Steve Brown

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So Much For Hope and Change: A "Catalyst for Redevelopment" Along the Trinity is Sinking

All that land you see at right marked "SITE" was supposed to be the location of Irving-based JPI's Trinity River development -- about 60.5 acres' worth of residential, retail, offices, restaurants and everything else you could stuff into a billion-dollar mixed-use development. The city was counting ... More >>

Grateful Dead

Holly Mullen explains how a massive paupers' graveyard barely survived greedy landowners and a stealth real-estate deal

Buzz

Holly Mullen explains how a massive paupers' graveyard barely survived greedy landowners and a stealth real-estate deal

Letters

Holly Mullen explains how a massive paupers' graveyard barely survived greedy landowners and a stealth real-estate deal

Is Victory Park Verschraubt?

A little while ago, a Friend of Unfair Park forwarded along a piece from the Deutschland version of Financial Times detailing the potentially big trouble brewing at Victory Park, where, it appears, Hillwood is in danger of defaulting on a $185 million loan. Steve Brown has more or less rewritten the ... More >>

Eat My Dirt

A builder's guide to skirting the zoning laws and making the city look goofy

Rock 'n' Role

Try walking a mile, or 26.2 of them, in Micah's shoes

Sugar Ray

Why council members love Mr. Hunt so much

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

You'd Best Get Used to That Moonscape at Walnut Hill Lane and N. Central Expressway

If your head explodes with dark foreclosings too, I'll see you on the dark side of the moon. Or at Walnut Hill and Central, either way.​Back in June, Provident Realty spokesperson Marie Fahey told Unfair Park that, look, the developer wasn't quite sure when it was gonna get around to building tha ... More >>

Quite the Hiccup: In Oak Cliff, Four INCAP Fund Properties Are Posted For Foreclosure

View Larger MapThis morning, Steve Brown mentioned that more than 250 local commercial properties are up for foreclosure next month, including "several vacant tracts of land in Oak Cliff along Davis Street, Kings Highway and Stevens Forest Drive." But Brown didn't mention which properties -- or who ... More >>

Local Commercial Real Estate Community Is Mighty Nervous About the Sudden Disappearance of Money Man Eric Brauss

Eric Brauss​Speaking of local real estate deals ...A few days ago a Friend of Unfair Park who's in the commercial real estate business asked, "Ever heard of Eric Brauss?" Couldn't say that I had. He then pointed me to Today Realty Advisors' Web site, which details the dozens of transactions the fi ... More >>

A Deep Thought for the Late Hugh Prather III

​On January 10 of this year The Dallas Morning News ran a lengthy obituary for Hugh E. Prather Jr.: "one of the last surviving icons of the early 20th-century Dallas real estate industry, a former civic leader and a longtime Highland Park resident," wrote Steve Brown. Hugh Jr., who died the first ... More >>

The Superconducting Super Collider Is For Sale. And Who Doesn't Need 14 Miles of Tunnels?

​Steve Brown tips us to the story, but not the site: Newmark Knight Frank's sprawling online ad for the Superconducting Super Collider down in Ellis County, just outside Waxahachie, where the feds sunk $800 million into a project that's been kaput since '93. Can't be going for more than $6.5 mil: ... More >>

Sixth Street Comes to Uptown As Kung Fu Saloon Takes Over Old Perry's Location

​Speaking of your deep-felt desire for retro arcading ...Well, I was going to give Steve Brown the credit, till a quick search reveals it was former Observer-er Merritt Martin (sniff) who actually broke the news two days ago that Austin-based Kung Fu Saloon is due to take over the former Place at ... More >>