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Café Momentum has plans to build at 1000 Oak Street an 11,000-square-foot, two-story center costing $10 million.

A bold idea that over time evolved into a nationally acknowledged model for youth empowerment, Café Momentum was conceived by Chef Chad Houser in 2008 after he spent time at a juvenile detention center instructing young men in ice cream making. To fulfill its mission of providing youth 15 to 19 with education, life skills and employment opportunities.

Houser launched a sequence of pop-up dinners held at various restaurants in the city in 2011 to test his non-profit restaurant model and in January 2015 opened at 1510 Pacific Avenue a permanent location. After a decade at that location the organization has outgrown it and is now looking to build a new home, that unlike its present one will house not only the restaurant but also the nonprofit’s operations and training facilities.

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Café Momentum provides a 12-month paid internship to participants, who are rotated through each station at the award-winning restaurant, building their confidence and providing them with real-world experience. Taking part in the program requires participants to be enrolled in school and to ensure that is possible, Café Momentum formed an academy to assist their interns in completing their high school education.

More than 1,300 interns have gone through the program in the last 10 years in Dallas. The new location is anticipated to open in January 2027.