Cowboys in Frisco, school safety grants, holograms: Your Wednesday evening roundup

August 22,  2018 By Wayne Carter Good evening! Here is a look at the top headlines of the day. 🔎 Prefer the online view? It's [here](. The Dallas Cowboys will be putting more Frisco roots down on this patch of ground if a deal for Blue Star Land LP to build an industrial park, including a new Cowboys merchandising center, comes to fruition. (Valerie Wigglesworth/Staff) Business Blue Star Land's $38M deal for industrial park development would deepen Dallas Cowboys' Frisco roots Jerry Jones' real estate company wants to take over development of an industrial park [and build a new Dallas Cowboys' merchandising center there.]( The terms were spelled out Tuesday in a trio of city meetings. If all goes as planned, the deal would mark the latest partnership between the city of Frisco and Jones' Blue Star Land LP, which is behind The Star, the massive mixed-use development that the Dallas Cowboys call their home away from Arlington. Under the agreement, Blue Star would pay more than $37.9 million for nearly 195 acres in what's known as Park 25. Blue Star would then take over development of the entire industrial park minus the two lots that have already sold. The company would also commit to build the Cowboys' merchandising distribution and sales center on a portion of the site. The entire operation, which is now in Irving, would move to Frisco. Affordable care: Baylor Health System will anchor a national push [to improve Medicaid patient care.]( Stocking up: A Dallas firm that recruited a CNBC correspondent [has hired a fourth SEC lawyer for its team.]( Education Texas Gov. Abbott gives out $5.7M in school safety grants after Santa Fe shooting Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced Wednesday [that $5.7 million in grants have been awarded to state and local organizations]( in the aftermath of the shooting this summer at Santa Fe High School. About one-third of that amount, around $1.8 million, was released this week to the city of Santa Fe and its school district "for the development of a long-term resiliency center and additional school and community counseling services," Abbott's office said in a press release. The other money went to various state and national entities, including the Texas agency that trains school employees to be armed guards as part of the "school marshal" program. Editorial: Texas A&M took the right steps in addressing its sex abuse scandal — [now it must follow through on its promises.]( Editorial: Want more world-class research from UT Southwestern? [Show 'em the money, Texas Legislature.]( Sports Don't call it another Doomsday quite yet, but this Cowboys defense has a chance to earn its own nickname SportsDay columnist Tim Cowlishaw says 2018 [could be the first time in a long time]( that Dallas has fielded a championship-caliber defense: In a very small sample of plays, the starters have not been scored upon in the preseason. They held starters Jimmy Garoppolo and Andy Dalton to 75 yards passing on 8-of-13 attempts. Their five possessions ended with five punts, three of them going three-and-out. A quartet of second-round picks could be on their way to changing how the league views the Dallas defense. The revelation is Jaylon Smith (2016) at middle linebacker, and if he is going to play like the top 5 pick he would have been prior to suffering a major knee injury in the Fiesta Bowl, the Cowboys have a new leader alongside Sean Lee in the heart of their defense. I’m not predicting that this defense will be worthy of a Doomsday IV label by midseason, only that it is the goal. And if it’s a unit that can even force that to be a discussion -- as limited preseason results suggest -- [then the Cowboys are on their way to becoming a different team.]( Special guests: The Chicago Cubs will be in town to play the Rangers [for Globe Life Park's swan-song opening day in 2019.]( Charge dismissed: Texas Tech's Da'Leon Ward, formerly of Dallas Skyline High School, [is no longer facing a theft charge](, the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reports. (Robert W. Hart/Special Contributor) Photo of the Day Mexican sunflowers bursting with brilliant color are among the varieties growing at Bishop Hill Farm Flowers in Coppell. Owner Amanda Vanhoozier had a chance to realize her life's ambition 40 years ago, but she chickened out. She never relinquished her dream of becoming a flower farmer, however. Luckily, [happy endings are real.]( Around The Site - Mexico violence: Eight more bodies, including one in hammock and two in a taxi's trunk, [have turned up in Cancun.]( - Editorial: They have Lupe Valdez's gun. [Do we feel better about her now?]( - Border deaths: Border agents in Texas [found four bodies in five days](, including two who drowned in a canal. - Commentary: Economic development incentives [do nothing for the economy or development](, writes Dean Stansel. - Concert review: In Dallas for the first time since 2010, [Shakira performed a non-stop dance parade.]( - Books: How a UT Dallas student became an illustrator [for a children's book celebrating Muslim women.]( - BOLO: Dallas police were searching for two women [who stole cash from a Red Bird ATM.Â]( - Hit-and-run: A wheelchair-bound victim [was injured Tuesday in North Dallas.]( Finally... How holograms are helping this Dallas Holocaust survivor tell his story Despite having died 30 years go, rock 'n' roll legend Roy Orbison is about to go on tour. Forty years after he died, Elvis Presley performed on American Idol. How did they do it? Through holograms, a technology that came to Dallas on Tuesday, permitting Holocaust survivor Max Glauben to share his story with generations well into the future, maybe even hundreds of years from now. Glauben, 90, is one of the few remaining Holocaust survivors living in Dallas. He survived the Warsaw Ghetto, five concentration camps and a death march from Flossenburg to Dachau before being liberated by Gen. George Patton's 3rd Army tank division. He was filmed with a "proprietary video capture process" that shows him telling his story but goes one better [by allowing future generations to ask him questions — and have him answer.]( Advertisement [Subscribe to our Real Estate newsletter]( 👋 That's all for this evening! 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