🪶7 years later, Heather Reynolds back as CEO; No-tuition semester for TCU med students; Only family/friends play this golf course.

Heather Reynolds is returning to Catholic Charities Fort Worth where she started as an intern and rose to CEO. After seven years at Notre Dame, she has been named President and CEO of CCFW. The nonprofit said it had been diligently searching for a leader whose track record includes a hyper-focused passion for ending poverty, the ability to energize fundraising efforts, and the human capital to lead a poverty-ending team that is second to none. Coincidentally, Reynolds and her family were returning to Fort Worth for their daughter's schooling. 

The Arlington-based United Football League announced a slew of changes, including new cities, dropped cities and the move of the Arlington Renegades. Frisco's Toyota Stadium is the new home of the Dallas Renegades.

An anonymous family’s gift of $1.8 million will cover a semester of tuition for each student in the class of 2026 at the Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine at Texas Christian University.

Cincinnati-based Fifth Third Bancorp has agreed to purchase Dallas-based Comerica for $10.9 billion in an all-stock deal that could close during the first quarter of 2026. The acquisition would create the ninth-largest U.S. commercial bank with $288 billion in total assets. Comerica has eight banking centers in Tarrant county.

Burleson and Groundwork Development Partners announced a partnership that will bring a premier, multi-generational master-planned, 621-acre community, Tallgrass, to the interchange of the Chisholm Trail Parkway at FM 1902. The development represents more than $1 billion in investment and will deliver approximately 4,000 residential units and one million square feet of commercial development in a mixed-use community.

Believe it or not: David Dean Halbert, founder of Caris Life Services and a new Forbes 400 member, built a “no-budget” 18-hole golf course located along 170 acres of Lake Granbury. He hired legendary golf designer Tom Fazio to build a $50-million, par-72 course that has no memberships. Only Halbert's family and friends can play. 

Less than a year after proving flight efficiency and reliability of a rotor blown wing vertical take-off and landing Uncrewed Aerial System, Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, is unveiling its Nomad future family of aircraft.

Medical City Fort Worth completed its $37-million expansion, which includes new cardiac catheterization laboratories and additional operating rooms. Have a look.

SERVPRO has re-upped as title sponsor of the Warrior Club for the 2026 Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl Friday Jan. 2. The AirPower Foundation and SERVPRO host more than 100 Purple Heart recipients in a south end zone club. Purple Heart recipients can click here to apply for a spot in the Warrior Club during the game. 

Plano-based Ninebird Properties, a company that buys houses for cash, has expanded its operations to service the Metroplex.

BioNTX, a bioscience and healthcare innovation network in north Texas, has signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding with the Indian Institute of Science Foundation, a non-profit headquartered in the U.S. The agreement formalizes a collaborative framework to build long-term ties between the two life sciences ecosystems.

Nike CEO Elliott Hill, a TCU grad, told CNBC the company’s turnaround plan is showing early signs of progress, but it will “take a while” to return to profitable growth. 

FW Westside RE Investors, developer of the $1.7-billion Westside Village at 100 University, has selected DBA Commercial Real Estate to lead leasing for The Shed. DBA is led by Principals Perrin Gasc and Austin Schenkel. Located on 37 acres, the mixed-use Westside Village will include residential, office, retail and hospitality space.

CVS Health launched a Workforce Innovation and Talent Center and Community Resource Center in collaboration with Fort Worth Housing Solutions. The intent is to build a pipeline of skilled healthcare professionals by offering no-cost workforce training and healthcare services. 

Simply Wall Street evaluates Fort Worth-based Range Resources' valuation after it received a $4-billion credit facility to boost financial flexibility. 

Sabre Direct Pay, the travel payments division of Southlake-based Sabre Corporation, introduced a service designed to help travel companies simplify and scale chargebacks, enabling dispute resolution more efficiently across issuing and acquiring channels.

Arlington-based REV Entertainment is bringing professional minor-league hockey to New Mexico. The Goatheads will begin play in the 2026-27 season.

Colorado head football coach Deion Sanders had surgery Tuesday, but does not anticipate missing work. Sanders had aspiration thrombectomy surgery, a procedure that employs a catheter to remove blood clots.

Significant stat: ~50% = Share of Costco’s new members that are under 40-years-old, according to the company's latest earnings call. Social media hype has led more young people to the brand. 

Snippets:

• Gun. No gun! Prime Video fans are not pleased with a preview poster.

• Spirit Airlines will furlough 51 employees based out of D-FW International Airport, according to a notice it filed with the Texas Workforce Commission.

• Alphabet Inc.’s Google lost a U.S. Supreme Court bid to pause major changes to its Google Play app store in an antitrust case filed by Fortnite-maker Epic Games Inc.

Announcements: 

• Adrian Burciaga: Announces he is starting a new position as Restauranteur-Entrepreneur at self-employed.

• Tarleton State: Re-instates basketball coach Billy Gillespie after a university review of an anonymous complaint. 

• Tarleton State: Names Barry Lambert Acting Provost and EVP for Academic Affairs.

• Estes Energetics: Hires Brandon Haskell as Director of Development.

• Verizon: Appoints Dan Schulman, independent lead director and former CEO of PayPal, as Chief Executive Officer.

• Fort Worth PRSA: Names TCU Professor Emeritus and Director Jacqueline Lambiase its 2025 Communicator of the Year. 

• American Board of Trial Advocates: Adds Kelly Hart attorney Chris Ponder. 

• League Real Estate: Adds Hannah Mercer to its commercial and residential brokerage firm.

• The Archway: The new name for SafeHaven, which has been Tarrant County's most comprehensive domestic violence organization for 50 years. 

• WestAid: Selects Yuseff “Seff” Howard as Executive Director after the retirement of William Pherigo, who served for 33 years. 

• Mycon: Promotes Myron Stoll to President.

• Department of the Treasury:  Adds Chief Executive Officer of the Internal Revenue Service to workload of Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano. He will report directly to Treasury Secretary and Acting IRS Commissioner Scott Bessent.

• IES Communications: Adds Barbara Lewis as Administrative Assistant. 

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