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Breaking: Plano City Council took a shot at scoring the Dallas Stars Monday night, voting to approve hundreds of millions of dollars in funding and incentives for the NHL franchise to leave downtown Dallas and build a new arena at The Shops at Willow Bend mall site. The city's leaders unanimously approved four measures after over an hour of public comment to win the suburb’s first major league sports team. Officials backed more than $700 million in funding in support of a new entertainment district at the site of west Plano's bygone shopping mall. The vote comes less than a week after the Stars submitted a nonbinding letter of intent for a new arena and entertainment district in Plano after their lease at American Airlines Center expires in 2031.

🚨Update: The defense has rested its case in Karmelo Anthony’s murder trial. Anthony was not called to testify. Closing arguments begin Tuesday morning, after which jurors will start deliberations. If they don’t reach a verdict before stopping for the day, they’ll be sequestered overnight. “We’re getting close, I’m telling ya,” Judge John Roach Jr. told jurors Monday afternoon. Find more updates at the link in our bio. 📹️: Chitose Suzuki / Staff photographer

As Dallas chases its “Y'all Street” ambitions, city leaders want a new street name to match. Mayor Eric Johnson and other city leaders have called for renaming part of North Harwood Street near Klyde Warren Park as “Exchange Place” and changing the new exchange's future headquarters address address from 1919 Woodall Rodgers Freeway to “One Exchange Place.” By Everton Bailey Jr.

Flying out of the new Terminal C extension at DFW International Airport? Then you’ll get a chance to try the American Airlines' electronic boarding gates, which will allow travelers to board their flight without having a gate agent scan their boarding pass. The Terminal C extension was officially unveiled on Monday. The project includes 9 gates, five rebuilt and four brand new, The Dallas Morning News reported. By Jordan Parker https://lnkd.in/eKv363y2

Dallas-Fort Worth is a hotspot of the country’s data center boom. In May, a report from real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield named Dallas the No. 1 primary data center market in the world, stating these centers powering the internet are flocking to Texas to take advantage of the state’s pro-business attitude, independent and deregulated power grid and abundance of land. By Sophie Hanawalt

American Airlines and DFW International Airport opened an extension of Terminal C Monday that will help revolutionize the Fort Worth carrier’s operation at its largest hub. The 115,000-square-foot pier expansion brings five rebuilt gates and four new ones. American started using two of the gates, Gates C33 and C34, in the new extension “a couple of months ago,” Jim Moses, the airline’s senior vice president of hub operations at DFW Airport, said in an exclusive interview. By Jordan Parker https://lnkd.in/eUyZEDXT

The Texas electric grid could experience a new all-time peak demand this summer thanks to a combination of hotter temperatures and growing number of large electricity users, like data centers. This summer's peak load could rise to 92.2 gigawatts, far surpassing the August 2023 record of 85.5 gigawatts. One gigawatt is enough to serve 250,000 residential homes during peak hours, according to ERCOT. By Lana Ferguson https://bit.ly/4ux8a4o

Former Dallas mayors Tom Leppert, Mike Rawlings and Laura Miller agree that Dallas can remain the region's dominant city. But each offered a different take on why neighboring cities are gaining ground in landing big companies, investment and major projects. The city faced a tough round of setbacks last week, from the Mavericks' planned move from downtown to North Dallas and the Stars' pursuit of Plano for a new arena to Neiman Marcus' decision to shutter its downtown store. In interviews and a commentary piece, they shared what Dallas must do to respond. By Devyani Chhetri, Everton Bailey Jr. https://lnkd.in/eQAr86Bt

Can Dallas still compete? That’s the question confronting local leaders after a series of high-profile departures rattled a city whose image has long been built on growth, ambition and swagger. “The knives are out for our city,” Mayor Eric Johnson said last week. His warning reflects an intensifying scramble in North Texas for prestige and influence. Neighboring cities that once played supporting roles are now winning marquee projects that once seemed destined for Dallas. By Everton Bailey Jr., Devyani Chhetri https://lnkd.in/eXS3za_n

In February 2025, Dallas business and civic leaders gathered outside Neiman Marcus' downtown flagship to celebrate a temporary reprieve for the iconic retailer and show that downtown could keep moving forward. New housing projects were planned or underway. City leaders promised progress on long-standing challenges. Supporters were hopeful about the future of the city's urban core. Today, the outlook is far less certain. By Brian Womack, Nick Wooten Read more: https://lnkd.in/gH97hyPB