GlobeSt.com today crunches Texas’s apartment vacancy numbers and finds that multifamily units around the state — and in Dallas very specifically — are a little less full-up now than they were this time last year. There are, of course, two very obvious reasons for the rise in vacancies: the economy…
I’ll leave it to Dr. Merten to comment on the content of Vote No!’s brand spankin’ new ad, which the pro-hotel campaign just posted to the series of tubes interconnected to each other, and instead just let you watch as God and Tom Leppert intended. Because it’s mighty meta and…
View Larger MapMoments ago, the Dallas City Council approved spending $120,000 in economic development grant money so the Urban Land Institute can “assess redevelopment options” at Southwest Center Mall. As we noted earlier this week, the council’s Economic Development Committee took a peek at the proposal, and it was recommended…
So much for Tennell Atkins’s move to push back the citywide smoking ban till October 10. Atkins had insisted that some bars and restaurants have had issues securing city permits to build porches and patios in advance of the April 10 start date of the new ordinance’s enforcement, which will…
When I got home last night, the missus was listening to All Things Considered — specifically, a piece about Unleashed Indoor Dog Parks on Samuell Boulevard, which bills itself as a “one-of-a-kind facility with indoor and outdoor off-leash play parks for dogs and their owners, shopping, dining and dog services.”…
Richard Fisher, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, just delivered a speech to the Japan Center for Economic Research in Tokyo, where he didn’t quote Bob Dylan or compare the economy to the contraptions of Rube Goldberg — though he did open with a…
Less than a week after that FBI raid at a 2323 Bryan Street data center that left dozens of innocent companies and Internet service providers in the dark, Wired’s Threat Level offers the most complete picture of what went down. From information gleaned from court docs (including the 39-page affidavit,…
So much for redevelopment of 1011 S. Akard Street, once the site of hotels named Sheraton, Ramada and Plaza. For months, Larry James, president and CEO of Dallas Central Ministries, and Larry Hamilton, the building’s owner and the man responsible for copious downtown do-overs, had hoped to turn at least…
Allen Gwinn’s taken a sneak peek at the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees’ briefing agenda for Thursday, and one item in particular struck him as … well, interesting. Which is: Ratification of Authority to Execute Master Lease Agreement with Dell, Inc. for Sixty Months and Provide for Subsequent…
Dallas Morning News insiders and the merely curious have no doubt spent the better part of the day watching the comments pile up on the DMNcuts blog, which has documented the layoffs taking place inside 508 Young Street. Condolences have been extended, tempers have flared, those let go have said…
A Friend of Unfair Park’s got big plans for April 11: taking part in the “A New Way Forward” break-up-the-banks nationwide protest. The Dallas shindig’s scheduled to take place in front of the AIG building on Walnut Hill Lane off North Central Expressway. Thus far, 90 folks have RSVP’d for…
Oscar Black, a 58-year-old cattle rancher outta Weatherford, offered folks a pretty good deal: If you were to give him some of yer money, well, he’d invest it for ya — to the tune of 12 percent in annual returns, hot damn. Only, there was one problem: Black, who owned…
‘Bout a month ago, we mentioned Chuck Norris’s column in which he kinda, sorta suggested that just maybe it was time he ran for president of Texas. A sentence from that piece — in which Norris wondered, “Will history need to record a second American Revolution?” — prompted this Charles…
For those who missed it on Friday, SMU president R. Gerald Turner announced, via a statement posted on the university’s Web site, that the school’s endowment has taken a significant hit in recent months: “a total decline of 25% from July 1 – February 28,” he wrote in a letter…
Three years ago, we ran a piece in the paper version of Unfair Park about a scam called BioPerformance Fuel — otherwise known as mothballs you were supposed to drop into your gas tank to rev up mileage per gallon. The Texas Attorney General didn’t take kindly to that. Which…
Eminem’s new video for “We Made You” went viral this morning. That’s a blurry screen grab above. Tony Romo probably thinks it’s awesome, except maybe that part where he’s throwing Jessica Simpson a hamburger touchdown toward the end. I except the video should be on DC9 any moment now…
Last time Friend of Unfair Park PeterK directed our attention to a vintage Dallas photo for sale on eBay, we drove up the $9.99 opening bid to a whopping sale price of $23.50, what a deal. This one’s not quite so action-packed as a four-alarm fire in the Wilson Building,…
Merten’s going to two Mayor Tom Leppert-Anne Raymond convention center hotel debates this morning — no doubt to add to his voluminous photo album, so those seeking special poses speak up now. And Schutze is swamped with a cover story, which leaves no one to cover this morning’s meeting of…
A Friend of Unfair Park forwards along this Texas Observer (no relation) cover story concerning the plight of Curtis Severns, a Sherman man accused by fire investigators of torching his own Plano gun shop — even though there are plenty of arson experts who’ve said that’s awfully unlikely. Severns is…
Dallas-based Blockbuster finally filed its annual report with the Securities and Exchange Commission today, reporting, yet again, a net loss of $374.1 million even while same-store revenues increased nearly 4 percent. But, as expected, the video- and game-rental company also warned investors that if it doesn’t get its revolving loan…
View Larger MapOn Wednesday, the Dallas City Council is expected to get a look at a deal hashed out between the Dallas City Attorney’s Office and the Texas Attorney General’s Office’s following the latter’s yearlong look into how the city manages the W. W. Samuell Permanent Foundation, the Samuell Trust…
As promised, here’s Danny Hurley’s slide show from Texas Day, complete with another Mayor Tom close-up for our pal Jack E. Jett, Governor Rick Perry as Big Brother and this Janine Turner-Dana Wheeler-Nicholson two-fer. …
