Source: Fort Worth Business Press

By Scott Nishimura
snishimura@bizpress.net

Cook Children’s has closed on a 1.3-acre site in the fast-growing Renaissance Square development in southeast Fort Worth, and is beginning construction this month on a 12,000-square-foot medical, dental and behavioral clinic, the hospital said Wednesday.

Kristin Peaks, spokeswoman for Cook Children’s, said the clinic expects to see its first patients “on or before” Sept. 30.

The addition of the clinic is viewed as an important addition to the long-underserved area’s health care offerings.

The $7 million facility, at the southeast corner of East Berry Street and Mitchell Boulevard, will be Cook’s sixth clinic, but the first to combine medical, dental and behavioral health. The Morris Foundation of Fort Worth made the lead gift to open the clinic.

Source: Cedar Valley Business Monthly

By: Jim Offner

CEDAR FALLS | The former Smitty’s Tire & Appliance building in Cedar Falls, at 6912 University Ave., has been sold. 

Cedar Falls-based Financial Architects, headed by Curt Patterson and Todd Thomas, closed on the purchase of the building Friday morning, according to Dustin Whitehead, director of sales and leasing/Midwest, for Cedar Falls-based Lockard Cos., which listed the property.

The purchase price was $900,000, Whitehead said.

Patterson was out of the office Friday and could not be reached for comment. Thomas did not immediately return a phone call for comment.

Smitty’s, which had operated on the property for more th
an 60 years, closed at the end of 2013.

Max Boren, who still operates a Smitty’s store in Manchester as a separate business entity, was the seller.

Boren recently auctioned off fixtures and other equipment inside the building, Whitehead said.

Whitehead said he was not privy to the details of the buyers’ plans for the property, but he did say, “I think what they’re going to do to that property will enhance that corner.”