Tom JenkinsBowers (left) with his vodka-pouring bartenders in a 2006 photoHe is synonymous with seafood in this market, having been associated with, oh, Daddy Jack's and Rockfish and Big Fish Little Fish before opening his own multi-purpose place, Kenny's Wood Fired Grill.Recently the Boston native added a new bar space (banking on the cougar image to attract the right crowd) and Kenny's Burger Joint in Frisco. So he's been busy.Bowers came to Dallas way, way back--so long ago the Cowboys still
View Larger MapOn Wednesday, the Dallas City Council is expected to get a look at the Texas Attorney General's Office's findings concerning its yearlong look into how the city manages the W. W. Samuell Permanent Foundation, the Samuell Trust Fund and the properties willed to the city by the physician and philanthropist upon his death in 1937. So says First Assistant City Attorney Chris Bowers, who today tells Unfair Park that several Dallas city attorneys are going through a rough draft of the a
As promised here's the city's complaint brought against Colby Properties today in Dallas County District Court. In the complaint -- and the request for a temporary and permanent injunction against the owners of 508 Park Avenue -- the city is seeking $1,000 per day for every listed violation of both the Dallas City Code and the Dallas Fire Code. And the city is maintaining that there are numerous violations -- everything from "sharp protrusions" to "an accumulation of combustible waste material."
Back in August 2008, this was among the houses depicted in the council committee briefing regarding the need for a new teardown ordinance.​Speaking of vacant downtown buildings ...
When Mayor Tom Leppert unveiled his list of Central Business District buildings that needed to be brought up to code or else,
preservationists fretted that he had his sights set on razing, oh, the
Statler Hilton or 508 Park Avenue, for starters. It made a certain
amount of sense -- because, after all, just two mont
