And the hits just keep on coming -- though General Growth Properties' filing for Chapter 11 protection this morning wasn't exactly a surprise. Way back in November, we pointed to the Chicago-based mall owner's fiscal issues involving more than a billion in overdue debt payments, which puts in jeopardy the seven DFW-area malls owned and/or operated by GGP, among them Collin Creek Mall, The Parks at Arlington, Vista Ridge Mall, Town East Mall, Hulen Mall and Stonebriar Centre and the Galleria Dall
Icon Midtown, yet another conceptual rendering to add to the pyreBut 15 months ago, Icon Partners issued a breathless press release announcing a 3.7-million square foot development to be dropped at the intersection of LBJ Freeway and the Dallas North Tollway. Called Icon Midtown, it was to be a gleaming, crowded city unto itself, a miniature Manhattan featuring five enormous blocks' worth of bakeries and delis and groceries and restaurants and shops and a movie theater; a hotel tower surro
Brandon ThibodeauxJohn Greenan, founder and executive director of nonprofit Central Dallas Community Development Corp., a subsidiary of Larry James' Central Dallas MinistriesIn the paper version of Unfair Park this week I took a longer look at Re:Vision Dallas -- you know, that self-sustaining development John Greenan and Brent Brown want to build on a parking lot behind Dallas City Hall sooner than later. Right, that one. Anyway. In the piece, Greenan (founder and executive director of nonpr
