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Rendering of a new children's playground at the planned Fair Park Community Park complex [Image: Fair Park First and Studio Outside, 2023]
Texas Awards $3M to Fair Park First for Planned Community Park
by Lance Murray | Jul 5, 2025
The 10.5-acre Community Park is slated to be the signature project of the Fair Park Master Plan. It aims to be a dynamic civic anchor—delivering shaded gathering spaces, playgrounds, walking trails, a market grove, a fitness hub, native landscaping, a community pavilion, and a performance stage.
by Lance Murray |
Jul 3, 2025
The USDA-funded effort aims to turn unused campus spaces into agricultural classrooms and edible landscapes, while linking students to Denton’s food ecosystem.
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by Lance Murray |
Jun 30, 2025
With support from UTA’s Research Enhancement Program, assistant professor Mahmoud Bayat is developing a digital twin platform to help officials adjust evacuation routes on the fly. The platform could inform future systems across cities, counties, and states for what he calls “truly resilient communities.”
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by Nicole Ward, DRC Data Journalist |
Jun 26, 2025
Founder Mohammed Nije grew up without electricity. Now his Dallas startup, Janta Power, is piloting his power-dense solar technology at DFW and airports worldwide—earning global recognition for a design he says uses less land, generates more power, and can lower energy costs.
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Rendering of the Southwestern Medical District Transformation Project. [Image: Texas Trees Foundation]
State Awards $25M to Texas Trees Foundation to Transform Southwestern Medical District
by Lance Murray | Jun 25, 2025
The funding for the nearly $200 million streetscape and park redevelopment "ensures that Texas continues to lead with evidence-based design, research, innovation, and smart urban planning," said the foundation's CEO, Janette Monear.
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by Lance Murray |
Jun 24, 2025
The grant program—part of BCBSTX’s efforts to support optimal health outcomes for all Texans—includes new funding for 16 nonprofits across North Texas.
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by Nicole Ward, DRC Data Journalist |
Jun 24, 2025
At its Dallas Design District grand opening, Koya Medical marked the official move of its headquarters from California—bringing with it a wearable alternative to wall-powered compression therapy for vascular patients. “This is something that is different from anything that is out there,” says vascular surgeon and new CMO Tom Maldonado.
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Left to right: Sonya Barnette, David Storms, and Debra Roling [Photos: DHA]
DHA, Housing Solutions for North Texas Adds 3 Leaders to C-Suite
by Lance Murray | Jun 17, 2025
DHA said Sonya Barnette and David Storms are the new chief administrative officers, while Debra Roling is its new chief financial officer
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by Nicole Ward, DRC Data Journalist |
Jun 13, 2025
Specially designed automobiles, event escape plans, and extra time for everyday tasks—all ways people pay for differences. Here’s how three North Texas families manage it.
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by David Seeley |
Jun 11, 2025
TI's award is in support of the food bank's new five-year strategic initiative, Fulfilling Futures, which aims to close "critical meal gaps" among other key goals. The foundation has awarded over $6 million to the food bank since 2018.
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by Lance Murray |
Jun 10, 2025
Fort Worth-based Out of Order Studios—whose co-owners executive produced the hit TV show "The Chosen"—said the movie "Monsters vs. Muncy" will be shot in Texas and star Zack Gottsagen ("The Peanut Butter Falcon") and David DeSanctis ("Where Hope Grows").
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Illustration: whyframestudio/iStock
What Housing Affordability Says About Prosperity in Dallas
by Nicole Ward, DRC Data Journalist | Jun 10, 2025
Local leaders explain the connection and the concern.
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by Lance Murray |
Jun 9, 2025
The grants are part of the foundation’s 2025 Spring Grants cycle, intended to fuel critical programs reaching thousands of residents across the region.
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by Quincy Preston |
Jun 5, 2025
In one of his first deep interviews since Colossal's dire wolf debut made global noise, Ben Lamm joins the TechStuff podcast to talk mammoths, backlash, and why he's not here to play it safe.
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by Quincy Preston |
Jun 4, 2025
“Gifting is about more than passing down wealth—it’s about passing down purpose.”
Susan Hirshman
Director of Wealth Management
Schwab Wealth Advisory and Schwab Center for Financial Research
…on the motivations behind high net worth gifting, via Schwab’s latest HNW Client Pulse Survey....
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