💰FW store has $3-million lottery winner; How to lose $8-billion value in 10 years; Rangers $2.45B value is $5.75B behind Yankees.

The Supreme Court upheld a rule regulating so-called “ghost guns” – untraceable weapons without serial numbers, assembled from components or kits and bought online. By a 7-2 vote, justices ruled the Gun Control Act of 1968 allows the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to regulate at least some ghost guns. They left open the possibility the rule might not apply in individual challenges to particular ghost guns.

The predictions in early November that Wells Fargo would have a presence in Clearfork are correct. The Star-Telegram reported the bank is moving out of its downtown tower and into new construction at Clearfork. 

A Tarrant County grand jury declined to press forward with child pornography charges against photographer Sally Mann and the Modern Art Museum Fort Worth. Allegations were that the museum had engaged in a display of child pornography in presenting images by Mann of unclothed youths in her Diaries of Home exhibit.

"The next priority for production is Europe," Lockheed Martin Executive VP for missiles and fire control Tim Cahill said. "I would say the Middle East is the next area of direct priority and interest, both on the part of the countries and the part for us to produce."

Forbes has completed its annual evaluation of every Major League Baseball team and the Rangers come in at No. 12 with a valuation of $2.45 billion, up 2% from last year. In the top spot are the New York Yankees, worth $8.2 billion.

161 games left to gain ground: The Texas Rangers opened in Arlington before more than 37,000 fans and lost, 5-2, to the Boston Red Sox. The game was tied at two through the eighth when Wilyer Aubrey hit a three-run home run, his second homer of the day, to win it. 

Construction has begun on a 47-acre, mixed-use community and park with "significant" waterfront frontage on Highway 377 in Granbury, according to Culture Map. LakeView Landing will include lakefront restaurants, shops, waterfront single-family homes with boat docks, patio homes, townhomes, active-adult multi-family housing, market rate multi-family residences, a SpringHill Suites by Marriott and a public park.

For profit and non-profit hospital and healthcare systems are making montwoy...more in 2023 than 2022, according to the latest data. D CEO magazine's Will Maddox has the numbers and margins of the top producers. 

Grapevine-based video game retailer GameStop said it will continue to slim its real estate as it seeks to become profitable. Last fiscal year, 590 outlets were closed, and plans this year are to close stores that are underperforming and sell some international operations.

Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced an investigation into Superior Insurance for allegedly using private investigators to perform surveillance and gather potentially confidential information on lawmakers, journalists, and private citizens with pending insurance claims against Superior.

Restaurant report:

• Blue Mound Café has opened a fifth Tarrant County location at 412 W. Vickery Blvd. The site was formerly occupied by Vickery Café.

• Oishii Sushi & Pan-Asian Cuisine will open a Fort Worth location this fall at 1664 S. University Drive near IHOP. It will be the second Tarrant County location and sixth in D-FW for the popular sushi chain. 

• Savvy Sliders has opened in a former Golden Chick space at 901 E. Berry St. in Fort Worth. Savvy is known for its sliders made with Angus steak, chicken, or fish. This is the second D-FW location, joining more than 50 nationwide.

Winona Martin, an award-winning mezzo-soprano from Dallas, won the Fort Worth Opera's McCammon voice competition. First place was worth $10,000. Justin Burgess, a baritone, was second ($5k) and Sarah Rachel Bacani, a soprano, was third ($2k).

North Richland Hills company IntegerHealth Technologies has been granted a patent for its “Claims per Healthy Day” platform -- a solution that quantifies healthcare outcomes in actionable financial terms, transforming the measurement of healthcare performance.

Prestonwood Baptist Church and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary opened Prestonwood Pregnancy Center on the seminary’s Fort Worth campus. The center provides support and resources to women facing unplanned pregnancies and will be a national training facility for other pregnancy centers.

Applications to Tarleton State University are at an all-time high, with applications among first-time freshman surpassing 21,000 for fall 2025, an 80% increase from two years ago. Freshman applications to the Fort Worth campus are expected to approach 3,000.

A Federal judge rules Texas prison heat conditions are unconstitutional, but doesn’t require air conditioning. About two-thirds of Texas prisons are not fully air conditioned. 

Snippets:

• CNBC’s quarterly survey of company CFOs found a majority believe the U.S. economy will enter a recession in the second half of 2025.

• A lottery ticket purchased at El Rio Grande Latin Market #6 in Fort Worth won more than $3 million. 

• Another large data center is headed our way. Frasier Cole said it would build on a 190-acre site in Glen Rose. 

Win some, lose some: Dollar Tree agreed to sell Family Dollar to private equity buyers for $1B. Dollar Tree had outbid Dollar General to acquire Family Dollar for about $9B in 2015.

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Significant stat: Online shopping accounted for 56% of retail sales growth last year. That’s expected to drive demand for at least 250 million square feet of U.S. logistics space the next five years, according to Prologis. 

Daily digit: The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has 68,143 wild horses and burros in captivity and adopts out 5,000-to-7,000 horses in its care every year. Without mitigation, wild horse herds can double every four years.

Announcements:

• Fort Worth Housing Solutions: Hires Marguerite Allen as Director of Innovation.

• UNT Health Science Center: Hires Cathy Neece Brown as Chief Development Officer for the School of Nursing.

• Supreme Lending: Hires Morgan Heinrich as Marketing Director.

• Heart of Texas Goodwill: Hires Kristen Ballard as Marketing/PR Director.

• Tarrant County College: Adds Stevie Dawn Carter as Government professor.

• American Red Cross North Texas Region: Hires LaShelle Bullock as the Deputy Regional Disaster Officer.

• HPI: Hires Matt Montague as Executive Managing Director, joining Colt McCoy. 

• 1 Priority Environmental Services: Hires Becky Orr as Business Development Manager.

• Central Texas College: Hires Fort Worth native Carrie Ellis as Chief of Police. 

• bp: Hires Derek Gaskins, ex-CMO at Yesway, as head of guest experience. 

• Suffolk: Hires Evan McKee Chief Operating Officer for D-FW.

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