GARLAND, TX – Artisan Masonry Inc. in Garland is in its 20th year of business, providing masonry services for commercial construction projects and custom residential properties in Dallas-Fort Worth. Robert Gladu, owner and president, is one of the company’s chief estimators. He has served on the United Masonry Contractors Association’s Board of Directors and as Vice President of the Texas Masonry Council. ...

DALLAS – Of late, the Southwestern Assemblies of God University, about a 30-minute drive south of downtown Dallas, has had a happy conundrum. Enrollment has tripled since 1991. ...

DALLAS – Murphy Dykes is quite a road warrior. It would take him a solid two hours, probably more, if he drove the circuit of the eight Peek’s Carpet and Tile stores he manages in Greater Dallas each day. ...

LITTLE ELM, TX – In Denton County, west of the Dallas Tollway that runs like thread through beads of malls, Little Elm sits on a peninsula that juts into Lewisville Lake. ...

DALLAS – Lee Raney, owner of Aztec Trench Safety, is optimistic about expanding his seven-year-old San Antonio business into the DFW Metroplex. In fact, one day he plans to grow from “East Texas to West Texas, going from Shreveport all the way to New Mexico.” ...

GARLAND, TX – Allen Hastings is a happy anomaly. How many 12-year-olds do you know who would engage in the rigors of flooring installation? He did, way back when. ...

DALLAS – The Bridge in Dallas may be a construction industry equivalent of Hollywood’s “Best Picture” Academy Award. ...

DALLAS – U.S. Senator William Blakely, whose name is emblazoned on the library at the University of Texas in Irving, once said, “Texas is neither southern nor western. Texas is Texas.” ...

DALLAS – For Woody Jarmon, GFS Texas, the one that got away was his boat. ...