around Downtown podcast.  You can listen to the podcast by clicking the 'More Info' button below.

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Each year, Downtown Dallas, Inc. partners with the Dallas Business Journal to bring you a special insert all about Downtown.  From economic development news to the latest on parks, The 360 Plan, education, and much more, this insert is the best way to get caught up on all things Downtown.  Click the 'More Info' button below to read the entire insert.

WeWorks Labs provides workspace and educational and community resources for startup businesses.

The incubator space program is aimed at fostering new companies and entrepreneurs. There are more than a dozen WeWork Labs locations across the U.S. The first Dallas location will open this fall and will be headed by Will Akins.

The operation plans to provide "customized programming and mentorship opportunities to participating startups," according to WeWork.

"Every day, WeWork provides collaborative spaces, member services and a global community for businesses of all sizes -- from 25 percent of Fortune 500 companies to early-stage startups," the shared office company said in a statement.

The new Dallas WeWork Labs will be in the Thanksgiving Tower on Elm Street in Downtown and will open in November.
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A Chicago-based consulting firm is relocating its Dallas offices to Downtown.

West Monroe Partners is moving to the One Arts Plaza building in Downtown's Arts District.  The business and technology consulting firm is currently in the Mockingbird Station complex on North Central Expressway near SMU.  West Monroe Partners plans to make the move in January.

"This move is vital to accommodating West Monroe's growth in Dallas," Adam Gersting, a senior director in the firm's Dallas office, said in a statement. "We continue to grow rapidly in Dallas through our focus on partnering with leading companies and hiring strong business and technology professionals from area universities and the marketplace.

"I am especially excited about this new office location and size; we will have great collaboration space and a large meeting space for hosting clients, business partners, community events, and our growing team."

West Monroe Partners is leasing 11,767 square feet in One Arts Plaza from developer Billingsley Co.
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After almost a year of construction, work crews revamping Downtown Dallas' landmark Trammell Crow Center are in a race toward the finish line.

The $140 million redo of the Ross Avenue skyscraper will be mostly done by the end of the year. The project — by owner JP Morgan Asset Management and Stream Realty Partners — is the most elaborate renovation yet of one of Downtown's iconic 1980s towers.

"We are excited because we are getting close to the end," Stream Realty Partners' managing director Ramsey March said giving a tour of the project. "The response from the market has already been strong. We have more prospects and proposals than the space we have left."

Stream Realty still has to fill a 175,000-square-foot block of space in the building being left vacant with accounting firm PriceWaterhouseCooper's move to the new Park District tower in Uptown.

But since starting the high-rise renovation last year, new office tenants including Goldman Sachs, coworking firm Common Desk and other companies have taken large blocks of space in the Trammell Crow Center.

The reinvention includes a Royal Blue grocery boutique store on the ground floor of the skyscraper along with a new full-service restaurant by Dallas' NL Group.

On the second floor of the tower there will be a conference center and exercise facilities, with open-air terraces overlooking Ross Avenue. The Harwood Street side of the tower facing the Dallas Museum of Art gets a large outdoor patio and seating area with a tenant lounge opening to the new plaza.
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A fast-growing tech firm is more than doubling its footprint in a new Downtown Dallas redevelopment.

Digital firm OrderMyGear has rented 23,000 square feet of offices in the new East Quarter redevelopment along Commerce Street at Cesar Chavez. The building where the company is expanding at 2211 Commerce Street was a Cadillac auto dealership back in the 1920s and 1930s.

OrderMyGear, which provides digital software services for the apparel and sporting goods industries, has 80 workers at its Downtown headquarters. It is one of the largest businesses located in the 8-block area that is being redeveloped on the east side of Downtown.

The company recently earned a spot on Inc.'s annual ranking of fastest growing businesses in the nation. With revenues of $13 million in 2017, OrderMyGear posted three-year growth of 676 percent.

Earlier this year, OrderMyGear raised $35 million from investors to add new features to its software and to boost marketing efforts.

"The expanded space will support the potential doubling of our headcount during the next few years," James Skidmore, company co-founder and COO, said in a statement. "Our team is excited to expand and be a part of the growth in the East Quarter."
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