Impact

Texas Awards $3M to Fair Park First for Planned Community Park

by | 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.
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UNT’s Edible Campus: Where Ancient Farming Traditions Meet Urban Agriculture
by | 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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UTA Researcher Builds AI Tool to Help Emergency Managers Plan Smarter Evacuations in Real Time
by | 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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Dallas Energy Startup’s 3D Solar Towers Win Global Airport Innovation Prize
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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State Awards $25M to Texas Trees Foundation to Transform Southwestern Medical District

by | 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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Dallas Scores Another Disruptor in the Life Science Space
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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DHA, Housing Solutions for North Texas Adds 3 Leaders to C-Suite

by | 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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Fort Worth Filmmakers Plan ‘First-Ever’ Buddy Comedy Starring Actors with Down Syndrome
by | 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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What Housing Affordability Says About Prosperity in Dallas

Local leaders explain the connection and the concern. 
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The Last Word: Colossal Biosciences’ Ben Lamm on Science, Skeptics, and the Sound of a Howl
by | 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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The Last Word: Schwab’s Susan Hirshman On How Generational Wealth Transfer Is About More Than Money
by | 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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