A plan to convert Richardson North Junior High School into a middle school is moving forward.

What you need to know: The renovation will more than double the campus’s footprint, expanding from 94,000 square feet to 228,016 square feet, according to city documents.

Richardson’s City Plan Commission unanimously recommended approval on a request to rezone the campus as planned development to accommodate the expansion during its Nov. 18 meeting.

The background: The project is part of Richardson ISD’s initiative to transition all of its junior high schools to the middle school model.

Richardson North’s transition will be funded by the district’s bond, which voters approved Nov. 4. The bond will also fund renovations at Apollo Junior High—which the commission is set to review at its Dec. 2 meeting—and new buildings at Liberty, Parkhill and Richardson West and Westwood junior high schools.

TeraHop, a Singapore-based tech company, is expanding its operations to a new Richardson facility.

The gist: The company purchased a space within the city’s Innovation Quarter at 1460 N. Glenville Drive, according to a post on the IQ’s Instagram.

The facility will serve as a manufacturing facility for TeraHop, which develops optical connectivity products A.I. and data centers.

Cases for two flu variations and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, have more than doubled since the end of October, according to data from Cook Children's Health Care in Fort Worth.

In a nutshell: More than 11% of all patients tested at Cook Children’s Medical Center-Fort Worth for respiratory viruses on the week of Nov. 9 were positive for Flu A, Flu B or RSV. The hospital tested a total of 757 patients during that week.

By comparison, the hospital tested 633 patients on the week of Oct. 26 and saw 5.53% of those patients tested positive for one of the three respiratory viruses.