Tim Headington

Art Ball, Erykah Badu and Rio Room Converged For a Weekend Worth the Hangover

This past weekend in Dallas, you couldn't turn a corner without hitting a valet stand or a liquor sponsor. Between the Dallas Art Fair, the Dallas International Film Festival, and the ongoing calendar of concerts, weeklies and openings, I hope you found yourself at the open bar of at least one of th ... More >>

A Very Short Film About Erykah Badu's Very Short "Funeral Procession" Down Main Street

When we joined, which is to say "stumbled," into Erykah Badu and the Rebirth Brass Band's 407-foot-long drive-n-dance down Main Street a few weeks ago, we noted the many cameras on hand to film the brief trek; word was, per Badu's business partner Paul Levatino, they were there for a doc-in-progress ... More >>

Erykah Badu, Rebirth Brass Band and a Late-Night Funeral Procession for Main Street

​Shortly after the clock struck just past midnight Sunday, Erykah Badu, behind the wheel of a matte black Stingray, led a funeral procession down Main Street -- not far, mind you, just from Pegasus Plaza at Main and Akard to the front door of PM Nightlife Lounge at The Joule, which is all of, what ... More >>

At Much, Much Bigger Joule, a Recording Studio, New Charlie Palmer, Underground Spa and, Finally, Return of Mercantile Mosaics

Via David KirkpatrickA look at one of the Merc's mosaics before it was removed​For close to two years we've written here and there (and there and there and ...) about Tim Headington's slow-but-sure downtown takeover via The Joule's expansion, which, we recently learned, is the reason the Praetoria ... More >>

This Year's City Lights Event to Fill Five Blocks of Downtown, Beginning in Just Two Weeks

I do not look forward to the day when the boy's too old to crawl through whatever contraption the downtown Neiman Marcus installs as its Christmas window display; the last couple of years' worth of tubes and tunnels have been particularly ... magical? Sure, why not. Absolutely. And I can confirm: Th ... More >>

Slowly But Surely, Elm Street's History is Being Erased One Old Building at a Time

Photo by Noah JeppsonYesterday Noah took several photos of what remains of 1604 Elm, along with the scar left by the demolition of 1600 Elm last week.​You may have noticed in recent days that Elm Street downtown is missing another one of its old buildings: the 70-year-old-or-so 1600 Elm, which was ... More >>

The Old Praetorian Building Downtown May Be Coming Down as Part of Joule Expansion

​The high-rise standing at 1607 Main Street looks nothing like the one built on that very spot in 1909, when it was known as the Praetorian Building -- "the West's first 'skyscraper.'" Architect Clarence C. Bulger's 15-story building, once an ornate, golden-hued tourist attraction, was gutted and ... More >>

Of Continental Hold-Ups, Joule Expansions, Downtown Town Homes and Love Field Eats

​The city council returns to the city's business on Wednesday ... or is that Tuesday? But till mid-September, at the earliest, committee meetings are canceled: Mayor Mike's asked the chairs to scratch meetings till at least mid-September, when he'll reshuffle the deck chairs -- and we'll find out ... More >>

In Other Economic Developments, The City Wants To Turn City Lights Back On. And: Dallas Wants Dallas to Furnish a Studio, Apparently.

The old George Dahl library in a cleaned-up rendering found in Monday's briefing​First off, as promised yesterday, here's that Statler Hilton update, which was posted last night to the city's website as the cumbersomely titled Filling in the Missing Pieces Downtown Upcoming Redevelopment Projects ... More >>

TIF For Tat, or: You Say You Need an Update on the Statler and Old Downtown Library?

One of the 192 photos I took inside the Statler I can't bring myself to delete off my phone​Karl Zavitkovsky, director of the Office of Economic Development, has a long Monday morning ahead of him: He's scheduled to deliver three presentations to the council's Economic Development Committee, one o ... More >>

Dallas International Film Festival: A Star-Lite Celebration Goes a Little Smaller.

Downtown Dallas's CEO on the Likely (Boutique Hotels) and the Would-Likey (Everything Else)

Patrick MichelsDowntown Dallas, Inc. CEO John Crawford​So back to my conversation with Downtown Dallas, Inc.'s John Crawford. I'd called yesterday to talk about those big empty buildings. But Crawford loves to spread the good news about downtown, so our brief chat got the extended dance remix trea ... More >>

Details From Tim Headington's Fine-Tuned Plan for The Joule's Hotel and Retail Expansion

​It's been a year, more or less, since we last heard Tim Headington talk about his plans to expand The Joule in downtown, which began with his purchase of five properties along Main and Commerce in September 2009. And since we haven't heard much more since May, when the hotel and retail expansion ... More >>

Anyone Wanna Buy a 111-Year-Old Downtown Building? Good Location With Great History.

