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Dallas' Flea Style rides west for new outpost in Fort Worth Stockyards

There'll be a hat bar.

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One of Dallas' favorite flea market emporiums is headed for a new frontier in Fort Worth: Flea Style will open a shop with a small restaurant in the bustling Mule Alley area of the historic Stockyards district this fall, a release says.

Flea Style, which is known for supporting unique artisans and small businesses, will offer local goods, handmade clothing, jewelry, home decor, custom hats, and Western-influenced pieces in the Mule Alley store. It will be the brand's third brick-and-mortar, after locations in Deep Ellum and Frisco.

“We’re so excited to expand to Cowtown,” says Brittany Cobb, CEO and founder, in the release. "With the success of our Wide Brim concept store in Hotel Drover and our Stetson hat collection, we know Mule Alley is the perfect location to bring our retail and restaurant brands and cannot wait to swing open our doors.”

Flea Style has been an evolving enterprise since 2009: from its early days as "Dallas Flea," a Dallas-themed market, to its 2016 transformation into a broader event called Flea Style encompassing vendors from beyond Dallas, to the founding of its online store, the Deep Ellum storefront in 2018, and the Frisco location in 2019.

Cobb focuses on custom collaborations between makers and rare finds that she sources around the globe, including clothing, jewelry, home decor, hats, and unique Western wear.

The 3,400-square-foot space in Mule Alley will also house a hat bar featuring a private label Stetson collection, as well as colorful vegan options and an assortment of "unique accents for customers to make bespoke hats," the release says.

A mini version of their restaurant Heirloom Haul will nestle inside, offering a menu of specialty sips, such as frosé and signature lattes.

“Flea Style completes our tenant mix of Western wear brands that are available at Mule Alley and cements our status as the only place that visitors can find an unparalleled, curated retail experience,” touts Kayla Wilkie, Fort Worth Heritage Development Co. team leader for design and development, in the release. “Flea Style customers travel far and wide to experience Cobb’s unique mix, and we couldn’t be more thrilled to offer that to Fort Worth locals and Stockyards tourists alike.”

Flea Style will be be located at 128 E. Exchange Ave., and hours will be 10 am-7 pm Sunday-Thursday and 10 am-8 pm Friday and Saturday. For updates on the opening, visit fleastyle.com and follow on Instagram @fleastyle.

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Amazon Pharmacy to build Dallas facility for same-day delivery meds

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Why are prescription bottles always orange?

Amazon is moving forward on its plans to expand its same-day delivery of prescription drugs with the opening a center in Dallas: Called Amazon Pharmacy, it will be located inside Amazon's Richardson distribution center at 3051 Research Dr., from where it will begin delivering prescriptions in 2025.

Dallas is one of 20 cities where Amazon will open new centers, doubling the number of cities that it already offers same-day delivery prescriptions.

The 24-hour pharmacy will be added onto an existing 180,000-square-foot distribution warehouse; construction on the added pharmacy is set to start in February and is estimated to cost $1.6 million, according to a filing permit.

Currently, it takes an average of two days for customers to get medication delivered where same-day delivery isn't available. Amazon officials said the company aims to help fill care gaps by offering rapid delivery of medications and 24/7 access to a pharmacist so customers can get care within hours.

Amazon says it will reduce delivery time with the pharmacies, which are designed to be automated with robotic arms supervised by licensed pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.

"Amazon Pharmacy is integrating technology to modernize pharmacy while maintaining high-touch clinical care,” says VP of Amazon Pharmacy John Love in a statement. "We are reimagining health care delivery to meet customers where they are—online, on the go, and at home.”

The pharmacy space has become buzzy, in no small part due to Mark Cuban, who is changing the game with his Cost Plus Pharmacy, an online pharmacy that sells 100 of the most-often prescribed generic prescription drugs at a transparent, fixed-rate markup.

Amazon plans on opening other same-day delivery pharmacies in Boston, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, San Diego and other cities next year.

"We haven’t announced additional cities and will do so as plans become firm," an Amazon Pharmacy spokesperson told CoStar News. "Timing and details are still being determined, and delivery will be conducted by our standard vehicles."

Last year, Amazon started offering customers in College Station the option of getting their medications from an Amazon Pharmacy in 60 minutes or less by drone delivery. The Amazon Pharmacy same-day delivery service was introduced in New York and Los Angeles in March after launching in cities such as Indianapolis, Miami, Phoenix and Seattle.

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