Hah! They'd do better to forget about the overpriced places they took pics of (the Statler OMG! what about the city's own hold across the street!) and put up pics of the city's and the DISD's empty/crumbling buildings. Tear yours down first and I'll fix mine! What a waste of time, Leopard!

It's a miracle nothing disastrous has happened, given the potential for electrical malfunctions - or just sheer gut-rot and implosion. So glad that something is being done about it.

I do agree that the city needs to take care of their own buildings as well....has the boarded-up yet historically protected High School that's sitting on the Rail Line been addressed?

I've been a pretty big supporter of Tom but this article really got under my skin. First, they focus on the Grand yet know damn good and well plans for the renovation are well under way and there's been numerous meetings with not only the City Managers office, Angela Hunt, and while not a "formal" meeting, it has also been discussed with him, so to be totally honest he isn't doing anything but making press for himself and showboating which I find totally disgusting in any politician. Second, ya notice they aren't talking about going after Ted Hamilton or Forest City for any of their properties even though some of them are in as bad or worse shape than the Grand. Second he talks about also going after these owners to make them start paying their fair share of taxes by raising the value in the tax rolls to what they are really worth, well Tom I have two properties you can start with, the first, the Mercantile project that the city gave 78 million to, it's on the tax roles at 29 million and the second on would be a certain lot that was on the tax role I think it at 2.9 million and you just wrote a 57 million dollar check for it. This is but two examples. If the News want's to do a REAL story how about one on how our budget issues for the city and schools and hospitals is due to the fact that the commercial property in Dallas is valued on the tax roles at about 10-20 cents on the dollar of what it should be!

Sorry Tom, you just proved to me your just another Politico out to making a name for yourself, how about being the real man you profess to be and do something that makes sense for all of us!

I'll step off my soapbox now .............