Real Estate Sector

Two Rifles and a Shotgun Were Stolen Yesterday From an SUV Parked Off Lower Greenville

At noon yesterday, Jay Bailey parked his 2011 Chevrolet SUV in the lot behind the Blue Goose Cantina on Greenville Avenue and went to lunch. When he returned an hour later, he found that the lot had been targeted by a vehicle burglar. The rear window of an SUV parked nearby had been smashed, and th ... More >>

Deion Sanders' Charter School Doesn't Have -- and May Have Trouble Getting -- City Approval to Open Its Dallas Campus

Prime Prep Academy, the charter school co-founded by former Cowboy Deion Sanders, recently accepted more than 1,100 students for its inaugural school year, and hundreds of those students are slated to attend its campus in Oak Cliff. The question is whether that campus will even be available to the ... 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 >>

Yet Another High-End Dallas Hotel Sold as the Downtown Fairmont Goes For $69 Million

​Yesterday Bloomberg noted that high-end American hotels are being sold to buyers from Hong King, Singapore and China in the hopes of catering to "a growing number of affluent Asians traveling abroad." Among those sold: the Rosewood Crescent Hotel and the Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek, now in t ... More >>

Why Downtown Dallas Inc.'s Fine With Ad Agency Moving Its Digs to Victory Park

​I called John Crawford, president of Downtown Dallas Inc., on Monday morning, about something -- can't remember, not important. But in between my leaving a message and his calling back, I received a press release: TM Advertising, which moved from Irving into the Comerica Bank Tower at 1717 Main S ... More >>

Arts District to Get a New Outside Attraction: The Crow Asian Sculpture Garden

​The Trammell Crow Center on Ross Avenue already contains the Crow Collection of Asian Art. But that's an inside attraction. And that, far as the Crows are concerned, just isn't good enough. Hence, the announcement that just popped up in the in-box for the Crow Asian Sculpture Garden, described in ... More >>

Say, Out-of-Towners, Why Rent an Apartment When You Should Just Buy the Whole Complex?

The San Raphael Apartments near the Galleria recently sold to a Cleveland REIT.​Says GlobeSt.com this morning, there used to be a time when investors wanting to gobble up multifamily properties kept their coin on the coasts. No more: Now, "Dallas-Fort Worth is at the top of that list," per a direc ... More >>

Valley View Has a New Owner. So, Now What?

​Perhaps you saw: Valley View Center has a new owner now, Miami-based LNR Property Corporation -- well, actually, its subsidiary LNR Partners, the very same company trying to sell off the former First National on Elm Street downtown, amongst other local real estate. Dallas County deed records show ... More >>

Mapping the "Available" Space at Valley View

A view of Valley View Center from the sky, as depicted on mall owner Macerich's leasing-info Web site​Ron Natinksy's comments concerning Valley View Center reminded me: We never did hear from a local Macerich rep concerning whatever kind of "plans" the mall owner may or may not have for North Dall ... More >>

City to Refocus Its Attention at Southwest Center on Macy's, Which Is "Still Alive"; Penney's Owner Will Consider All His Options

​Back to Southwest Center Mall for a moment -- or, more specifically, the city's plans to keep the "dead mall," per the Urban Land Institute, alive. Karl Zavitkovsky kept the council's Economic Development Committee behind closed doors for almost an hour this morning, during which point it was men ... More >>

Ain't Gonna Work on Maggie's Server Farm No More: The DFW's a Data Center!

​A few days ago, Stream Data Centers announced it was in the process of building out a 20,000-square foot server farm in Richardson, in the Telecom Corridor -- not necessarily the sexiest press release in the world. (Though there is the part about the building's being able to "withstand 125 mph wi ... More >>

Valley View's Owners: No Plans to Share

The scene inside Waldenbooks' Valley View location, which has about two weeks left​Christine Romero, spokesperson for Valley View Center owner Macerich, called back to say, well, she doesn't have much to say about the state or fate of the beleaguered mall at present: "We don't have any final plans ... More >>

Fairfield Residential LLC, Owner of Six DFW Apartment Complexes, Files For Chapter 11

Vista at Victory​A Friend of Unfair Park sends word that Fairfield Residential LLC -- which has offices in San Diego and Grand Prairie -- filed for Chapter 11 reorganization yesterday in the District of Delaware, with the first hearing scheduled for tomorrow. Says the notice posted today on Fairfi ... More >>

"Negative Absorbtion": Good for Band Name, Bad for DFW Commercial Real Estate Biz

GlobeSt.com's Amy Wolff Sorter asks Mark Fewin, senior managing director at CB Richard Ellis, and Matt Heidelbaugh, senior director with Cushman & Wakefield of Texas, for their takes on the Dallas-Fort Worth commercial real estate market, and neither like what they see in the second quarter: an ... More >>

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 >>

Services for Trammell Crow Set for Monday

After the jump, the official Trammell Crow obituary sent to local media today. But first, this information concerning services scheduled for Monday:A public service will be held on Monday, January 19, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. at Highland Park United Methodist Church, located at 3300 Mockingbird Lane, Dall ... More >>

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 >>

A Coffee-Table Tribute to Those Who Built This City (Not on Rock and Roll)

West Village, Meet ... East Village?

Jekyll Island and Trammell Crow

Moral Minority

The wages of sin are a big fat bankroll for Trammell Crow, thanks to city council

You, Me & Dupree

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?

Crow No Mo'. (Well, Kinda. Pretty Much, Yeah.)

Business That's Your Business

Does Every Former NFL Player Wind Up in Real Estate?

Emmitt Finds New Cowboys QB

As the Crow Flies

Wanna Buy the Four Seasons? Too Late.

Office Space

A Little Slice of Heaven

Looters

Everybody got a piece when the families at Timbercreek got evicted--except the families

The B.S. Plan

For the real plan, watch the vote on Timbercreek

The REIT Stuff

Re: Forest City, Without the Dead Trees

Letters

Sorry You Missed It Eyes Wide Open in Frisco

Best Hardware Store

Ace Hardware Lakewood

Best Builder

Jeff Fairey, Vintage Contemporaries

Lost Houses

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

Smoke-free environment

After a year in operation, Denton's controversial United Copper plant remains a sleepy giant

Hash Over

Blowing smoke

Denton residents like Parks and Delores Olmon want to know how a posse of city slickers managed to railroad plans for a lead-belching copper factory in their town

Home unsweet home

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

Deadbeat

Vance Miller lives in a Highland Park mansion, carries weight in the GOP, and parties with high society. He owes you, the taxpayer, $26 million, and he ain't paying.

Crow associate charged

New York advisor indicted in 'Libyan connection' scheme

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