Charles Grand

AI Startup Mercator.ai Builds Momentum With Texas Contractors

By Charles Grand / October 27, 2025 /

As artificial intelligence starts to reshape industries from finance to healthcare, it’s also beginning to reconfigure how Texas contractors find their next big project. Case in point: Mercator.ai. It’s been one year since Mercator.ai expanded into the Lone Star State, and the firm’s business development platform for general contractors is gaining significant traction. Boasting seven…

City Hall Roundup: Downtown Crossroads and Lifelines

By Charles Grand / October 26, 2025 /

Not for nothing that downtown has been dominating the news cycle. Some years of high-profile business relocations and bad headlines about crime and homelessness appear to have set the stage for what sometimes feels like impending doom. Not one but two of the Big D’s major sport franchises are mulling alternative locations for new arenas,…

Fort Worth’s Cutting Edge Haunted House Lives Up to Its Name

By Charles Grand / October 24, 2025 /

Looking to get a scare in before Halloween season draws to a close? Depending on how much time you’ve got on your hands, you might want to work Cutting Edge Haunted House into what’s left of your October calendar. Cutting Edge has been in business since the early 1990s, and it’s been regularly recognized as…

Officials Mull Clampdown on Excessive Holiday Displays, Nuisance Properties

By Charles Grand / October 23, 2025 /

An upscale Preston Hollow home known for going over the top when it comes to holiday decorations is once again garnering significant attention, this time for its Halloween display. The decked-out house has officials mulling new code violations to clamp down on properties that become neighborhood nuisances. No doubt readers will remember the extravagant Christmas…

Santander Tower’s Phase 2: Another 105 Luxe Units Coming to Downtown Dallas Landmark

By Charles Grand / October 21, 2025 /

Downtown office space at Santander Tower (formerly Thanksgiving Tower) is getting a new lease on life as an ongoing adaptive reuse project plows forward, with work on phase two promising to deliver 105 luxury apartment units on five floors. Phase one of Pacific Elm Properties’ Peridot Residences wrapped up last October, adding 291 units to…