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May 10, 2012
The Trinity River Toll Road is Now an (Almost) Unstoppable Force
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February 23, 2012
City Hall: The Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge Won't Be Drivable Till March 29 Now. Or Close To.
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January 23, 2012
Council Told City Can't Afford Bike Lanes, Which Is Why BFOC's Looking for Donors
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January 4, 2012
Up East Dallas Without a Paddle
Very mixed feelings about the city council briefing coming up this morning on proposed East Dallas storm-water projects. On the one hand, my paranoia is confirmed, which is always satisfying. On the other hand, there's not much I can do about it. Yes, just as I thought, my house in East Dallas -- t ... More >>
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November 17, 2011
Didn't Take Long at All For Perot Museum of Nature & Science to Make Its (Big, Big) Money
Photo by Anna MerlanApparently, this is how you announce you've raised $185 million a year earlier than expected.For days we've been promised a major announcement today from the Perot Museum of Nature & Science; as in, said the week's worth of press releases, "a MAJOR announcement" would be m ... More >>
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November 15, 2011
Woodall Rodgers Deck Park Got Dirty Today
We were driving over Woodall Rodgers Sunday afternoon when the boy espied what he believed to be bags of dirt sitting on the one-day site of the deck park. "They're gonna need more than that," he opined. But, sure enough: Joanna Singleton said sooner than later just last week, and that's exactly ... More >>
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November 8, 2011
It's Been a While Since Our Last Deck Park Update. But, Many To Come in Coming Days.
The Learning Tree in the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park, as seen in the virtual fly-throughThere was a small wingding at Dallas City Hall this afternoon at which it was announced that the Rotary Club of Dallas is kicking in $500,000 for the under-construction Woodall Rodgers Deck Park. For its donatio ... More >>
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October 20, 2011
Scary for Charity
The Learning Tree in the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park, as seen in the virtual fly-throughThere was a small wingding at Dallas City Hall this afternoon at which it was announced that the Rotary Club of Dallas is kicking in $500,000 for the under-construction Woodall Rodgers Deck Park. For its donatio ... More >>
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October 8, 2011
Infowars Host Alex Jones and His Followers Occupy the Dallas Fed Friday
Friday evening, two groups of protesters, Occupy Dallas and Occupy the Federal Reserve, lined opposite side of N. Pearl Street at Woodall Rodgers in front of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. "We got sold out, Feds got bailed out!" Occupy Dallas protesters shouted in unison on the west side of Pea ... More >>
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September 30, 2011
On Thursday, "Occupy Dallas"
There's a HuffPo piece this morning about how the pepper-spray-flavored Occupy Wall Street protests moved to the West Coast yesterday -- San Francisco, specifically, and the Bank of America building in the Financial District. Next Thursday, though, they hit a little closer to home. Without Radioh ... More >>
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September 21, 2011
Ron Paul Supporters Prove, Once and For All, That Meetup is Still Good For Something
Honk if you find politically motivated honking sort of annoying.Driving home last night, I saw a few lonely sign wavers on the north side of Northwest Highway. "Bring our troops home now," the signs urged, and I thought: Hey. That's nice. A totally depoliticized protest of our country's ongoi ... More >>
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June 21, 2011
Powerful Sports Marketing Agency Concerned Employee Left With Confidential Trade Secrets
There's no shortage of stories extolling the genius of John Tatum, the 45-year-old who in 1994 co-founded Genesco Sports Enterprises, the Woodall Rodgers-based consulting group that marries the right product with the right athlete, sport or major league. Sports Business Journal noted in '08 that ... More >>
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February 24, 2011
From High Atop Hunt Oil, A Look at The Park Over Woodall Rodgers Freeway, Which Is Now $9 Million Closer to Being Paid Off
Photos by Patrick MichelsMayor Tom Leppert looks out at construction of The Park moments before stepping in for what may be his last big photo op as mayor.The Woodall Rogers Deck Park Foundation's still $17 million shy of its fund-raising target, but with construction well under way, the series o ... More >>
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September 30, 2010
City Hall's Debate Over the Tax Hike Was About More Than Curtailing City Services.
