New Businesses

BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse is a restaurant located on Belt Line Rd. in Dallas, TX. The restaurant serves a wide menu alongside its own craft beer selection, making it a spot for both dining and brewhouse drinks. BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse fits casual meals, group outings, or a stop for food paired with house-brewed beer. Guests looking for a sit-down restaurant in Dallas with a brewhouse feel can reach the location by phone to ask about the menu or current deals. This location is part of a larger restaurant and brewhouse concept known for combining food service with craft beer offerings.

Located in Farmers Branch, Big Game Football Factory makes and sells custom handcrafted footballs for players at every level. The company builds Nike, Adidas, and Team Issue game balls for college, high school, youth, women's, and professional teams, along with officially licensed footballs for schools like Notre Dame and Texas. Customers can personalize a football using an online configurator, choosing leather, colors, and stripe styles. Big Game Football Factory also offers football accessories, including prep and conditioning kits, display stands, leather care products, and ball bags. Shoppers ordering over $100 receive free shipping within the continental United States. The business serves teams, coaches, and fans looking for quality footballs built by skilled artisans.

Couples, event planners, and party hosts across Dallas-Fort Worth turn to Big City Pro Bands for live music at weddings, festivals, and private parties. Based in Justin, this live band service offers two acts, Inside Out and Big City Outlaws, that can be sized from a single musician to a full twelve-piece group depending on the event. Their song list ranges from country roots to top-40 hits, rock, and dance music, keeping guests singing and two-stepping all night. Pricing depends on the number of musicians, sound and lighting needs, and setup requirements. Whether it's an intimate patio party or a large festival stage, Big City Pro Bands builds a show to match the size and style of the occasion.

Finding a local contact for chamber of commerce connections in Carrollton can be simple with Beverly Wagner, Life Member. Based at 2503 Springdale, this listing serves as a point of contact for those seeking chamber-related community and business connections in the area. Beverly Wagner, Life Member is associated with chamber of commerce activities in Carrollton, offering a way for residents and business owners to connect locally. For questions or to reach out directly, contact by phone. This listing is part of the DFWTXlocal directory of Dallas–Fort Worth area businesses and community contacts.

On Anderson Gibson Road in Grapevine, Best Option Restoration Grapevine-Carrollton helps homes and businesses recover after water damage, fire and smoke damage, storm damage, and mold problems. The team is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and answers calls through a local office instead of a call center. Technicians are certified and insured, and they use thermal technology to find hidden moisture and speed up drying during water damage jobs. Besides restoration work, the company offers contents cleaning, commercial and large loss recovery, asbestos services, and reconstruction. They also work directly with insurance companies to help document damage and manage claims. The business is owned and operated by Adam Powell and also serves Carrollton, Coppell, Farmers Branch, and Addison.

Best Home Realty helps home buyers and sellers across the Rowlett area and the broader North Texas region. The team assists clients with buying and selling homes, home value estimates, foreclosures, and probate property sales, guiding people through each step of the process. Agents work with both first-time buyers and sellers looking for the right buyer for their property. Best Home Realty is licensed as a Texas real estate broker and serves communities throughout North Texas, including Rockwall, Rowlett, McKinney, Plano, and Frisco. Anyone searching for real estate help in Rowlett can reach the team by phone or through their website to start a property search or get a home valuation.

