Southwest Airlines, The Star, Victory Park, Amazon: Thursday's Business Briefing

Your lunchtime look at D-FW business [Your lunchtime look at D-FW business] September 28,  2017 Prefer the online view? It's [here](%%20webview_url%20%]). Follow us on Twitter [@DMNBiz]( An aerial shot of American Airlines Center surrounded by condominiums along I-35E in Dallas, Thursday, June 30, 2016. (Jae S. Lee/The Dallas Morning News) The Big Story All the details of Victory Park's bid to bring Amazon HQ2 to Dallas Several property owners around American Airlines Center in Victory Park have put together a site proposal for Amazon HQ2. Real estate companies, which on most days are competing with each other for big commercial building projects, have come together over the past couple of weeks to create a site plan for Amazon. [The group led by Ross Perot Jr.'s Hillwood Urban and Hunt Realty Investments includes Hines, Karns, Cousins, Provident Realty Advisors and Estein USA.]( Seeing Amazon's expansion in downtown Seattle and how it was outgrowing the region, Hillwood proposed to the tech and e-commerce giant last summer that it should put an office building in Dallas. -[Maria Halkias]( Plus: [Find more on D-FW's bids to land Amazon's HQ2]( special offer For a limited time, newsletter readers can enjoy unlimited digital access to DallasNews.com for only $2.99 a week. [Sign up today]( and stay informed about the latest news that's important to you.  The Latest - Jobs: [Brakebush Brothers](to bring 800 jobs to new Greenville chicken processing plant. - Real estate: [Mary Kay](completes sale of its Regal Row manufacturing plant. - Airlines: [Southwest Airlines](expects to take a $100 million hit from hurricanes, earthquakes. - Economy: 1 in 4 Texas students affected by Harvey, [education chief tells Dallas business leaders](. - Executives: [Ailing Tenet](gives departing CEO Trevor Fetter a $22.9 million goodbye package. Advertisement Many retired aircraft have made their way to the Southern California Logistics Airport in Victorville. (Getty Images) Airlines What happens to old planes? Southwest is retiring 30 of its fleet's 'Classics' At 11:35 p.m. Friday evening, Southwest Airlines Flight 68 is scheduled to arrive in Dallas from Houston, the aircraft’s last flight before being retired from Southwest’s fleet and parked in the California desert. While Southwest regularly retires aircraft, this send-off will be particularly notable, as the Dallas-based carrier prepares to say goodbye to the last of its Boeing 737-300s, also known as the “Classics.” It will be one of 30 Classics retired Friday. With a new, more efficient generation of planes soon to join Southwest’s fleet, [the carrier is retiring the Classics, in part to simplify training for pilots](. “It was an exceptional airplane for the short-haul market,” said Mike Van de Ven, Southwest’s chief operating officer. “It allowed us to grow our network for literally the next 20-30 years.” -[Conor Shine]( Plus: [Find more on the airlines of D-FW]( Elsewhere in Texas - Technology: City’s culture led [Siemens](to pick Austin as home for digital services center. (512Tech.com) - Economy: Report: [SXSW](2017 pumped $348.6 million into Austin’s economy. (Austin American-Statesman) - Real estate: [Texas A&M]( to buy 18-story building near Texas Medical Center. (Houston Chronicle) - Executives: [Former H-E-B exec]( accused of promoting child pornography could face 600 years in prison. (News4SA.com) - Technology: Study: [Tech workers’ salaries]( go further in Austin than most tech hubs. (512Tech.com) Matthew Kiran and Rex Glendenning pose for a portrait at Rex Real Estate in Frisco on Tuesday, August 29, 2017. Glendenning and Kiran helped bring the Dallas Cowboys to the city of Frisco. (Vernon Bryant/The Dallas Morning News)aption Who Are... Rex Glendenning and Matthew Kiran [The brokers for Rex Real Estate]( have helped the Cowboys and its subsidiaries with land deals in Collin County for years. Their firm's motto: "We sell more than land. We sell vision." And that's exactly what they did in bringing the Cowboys and the city of Frisco together — Frisco ISD was added later — to create a project unlike any other in the nation. "It's gratifying to see a vision become a reality," Glendenning said. The eureka moment for these two Frisco-based real estate brokers came in late February 2013. -[Valerie Wigglesworth]( Plus: [Find the rest of the story on how they landed The Star]( ICYMI - Airlines: Police pull woman from [Southwest flight](after she claims deadly allergy to dogs on board. - Restaurants: [Eatzi's](at Preston-Royal in Dallas expected to open in October 2017. - Technology: With millions of dollars invested, Dallas is prepping to become a major player in the [world of esports](. - Airlines: Texting while flying will soon be a thing, as [Delta]( introduces free in-flight messaging. - Jobs: The 50 people left at [RadioShack HQ]( will be moving out of downtown Fort Worth. Troy Aikman talks with the media at the photo shoot for Children's Cancer Fund Annual Gala at Children's Medical Center in Dallas, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. Featured Columnist: Cheryl Hall How Troy Aikman became Oklahoma's 1983 high school typing champion Jean Froman, a typing teacher at Henryetta High School in Oklahoma, turned Troy Aikman into the state’s champion typist in 1983. “She had a brother who was a head football coach at a high school up in Tulsa, so I spent a lot of time talking to her about football, life and athletics, setbacks and overcoming obstacles and whatever it'd be,” said Aikman, this year’s chairman of United Way of Metropolitan Dallas’ annual fundraising campaign. [Aikman immediately took to typing and to Froman as his coach in life.](He replaced his sister, Tammy, as the representatitve in the state competition when she didn't want to compete. He won. “Everyone knew already that I was an athlete,” he says. “And for me to go down the aisle as the typing winner was not one of my proudest moments, although winning the award certainly meant a lot.” Plus: [Find more columns by Cheryl HallÂ]( Follow DFW stocks: [See how top North Texas stocks performed](, as well as the oil and gas markets and major stock exchanges. DFW Top 100 Places to Work 2016: The Dallas Morning News and Workplace Dynamics partner each year to feature the [Top 100 workplaces](, based on ratings by the people who work at them. The 2017 ranking is in progress. Advertisement 👋  That's all for today! For up-to-the-minute business news and analysis, check out [DallasNews.com/Business](. 💖 Share the love: If you like this newsletter, please forward this email to a friend and [check out our other newsletters here](. 📧 Do you have feedback on this newsletter? 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