Till a Friend of Unfair Park just pointed it out, I hadn’t seen mention made anywhere of Brent Brown and bcWORKSHOP’s accolade handed out a few days back by the American Institute of Architects and the U.S. Housing and Urban Development. Brown’s Congo Street Initiative — which, as you should…
Developer Jack Matthews has promised to chat more this week about his movie and teevee production facility in the Cedars — just as soon as he returns from his summer vacay. For now, though, he says this via e-mail: “We have been working on this many years … however what…
Late last week a Friend of Unfair Park sent word that he’s very concerned about SMU’s plans to expand south of Mockingbird Lane along N. Central Expressway, where the old Mrs. Baird’s bakery still stands. According to the university, which will hold a public Wednesday in advance of its asking…
Well, well, well — the Texas Rangers Baseball Partners have filed a “revised” Chapter 11 plan, and Maury Brown, so far, seems to be the one guy who thinks this might could maybe be the redo that gets this sale over the hump. Or not. Which may not be the…
Over the weekend — and, really, for the past several days — the admin side of Unfair Park and the other Observer blogs has been acting a bit wonky. Which is to say, one minute it’d work just fine; the next, it became inaccessible. We couldn’t post; you couldn’t comment…
Took the boy to get some “rare miles” this morning. Took Morgan Lyons’s advice too — stopped at It’s a Grind, then caught the train at the Baylor station to make the Texas-OU loop. We were joined by two, three other homegrown tourists out for the morning jog ’round Fair…
I called Jim this morning at 6:30 — wanted to make sure he was still meeting me at 7 on the West Levee, at Beckley Avenue and the Continental Avenue Bridge, for this morning’s “topping-off” ceremony of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge. Mayor Tom would be there; Kay Bailey too…
I had intended to provide as this week’s aural audio the entirety of Beck’s redo of INXS’s Kick, which features on guitar and vocals none other than Lake Highlands’ own Annie Clark, or St. Vincent. (The formerly Dallas Observer Music Awards-nominated St. Vincent, Pete asks me to remind you as…
City Hall just posted the latest fiscal forecast for what remains of FY2009-’10, and, unexpectedly, it’s cloudy with a chance of shitstorms. Right now, it looks like the sales tax falloff through April, at least, is $6.3 million less than originally budgeted — if, that is, revenue rates stay the…
Dallas Area Rapid Transit was awful happy with the outcome of April’s test run of the “reconfigured” Green Line, intended to alleviate the f-bomb that was last year’s Texas-OU train ride to nowhere. For the first time since its opening, DART had the Green Line going in one direction –…
City Manager Mary Suhm and I spoke a few days about about how she’s trying to find $131.1 million to excise out of the FY2010-’11 budget, which she’ll present to council upon its return from summer vacay in August. And so, while the council takes its summer break and Suhm…
‘Round this time yesterday, Judge Michael Lynn all but postponed the Texas Rangers’ hopes of getting a sale done by the July 31 trade deadline by ordering most of the parties involved in the bankruptcy case into mediation on July 16. The one major party not invited to the dance…
Nice to see someone’s found a use for our former home at 2130 Commerce: Reid Slaughter, founder of Park Cities People and former Cowboys & Indians publisher, and Jeff Hinson’s YouPlusMedia, whose local offering is essentially the “YouTube for Dallas,” in the words of our own Daniel Hopkins — who,…
A couple of weeks ago, we broke the news that Park and Rec would like to ask voters for the permission to some day maybe pretty please sell Samuell Farm and Samuell New Hope Park, two properties given to the city by physician and philanthropist William Worthington Samuell with the…
Right on schedule, City Hall’s Thoroughfare Committee next Thursday will finally get around to something that’s been on Downtown Dallas’s to-do list since ’06: converting several downtown streets from one-way to two-way. The ’06 bond program funded, among others, the overhauls of Akard from Pacific to Commerce; Federal from Field…
Texas Rangers fans know, sooner or later, Tom Hicks will no longer own the club — probably not before the trade deadline, not in time to get Cliff Lee, but some day. Soon. Ish. And besides, for now, there’s an 11-game win streak to cushion the blow; even better when…
For the last couple of days — in the comments, via e-mail and even voice mail — I’ve been hearing that toward the end of Progress Dallas’s petition drive to get the wet-dry vote on the ballot, some signature-gatherers were also gathering names on behalf of the Green Party’s GOP-funded…
Dunno if you heard but they broke ground on Museum Tower in the Arts District today — only took several years and $200 million from the Dallas Police & Fire Pension System. They should be done building the 42-story, 122-unit, nothing-under-a-million tower in, oh, ’round two years, give or take…
So, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Michael Lynn just — and I mean just — ordered mediation in the Texas Rangers’ Chapter 11 bankruptcy case. Which means …? Long story short: The sale of Your Texas Rangers won’t wrap in early July, which was the best-case scenario following Judge Lynn’s ruling earlier…
Hard to say when Andy Siegel’s going to file his lawsuit against the city of Dallas in which he will claim that the city council called an illegal local option election concerning the sale of beer and wine citywide. He told me last night it should be today; I’ve also…
Just returned from the Blockbuster shareholder meeting downtown, where a most curious thing happened: CEO Jim Keyes, whose company has spent the better part of a month slapping down so-called “dissident shareholder” Greg Meyer, announced that after a “colorful proxy fight,” Meyer has been added to the board of directors…
Steve Lundeen of Seattle sent me an e-mail. Said he’d posted more photos of Dallas to the NickDeWolf archives on Flickr. When last we looked, there were 76. But that was last week. Today, the number’s up to a few hundred. And they’re not just of Nick’s trip to the…
