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After their brother Nathan struggled with substance use for over 20 years, Rebecca Hermes and her sister founded Roots Renewal Ranch in Argyle in 2021 to help families with similar challenges. Hermes said Nathan had been to many different kinds of treatment centers and had a conversation with his family shortly before he passed away about what worked and what didn’t work.

“That conversation is the backbone to what Roots [Renewal Ranch] is,” Hermes said. “We just wanted to be able to help families so that they didn’t have to experience what we experienced.”

The details: Located at 831 Indian Trail, Argyle, Roots Renewal Ranch is a residential treatment center for girls ages 13 to 17 who are experiencing mental health challenges, including substance use, anxiety, depression and self harm. 

Roots Renewal Ranch utilizes a mixture of cognitive behavioral therapy, music therapy, art therapy, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, somatic psychotherapy, and animal therapy.

A site plan that includes 65 homes in Canyon Falls is moving forward for consideration by Flower Mound Town Council.

The town’s planning and zoning commission recommended approval by a 5-0 vote, with Commissioner Todd Bayuk recusing himself from the case, during the Jan. 12 meeting.

The details: The site plan is for Canyon Falls Village 3, which is the last residential subdivision of the master-planned community, according to town documents. The area will be developed by Perry Homes, said Bret Pedigo, a representative of the developer.

Canyon Falls Village 3 is expected to be developed in a single phase, per town documents.

The plan includes:

• 65 single-family residential lots
• Six open space lots
• Two lots reserved for a future town property and a commercial site

The Sweet Shop closed in Highland Village due to declining sales, co-owner Luis Rotundo said.

The overview: The store sold different flavors of candy including Swedish candy and in-house freeze-dried candies, per previous reporting. In addition, co-owner Erika Radivojevich home-baked custom cakes, fruit tarts, cinnamon rolls, brownies and pies.

In their words: “Unfortunately, sales were rapidly declining down to a point where the business was not financially viable any longer,” he said. “We had to make the hard decision to close the shop.”

• 2570 Justin Road, Ste. 125, Highland Village

A new John Peter Smith medical outpatient facility could be constructed in Fort Worth, among other projects recently filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

Here are five of the most expensive permits filed with TDLR in the past week.

1. JPS medical outpatient building
The public, Fort Worth-based JPS Health Network filed a permit to add outpatient services to a new 10-story, 300,000-square-foot medical outpatient building, according to the TDLR filing. The new facility will offer laboratory and imaging services and is scheduled to open in 2029, according to the health system.

• Location: 1300 S. Main St., Fort Worth
• Estimated timeline: Jan. 9, 2026-July 29, 2029
• Estimated cost: $250 million

• Location: 2400 Maumelle Drive, Plano
• Estimated timeline: May 15-Aug. 1
• Estimated cost: $5.5 million