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7/5/24

Join the MCBA Dallas City Council Engagement Initiative meeting Wednesdays at 8:00am, contact Andrew for details

A Healthy Metroplex has Opportunity for All and Growth to Fuel It
A City is Only as Healthy as Its Number of Startups
MCBA has Hope for the Homeless

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COO Julie Strum in Dallas Morning News

When Texas’ Secretary of State issued emergency voter secrecy guidance to election offices, allowing them to redact more voter information that is traditionally publicly available to civic nonprofits, MCBA’s own Julie Strum published a strong argument for balancing voter privacy with Get Out The Vote efforts.

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Our member companies are leaders in the DFW Metroplex because they've invested in the community. Now, that investment just became easier through Adopt-A-Block's new Cleanup Grant—funding that will offset the material costs of sponsorship and trash pickup.

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A City is Only as Healthy as Its Number of Startups

TestFit, a Dallas-based real estate development feasibility platform, aims to “revolutionize” building optimization through computational artificial intelligence. To help advance that goal, it’s launching a new tool in July called Generative Design.

The company—which wrote its first line of building-optimization code in 2016—has become an emerging leader in the space with its TestFit Site Solver, a computational AI co-creation tool that enables users to “generate site plans instantly with real-time insights into design, cost, and constructibility.”

The Generative Design tool is “the next step forward,” TestFit says, because it allows AI to test site solutions “on its own,” based on specific project requirements.

MCBA has Hope for the Homeless

Nearly four years after acquiring the former Hotel Miramar on Fort Worth Avenue, Dallas City Council members on Wednesday unanimously approved development and loan agreements with St. Jude Inc. to convert the West Dallas property into permanent supportive housing.

“We envision opening perhaps by the first of 2026,” said Joe Dingman of St. Jude Inc. “We want to make sure we get control of the culture from the onset. Think in terms of maybe five to 10 move-ins per month over … six-month period to fill it in 2026. It’ll take us some time to stabilize because when you have a new set of residents, procedures aren’t obvious to [them]. There will be some fallout, and some people won’t be able to stick.”