A week after discovering that Dallas Farmers Market’s Shed No. 2 has one new tenant — and, by the way, that Chicago-style deli’s actually called the Old World Sausage Co., and it’s scheduled to open at the end of this week — Unfair Park brings news of another. And this…

Over the weekend, some 65 people paraded into Sean Fitzgerald’s Canton Street home to talk about how in the world to plant a community garden in Deep Ellum. It was, says the president of the Deep Ellum Community Association, a varied gathering consisting of neighborhood activists, urban planners, property owners,…

Speaking of the council’s economic development committee …This morning the council will be brought up to speed about efforts to transform the 1.5 acre parking lot bound by Main Street, S. Griffin Boulevard and Commerce Street into Belo Garden — one of the three green spaces included in the Dallas…

Back in July, U.S. District Judge Sidney Fitzwater told the Securities and Exchange Commission that, sorry, but its complaint against Mark Cuban was getting tossed. The SEC, of course, accused the Mavs owner of violating insider-trading laws in 2004 by selling off $750,000 in Mamma.com stock; Fitzwater said Cuban never…

The Continental Bridge won’t be converted into a pedestrian park till the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge is done — spring 2011, so they say. Of course, the city’s starting to look about for role models, and on Tuesday the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee will get a briefing from Dorcy…

One month ago we broke the news that Kroger is looking to set up shop on the desolate site formerly occupied by the former Loews Cityplace. Only, well, there’s one small problem: Kroger wants to sell beer and wine in the grocery store, and Dallas City Code says you can’t…

Karl Zavitkovsky, head of the city’s Office of Economic Development, just called back to explain why the city’s moving forward with plans to purchase the JCPenney’s space at Southwest Center Mall, which the chain abandoned in 2001. Fact is, he says, the city is intervening because the owner of the…

When last we checked in with Tom Persch, vice-president of asset management for ECOM Real Estate and chairman of the West End Association, he was hoping those dead Bodies would revive interest in the West End, especially his long-shuttered Marketplace. But word is, Persch and the association aren’t thrilled with…

Speaking of economic development …Houston-based Rick’s Cabaret, which already owns two gents’ joints in Dallas, announced yesterday it ain’t done in the DFW. Nope — they’re gonna build ’em a brand-new topless bar this close to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Supposed to be a “10,000-square foot building erected and furnished…

M. Night Shyamalan has made some great movies (The Sixth Sense, course, and the far superior Unbreakable) and, more recently, a handful of terrrrrible ones (The Happening, Lady in the Water, The Village). But the kids, at least, anxiously await his next feature: The Last Airbender, Shyamalan’s due-in-2010 adaptation of…

For weeks it’s been rumored that the city’s getting ready to buy the JCPenney piece of the beleaguered Southwest Center Mall. Which, if true, wouldn’t come as much of a surprise: The Urban Land Institute, paid $120,000 by the city council in April to “assess redevelopment options,” suggested that very…

View Larger MapEarlier this week, in the comments of this particular item, we played a little game of Local Real Estate Catch-Up, and one Friend of Unfair Park asked what’s become a fairly frequently asked question: What’s up with the former Hard Rock Cafe site on McKinney Avenue? No need…

Downtown Dallas denizens might be a little confused by the sign above, which our Patrick Michels found at the intersection of Akard and Main Streets. But fret not, as the Dallas Police Department has not outsourced its prying eyes. Friends of Unfair Park no doubt have a pretty good idea…