Dallas

“And the five markets that took the hit the most in 20, 26 so far are Tampa, Austin, Austin leading the pack, Tampa, Miami, Orlando, and Dallas. Those are the five markets that have decelerated the most, that prices have gone down the most.”

“Back in those days, you know, it's a lot different. You could literally go into the city hall with a drawing you made yourself on a piece of notebook paper and walk out of there with a building permit.”

“Domino's, Wouldn't deliver in this immediate area because it was too dangerous.”

“After being open a little more than two years in that first location, I was able to open a store number two, and this time, instead of being the second densest Hispanic neighborhood, I looked for a location in the first most dense area of Dallas called Oak Cli…”

“When you look at latency from our site in the middle of the desert in West Texas down to Dallas, the big carrier hotel. Six millisecond round trip latency.”

“We have maybe a little bit under nine, but we should, because we're franchising now. Memphis, the Memphis ESCO is doing really well. We have one in Dallas.”

“Zipline is now operating about 20 sites in Dallas alone.”

“And so we have, you know, I visited a grandma in Dallas a couple weeks ago who's ordered from Zipline 350 times in the last year.”

“The crazy thing is that the data that Zipline is currently seeing in Dallas, that the frequency of customer ordering, if you were to apply that just to the rest of the US, there would be fifty billion instant deliveries happening in the US every year.”

“If you step back and look at the data, you look at over the past 10 years, 20 years, it's not the Austins, the Dallases, the Tampas of the country that are performing the best Because we're solving for rent growth.”

“And I will say, we were selling out. Like, every week we would make it, we would sell out. The next week we would make, you know, that and a half, we would sell out.”

“Locations that I like to target are referred to as like tier two cities or tier three cities. So don't think about like Los Angeles or New York or, you know, Chicago or San Diego or something like that. I live in Charlotte. There's a ton of opportunity here. T…”

“When we were pouring through the data of like, well, where do we have a scenario where the lifetime value is greater than the customer acquisition cost? We couldn't find it except for Dallas, Texas. Why? Because we weren't spending anything on customer acquisi…”

“Buying anything in that area, you're probably going to do pretty well.”

“One, when I got divorced basically all my friends dropped me. The second I got divorced they all went with my husband who was in Dallas at the time. They were all sort of married couples of the country club. I didn't fit in anymore, and it didn't feel great fo…”

“He has seven days of data retention. And he has to show up every single month and provide an audit of every single search that's conducted on his system. That's dramatically different than in Dallas, or in Tulsa, or Oklahoma City, where the chief doesn't have …”

“He built a small industrial building in Dallas on Cole Street that we own today on what they call a speculative basis. He didn't have a tenant in hand. He just went out to build the building and thought they would come And they came, and that was very unique. …”

“In the business, 600 plus properties. Other than our terrific office campus in Dallas, which is a unique property, we have no office buildings in our entire portfolio.”

“So you could actually see kind of localized transmission networks even if it's not behind the meter serving as kind of almost like mini microgrid or, you know, maxi microgrids, if you will, you know larger versions of microgrids that are still public utilities…”

“And so, yes, our expectation is by the end of next year, there will be no human. Yeah. And, you know, the way we're going to launch this is initially it'll be on one lane, Which is what you call kind of a trucking route, and that'll be between Dallas and Houst…”

“We don't focus on big towns like Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, all these other areas. We focus on mom, pa shops in rural America.”

“Dallas was old money, Houston was new money, so that for a young upstart like myself trying to create a business, the chances were much greater in Houston, and in fact since I didn't really know anything about the retail business when I opened Men's warehouse.…”

“We're, you know, I mentioned we're spending a lot of money on a plant here in Dallas, and it's going to be driven by robotics so that we can go through and take any, a given pill and manufacture one year or two years worth of supply switch it over to another p…”

“My first expansion, you know, out of the state of Louisiana was around 2004, 2005... Dallas and Houston, and this is eight, eight, nine years into it, and we got our butt kicked.”

“You're not going to see that in Dallas. You're not going to see that in Houston. You're not going to see that in San Diego. You're going to have more of the slow, steady burn as some risk is taken in the environment. Some risk is taken by frat parties and peop…”

“Dallas was old money, Houston was new money, so that for a young upstart like myself trying to create a business, the chances were much greater in Houston, and in fact since I didn't really know anything about the retail business when I opened Men's warehouse.…”

“Our data actually is showing that over 40% of our rides start or stop near a bus or train stop, and so that tells us that we're able to be solving some of those solutions, and I think, in fact, in Dallas, 51% of our rides happen during the evening commute.”

“And we're actually seeing, I think already a fallout of one or two companies who really have just not kept pace. The bikes do seem to be available where they need to be from the bigger vendors and the smaller vendors just can't keep up.”

“One of our claims to fame is we have the largest light rail system in North America.”

“In Dallas, we're really bound by our suburbs. There's no way we can grow out. The only way we can grow is up. So for us to move forward economically, we've got to have more density. We have no more undeveloped land, especially north of downtown.”

“So our bike plan, like I mentioned, has like a thousand miles of bike lanes on it, and we're only deploying, you know, 50 miles a year or something like that.”

“Historically, the city planning has focused our streets on what I say driving through, and now we're really focused on driving to. Which means that things like where we've had these big one way, three, four lane one way, so people can just all leave downtown a…”

“So actually in Dallas, we're completely unregulated.”

“What's happened in Dallas is we went from zero bike share to probably 15 to 20,000 bikes in what a matter of like four months.”

“Dallas now has more bikes in its city than any other U.S. City, period, including New York City that is more than 10 times larger.”

“We, you know, I helped start Taxi Magic, and we grew up a very large business in some ways there as well, like we were booking, you know, 10% of all taxi rides in San Francisco, Chicago, Dallas a bunch of other cities, and, you know, we really created that spa…”

“Dallas launched a new system in June of last year, And the whole system broke down to the point where they couldn't violate, ah, you know, parole pretty much offenders who basically got out of jail free because the system just lost their records entirely.”