Crimson Sky Ranch is a family-owned, 15-acre rustic wedding and event venue in Brooksville, FL, just off the Suncoast Parkway near the Pasco/Hernando county line. Owned and operated by Bill and Devora Goldman, the ranch blends an authentic, timeless old-Florida backdrop — moss-draped live oaks, rolling pasture, and open sky — with modern comforts built for weddings, celebrations, and live events. The venue's Main Pavilion offers 2,160 square feet of covered event space, including a 1,080-square-foot center barn, a 540-square-foot covered bar and buffet area, and an additional 540 square feet of weather-contingency covered space. Couples can book the property for up to 60 guests starting at $2,750, or up to 120 guests starting at $3,500, with no hourly charges — rental includes exclusive use of the property for a full day or full weekend, one event at a time. On-site amenities include a prep kitchen for outside caterers, a fully equipped bar, a fire pit, a private bridal cottage, a groom's suite, a DJ booth, a dance floor, WiFi, and free self-parking for up to 200 vehicles. The venue is pet-friendly and wheelchair accessible, and BYO catering is welcome. Peak wedding season runs October through April; the ranch closes for maintenance from mid-June through mid-September. Beyond weddings, Crimson Sky Ranch has built a following as a live music venue, hosting "Prog on the Ranch," an annual multi-stage progressive rock festival production, along with concerts and themed events throughout the year. With a 4.9-star rating from Google reviewers, Crimson Sky Ranch has become one of Hernando County's most-booked rustic event venues. For availability, pricing, and tours, reach out by email at [email protected] or through the venue's website.

At American Advance Tree, the person who sizes up the job is the same one who does it, not a salesperson handing off to a separate crew. Owner Kevin Bronson, an ISA Certified Arborist who started the company here in the Upstate, calls it the Red, White & Blue Guarantee. Beyond pruning and stump grinding, the crew handles hazardous and storm-damaged removals, with 24/7 emergency response for the kind of mess a lot of us saw after Helene. More than a decade in, Bronson says the focus has shifted toward saving trees whenever possible. The company works within about 40 miles of Fountain Inn, including Simpsonville, Greenville, Greer, and Taylors. Customers keep mentioning jobs that matched the quote, cleanup down to the last twig, and careful work in tight spots, like a tree grown over a neighbor's chimney.

Dominguez Tree Service handles the tree work that comes with living among the Upstate's big oaks and pines, from cutting limbs back off a roofline to taking down a tree that has outgrown its spot. They work out of Piedmont, right where Greenville and Anderson counties meet.

Craig DeVore was an operating room nurse before tree work became his career. He learned the trade working for arborists in West Virginia to help pay for nursing school, carried a rock climber's rope skills into the canopy, and now runs his own crew as an ISA Certified Arborist. Jobs range from removals, pruning, and stump grinding to storm cleanup, emergency calls, lot clearing, and brush hogging, plus tree health and risk assessments for homes and businesses. They cover much of the Upstate, from Travelers Rest, Taylors, and Greer down through Greenville, Mauldin, and Simpsonville, west to Easley and Powdersville, and out toward Anderson and Pickens. Reviewers mention honest advice and pruning that shapes a tree naturally, but the cleanup gets the most praise, with customers saying their yard looked better after the crew left than before it arrived.

Owner Brad Stone is an ISA Certified Arborist, and his assessments sort out which trees can be saved with pruning, cabling, or bracing, and which need to come down. One customer's old sugar maple was trimmed and cabled to help it weather storms. When removal is the answer, the crew handles the tricky ones: big trees close to the house, a fence, or power lines. They'll also install lighting to show off a standout tree. Independent and locally owned, the company works for homeowners, HOAs, and businesses in Travelers Rest, Greenville, Greer, Simpsonville, Mauldin, Taylors, and Easley. For storm damage, they'll come anywhere in the Upstate. Customers mention Brad's clear advice and fair quotes, and they're just as quick to praise the cleanup, which leaves the yard in better shape than the crew found it.

High-risk removals are a specialty at Carson Tree Company: trees leaning the wrong way and dead limbs hanging over a roof. When a storm drops a tree on the house, they'll help with the insurance claim, too. Everyday removals, pruning, stump grinding, and land clearing round out the work, and there's an ISA-certified arborist on staff. It's a local company, not a franchise. Owner David Carson and his wife also founded Sammy's Mission, which provides faith-based transitional housing for men in addiction recovery. The tree business grew out of work David took on in 2021 alongside a mission resident who'd done it before. Crews cover Simpsonville, Mauldin, Fountain Inn, Greenville, Taylors, Greer, Travelers Rest, and Piedmont. Reviews keep coming back to the cleanup: yards left as clean as before, or cleaner, with the stumps ground and the wood hauled off.

