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    Rescue Resource

    New-to-Texas mobile app helps save animals in distress

    Teresa Gubbins
    Mar 27, 2013 | 10:56 am

    It could be a dog trotting along a highway, a squirrel stuck in your chimney, or a raccoon that got its head trapped in a tin can. You want to help but don't know what to do. App to the rescue?

     

     Animal Help Now, an online and mobile app, launched in Texas in March. It has a comprehensive list of whom you should contact when you have an animal emergency. That includes everything from veterinarians to rescue groups to wildlife rehabilitation groups. The program can also be used as a networking tool for vets or rescue groups to find peers in other parts of the state.

     

    Animal Help Now is a project of Animal Watch, a nonprofit group that was formed in Boulder, Colorado, in 2009 by a group of animal and environmental advocates who were concerned about the animal situation in Colorado. They created the first database in their home state as a tool for Coloradans who wanted to help animals in distress.

     

    AHN was used in 2012 to help rescue Missy, a German shepherd whose plight made national news when she was left for dead by her owner on a Colorado mountaintop.

     

    Texas is the second market for Animal Help Now, says executive director Dave Crawford.

     

    "We came to Texas with the help of the Summerlee Foundation, a Texas-based organization dedicated to animal protection that expressed an interest in our work, and in helping us expand regionally," says Crawford. "With their particular interest in Texas, it seemed like a reasonable move to focus our energy there and knock out what we thought would be the toughest state in the country."

     

    Texas is tough because it's such a large territory geographically and because animals are a complicated hot button here. On the positive side, we have activities like the recent creation of the Dallas Companion Animal project, whose goal is to network rescue organizations in Dallas.

     

    At the other end of the spectrum, you have ridiculous initiatives like HB 629, a law currently under consideration that would allow roadside zoos and exotic animal "collectors" to acquire animals without having to register their acquisitions.

     

    The Texas app represents 2,500 hours of time and energy, from the development of the program itself to the collection of information about animal organizations across the state.

     

    "It was a big job," Crawford says. "It was five months of collecting data about rescue groups, veterinarians in every town. We had a team of seven researchers who did the work."

     

    The app provides resources on any animal issue, he says. "Wildlife or domestic, day or night — we built it to handle any foreseeable emergency," he says. "It's time and location sensitive. If you need a vet or a wildlife rehabber, an animal shelter or a law enforcement, you’re going to get it."

     

    Texas today, tomorrow the world, says Crawford, who intends to expand it across the country.

     

    "It's been near and dear to my heart for decades," he says. "I've been in the situation where I saw an animal in distress several times, where I needed help and haven’t known where to turn."

     

    The Animal Help Now app provides a list of resources for helping animals in distress.

    Forgotten Dogs, stray dogs, January 2013
      
    Photo courtesy of Forgotten Dogs of the Fifth Ward
    The Animal Help Now app provides a list of resources for helping animals in distress.
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    Building boom

    Dallas comes in at No. 1 in the U.S. for retail construction in 2025

    John Egan
    Jul 25, 2025 | 3:40 pm
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    Nearly 7.15 million square feet of space are under construction in DFW.

    Get ready for a gigantic cartload of new shopping opportunities in Dallas-Fort Worth. A new report, published by commercial real estate services provider Lee & Associates, says DFW leads more than 60 U.S. retail markets with nearly 7.15 million square feet of space under construction.

    To put that in perspective: If the average Walmart supercenter measures 182,000 square feet, the nearly 7.15 million-square-foot total would work out to 39 new supercenters being built in the region.

    The amount of retail space going up in DFW represents 15 percent of all retail space under construction in the more than 60 U.S. markets tracked by Lee & Associates.

    According to the report, the Dallas-Fort Worth industrial market remains on a path of growth, with vacancy rates continuing to trend below 10 percent, reflecting sustained demand for space.

    This quarter, nearly 7 million square feet of new industrial space was delivered, more than doubling the volume from the first quarter — highlighting a steady upward trend.

    “After some crushingly slow post-pandemic years, retail construction throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth region this year is on pace to hit its highest point since 2017,” Bisnow reported.

    What’s behind the surge in retail construction? Population growth. Data recently released by the U.S. Census Bureau shows DFW was the country’s third-fastest-growing metro from 2023 to 2024, based on the number of new residents.

    DFW is by far the most active U.S. market for new retail space. (Just look at how many grocery stores are being built in the area.)

    Houston and Austin aren’t too far behind Dallas-Fort Worth, though.

    The second-ranked Houston area has nearly 3.9 million square feet of retail space under construction, according to the report, and the third-ranked Austin area has more than 3.4 million square feet of retail space being built.

    Houston was the second-fastest-growing metro from 2023 to 2024, according to the Census Bureau, and Austin landed at No. 13.

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