JPI, Kimberly-Clark, Jacobs Engineering, Pilotworks: Monday's D-FW business news

October 22,  2018 🔎 Prefer the online view? It's [here](. Follow us on Twitter [@DMNBiz](. (The Guild Dallas) The Big Story Inn crowd: How empty Dallas apartments are being revived as new hotel brands That handsome stranger toting his suitcase into the elevator at your Uptown apartment building may not be your new neighbor. He might just be a tourist. [Dallas is becoming a proving ground for a new hospitality business model that seeks to build new hotel brands within existing apartment and condo buildings.]( These new hoteliers sign leases, some long-term, for blocks of rooms within apartment buildings. They put in upscale, boutique-style furniture, stock the fridge and rent the spaces out by the night, the same as a traditional hotel, including paying the hotel occupancy tax. The model varies somewhat by company, but one Austin-based startup that's expanding in Dallas said it hopes to one day stand "shoulder to shoulder" with the Marriotts and Hiltons of the world. Advertisement The Latest Irving-based JPI heads to Fort Worth project [The more than 400-unit Jefferson River East rental community]( will be built northeast of downtown near Riverside Park. Kimberly-Clark names new CEO [Michael Hsu, 54, joined Kimberly-Clark in 2012]( and has been a career consumer products executive. Deal made by Dallas-based Jacobs Engineering Group [It's selling its energy, chemicals and resources business]( to Australia's WorleyParsons Limited for $3.3 billion. Willis Towers Watson workers heading downtown The London-based firm is taking the top three floors of [the Ross Tower skyscraper]( where it will consolidate more than 600 workers. Restaurateurs kicked out at Pilotworks According to a statement on the company website, [Pilotworks closed all of its kitchens](. Elsewhere in Texas - Austin: [Luminex]( will acquire a testing unit in $75 million deal. (Austin American-Statesman) - Houston: [Weatherford]( has sold its lab business to a Houston public equity firm. (Houston Chronicle). - Victoria: A [Victoria home care company]( was instrumental in the development of a nationwide recovery care program. (Victoria Advocate) - Round Rock: [Dell showed off its technology]( at the weekend's Formula 1 race. (Austin American-Statesman) - Austin: [Austin stores ramp up bottled water shipments]( after city issues boil water notice. (CBSAustin) (Guy Reynolds / Staff Photographer) featured columnist: Mitchell schnurman Here's how Fort Worth saved $5 million on health care after years of rising costs The costs of health care have been climbing so fast, so long that most experts don’t talk about reversing the trend. The best they can aim for is to slow the increase — or “bend the cost curve.” The city of Fort Worth has a more promising story. Its health plan, which serves nearly 14,000 employees, dependents and retirees, is projected to be $4.8 million under budget for fiscal 2018. From January through June, spending in emergency rooms dropped 34 percent. Visits to the ER declined sharply, in network and out. [Much of the credit goes to a new approach that bets heavily on the value of primary care.]( Follow DFW stocks: [See how top North Texas stocks performed](, as well as the oil and gas markets and major stock exchanges. DFW Top 100 Places to Work 2017: The Dallas Morning News and Workplace Dynamics partner each year to feature the [Top 100 workplaces](, based on ratings by the people who work at them.  Do you have feedback on this newsletter? Send your thoughts, questions, praise and corrections to our Business Editor Paul O'Donnell at [podonnell@dallasnews.com](mailto:podonnell@dallasnews.com?subject=Newsletter%20Feedback). STAY CONNECTED WITH US  [Facebook]( [Instagram]( [Twitter]( [LinkedIn]( [Reddit](  [OTHER NEWSLETTERS]( [SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS]( [Unsubscribe](  |  [Manage Preferences](  |  [Privacy Policy](  |  [Contact](  |  [Advertise]( You received this message because you signed up for this Dallas Morning News newsletter or it was forwarded to you. Copyright 2018 - [The Dallas Morning News]( | [1954 Commerce St., Dallas, TX 75201](#)