For homes and properties around Greenville, Swamp Rabbit Tree Co takes care of tree trimming, pruning, and removal.

Reviews of Greenville Tree Co. read like a list of the hard jobs: a dying 80-foot maple beside the house, a pine on the roof after a storm, hollies too tall for a landscaper's insurance. The family-owned company, started in 2019 and run by Micaiah Wartak, keeps a knuckleboom crane and its own crane operator for big removals, and cables and prunes trees worth keeping. Every job chips in to Rooted for Good, which sends the crew and equipment to camps and churches that can't afford tree work, including The Wilds camp up near Brevard after Hurricane Helene. Crews work from Travelers Rest and Greer down to Mauldin and Simpsonville, and west to Easley and Powdersville. What customers mention most is the cleanup: plywood to protect the lawn, leaf blowers over every bit of sawdust, yards left cleaner than before.

Integrity Tree Co. chose its equipment to protect finished yards. A crane truck's grapple saw lifts cut sections out without touching the lawn, and the company skips a full-size skid steer on purpose. Owner Josh Moye, an ISA-certified arborist, started the business in 2008 with a pickup and a few saws, and it is still family-run. Beyond removals, the work covers arborist inspections, cabling and bracing for trees worth keeping, and storm calls when a tree lands on a house, including help with the insurance claim. There is even a furniture division, Integrity Millworks & Design, that can turn your removed tree into a custom table or desk. The crews work across Greenville, Greer, Mauldin, Simpsonville, Taylors, and Travelers Rest. Reviewers mention the cleanup again and again, and one describes a section of chain-link fence the crew took down to get equipment in, then reinstalled just as they found it.

In Line Tile covers both halves of a tile project from its Greer storefront, selling tile and building materials and handling the installation too.

Stone work sits right alongside tile in this Upstate contractor's trade, so a project that calls for both materials can go to one installer instead of two.

A good share of RCC Solar's reviews come from homeowners who never called about a new install. A system another company put in had quit working right, sometimes after that company went out of business, and Roberto and his crew took it on and got it producing again. New work covers rooftop and ground-mount arrays, battery backup, off-grid setups, EV chargers, and even small wind turbines, built around equipment from Tesla, Enphase, SolarEdge, SMA, and Fronius. The company, also known as RC Construction Solar, has been family-run out of Greer since 2008 and works across both Carolinas. Reviewers keep landing on the same few things about Roberto: he is straight with people about what a system will and won't do, he shows up when he says he will, and the yard gets left clean.

SC Septic is a Tier 3 installer, the top of South Carolina's three licensing tiers and the level required for the specialized engineered systems harder sites call for. Their work runs the full life of a system: perc tests and design before a build, installation for anything from a traditional house to a barndominium or tiny home, routine pumping, repairs, and inspections when a property sells. They also scope sewer lines by camera and clean grease traps for restaurant kitchens. Family-owned and locally operated, they take emergency calls around the clock. The service area spans six Upstate counties, so Taylors, Travelers Rest, Mauldin, Simpsonville, and Easley are in range, along with Polk and Henderson counties in North Carolina. Customers mention quick scheduling, crews that arrive on time or early, and problems fixed on the spot.

