1. Texas Star Golf Course
City: Euless, TX
Category: Parks & Recreation
Telephone: (817) 685-7888
Address: 1400 Texas Star Parkway
Description: Close to DFW Airport, this beautiful course winds through 275 acres of rolling landscape around Hurricane Creek, with stacked rock ponds, waterfalls, and plenty of woodlands. It’s a par-71 course measuring 7,000 yards in length. A popular restaurant is on-site, too.
2. Simmons Senior Center
City: Euless, TX
Category: Relocation
Telephone: (817) 685-1670
Address: 508 Simmons Dr.
Description: With a gorgeous campus of Georgian redbrick buildings in the elite neighborhood of University Park, this private school with about 11,000 students offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs through seven schools, specifically humanities and sciences; business; the performing, visual, and communication arts; engineering; education and human development; law; and theology. Additional campuses are in Plano and Taos, New Mexico. Of special interest is the statistic that SMU’s 10 libraries house the largest private collection of research materials in the Southwest; SMU was recently ranked in Forbes magazine as the 13th best university in the United States; and it houses a superior collection of Spanish art at the internationally acclaimed Meadows Museum. Founded in 1911, SMU is nonsectarian in its teaching. SMU’s athletic teams are the Mustangs.