Dallas Directory

DallasDirectory.org is the new directory for local businesses in the DFW Metroplex. This website, created by The Marketing Shop.com, gives small businesses and entreprenuers exposure to people in need of their products and services. The directory offers listings for the following types of businesses:

• Dallas Pest Control


• Dallas Hair Removal


• Dallas Hair Salons

There are over 150 categories of Dallas area businesses listed on DallasDirectory.org. The site ofers content, advice, articles and other goodies as well. Small business owners can purchase text ads and banner ads on the site on the pages that matter the most to their target customers.

The directory covers not only Dallas businesses, but businesses that are in cities surrounding cities. The site is called "DallasDirectory.org" because more people type "Dallas" in the search engines than they do the smaller city names.

The site is marketed via search engines such as Google and Yahoo, as well as through social networking channels and feeds. If you are interested in advertising your business on Dallas Directory.org, please go here: Advertise on Dallas Directory.

More categories on DallasDirectory.org:

• Dallas Custom Home Builders


• Dallas Golf Communities


• Dallas Home Builders


• Dallas Neighborhoods


• Dallas Real Estate Agents


• Dallas Realtors


• Dallas Suburbs


• Dallas Homes


• North Dallas Real Estate


• Fort Worth Real Estate


• Commercial Real Estate

Plano ISD Education Foundation receives $50,000 from AT&T

By Stephanie Flemmons and Kim Nguyen / Plano Star-courier
August 17, 2009

The AT&T Foundation gave a $50,000 grant to Plano Independent School District Education Foundation in an effort to decrease the high school dropout rate.

The gift allows the Plano ISD to bring Destination: Graduation — a successful high school dropout prevention program run by the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas — to expand and include more Plano middle schools.

Holly Reed, AT&T’s regional vice president, said this is the first year the grant money will be used to fund this program in middle schools. The program will initially be offered to students at Armstrong and Bowman middle schools, which feed into Williams High School. About 30 eighth grade students were selected to participate in the program and spent two summer weeks attending “Fish Camp,” where they learned about WHS and the school’s administrators, college preparation and goal planning.

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Spending money in Plano makes cents: Chamber helping city encourage spending in Plano

By Kim Nguyen / Plano Star-courier
August 12, 2009

While the city council and staff are working to keep the city’s budget deficit at bay, the Plano Chamber of Commerce is helping out with a campaign to boost sales tax revenues in Plano.

On Monday, the Chamber launched “Plano First -- It Makes Cents,” an awareness campaign that encourages Plano residents to spend their money within city limits.

With the city’s sales tax revenue falling, the city council is considering a property tax increase to offset the city’s projected $3.9 million deficit. Should the hike be approved in October, Plano residents would see an additional $30 on yearly property taxes for the city.

Mayor Phil Dyer is grateful that the Chamber has stepped up in a time of need to help the city generate sales tax dollars.

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STEM partners support Plano ISD secondary mathematics initiatives

Plano Star-courier
August 9, 2009

With generous support from leading area STEM -- science, technology, engineering and mathematics -- focused corporations and foundations, the Plano Independent School District Education Foundation will complete funding this year for more than $280,000 in district-approved initiatives to improve student performance in secondary mathematics education.


STEM organizations partnering with the Plano ISD Education Foundation and the school district are AEGON District Marketing, Inc., EDS Foundation, ExxonMobil Corporation and Texas Instruments Incorporated.

To date, more than $280,000 has been raised to fund the four-year, incremental transition of Algebra I instruction from the ninth grade to the eighth grade.

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Plano Public Library system receives grants

By Heather M. Smith / Star Community Newspaper
June 18, 2009

Plano Public Library Systems will increase its inventory thanks to two grants from the Texas Book Festival.

“We’ve gotten lots of grants over the years from the Texas Book Festival,” said Tammy Korns, Plano Public Library spokesperson. “As far as grants, we feel that if it’s out there we try to get it. We want to match up the funding to what we need in the libraries.”

Plano’s libraries were awarded two $2,500 grants from the Texas Book Festival. Davis Library will use grant funds for children’s technology, health and science materials. Harrington Library will use the funds to add adult and children’s materials for patrons whose first language is Spanish.

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Plano Camp sheds new light on learning

By Heather M. Smith / Star Community Newspaper
June 18, 2009

About 45 Plano Independent School District female students are taking part in a camp meant to increase their confidence and open their eyes to new careers.

The fourth-annual Plano ISD physics camp for women targets those who have completed either Algebra II as sophomores, and are eligible to take pre-Advanced Placement Physics, or who have completed pre-AP Physics as juniors.

“I’ve always been interested in science,” said Setti Testaye, Plano West Senior High junior. “They’ve really explained what physics is during this camp.”

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Texas home building expects fast rebound

Wednesday, May 06, 2009 - By Mario Zavala

By Mario Zavala
Special to the Business Press

There is a light at the end of the tunnel and Texas will likely be the first to see it, according to state and national leaders in the home building industry.

While there were no predictions on when the current building and housing downturn may come to an end, Joe Robson, the chairman of the National Association of Homebuilders, said he thinks the state, and the Dallas and Fort Worth area in particular, is a step ahead in the recovery process.

“Real estate is all local,” Robson said while speaking at the Homebuilders Association of Greater Dallas in Plano. “It gets a little crazy when all you hear about is the national market, everyone starts thinking that its their own town that’s struggling, but Dallas, and Texas in general, has held up real well.”

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PepsiCo rents 90,000 square feet of office space in Plano

May 21, 2009

By STEVE BROWN / The Dallas Morning News
stevebrown@dallasnews.com / The Dallas Morning News
Karen Robinson-Jacobs contributed to this report.

PLANO – A unit of PepsiCo Inc. has leased more than 90,000 square feet of office space in Plano for a large operation.

PepsiCo rented space in a complex of buildings owned by developer KDC at 5340 Legacy Drive, real estate brokers say. The sprawling office complex called the Campus at Legacy once housed EDS offices but was remodeled by KDC – formerly Koll Development Co. – for other tenants.

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February existing home sales rise by 5.1 percent

March 23, 2009
By ALAN ZIBEL, AP Real Estate Writer

WASHINGTON – Sales of previously occupied homes jumped unexpectedly in February by the largest amount in nearly six years as first-time buyers took advantage of deep discounts on foreclosures and other distressed properties.

Economists said sales, while still at levels not seen since 1997, may finally be coming back to life after declining sharply following the stock market plunge last autumn.

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Collin, Denton debate future Dallas North Tollway extension

March 23, 2009

By ED HOUSEWRIGHT / The Dallas Morning News

A simple line on a map could translate into billions of dollars for either Collin County or Denton County.

That line represents a proposed extension of Dallas North Tollway, and the adjacent counties are squabbling over the alignment because of the economic bonanza it could bring as homes and businesses spring up around it.

Collin and Denton county officials had agreed the 7-mile stretch should be on the counties' common border to let each share in the riches.

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