Baylor Scott & White is opening a $15 million emergency room facility near Texas Motor Speedway. Construction already started on the 18,250-square-foot facility along SH 114.

An official groundbreaking ceremony with hospital, city and county officials in attendance was held April 15.

The breakdown: Brett Kinman, Emerus CEO for the Dallas-Fort Worth region, discussed what the hospital will feature when it opens in early 2027. It will be a 24/7 emergency room with eight emergency room beds and will have eight inpatient beds for acute services, acute crises and short-term stays.

“This just won’t be a medical center,” Kinman said, “It will be a place where doctors, nurses and other caregivers actually sit at the bedside and listen to what's going on and involve patients and their family in the clinical care plan.”

The big picture: Williams said the new health facility is a venture between Baylor Scott & White and Emerus, the nation’s largest operator of neighborhood hospitals, according to its website.

• 2952 SH 114, Fort Worth

PopSwap, a store that sells a variety of Funk Pops, moved to a new location within Tanger Outlets Fort Worth in late February.

What's happening? PopSwap moved from its previous spot at Suite 1108 to Suite 1135. The new location previously housed Austin 5, a clothing store that closed in early February.

Athletic apparel store Fabletics is moving into PopSwap’s former location, according to previous reporting.

The details: PopSwap sells thousands of different Funkos, as well as trade ins, and posts new additions to its Facebook page. The Funko collections include collectables from "Star Wars," "Batman," most sports leagues, anime, a variety of movies and television series such as "Friends," "Yellowstone," "1883," "Naruto" and "The Jetsons."

• 15853 N. Freeway, Ste. 1135, Fort Worth

Community Impact spoke with four computer science and artificial intelligence experts from the University of North Texas to discuss how data centers and AI function, and why Denton is attracting the technology.

Community Impact spoke with:

• Song Fu, a professor of computer science and engineering and the director of the Applied Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Institute

• Haihua Chen, a professor of data science

• Ajita Rattani, a professor of computer science and engineering

• Yunhe Feng, a professor of computer science and engineering

Responses have been edited for length, clarity and style.

Can you explain in the simplest terms how large-language AI models like ChatGPT work?

Feng: The model learns from test data to recognize patterns. We can put in articles and papers and the language model can learn patterns from it to train. Then when we query it, it predicts the words to the answer based on the patterns it recognized when we put in the data.

A new Richardson ISD middle school and a body shop in McKinney are two of several construction permits filed around Dallas-Fort Worth. Check out five of the latest permits filed in the Metroplex.

Richardson West Middle School: A filing with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation shows that construction on Richardson ISD’s Richardson West Middle School is scheduled to start this summer, as part of RISD’s middle school transition. The project will build a three-story middle school and baseball field on the site of Richardson High School’s baseball stadium, according to previous Community Impact reporting. Construction will be complete in fall 2028, according to an update from RISD.

• Location: 1309 Holly Drive, Richardson
• Estimated timeline: June 1, 2026-fall 2028
• Estimated cost: $54 million

• Location: 7601 Preston Road, Plano
• Estimated timeline: June 15, 2026-March 15, 2027
• Estimated cost: $2 million