Initially, MIG’s Downtown Dallas 360 plan was due to the city council right about now; but that was before the price tag jumped to more than $700,000 to cover the cost of parking, and now it’s scheduled to be put under City Hall’s Christmas tree, can’t wait. But late yesterday…
My former Dallas Times Herald colleague, Helen Bryant Anders, writes this morning that Jeff Trigger — former managing director at the Adolphus and The Mansion on Turtle Creek, and the man responsible for the Stoneleigh Hotel’s extreme makeover — is about to save the mighty Baker Hotel in Mineral Wells,…
At this late date, there are enough caveats accompanying U.S. News and World Report’s annual college rankings that no one would confuse this with science. Buried within the fine print, this is how the magazine answers the why-even-bother question: “You wouldn’t go out and buy a computer or a car…
TCU announced today it’s spending $105 million to redo Amon G. Carter Stadium — everything from new and more concession stands to a raised seating bowl on the west and north ends to suites and club seating to an expanded capacity of close to 50,000. Promises the announcement, Amon Carter…
Greg Maloney, president and CEO for Jones Lang LaSalle Retail, has heard he’s closing down Valley View Center. He’s heard he’s tearing down Valley View Center. “I’ve heard all the rumors,” says Maloney, whose company was appointed by the courts just last week as the receiver for the beleaguered mall…
Whilst looking for items of interest on the YouTube this afternoon, I came across this what-the-what: six people dancing — which is to say, twirling and gliding and bouncing — on (or, rather, off) the side of Thanksgiving Tower Sunday morning. So I called Younan Properties to find out what…
I’ve never seen a game at the Dell Diamond, home of the Round Rock Express, but friends who have rank it among the finest experiences in minor-league ball — the very definition of fan-friendly. (I’m curious, though — what was “Pajama Collection Night” on July 11, exactly?) So, then, no…
As we mentioned last Tuesday the city council’s Quality of Life Committee got ’round to discussing some tweaks the city needs to make to its graffiti ordinance, which isn’t quite in compliance with state law. At which point Friend of Unfair Park Bill Holston, local attorney and KERA-FM commentary contributor,…
According to Dallas City Code, all but three city parks are closed from midnight till 5 a.m. (The exceptions — Barnes Bridge Park, Bachman Creek Greenbelt and William B. Dean Park — close at 10 p.m.) But according to a proposal the Park and Rec Board will consider Thursday, that’s…
It’s been a long while since we’ve gotten an update on the Elm Fork Athletic Complex — you remember, that 20-field soccer complex the city’s been pitching since the ’98 bond election. Last I recall, construction on the $38.6-million, 140-acre project, located off Walnut Hill Lane just west of Stemmons,…
Two years ago, the council’s Economic Development Committee took a long, hard look at parking rates at Love Field and agreed with the recommendation that it gradually hike prices “over several years” for several reasons — among them, Love Field’s just too cheap, and it’ll help offset some of the…
Of all the weekend-listening suggestions I’ve posted since whenever this started, that Freddie King KZEW revue ranks high on the list — I’ve listened to it start-to-finish a dozen times since posting two weeks ago. Hard to see how it gets much better than that, but after sitting through back-to-back…
At 4 this morning, the two gentlemen you’ll find in the video on the other side decided to break into the downtown McDonald’s on Commerce and Griffin Streets. Their goal: the ATM in the front window. And, for a little while, it goes so-far-so-good — using crowbars, it takes them…
Pat Berry, owner of Vickery Wholesale Greenhouse in Jubilee Park, got the call yesterday. On the other end was Dallas Independent School District trustee Bernadette Nutall, who told him the news he’d been hoping to hear for months: The district has shelved its plans to condemn his business in order…
Sam’s out at the Ballpark in Arlington at this very moment, where Chuck Greenberg’s holding his first press conference as The Owner of Your Texas Rangers. (Nolan Ryan was called out of town at the last second.) As they mentioned yesterday, the newsome twosome called today’s meet-and-greet to introduce some…
Just found this on YouTube: five minutes of footage from Dallas Video Festival founder Bart Weiss’s work-in-progress about Brave Combo, who’ve been making music for squares since ’79 and whose Musical Varieties I was listening to only last weekend. (“Skokiaan”!) I’d heard such a polkathesis was in the works, but…
Meant to be sung to the tune of this Squeeze single …Remember Hiram Walker Royall? Sure you do — he’s the Highland Park developer who sued anyone who wrote, reviewed or pretty much read Carla Main’s 2007 book Bulldozed: “Kelo,” Eminent Domain and the American Lust for Land, which deals…
Anderson Cooper can’t get enough of Texas Republicans’ claims that women are coming to the United States illegally to give birth to future terrorists — ya know, “terror babies,” as state Rep. Debbie Riddle called ’em during her debate with a clearly bemused Rafael Anchía Tuesday night. Wednesday, the namesake…
OK, it’s a hospital — the “new state-of-the-art University Hospital at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas” that the UT System Board of Regents agreed to fund to the tune of $800 million. The 12-story, 424-bed facility will open in 2015 on Harry Hines Boulevard at Record Crossing Road and…
I saw on the City Hall blog that Meadows Foundation is calling a morning press conference to announce a grant that will allow the budget-strapped Park and Rec Department to “bring in a director of development this fall to pursue grants and donations for the City of Dallas Park and…
Now we know why Blockbuster put off announcing its second-quarter financials last night: Says the downtown-based video-and-game-rental giant (well, once), it was getting its noteholders to sign off on a deal allows the company to keep $42.4 mil in debt payments for another few weeks. That’s what Blockbuster owes –…
Wednesday night, the nine members of Dave Neumann’s hand-picked Cliff Manor Task Force abruptly ended a meeting with Dallas Housing Authority officials at DHA HQ: They walked in, listened to a few remarks from the council member, dropped off a four-pronged letter of demands, and scooted out the door. The…
