This Week's Hot Headlines

Fitness giant's gym closures top this week's 5 hottest Dallas headlines

This Week's Hot Headlines

Fitness giant's gym closures top this week's 5 hottest Dallas headlines

Not every Gold's Gym location will reopen.Gold's Gym/Facebook
The 1953 Boles Aero trailer on site with custom reclaimed wood table and benches.Photo courtesy of The Range Vintage Trailer Resort
Masks and other safety precautions have become a political thing.Photo by reklamlar/Getty Images
Nordstrom's mostly back in DFW.Facebook/Nordstrom North East Mall
All of a sudden, that patio at Knife looks a lot more appealing.Photo by Emily Loving

Editor's note: A lot happened this week, so here's your chance to get caught up. Read on for the week's most popular headlines.

1. Dallas fitness giant makes weighty decision to close 32 gyms amid bankruptcy. When gyms across Texas reopen on May 18, Dallas-based Gold’s Gym International will welcome members back at fewer locations. Hammered by the novel coronavirus pandemic, Gold's Gym has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and permanently shut down 32 company-owned locations, including three in the Dallas area.

2. New retro-cool Airstream resort rolls in near Dallas for social distance staycations. Dreams of an Airstream quarantine are coming true with the opening of The Range Vintage Trailer Resort in Bristol, about 35 minutes southeast of Dallas. The retro resort features 15 open sites for trailer hook-up and six renovated Airstreams and vintage trailers to rent.

3. Judge orders high-profile Dallas restaurant to allow employee to wear face mask. A worker at a high-profile restaurant in Dallas is now allowed to wear a face mask to work after a state judge intervened. "Jane Doe," an employee of Hillstone Restaurant Group, which owns Houston's and R+D Kitchen, had filed a petition challenging a company policy that forbade employees to wear masks. The judge's new order allowing employees to wear masks went into effect for 14 days.

4. Nordstrom reopens 9 Dallas-Fort Worth stores, but one closes for good. In the latest post-COVID comeback attempt, Nordstrom began to reopen stores across Texas on Tuesday, May 12 — but sadly, one is being closed for good. And that one is at North East Mall in Hurst.

5. These are the latest Dallas restaurants to reopen with COVID-19 precautions. As restrictions for coronavirus loosen, more Dallas restaurants are reopening their doors and observing COVID-19 precautions. Here is the latest round of reopenings.

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Dallas neighbor blooms as the best place to live and more top stories

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Editor's note: The top Dallas news of the week begins with a big accolade for an area city. Plus, a massive mixed-use development is on its way to McKinney, and we introduce you to the Tastemaker Awards nominees for Dallas Bar of the Year. Get the details on our most popular stories below, then visit our event planner for weekend fun.

1. Dallas-Fort Worth suburb blooms as No. 1 best place to live in U.S. One Dallas-area city took the top slot on a new list of "the 100 Best Places to Live in 2025." The list — from relocation marketing platform Livability.com — put Flower Mound at No. 1 for its appealing size and affordability.

2. Massive mixed-use development coming to key intersection in McKinney. McKinney is getting a new $1.3 billion mixed-use development. Called Long Branch, it will be a 155-acre project at the northwest corner of US-75 and the future 380 bypass, consisting of housing, retail, office, grocery, and hospitality.

Long Branch McKinney Long Branch development planned for McKinney Rendering courtesy of Creation

3. 10 best bars in Dallas for 2025 craft cocktails and community. It's time to toast the 2025 Bar of the Year nominees in our annual Tastemaker Awards. The list includes new and not-so-new bars, ranging from a subterranean lounge to a bar perched high in a downtown hotel.

4. 6 Dallas bars unveil new on-trend cocktail menus for spring 2025. Dallas restaurants regularly roll out menus these days that follow the season, keeping things fresh by taking advantage of whatever's being harvested. But bars are getting in on the action, too, unfurling creative drink menus that make the most of seasonal ingredients and flavor trends.

5. Wildlife authorities now find avian flu in mammals in Texas Panhandle. The avian flu creeps closer and closer: According to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD), recent testing has detected Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in mammal species in Texas including foxes, raccoons, striped skunks, and domestic cats located in the Texas panhandle.