Central Market, J.C. Penney, home sales, sexual harassment: Thursday's Business Briefing

Your lunchtime look at D-FW business [Your lunchtime look at D-FW business] July 12,  2018 🔎 Prefer the online view? It's [here](. Follow us on Twitter [@DMNBiz](. Amber Johnson of Grand Prairie at a hilltop lookout point in far southwest Dallas where she often goes to pray. Prayer has helped her with the anxiety she said she developed after she experienced workplace sexual harassment. (Tom Fox / DMN) The Big Story Sexual harassment in blue-collar Texas: The price women pay to earn a paycheck Most women who suffer sexual harassment on the job, who lose work because they refuse a supervisor’s advances, who silently endure lewd comments and groping, aren’t famous and never will be. Headlines have largely moved on from the stories that exposed high-power men and the women who came forward against them, but the problem of workplace sexual harassment persists, especially for those who have no voice and everything on the line. [The Dallas Morning News]([ recently spoke to three women in blue-collar industries]( — industries often dominated by men — who say they suffered persistent sexual harassment and were punished for speaking up years before the #MeToo movement began. -[Claire Ballor]( The Latest Real estate startup offers cheaper option in Dallas [Los Angeles-based Open Listings]( officially opened up its platform to Dallas and Denton County users this week. Grandscape adds more restaurants, apartments [New apartments, food and office space]( in the broader development should help boost foot traffic beyond those shopping in the sprawling anchor, Nebraska Furniture Mart. Americans making more million-dollar home buys Buys of high-priced digs were up 25 percent in June - the biggest such increase in four years, [according to the latest study by Realtor.com](. H-E-B's Central Market to add new D-FW locations Stephen Butt, president of H-E-B's Central Market division, said that [customers in the northwest Dallas neighborhoods have been asking for a location]( closer to them. Build-A-Bear closes lines at all US stores due to crowds [Build-A-Bear has sent out an e-mail to customers]( with the subject line "Urgent alert," telling them that "Per local authorities, we cannot accept additional guests at our U.S. Build-A-Bear Workshop locations." Advertisement Executive changes - LOCKE LORD DALLAS announced that partner Brad Weber is chair-elect of the antitrust and business litigation section of the State Bar of Texas. - SOUTHWEST OFFICE SYSTEMS INC. announced that co-owner Vince E. Puente Sr. was reappointed to the Finance Commission of Texas. - TEXAS BANKERS ASSOCIATION named Chris Furlow president and CEO. - TRIVE CAPITAL promoted Shravan Thadani to managing director. Plus: [Find more executive changes]( Twin sisters Bailey (left) and Brooklyn McKnight take a selfie inside J.C. Penney at Collin Creek Mall in Plano on Tuesday. (Vernon Bryant / Staff Photographer) SPOTLIGHT J.C. Penney turns to Brooklyn and Bailey McKnight to boost back-to-school Hang around school-age girls with any device connected to the internet and you’ll discover their preferred way to catch up on the latest trends is YouTube, where they subscribe to multiple channels about dance, fashion, makeup and other topics. Among the most popular YouTubers — with a new video out every Wednesday at 4 p.m.— are twin sisters Brooklyn and Bailey McKnight, 18. The social media sensations just graduated from Collin County’s Lovejoy High School in Lucas. [The twins have more than 5.5 million YouTube followers, plus 3.3 million on Instagram, and that has drawn the eyeballs of a major retailer headquartered in North Texas.]( Plano-based J.C. Penney is hoping the twins’ stamp of approval will give its in-house Arizona brand new popularity when back-to-school shopping rolls around. -[Maria Halkias]( 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 2017: 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. 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? Send your thoughts, questions, praise and corrections to our Business Editor Paul O'Donnell at [podonnell@dallasnews.com](mailto:podonnell@dallasnews.com?subject=Newsletter%20Feedback). 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