Business Class News's Podcast

Karl spoke to Kate & Louis Moore about their personal journey since coming back to Garland in 2000 which led to a much larger mission and vision.  Here is a transcript of part of Kate Moore's conversation."When my husband Louis and I moved back to Garland in 2000 to take care of my aging mother, after career pursuits had led us to other areas of the country, we found my old growing-up neighborhood (11th Street near downtown Garland) in great decay. After my mother passed away and we no longer needed to be nearby to care for her, our adult children were frightened for us to remain on my growing-up street and begged us to move to newer, better-respected parts of town where the crime rate and other threats to safety were less. We were about to follow that recommendation, but the tug of this special place would not allow us to turn our backs on it. Instead of fleeing, we stayed and banned with neighbors, the police, the schools, and the city to rehabilitate and restore. Today the neighborhood (calle