Justin Terveen​Built in 1900, 1516 Elm Street has been on and off the market for years; about six years back, it was even offered as part of a package that included 807 Elm, which is coming down any second now. The for-lease sign has been a constant, but every so often it trades hands; not long ag ... More >>

If You Ever Wanted to Own 12,000 Square Feet of Main Street Retail Space Downtown ...

​Back in July, the London-based owner of The Metropolitan on Main Street auctioned off 35 condos in the one-time downtown office tower, rehabbed a few years back at the cost of $50 millionish. Fifty-five more went on the auction block only weeks ago. In two weeks, it's time to sell off the street- ... More >>

Next Week, Main Street to Close Down For Two Nights As Old Praetorian Building Goes "4D"

Flickr user: lumierefl​For a sneak peek of what's in store on November 30 and December 3, go here -- to a video from New York City, wherein the Ralph Lauren store on Madison Avenue was transformed earlier this month into a ginormous movie screen. Which isn't the half of it. "Inception in real life ... More >>

Mark Cuban, Joule's Tim Headington Sink Millions Into Company That Tracks Devices

​Mark Cuban has taken the $5 million he intended to invest in Turtle and tequila and put his dough-re-mi elsewhere: in something called BlueCava, which tracks every single device you've got hooked up to the Internet, which doesn't sound too Minority Report at all. From the how-it-works: "No two de ... More >>

Welcome to the Forbes 400, Darwin Deason!

Kelcy Warren, proof that a UT-Arlington graduate can make the Forbes 400​I've been told: Everybody loves lists, especially this one -- Forbes' annual countdown of the richie-richiest 'Merkins, which contains more than its share of locals, as usual. Tops, through, is a Fort Worth resident who I'm p ... More >>

Go Inside the Mighty Mercantile Back in '58

Heritage Auction Galleries/Hedrich BlessingR.L. Thornton had himself one groovy penthouse atop the Mercantile Bank Building.​While browsing the Heritage Auction Galleries site late last night, in search of something entirely unrelated (this, if you must know), I came across a most estimable offeri ... More >>

Sounds Like a Movie Title: The Downtown Connection and a Big, Bright, Expensive Joule

​We've spoken here and there (and there) of The Joule's expansion plans, heralded last fall with Tim Headington's acquisition of five surrounding properties along Commerce and Main Streets. But this morning, the council's Economic Development Committee gets a closer look at the what-the-what, a fe ... More >>

In Which Joule's Tim Headington Speaks Vaguely About Downtown Expansion

Earlier this month, we got all we (thought we) needed out of the DowntownDallas annual luncheon at the Sheraton -- that new logo, which, no kidding, is starting to grow on me. But I went over to the DSpotters' Web site this morning to look for something else and found this instead: the 2009 annual r ... More >>

What Does Elm Place's Closure Mean for Downtown Dallas? Is the City Worried? Well ...

Elm Place​Elm Place's closure, announced this morning, comes as no surprise: A section of George Dahl's 52-story office tower, at Elm and Akard Streets, fell into foreclosure in the early part of '09, and the former First National Bank of Dallas and Bank of America building been shedding tenants f ... More >>

Elm Street Fire Corridor: Not a Band Name. Not a Club. But, Maybe, Downtown's Future.

Justin TerveenSooner or later, thanks to the fire corridor and the Joule expansion, this block of Elm Street will look considerably different.​Yet again, we're back to the subject of redevelopment in downtown Dallas -- if only, for a moment, to visit a block of Elm Street that seems stuck in rever ... More >>

Vacant Buildings Downtown Still Vacant. But At Least Now They Belong to Someone Else.

1604 Main Street, now off the market​Eleven months ago, Mayor Tom Leppert gathered the media beneath 1604 Main Street to detail his plan for dealing with 36 vacant buildings downtown. We've spilled plenty of virtual ink documenting the doings with two of the more high-profile properties, but this ... More >>

This Evening, Talk of Designating Two Downtown Buildings as Historic Landmarks

View Larger MapNoticed something interesting on the Landmark Commission Designation Committee's agenda for today's 5:45 p.m. confab: the re-initiation of historic designation proceedings for two downtown buildings, the Mercantile Continental Building on Commerce Street and the Dallas National Bank B ... More >>

Strike Two

What's in a name?

Missing Joules

Downtown resort shifts gears

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Saltwater Willy's embraces a chef-free concept