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March 14-20, 2011
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Kincaid’s Hamburgers to open new (old) location ■ Elizabeth Sehon esehon@bizpress.net
Some local all-stars are making a return to the Fort Worth Cats’ ballpark on May 12 – and they come with and without cheese. Fort Worth’s Kincaid’s Hamburgers will open a new location at LaGrave Field this spring, said Carl Bell, CEO for the nor league baseball club. minor
This isn’t the first time the staff at Kincaid’s has set up shop at LaGrave Field, which is located at 301 N.E. Sixth St. From 2005 to 2008, burgers of all types were sold out at every game. “They were with us for three years but they left to expand and focus on other resources in other areas,” Bell said. The arrangement between the two companies is a progressive move, said Dick Smith, general manger of the Cats, but he’s more excited for his fans, who have wanted the
burgers back since Kincaid’s left. “Our city loves Kincaid’s and our fans love Kincaid’s. It’s an excellent merge,” he said. Only fresh burgers will be served, Smith said, so no precooked food or hot lamps will be seen. Kincaid’s will be located near the third base concourse on the upper deck overlooking the outfield and facing home plate. SEE KINCAIDS 33
JPS banks on re-entry program ■ Anna Waugh Business Press Intern
John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth has the only physician re-entry program in the country that combines an individualized learning model and one-on-one training with a mini-residency program for doctors desiring to return to medicine. Dr. Joane Baumer, chair of the department of family medicine at JPS, is the founder and program director for the JPS Physician Re-entry Program. The three-month program began with two pilot positions in 2006 and expanded in 2008 to an average group of three to six. Twenty-one participants have completed the program, with four more expected to do so at the end of March. “I was concerned, as anyone would be, that there would be a skill erosion, and there was some, but I was surprised how fast it recovered,” she said. “They know how to be doctors. They don’t lose that. It’s a matter of just getting the tools back to be better.” The program focuses on areas of primary care such as general surgery and family medicine and requires participants to have been absent from patient care for at least two years. The program costs a participant $14,000, including a two-day $5,000 KSTAR (for Knowledge Skills Training Assessment and Research) assessment at Texas A&M Health Science Center to design an individual training program and monthly tuition of $3,000. Eight out-of-state participants faced housing costs that pushed the total to nearly $20,000. Once the assessment is complete, participants are trained with a SEE JPS 13
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Change comes slowly to some banks, but if your business is solid and your customers are happy, change may not be necessary. Still, sometimes change happens whether a bank wants it or not, and this may be the case with First National Bank of the Mid-Cities in Bedford. “We’re a small, family-owned bank and the economy has been kind of tricky, but if the right opportunity came along we would certainly look at it,” said Justin Sharp, a senior vice president and the chief operating officer at Mid-Cities. “We have customers that have had accounts with us for 20 years who still love coming into the bank to talk to people. “Everybody wants to grow, but it has to be the right opportunity at the right time.”
That opportunity has yet to present itself to MidCities, which has been in the same location on Airport Freeway in Bedford for nearly 30 years. That might change, however, depending on what happens with the expansion of Highway 183 as part of the North Tarrant Express project. The North Tarrant Express involves a series of improvements to the Interstate 820 and Highway 121/183 (Airport Freeway) corridor in northeast Tarrant County. Construction is expected to continue into 2015. The expansion plans call for the frontage road where the bank sits to be moved outward, which could present right-of-way issues for the bank. MidCities has had some communication with the Texas Department of Transportation about the expansion, but no decisions have been made, Sharp said. “We don’t have definite answers from TxDOT,” SEE BANK 33
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Roadway projects could impact Bedford bank