Raprager Farms is a family-run agritourism destination on Boy Scout Road in Odessa, just west of Land O' Lakes and about 25 minutes from Clearwater. What began in February 2020 as a former citrus grove — the property previously operated as Cee-Bee Citrus until citrus greening disease forced its closure — has grown into a full day-trip destination for Tampa Bay families, combining a working regenerative farm with a petting zoo, restaurant, artisan marketplace, and a year-round calendar of seasonal festivals. Founders Justin and Amanda Raprager left corporate careers to build something their family could run and grow together, and that family-first spirit still shapes the farm today. A free-roaming petting zoo with chickens, tortoises, goats, and sheep sits alongside hayrides, a giant bounce pillow, a corn pit, a barn slide, a maze, and field games, all included with general admission. Guests looking for more can add on experiences like zip lining, a mechanical bull, axe throwing, pony rides, gem mining, and Build-A-Buddy, or book hands-on classes in cooking, beekeeping, candle making, yoga, and nutrition. The farm leans into a farm-to-table identity with a full-service restaurant, café, coffee shop, sweet shop, and bar on-site, alongside Farmville — a cottage-style marketplace of local artisan vendors — and a working farmers market. Behind the scenes, Raprager Farms is run on regenerative principles, using cover crops and rotational grazing to rebuild soil health as part of the family's broader commitment to leaving the land, and the animals on it, better than they found it. The calendar runs year-round with signature seasonal festivals — including a fall pumpkin festival, a Christmas festival, and an Easter celebration — each with its own themed decorations, hayride routes, and activities, in addition to hosting birthday parties, corporate outings, weddings, school field trips, and camps. A glamping option is also in the works for guests who want to extend their visit overnight. With a 4.1-star rating across more than 1,500 Google reviews, Raprager Farms has become one of the most-visited agritourism stops in the greater Tampa Bay area, drawing families from Land O' Lakes, Lutz, Wesley Chapel, and beyond. One-day adult admission runs $19 plus tax, with pricing that can vary by festival, so checking ahead — by phone, email, or on the farm's website — is the best way to plan a visit and confirm current rates, especially during peak festival weekends.

The stories people share about Roofers LLC tend to come down to honest advice: one customer was advised against a new roof altogether, another had a nagging leak found and fixed at no charge, and a local insurance agent has said he sends his own clients to them for a straight read on their roofs. The work itself covers shingle and metal roofs on homes, from repairs to full replacements, plus low-slope and standing seam systems on commercial buildings, installed by in-house crews. They also roof new construction and handle inspections after Upstate storms. Locally owned, with roots back to 1983, they take jobs across much of South Carolina, and around here that includes Piedmont, Easley, Greenville, Greer, Taylors, and Travelers Rest.

Allcon Roofing goes well past the asphalt shingles most of us have overhead, working in traditional and synthetic slate, tile, wood shakes, and standing seam metal, and fabricating its own custom sheet metal. Along with home reroofs and repairs, it roofs new construction for homebuilders, multifamily projects included, and installs and maintains commercial flat roofs in TPO, EPDM, and modified bitumen. When one of our spring storms drops hail, its Haag-certified inspectors document the damage and meet with the insurance adjuster. Craig Perfect started the independent, family-owned company in 2007, and its crews now work across the Upstate and into western North Carolina. Reviewers tend to call out the Allcon people they worked with by name, from sales to quality control, and keep mentioning steady updates through the job and crews that clean up carefully afterward.

A father and his three sons run Strong Roofing: Michael O'Bryant with Garrison, Gerringer, and Garrett, who pooled backgrounds in sales, engineering, and general contracting to start it. They hold GAF Master Elite status, which lets them offer GAF's strongest warranties. The core of the work is shingle and metal roofing on homes, new or repaired. When a storm does damage, they tarp and patch, then help homeowners through the insurance claim. They also check roofs ahead of a home sale and handle gutters, siding, skylights, and attic ventilation. Home base is here in the Upstate, with a second office up in Whitsett, North Carolina. Reviewers mention the O'Bryants by name and point to a quick response and crews that keep to the schedule. One homeowner singled out how carefully the crew protected the plants and furniture around the house.

Rhino Roofing & Restoration takes on restoration jobs as well as roofing. The company works out of Taylors, the Upstate community between Greenville and Greer.