Christus Health to Build New Global Headquarters in Las Colinas
The health system s new 400,000 square-foot campus is slated for completion in 2023.
By Will Maddox
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Healthcare Business
February 12, 2021
2:24 pm
International health system Christus Health is moving its home base from one Irving location to another. Its new 400,000-square-foot headquarters will be built at N. O’Connor and W. Las Colinas boulevards on 4.2 acres it acquired from State Bank of Texas.
The North Texas-based system does not have any facilities in the region, but has more than 600 locations in Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, and and other markets. It employs 15,000 physicians that run community hospitals, urgent care centers, health insurance companies, and physician clinics.
Resource Center plans senior housing
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Resource Center has purchased property near Inwood Road and Denton Drive Cutoff in Oak Lawn to build an 84-unit senior independent living complex. The project will cost an estimated $23 million.
The center has begun a $4 million capital campaign to fund the facility and more than $1 million of that has already been raised.
Resource Center CEO Cece Cox explained that $750,000 came as a grant from the Federal Home Loan Bank and Veritex Bank in Dallas.
Other money has been raised from individual donors. That includes 100 percent participation of the center’s board.
Additional money for the project will come in the form of low income housing tax credits, city participation, a mortgage serviced through rental payments and more.
D-FW-based Pizza Inn CEO gets political, calling for an election audit
The suggestion of “widespread voter fraud” is based on unproven allegations.
Pizza Inn released a statement on Tuesday, Jan. 6, calling for election reform. The stance was meant to resonate with conservatives and leaves experts like SMU Cox School of Business professor Daniel Howard scratching his head.(Courtesy of Pizza Inn)
In an unexpected political statement from Pizza Inn, the North Texas-based company called for a 10-day audit of the presidential election, saying it is “probable” that “widespread voter fraud may have changed the results of the presidential election.”
The statement landed on Tuesday afternoon, in the middle of the Georgia Senate runoffs and a day before Congress met to count and certify the Electoral College votes for president and vice president.
Coppell-based logistics firm more than doubling operations
PremierLogiTech has been in business since 2007.
Premier LogiTech is in the Freeport II building on South Royal Lane.(Duke Realty)
A North Texas-based technology logistics firm is more than doubling the size of its Coppell operations.
Premier LogiTech LLC is adding more than 110,000 square feet to its operations at 600 South Royal Lane.
The company was founded in 2007 and handles tech products logistics, warehousing, fulfillment, repairs and recycling.
Premier LogiTech will now occupy almost 180,000 square feet in Duke Realty’s Freeport II building.
“As a result of the pandemic, we are seeing increased demand for industrial space that provides our clients with easier access to streamlined logistics,” Duke Realty’s Jeff Thornton said in a statement. “Our clients want to make sure their customers are getting products and services promptly and for Premier, the Freeport II facility has helped them meet their cust
Three North Texas businesses that give back when ‘purpose-based’ shoppers buy gifts
Meet the women who run Oluna, OuiPlease and Soap Hope.
OuiPlease is a luxury subscription service that encourages customers to reuse their boxes to send needed supplies to Genesis Women s Shelter.(Nitashia Johnson / Nitashia Johnson/Special Contrib)
Shoppers are increasingly looking for more from their gift-buying than simply finding the best deal. They want their purchases to stand for something.
The National Retail Federation calls them “purpose-based consumers” because they buy products that align with their personal values. NRF and the IBM Institute for Business Value surveyed 18,980 consumers in 29 countries and found that 40% of shoppers are purpose-based.