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Jerome Karam Houston is synonymous with Texas real estate, having transformed over one million square feet of property within the last decade. Before joining the real estate development world, Jerome Karam was a practicing personal injury attorney, where he represented hundreds of clients with their claims.

Jerome Karam, a graduate of Louisiana State University and Texas Southern University, is married to Leslie, with whom they have five children. Jerome states that he owes much of his success to the support of his family, who are a constant presence in his company, JMK5 Holdings, LLC.

While he made a name as an attorney, Jerome Karam's Houston heart was very much in real estate. Two decades ago, he plunged headlong into the world of redeveloping floundering properties and transforming them into bustling commercial districts. During the period, he has acquired, redeveloped, and sold millions of bucks in real estate and has completed 29 development projects in Texas and Louisiana.

A list of commercial properties with Jerome Karam's footprints includes the Mainland City Center, Sunrise Village, Mainland City Suites, Texas Entertainment Experience, etc. Jerome Karam Friendswood also has a hand in several residential projects such as the Galveston Bay Club, Hideaway Estates, and Bayou Bend Estates.

One of Jerome Karam's recent acquisitions is the Mainland Crossing shopping center, located on 9300 Emmett F. Lowry Expressway in Texas. The center, measuring 135,000 square feet, faced a dismal future following the relocation of the crafts retailer Hobby Lobby. The exit of Hobby Lobby left only 35,000 square feet under active tenancy.

However, that is going to change soon if the plan by Jerome Karam Houston is anything to go by. Even before the dust settles, JMK5 Holdings has attracted three key tenants at Mainland. Booker T's World Gym Arena and the University of Texas Medical Branch have shown interest in securing space at the center.

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The McKinney Fire Department (MFD) responded to a call for a structure fire just after midnight Monday. Fire crews arrived to find fire at the rear of the New Outreach Church of God in Christ located at 506 Wilcox St.

A resident was safely evacuated from a residential structure that also caught fire. As a precaution, nearby homes were evacuated.

As firefighters attacked the flames, another fire was reported a short distance away at Chicken Express, located at 411 S. McDonald St. All three structures were destroyed.

Fire investigators are on the scene to determine where and how the fire started – and whether the two fire scenes are connected. ATF has been called in to assist with the investigation.

“This was a very intense fire that took a huge number of resources and hours of hard work to extinguish,” said McKinney Fire Chief Danny Kistner. “As always, the most important thing is the safety of the residents and our firefighters.”

Anna, Melissa, Plano, Fairview, Princeton, Frisco, Lowry Crossing, Weston and Allen all provided assistance.

Reports from social media on the incident:

Update: Fire investigators remain on the scene of an overnight fire that burned down a church, a home and a fast food restaurant along N. McDonald. They will determine what started the fire and where the fire started. No one was hurt. Firefighters are watching out for hot spots. pic.twitter.com/VEpeD8mykI

— mckinneyfire (@mckinneytxfire) October 24, 2022

McKinney firefighters working a big fire near downtown overnight. It destroyed a church on Wilcox, and a home and a restaurant on N McDonald. More information coming. We appreciate the assistance from Allen, Fairview and Plano, Anna, Lowry Crossing and Westminster. pic.twitter.com/GRyVjjeRcT

— mckinneyfire (@mckinneytxfire) October 24, 2022

McKinney firefighters are investigating a fire that destroyed multiple buildings near downtown early Monday morning. https://t.co/d7Mfr17eQO

— FOX 4 NEWS (@FOX4) October 24, 2022

MCKINNEY FIRE— a church, a home and a Chicken Express were destroyed in the fire https://t.co/7SyLQihjpl

— Shannon Murray (@ShannonMFox4) October 24, 2022

UPDATE 10-25-22 4:02AM

McKinney (WBAP/KLIF) – Residents of McKinney’s historic Wilcox neighborhood are stunned by an early Monday fire that destroyed 3 structures.

Fire investigators are still looking into the cause of the blaze that torched the New Outreach Church of God in Christ, a Chicken Express and a house where an adult and three children escaped unharmed.

Residents in the area call the fire at the church “devastating.”

On the church’s Facebook page, a post reads:

Father GOD we are seeking YOU for direction during the loss of our church. Bless us to come together stronger!

The church is seeking donations:

The McKinney Fire Department (MFD) responded to a call for a structure fire just after midnight Monday. Fire crews arrived to find fire at the rear of the New Outreach Church of God in Christ (506 Wilcox St.).

A resident was safely evacuated from a residential structure that also caught fire. As a precaution, nearby homes were evacuated.

As firefighters attacked the flames, another fire was reported a short distance away at Chicken Express (411 S. McDonald St.) All three structures were destroyed.

Fire investigators are on the scene to determine where and how the fire started – and whether the two fire scenes are connected. ATF has been called in to assist with the investigation.

Additional photos and video can be found here.

“This was a very intense fire that took a huge number of resources and hours of hard work to extinguish,” said McKinney Fire Chief Danny Kistner. “As always, the most important thing is the safety of the residents and our firefighters.”

We are grateful for assistance from: Anna, Melissa, Plano, Fairview, Princeton, Frisco, Lowry Crossing, Weston and Allen.

