John Greenan

City Wants First Presby to Get Low Income Tax Credits. State Says it Probably Won't

The list of projects in Dallas that could, maybe, get a chunk of the paltry $7.6-million in Low Income Housing Tax Credits allotted for the Dallas-Denton-Collin-Grayson-Tarrant County region was whittled down to four a while back, and city staff told the City Council's Housing Committee today how th ... More >>

During Debate Over Supportive Housing Near Farmers Market, Suhm Reveals City Will Seek Private Operator For Market Within 10 Days

​For the last two days my inbox has been flooded -- flooded -- with emails from residents and property owners around the downtown farmers market, each one of which more or less says the same thing: Those two supportive housing projects being proposed downtown -- Larry Hamilton and John Greenan's C ... More >>

City Staff Won't Recommend Low Income Housing Tax Credits If Project Doesn't Fit Mayor Rawlings's Plan to Grow Southern Dallas

​Earlier this month the city council's Housing Committee was told during this briefing the Texas Department of Housing & Community Affairs doesn't have much coin to spare this year when it comes to doling out its Low Income Housing Tax Credits -- just $7.6 million total for a region spanning D ... More >>

Wanna Own Davy Crockett? The School, That Is.

Photo by Patrick Michels​On and off last year we took a look at the sad state of the 108-year-old Davy Crockett School on Carroll Avenue, a designated city historic landmark since 1993 and almost all but empty since the Dallas Independent School District moved its students to close-by Ignacio Zara ... More >>

First Presby Day School Parents Have Concerns About Supportive Housing Planned Downtown

​Earlier this week we received word that some parents sending their kids to the First Presbyterian Church Developmental Day School on St. Paul downtown are concerned about plans for a piece of property adjacent to the school. Seems they just discovered that developer Larry Hamilton and John Greena ... More >>

When Will They Begin to Re:Vision Dallas? Depends On When City Creates That "Sustainable Design District" Downtown.

If you thought they'd forgotten to build this behind Dallas City Hall, you'd be wrong.​It's been an awful long time since last we wrote about John Greenan and Brent Brown's plans to build that green, sustainable building of tomorrow directly behind Dallas City Hall. But a few days ago, a piece wri ... More >>

Dallas City Hall gets whopped upside the head for its low-income housing policy.

A Step Back and Into the Atmos Complex

Inside the former Lone Star Gas Co. Building's Harwood Street entrance, where the lobby remains but the original ceiling is hidden​Friend of Unfair Park and downtown denizen Noah Jeppson got into the Atmos Complex over the weekend thanks to an invite from John Greenan, executive director of Centr ... More >>

A Video Round-Up: Jerry Jones Talks With Dick Ebersol, Why Dallas Isn't Detroit and Jim Moroney on The Future of The News Business

A slide from Eric Corey Freed's presentation. Also, a lesser-known Prince song.​Whilst Daniel and Sam wrap up some end-o'-day items, let's direct our attention to the follow-up videos that follow, all which I found on Vimeo today. It's quite the hodgepodge.But let's begin with Jim Moroney, publish ... More >>

A Grand Opening for Citywalk@Akard, Where the Fire Alarms Work Just Fine

Patrick MichelsCentral Dallas Ministries CEO Larry James at Citywalk@Akard's grand opening.​While Central Dallas Ministries CEO Larry James had our attention last week with news on his latest urban rebooting project -- his "center of hope" at the southeast corner of Malcolm X Boulevard and I-30 -- ... More >>

Hard bcCorps: Back to Dolphin Heights

Dolphin Heights Initiative: Holding House Design - Part 2 from bcCorps.org on Vimeo.A few weeks ago we introduced you to the bcCorps, an army of volunteers giving nine homes in Dolphin Heights extreme makeovers a la bcWORKSHOP's work along Congo Street. John Greenan, executive director of Central Da ... More >>

At Downtown's Citywalk @ Akard, Finally, There's No Place Like Home For the Holidays

Citywalk @ Akard, which makes its debut tomorrow as 12 floors of residential units -- 11 of then consisting of affordable housing​On Wednesday, the city of Dallas gave John Greenan the good news: The executive director of the Central Dallas Community Development Corporation was told that, yes, fin ... More >>

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 riche ... More >>

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 behi ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 de ... More >>

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

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 Hal ... More >>

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 th ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 r ... More >>

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 tu ... More >>