How Dallas licked partisan politics and regional rivalries to land a coveted biotech hub

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ARPA-H will call Dallas home, alongside two other hubs in Cambridge, Mass., and the Washington, D.C., area.

about a decade prior. He connected with Thomas Graham, founder of Austin-based Crosswind Media and Public Relations, who was instrumental in getting the center to College Station.

The crew knew they would have to overcome hurdles not present in other parts of the country, so they hit the ground running. They named themselves the Coalition for Health Advancement and Research in Texas, or CHART, and leveraged the connections of each participant. Officials at MD Anderson helped get a meeting with the Biden Administration.

The new ARPA-H medical innovation hub will be based at Pegasus Park, a 26-acre mixed-use office campus in Dallas that's become a hub for the region's growing life sciences industry. The campus is undergoing a new 135,000-square-foot expansion to accommodate Bridge Labs' research and development space. It's expected to be completed in mid-2024.The hardest part of organizing Texas’ bid wasn’t getting Texans from across the aisle on the same page, Davies said.

Despite initial concerns about political snags, Davies and her team were never told “no.” White House officials, lawmakers and other decision-makers didn’t immediately shut down the idea of Texas hosting the agency.Securing meetings with so many leaders was a feat, one Roberts and Graham largely chalked up to the help of Dallas-based Lyda Hill Philanthropies.

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