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Favorite on-demand delivery app service reaches out to key Dallas neighborhoods

Favor's getting bigger in DFW.

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Austin-based Favor, the mobile delivery company, is more than doubling the size of its current Dallas delivery zone. The new area includes neighborhoods in West Dallas, Oak Cliff, Lake Highlands, Highland Meadows, Casa View, Richardson, and Love Field, and provides access to even more restaurants including Resident Taqueria, JJ's Cafe, Neighbor's Casual Kitchen, Atomic Pie Dallas Pizza, Tukta Thai, Mexicali, and Alligator Cafe.

The big thing there is Lake Highlands and Casa View, two areas that don't even have decent public transportation.

The Dallas zone expansion is part of Favor's initiative to double-down on its home state of Texas. In 2017, the company will give Texans more access to on-demand delivery than ever before, having recently expanded in Fort Worth, North Dallas, Arlington, Houston, Austin, and College Station.

Favor expects to increase its Texas presence substantially in 2017. "Dallas and the DFW metroplex are a key part of Favor’s statewide growth strategy," says Favor CEO and president Jag Bath.

To celebrate the zone expansion, Favor is offering breakfast tacos from Tacodeli on March 14 for free, beginning at 9 am, and while supplies last. Users are required to tip their runner in-app; download the Favor app to redeem this offer.

Favor is also looking to add tens of thousands of runners across Texas and in the DFW area. As independent contractors, runners enjoy a flexible, active lifestyle, and receive 100 percent of their tips. To apply, visit apply.favordelivery.com.

Favor's mission is to deliver to your door in under an hour, whether it's errands, a household shopping list, or lunch at the office.

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Coworking News

New coworking space to open in Dallas' Oak Lawn neighborhood

Office Evolution

A coworking space is opening in Dallas in a central location: Office Evolution, a Louisville-based coworking chain, will open what a release says is a "state-of-the-art coworking space" at 3500 Oak Lawn Ave. #360 in Dallas at the southeast corner of Lemmon Avenue.

No details on what makes it state-of-the-art, but construction is ongoing and an opening is anticipated in mid-October.

Office Evolution was founded in 2003 as a shared workspace-coworking environment, cultivated on the principles of "Ohana," the Hawaiian tradition that references family working toward a common goal. (The founder was from Hawaii.)

The company started out in Boulder, Colorado, then relocated its headquarters to Louisville. It's an affiliated brand of United Franchise Group, and is part of The Vast Coworking Group, which specializes in franchising within the coworking industry. All of their locations are franchised.

The Dallas location is owned by franchisee Michael Pickering, a Dallas native who runs a family-owned indoor soccer facility in Dallas. (There are two other Office Evolution locations in the DFW area in McKinney and Southlake, owned by different franchisees.)

They're describing the Dallas location at 3500 Oak Lawn Ave. as "Turtle Creek," although its location at Oak Lawn and Lemmon really puts it at the epicenter of Oak Lawn. (To further complicate matters, the building previously and incorrectly described its address as "Uptown.")

It's a seven-story building in which the majority of tenants are doctor and medical offices.

Office Evolution rates include a coworking day pass for $25, plus "flex" office options starting at $200 a month for 20 hours, up to $550 a month for 80 hours.

Amenities of the building that are also accessible to Office Evolution customers include a front desk; a 1,000-square-foot fitness center; covered parking; and on-site security six days a week.

According to a spokesperson, Pickering and his team put $1.2 million into the renovation to transform the space, which occupies most of the fourth floor where it will span 9,240 square feet of space with 41 total offices — one of which is earmarked as an "on-demand office" for the professional on the go.

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