Subject: John Greenan

• For Those Having a Hard Time With Re:Vision Dallas's Vision for Downtown ...

  "Engangled Bank" is another of the finalists for Re:Vision Dallas -- one where "the sky pasture is also available for each tenant in the community to grow produce for their own consumption or resale in the market."Many Friends of Unfair Park have questions concerning Re:Vision Dallas -- which we've been mentioning for months, but, sure, the release of the conceptual renderings of three potential downtown buildings has gotten folks' attention. So I called John Greenan -- executive director of Cen

  June 1, 2009

• Sustain in the Membrane: Turning a Dallas Parking Lot into a Community

  This morning at City Hall, some three dozen urban planners, architects and city officials gathered on the fourth floor to begin discussing precisely how to turn a dollar-a-spot parking lot behind City Hall into a self-sustaining community. (That's the site above.) Meaning: How, precisely, can you turn an barren spot on the outskirts of downtown into a "community" where "people of all incomes" can live, work, shop, eat and play together, in the words of John Greenan of Central Dallas Community De

  December 5, 2008

• Turn a Parking Lot Into "A Beacon of Sustainability in Dallas," Win $25,000

  There are still plenty of folks a little puzzled by RE:Vision Dallas, which, as we've mentioned before, is an effort to turn a couple of parking lots behind Dallas City Hall into a self-sustaining mixed-income "community." Though some city officials have done some cheerleading for the effort, it's really the baby of Brent Brown, founder of bcWORKSHOP, and John Greenan of Central Dallas Community Development Corporation, who'd like to see affordable housing, retail and commercial spaces, an "educ

  January 28, 2009

• The Grand Co-Op Canyon: Another in a Series of Re:Vision Dallas Outtakes

  Speaking of conceptual renderings and community gardens ...Couple of weeks back, we got our first look at the six Re:Vision Dallas finalists, and among the honorable mentions was the decidedly kick-ass Co-Op Canyon, which didn't make the cut. But today, Inhabitat nonetheless offers us a closer look at one of the projects of which Central Dallas Community Development Corporation's John Greenan is fond. Notes the site, it's the brainchild of Los Angeles-based architectural firm Standard, which ima

  June 8, 2009

• Touring 508 Park Ave., But Is It Love in Vain?

  Photos by Dan FinnellThe third-floor recording studio at 508 Park Avenue in which Robert Johnson recordedAt this late date you're surely aware of the plight of 508 Park Avenue, the site of the makeshift studio in which Robert Johnson, Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys and perhaps even Charlie Parker recorded. The owners of the building are still fighting with the City Attorney's Office over bringing it up to code; meanwhile, it's still on the market, begging for a buyer.Count among the interested

  June 10, 2009

• Revising Re:Vision Dallas, Yet Another Look at What Might Have Been Behind City Hall

  PIKL Studio's Commonwealth, among the honorable mentions in the Re:Vision Dallas competitionA Friend of Unfair Park points out that I'm not the only one collecting Re:Vision Dallas cast-offs. So too is the ArchDaily blog, which, earlier this week, posted PIKL Studio's Commonwealth development for that block behind Dallas City Hall, where Central Dallas Community Development Corporation's exec director, John Greenan, and Brent Brown hope to begin construction on a "self-sustaining community" by n

  June 19, 2009

• Even If They Don't Build the Entangled Bank, Well, Maybe It'll Still Win a Big Award

  ​Is what you see above the future of Dallas? Don't know. Hard to say. But, as we've said often in recent months, John Greenan (executive director of Central Dallas Community Development Corporation) and Brent Brown (founder of bcWORKSHOP) are determined to turn a parking lot behind Dallas City Hall into a sustainable live-work-play-grow-eat-etc. by no later than a 2010 groundbreaking.We'll have much more in a coming issue of the paper version of Unfair Park, but till then, a bit of relevant ne

  August 24, 2009

• Are the Plans To Build A Green, Sustainable Building of Tomorrow Smack in the Heart of Downtown Dallas Some Pipedream or A Reality?

  October 1, 2009

• Why Can't a Nonprofit Do a Downtown Project Cheaper Than a For-Profit Developer?

  Brandon ThibodeauxJohn Greenan, founder and executive director of nonprofit Central Dallas Community Development Corp., a subsidiary of Larry James' Central Dallas Ministries​In 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

  October 2, 2009

• Brent Brown, Who Rebuilt Congo Street, Will Head Dallas CityDesign Studio in City Hall

  Brandon ThibodeauxBrent Brown​Couple of weeks back we debuted the Dallas Urban Design Studio, a Trinity Trust-funded endeavor that'll get its own office in Dallas City Hall in order to "elevate the design consciousness and culture of Dallas, while working to balance social, economic, environmental, and design sustainability towards enhancing livability for all Dallas residents." Clearly, though, someone wasn't happy with the acronym "DUDS": In a press release sent in advance of tomorrow's form

  October 5, 2009

• Inching One Step Closer to That Self-Sustaining Block Behind Dallas City Hall

  Come Friday, we'll know which of the three Re:Vision Dallas finalists, including Entangled Bank (seen here), is the out-and-out winner.​John Greenan, executive director of Central Dallas Community Development Corporation and one of the main men charged with growing that self-sustaining block behind Dallas City Hall, took note of El Centro College's plans to perch 21 wind turbines on the roof of the old Sanger Harris building: "I'm glad to see someone is pioneering the technology," he writes i

  November 9, 2009

• Forward, Forwarding Dallas

  ​John Greenan has made it official: He and Brent Brown are going forward with Forwarding Dallas to fill that parking lot behind Dallas City Hall with a self-sustaining building. Says Greenan of his decision to go with the Portuguese architects behind the downtown hillside, "Dallas would be a richer city to have the work of any of these architects represented, but as we went further into our review, we began to see the deep logic of the MOOV-Atelier Data design, Forwarding Dallas. Forwarding Da

  November 23, 2009