Photos by Patrick MichelsMayor Tom Leppert looks out at construction of The Park moments before stepping in for what may be his last big photo op as mayor.The Woodall Rogers Deck Park Foundation's still $17 million shy of its fund-raising target, but with construction well under way, the series o ... More >>
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September 15, 2010
Tomorrow, City Hall to Look at How to Park Food Trucks Downtown (and Elsewhere!)
Perhaps it's but a matter of time before the city finally lets one of America's most-favorite food trucks park downtown.Nancy Nichols did a bang-up piece in the August issue of D chronicling the myriad reasons mobile restaurateurs have had issues parking their burgeoning parade of food trucks in ... More >>
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September 2, 2010
After Years of Letting Central Expressway's Green Go Brown, Council's About to Vote on Fix
Texas FreewayFrom the in-box, this from one good Friend of Unfair Park: "What the h is going on with the landscaping on Central? Is TxDOT letting everything die? It looks like crap."Good question(s). And I have the answer.First, let's flashback to a meeting of the city council's Transportation an ... More >>
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August 6, 2010
Mayor Leppert Wants That Woodall Rodgers Billboard Adiosed. Like, Yesterday.
Patrick MichelsSooner or later, this sucker's gonna be gone. Mayor Tom'll see to it himself.One week ago today we introduced you to the latest downtown Dallas attraction -- that Clear Channel billboard that damn near touches the Woodall Rodgers exit that dumps into northbound Stemmons. And while ... More >>
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August 2, 2010
Billboard's So Close to Woodall Rodgers Because Access Ramp Ain't a "Travel Lane." Say What?
Patrick MichelsDon't know what to tell you -- certainly didn't think we'd be into our third item about that Woodall Rodgers billboard. But Frank Librio, the city's spokesman, has, as he promised last night, looked into how it got there; so too Morgan Lyons, Dallas Area Rapid Transit's chief talke ... More >>
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August 1, 2010
The City Blames DART For That Woodall Rodgers Billboard. DART Says, "Pardon?"
Patrick Michels'Bout an hour ago I heard from City Hall about the black hole no wait 2001 monolith whoops Phantom Zone gateway pardon I mean Spinal Tap album cover dang itbillboard hovering but a few feet from the Woodall Rodgers ramp spilling into northbound Stemmons. Per Frank Librio, who says ... More >>
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July 30, 2010
Does This Billboard Look Like It's 100 Feet Away From the Freeway? Didn't Think So.
Photos by Patrick MichelsYesterday Friend of Unfair Park John M wondered if we had any spare interns who'd be able to snap a photo of the newly installed billboard next to the Woodall Rodgers ramp that dumps into northbound Stemmons Freeway. And when I say "next to," I mean "right on top of," as ... More >>
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July 5, 2010
LEGO My Dallas Cityscape
Photos by Harry WilonskyThe American Airlines Center and Victory ParkI did indeed let the boy loose with our in-need-of-replacing Canon PowerShot in the Dallas Cityscapes exhibit at NorthPark Center Saturday. We walked right past it at first -- it's tucked away inside the old Robb & Stucky ne ... More >>
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April 13, 2010
Council Committee Approves New "Prairie Look" For Central Expressway
Two years after Texas Department of Transportation officials told Dallas that they could no longer afford to cough up the cash needed to maintain the plant life in the medians and window boxes along the stretch of Central Expressway between Woodall Rodgers and LBJ Freeways, the city council's Tra ... More >>
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February 19, 2010
First Look: Naga Thai Kitchen & Bar
All the fashionable people these days wear ballon hats.Thursday night was the grand opening bash at Naga Thai Kitchen and Bar, and the who's who of Dallas was out in full force for the event in Victory Park. Who are we kidding? We don't know the who's who from the who's not, but there was a r ... More >>
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February 2, 2010
Wow, They Sure Did Fancy Up That Video Sneak Previewing Woodall Rodgers Deck Park
As promised last week, here's the latest "virtual fly-through" of the Woodall Rodgers deck park -- which was playing on a screen outside yesterday's press conference announcing Chase's $3-million donation for The Promenade. Our thanks to Kristen Gray and Joanna Singleton at The Park for shooting it ... More >>
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January 15, 2010
What Does Elm Place's Closure Mean for Downtown Dallas? Is the City Worried? Well ...