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Original post: 10-24-22

McKinney, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – McKinney firefighters, with the assistance of several neighboring fire departments spent 5 hours overnight battling a blaze in the downtown area that torched 3 structures.

The fire broke out around midnight, a destroyed a church on Wilcox, as well as a home and a chicken express restaurant on North McDonald. Crews remain on the scene putting out hot spots.

There’s no word on any injuries. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

(Copyright 2022 WBAP/KLIF 24/7 News.)

If Mount Vernon voters approve either of two alcohol-sales ballot initiatives on May 11 - and voters in the Piney Woods town of Tatum do the same - that would leave Delta County the last dry county in East Texas.

When Northeast Texas voters go to the polls on Saturday, citizens in four communities will be casting their lots for or against measures that would allow, in some fashion, alcohol sales where such sales are not currently legal.

The cities of Campbell, Josephine, Lowry Crossing and Mount Vernon all have alcohol-related items on municipal ballots in the May 11 elections.

Dry counties dropping off East Texas map?

The Mount Vernon ballot has two proposals - one to allow beer and wine sales for off-premise consumption and one to allow the sale of mixed beverages at restaurants.

If either of those pass, that would make Franklin County, of which Mount Vernon is the county seat, a "partially wet" county, like all but three counties in East Texas.

Among counties in East Texas, only Delta, Franklin and Panola counties remain dry. The rest have mixed, or "partially wet" regulations regarding the public sale of alcoholic beverages.

Deep in "The Woods," the small city of Tatum, which straddles the Rusk-Panola County line, will vote on May 11 on whether to allow the sale of beer and wine for off-premise consumption.

If both voters in both Panola and Franklin counties decide to allow alcohol sales, that would leave Delta the lone county west of Interstate 35 with dry status. Of the 256 counties in Texas, only 19 remain dry. Of those 19, all but the aformentioned three are in West Texas.

Campbell, Josephine, Lowry Crossing also deciding

The ballot initiatives in Campbell, Lowry Crossing and Josephine won't change the wet/dry status of Hunt and Collin counties, where public alcohol sales are legal, but they would obviously impact the towns in question.

The measures in Campbell and Lowry Crossing would allow sales of all alcoholic beverages for off-premise consumption. Josephine's proposition would allow the sales of beer and wine for off-premise consumption.

Campbell is in Hunt County, while Lowry Crossing is in Collin County. Josephine is mostly in Collin County, but extends over the Hunt County line.

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas is indisputably good at one part of his job: always referring to the migrant surge at the border as a “challenge,” never a “crisis.”

He visited Del Rio, Texas, recently and refused to use the offending word about more than 10,000 Haitian migrants huddled under a bridge, living among trash with insufficient food and water in sweltering heat. A mere “challenge.”

If euphemism and spin constituted competent, Team Biden wouldn’t be coping with a historic surge of illegal crossings at the border that reached another level with the nearly instantaneous creation of an enormous migrant camp in an isolated Texas town.

The Haitian migrants had been crossing for weeks, before the flow exploded over a matter of days. The camp grew from 4,000 the middle of last week to more than 16,000 by the weekend. The images of desperate Haitians wading across the Rio Grande by the hundreds and thousands without anyone even attempting to stop them will likely become an indelible symbol of Biden’s border policy.

Administration officials constantly say that the border is closed, but in important respects it is open. They blame misinformation spreading among migrants, and it’s true that unfounded rumors abound, but the basic perception that our enforcement has major, easily exploited holes is correct.

They blame circumstances, but it’s not as though terrible conditions — poverty and rank misgovernment — are new in countries to our south.

No, the new factor in the equation is President Biden and his determination to blow up Trump policies that had gotten control of the border. Border apprehensions remained at a 20-year high in August. They only dipped slightly from July and otherwise have been on an upward trajectory all year.

The fashionable explanation for the initial rise in migration was that it was simply “seasonality,” the tendency of migrants to come to the border in the spring and then drop off when it get hotter. Biden himself confidently asserted this was the dynamic. “It happens every single, solitary year,” he said in March.

But his policies overcame this ingrained pattern, enticing more migrants even during the summer months.

As long as people are convinced that they have a good chance of getting into the United States to stay — which is unquestionably the case with unaccompanied minors and family units — there is a strong incentive to make the trek to the border.

Haitians got the message, too. Prior to the latest influx at Del Rio, almost 30,000 Haitians had been apprehended this fiscal year. The previous two years, the number had been in the low thousands.

The administration granted so-called temporary protected status, a protection from deportation, to Haitians residing in the United States as of May 21 of this year. Then it extended it again to include Haitians residing here since July 29 — sending the message that new arrivals might get the status on a rolling basis.

Haitians also knew family units have been getting through.

The migrants at Del Rio haven’t been coming directly from Haiti, but from South America, largely Chile and Brazil, after tens of thousands fled there in the aftermath of the 2010 Haitian earthquake. Dwindling economic opportunities and immigration restrictions sent many migrants into Mexico, and when Mexican officials began to allow them to travel further north, they descended on Del Rio.

Caught off guard (as usual), the Biden team has begun deporting migrants on flights back to Haiti. This has stanched and even reversed the flow for now, although reports say that family units are staying in America.

Unless and until the Biden team realizes that swift exclusion from the US has to apply to almost everyone, the “challenges” at the border won’t let up.