Construction Sector

Shocking: Study From Guys Who Build Roads Says Texas Must Build More Roads

Bitching about how terrible the roads are in Dallas is a time-honored tradition. It's also easy. Quantifying just how terrible they are? That's more difficult. Luckily for you, TRIP, a D.C.-based nonprofit dedicated to transportation research, just released its annual "Future Mobility in Texas" repo ... More >>

After Years of Foreclosures and Frustration, North Oak Cliff Apartments Back on Track

​As conceptual renderings are my kryptonite, here's one that landed in the inbox late yesterday -- a look at what Wood Partners says it will build on that vacant lot at 1836 W. Davis, not so long ago the site of the Cliffwood Apartments. The address, of course, is familiar: A few years ago, you ma ... More >>

DART Prez: Orange Line to DFW's Terminal A Will "Complete That Big-City System"

Dallas Area Rapid TransitA rendering of the Belt Line Station on the Orange Line, the last stop before Dallas-Fort Worth Airport's Terminal A come 2014​Last night Dallas Area Rapid Transit sent word that its board of directors signed off on the design-build contract that'll push the under-construc ... More >>

Where Dallas Is and Isn't Making Money, or: Oncor Had a Very Good Summer, AT&T Less So

Red-light cams don't bring in the green.​This afternoon at 1, the city council's Budget, Finance, and Audit Committee will get together with a jam-packed agenda that will include an appearance by City Auditor Craig Kinton, who will outline his FY2012 to-do list. (Which includes a look-see at the c ... More >>

Let's Be Honest, Dallas's Minority Contracting Mess Didn't Come About by Accident

​If you start reading the lead editorial today in The Dallas Morning News, you're going to think at first that the editorial writers have done a good job explaining what has gone wrong with minority subcontracting in Dallas -- a central theme in the ongoing FBI Dallas political corruption prob ... More >>

As Ash Grove, Dallas Settle Cement Suit, Clean-Air Group Shouts, "Sweetheart Deal!"

​It's been close to two years since we last looked at Ash Grove's federal lawsuit, filed in the fall of '08, in which the cement-maker whined that Dallas's refusal to buy its dirty, wet-kiln-made concrete was a violation of the state's competitive bidding laws. Dallas, claiming its thanks-but-no-t ... More >>

From Now On, Make Sure Your Contractor's Registered with City of Dallas. Or Else.

​Back in August we got a look at that city council briefing titled "Effective Business Strategies to Support Sustainable Growth," in which there were numerous new fees and rate hikes proposed by the ever-shrinking, oft-backed-up Sustainable Development and Construction department in order to "reco ... More >>

And the Winner(s) For Best Historic Preservation Project in Dallas Goes To ...

Courtesy Preservation Dallas311 N. Edgefield Avenue in Oak Cliff, before and after its restoration​We're still waiting for Preservation Dallas's list of endangered properties -- that should be ready by the end of the month. But till then, it has announced the winners of its Eleventh Annual Preserv ... More >>

So, Says Here You Should Be Parking on the Continental Ave. Bridge By November 2012

​Courtesy the city council's agenda for Wednesday, we have a little more information about efforts to turn the Continental Avenue bridge into a pedestrian park -- as in, how will that anonymously donated $10 million get spent, and when does the city expect to begin design and construction on the p ... More >>

Is the Reconquista Spreading to England?

When You Go Down to City Hall Today, Just Make Sure You Pay the Parking Lot Box

Should be an interesting Dallas City Council meeting today -- if, that is, the Deep Ellum Association knows it needs to send its people to City Hall before 1 p.m., as the council will vote on the parking-boot ordinance well before lunch break, according to city officials to whom we spoke last night. ... More >>

Strange and Passioniate Emissions From Yesterday's EPA Cement Kiln Hearing

Alexa SchirtzingerIf this picture were at all legible, you'd see Deirdre Tinker testifying while dressed as a cement kilnAmong the first 60 commenters at yesterday's public hearing on proposed Environmental Protection Agency regulations intended to reduce emissions from cement kilns, there was obvi ... More >>

Death Metal | Getting to No

You Betcha: Week 14

      If Boot Town can go out of business in Texas and if home builder D.R. Horton can lose $800 million and have its stock price shoot up because it's not that bad, then in this absurd, quirky financial climate anything's possible.   Even, perhaps, a winning streak? A ... More >>

Green Cement Plants Could Mean Cleaner Air and Lower Costs

Economic pressure from local cities helps clean up smoky kilns

Low-Bid to No-Bid

Don't have a clue how DART could bust its budget by a billion bucks? Here's one.

Meet Jim Schutze, DART Cop

Harlan Crow Sends Tom Leppert Yet Another Angry Missive

Domino No. 2 in the City Hall Corruption Case Falls: Andrea Spencer Pleas Guilty to Bribery Conspiracy

In The House

It's playtime at Stonebriar

Cementing a Move to Dallas

Mayor Tom Is, Again, Inflating the Truth

Ed Oakley Was Better Than His Campaign

A Crane Strain

Home, Sweet...Home?

What exactly did Tom Leppert move to Dallas?

Full-Court Press Releases

Don Hill Asks Tom Leppert: What, Exactly, Are You Spreading?

Labor Lost

Local immigrant workers left unpaid and abandoned in Alabama

Sam Coats' Concrete Problem

Really, The Punch Line to This Posting is at the Very Bottom

Zzzzz...Huh? Oh Yeah. That Mayor Thingy.

Go Yanks!

Concrete: In the Bad-Air Mix

Live from City Hall

Letters

Sorry You Missed It Eyes Wide Open in Frisco

Best Hardware Store

Ace Hardware Lakewood

Best Builder

Jeff Fairey, Vintage Contemporaries

Best Salvage Yard

Orr-Reed Wrecking Co.

Lost Houses

By my count, somebody may be shorting Judge Buchmeyer 110 low-income houses in West Dallas

Double Oops

Carrollton takes one step backward as it tries to make amends with Mother Nature

Best Breakfast

Nick's Cafe

Unscrewed

Grenadier wards off injunction, says its Gaston Avenue rehab is back on track

Best place to feel at one with Deep Ellum

Boyd Gallery

Lord of the Fly

Investors in the Dragonfly Bar & Restaurant say they were fleeced by partner Steve Kahn, but he claims his accusers had him framed

Hardhat utopia

Sixties social theory meets the building trade at Dallas contractor TDIndustries -- and it works

Home unsweet home

Disgruntled homeowners take to the Web to battle a giant homebuilder over complaints of shoddy workmanship

Help wanted

A shortage of workers spells happy times for job-seekers and college graduates

Bye, bye Bethel

The newest town in Texas is a town no more

Ill Wind Blowing

Texas Industries wants permission to burn 270,000 tons of hazardous waste each year at a concrete plant 30 miles from Dallas. That would make it the nation's largest incinerator of toxic waste. Despite stunning ignorance about what this will do to your he