A drone delivery company based in Ireland is teaming up with a Dallas-based real estate developer to launch a last-mile delivery pilot program in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

Hillwood is partnering with Dublin-based Manna to deploy its drones—which can fly at close to 40 miles per hour carrying packages weighing up to 7 lbs.—at the sprawling 27,000-acre AllianceTexas business park, home to more than 560 companies in a planned community that spans Denton and Tarrant counties in the Lone Star State.

AllianceTexas is a global logistics hub with its own airfield, Perot Field Fort Worth Alliance Airport—named for Hillwood founder Ross Perot—and a BNSF Railway intermodal shipping facility.

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