Council to Step Inside Grand Ricchi Today

inside the former LTV Tower as it crawls toward a rebirth as The Grand Ricchi​’Bout a month back we got a sneak peek at the Grand Ricchi, Leobardo Trevino’s planned hotel-slash-“office condo” slated to move into the former LTV Tower. When all’s said and done, Trevino’s supposed to spend somewhere…

Profs: Dallas Has More Heart Than Head

That, in short, is a summary of a study conducted by University of Michigan psychologists Nansook Park and Christopher Peterson, which appeared in the September issue of American Psychologist and is making the rounds this week via this Infrastructurist item. Long story short: Peterson and Park asked, via the Internet,…

The “Breathtaking Arrogance” of Tom Hicks

George Gillett, left, and Tom Hicks​It’s déjà vu all over again this morning in the U.K.: On the one side of the courtroom are attorneys repping the creditors trying to force the sale of a sports team owned by Tom Hicks; on the other side are Hicks’s attorneys. So perhaps…

Tom Hicks Loses Round One In UK Legal Battle

There, on the High Court of Justice Chancery Division’s to-do list tomorrow, is one of two U.K. cases in which locals will keep a close eye: Royal Bank of Scotland PLC v Hicks & Others. As in: Tom Hicks, from whom the Royal Bank of Scotland wants the money owed…

Take a Dip in the Trinity, Dry Off in Downtown

​Where to begin, where to begin as we sneak peek the council’s week ahead? Perhaps at Jim’s favorite destination — the shores of the Trinity River. Tomorrow’s meeting of the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee looks to be the most interesting in a long while, as the council starts adding…