Sunnyvale’s
newest restaurant, Bull’s Pen Café
now open!
Sunnyvale's newest restaurant, Bull's Pen
Café, to open mid-May |
Zoila Lopez with Tino and Maria Martinez have opened
a new restaurant at 618 E. Highway 80 (south side
of Hwy 80 at East Fork). This new restaurant features
American cuisine with great steaks being offered
regularly. They are open for breakfast, lunch and
dinner. Tino Martinez owns a restaurant in Mesquite
and the famous Tino’s in Sunnyvale. This newest
restaurant is nearby to where he started cooking
at the former Golden Ox (now Accent Antiques).
The Sunnyvale 4A Development Corporation presented
an incentive award to Zoila Lopez, Tino and Maria
Martinez at the May meeting of the Sunnyvale 4A
Corporation. The $75,000 incentive was presented
for completion of the restaurant project, to assist
in the development of a sanitary sewer line for
the general area at East Fork and providing a
property easement for another sewer line to the
west and for a larger area of Sunnyvale.
At the check presentation (from left) Sunnyvale
4A Director, Hari Pillai, Sunnyvale 4A Vice
President Rachel Doyle, Sunnyvale 4A President
Larry Boyd, Tino Martinez, Zoila Lopez, Maria
Martinez and Sunnyvale 4A Secretary Terri
Shatter |
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2011 Day in Austin a success!
Citizens and community leaders boarded a bus
early March 23rd and traveled to Austin to learn
about State Government and also to speak to our
State Senator Bob Deuell and State Representative
Cindy Burkett. At the State Capital in Austin,
Mayor David Byrd and the Sunnyvale 4A Economic
Development Corporation Directors—Lawrence
Boyd, President, Secretary Terri Shatter, Treasurer
David Carlile—were introduced to the Texas
Senate by Senator Deuell.
Our group of over 20 Sunnyvale Citizens also
visited the Texas House and met with State Representative
Cindy Burkett.
The Sunnyvale Day in Austin also included attendees
having a lunch with the Senator, State Representatives
and their Austin staffs.
The afternoon consisted of meetings with the
Attorney General’s Office, the Texas Parks
and Wildlife Department and the Texas Historical
Commission. The trip concluded with a tour of
the Texas Archives Library where on display was
an original copy of the Texas Declaration of Independence
from Mexico. |
Terry J. Fontenot named
CEO of Texas Regional Medical Center at Sunnyvale
SUNNYVALE, Texas---Rockwall Hospitals, Inc. recently
named Terry J. Fontenot as CEO of Texas Regional
Medical Center at Sunnyvale, an $84 million general
acute care hospital and scheduled to open in July
2009 in Sunnyvale, Texas. Fontenot most recently
served Rockwall Hospitals as corporate COO and
has more than 30 years of senior-level executive
experience working at medical/surgical hospitals,
including 13 years as president and CEO of The
Medical Center of Mesquite, which is now known
as Dallas Regional Medical Center.
Fontenot is no stranger to the Sunnyvale hospital
project or the Sunnyvale community, as he's coordinated
critical aspects of the project with many of the
physicians associated with the hospital project
for several years. He, along with physicians associated
with the hospital and Rockwall Hospitals, want
to orchestrate a first-rate hospital and medical
team for the eastern sector of the Dallas-Fort
Worth area. The state-of-the-art, fully digitized
70-bed Texas Regional Medical Center at Sunnyvale
will be jointly owned by local physicians and
Rockwall Hospitals, Inc. Operational management
of the hospital will be the responsibility of
Rockwall Hospitals, while Dallas-based Cottonwood
Partners Capital Funding is handling the real
estate development activities.
"We have been very fortunate to have had Terry
J. Fontenot on the Rockwall Hospitals team for
these past years and, especially now, to hand
the chief executive officer's responsibility to
him is most gratifying indeed," said Mark Kennedy,
president and CEO of Rockwall Hospitals. "Terry
has a profound knowledge of the marketplace and
clearly brings a strong results orientation, which
I have witnessed in his roles at Rockwall Hospitals.
His determination to deliver excellence in all
that he does, will no doubt benefit patients and
physicians at this exciting new hospital for Sunnyvale
and the surrounding region."
The hospital is expected to employ about 250
people, boasting a payroll in excess of $10 million.
It will include 53 private inpatient suites, eight
intensive care unit rooms, a women's center with
labor, delivery, recovery suites. The hospital
incorporates an efficient design, enabling it
to expand to more than 250 beds eventually. Texas
Regional Medical Center's services and capabilities
will include a top-flight electronic medical record
system by Siemens; six operating rooms, including
cardiac surgery and an innovative no-lift patient
transfer system; a full array of medical digital
diagnostics, some of which includes magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI); a 64-slice computerized tomography
scanner (CT scanner); a dual cardiac catheterization
laboratory with interventional radiology, mammography,
ultrasound, picture archiving and communication
systems, cardiology picture archiving and communication
systems; computerized physician order entry, a
R&F radiology room; and an emergency department
with six treatment rooms, including two large,
special treatment rooms.
Rockwall Hospitals also is working with area
physicians to open a jointly owned hospital in
Southlake, Texas.
"Along with the leadership of the great physicians
in this hospital project and the resources and
value-added expertise of Rockwall Hospitals, Inc.,
the Town of Sunnyvale and the surrounding area
will have a community hospital it can be proud
of," Fontenot said. "The hospital will not only
serve the communities health care needs, but will
become an important element of the overall development
of Sunnyvale and will, no doubt, be key to attracting
new businesses to this growing area of the Metroplex."
Fontenot is presently searching for qualified
professionals to fill the hospitals' chief financial
officer and chief nursing officer positions.
A native of Bridge City, Texas, and a longtime
Dallas resident, Fontenot's health care career
has included senior executive positions as corporate
COO, senior vice president of operations and president/CEO
of medical/surgical hospitals ranging in size
from 50 to 200 beds, all of which were affiliated
with publicly traded companies. A member of the
American College of Healthcare Executives, Fontenot
received a master's degree in business management
from Amber University and a bachelor's degree
from Lamar University. |
Sunnyvale,
Texas has 3 new restaurants to add to its growing
list of places to eat and shop. In case you are
hungry for a wood fire baked pizza or fine Italian
pasta stop by the newly opened Giulianna’s
Italian Restaurant at 200 S. Collins. Sebush will
be pleased to welcome you and provide you with
a fine plate of wonderful Italian food. If southern
home cooking is your dish run north along Belt
Line road to 3630 Beltline Road and stop at Vince’s
Southern Home Cooking. Wow, the chicken fried
steak is to be remembered, and the green fried
tomatoes on the salad are wonderful. Vince Miles
will cook up a special OxTail dish or a perfect
meat loaf dinner. Soon to open (May 16th) is a
breakfast, lunch and dinner restaurant of American
family cuisine. Tino and Maria Martinez and daughter
Zoila Lopez promise special steak nights at the
new Bull’s Pen’s Restaurant at 618
E. Highway 80. These three new restaurants bring
to Sunnyvale a fine menu of eating opportunities.
Let us not forget the other restaurants in Sunnyvale
including Catfish Cove, Subway Sandwiches and
Tino’s. We have fine eateries in Sunnyvale.
Marazzi
Group Expansion
Sunnyvale’s
American Marazzi Tile receives Greater Dallas
Chamber Momentum Award