Elm PlaceElm 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 >>
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December 30, 2009
We're Guessing the Waterfall on Woodall Rodgers Isn't Part of the Deck Park Plans
Photos by Sam MertenWord that a contractor working for Atmos exposed a water pipe (which eventually ruptured) at Olive Street and McKinney Avenue was enough to convince me to head over there to chronicle the chaos -- most notably a traffic clusterfuck on the Woodall Rodgers Freeway service ro ... More >>
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November 25, 2009
U.S. Transportation Secretary to Pay Woodall Rodgers Deck Park "Surprise" Visit Monday
Ray LaHoodSchutze clearly has some issues with the Woodall Rodgers deck park, currently under construction. Which is why I am sending him togoing to beg him to attend Monday's site press conference with U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, who just confirmed that he's dropping by the cons ... More >>
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October 28, 2009
Pulling Up Few More Main Street Garden -- and Downtown Dallas Park -- Details
The Lily Pad cafe and the light-sculpture canopies, part of the Main Street Garden scheduled to open next monthMore than a few Friends of Unfair Park have asked privately and in the comments of yesterday's Main Street Garden sneak peek how the city expects to deal with the homeless. So happens, t ... More >>
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October 21, 2009
As Work Begins on Woodall Rodgers Park, What You Can Expect (Spoiler: Traffic Delays)
Speaking of downtown parks ...Maybe you've heard: Woodall Rodgers Freeway is about to be a mess from now till ... oh .. lessee here ... "late 2011." That's when the folks in charge of the Woodall Rodgers deck park expect to have the sucker done, with "amenities" following in '12. And so expect co ... More >>
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August 28, 2009
You Say You Want Some Downtown Dallas Progress Reports? Well, Then, You Got 'Em.
Justin TerveenOur old pal, The Urban Fabric, grabbed this shot of downtown just last night, matter of fact.I had Karl Zavitkovsky, head of the city's Office of Economic Development, on the phone this afternoon, so I asked him for a couple of updates per several Friends of Unfair Park's requests p ... More >>
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August 3, 2009
No Later Than October, Harwood Street Will No Longer Drive Over Woodall Rodgers
While I was at City Hall today, Joanna Singleton sent word that the Texas Department of Transportation has selected Archer Western, which has done work on the rail expansion for Dallas Area Rapid Transit, to handle construction of the $43-million-plus Woodall Rodgers Deck Park. Her press release ... More >>
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June 18, 2009
Surf's (Hanging) Up
While I was at City Hall today, Joanna Singleton sent word that the Texas Department of Transportation has selected Archer Western, which has done work on the rail expansion for Dallas Area Rapid Transit, to handle construction of the $43-million-plus Woodall Rodgers Deck Park. Her press release ... More >>
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March 27, 2009
Wait, Portland's Jealous of Dallas? Nice.
The Woodall Rodgers deck park, as it more or less oughta look upon completionIn Portland, where a former mayor once toyed with the idea of turning an overpass into a park, one columnist is very jealous that in Dallas, we're actually doing that very thing with the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park. And getti ... More >>
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March 26, 2009
Woodall Rodgers Park Just Got Stimulated
A more recently updated conceptual rendering of the Woodall Rodgers ParkI had intended to watch the Texas Transportation Commission meeting this morning -- it's being Webcast over here, for those so interested -- because among the agenda items for this morning was approving stimulus dough for those ... More >>
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March 20, 2009
Corps of Engineers' Yogi Berra, "This Project Isn't Going to End Until It's Completed."
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October 8, 2008
Transforming One Ugly 1980s Office Building, a Single Floor at a Time
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January 18, 2008
Public, Private -- What's the Dif? It's Eye Candy, Baby!
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August 9, 2007
Tell the Truthiness
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August 8, 2007
Enquiring Mind
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November 30, 2006
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