We took the long way to Oak Cliff last weekend, turning off the Houston Street Viaduct on to Greenbriar Lane, which runs parallel to the Trinity River. No particular reason, just in no particular rush. It was at that point we found ourselves amongst a forest of sleek metal-n-wood townhomes,…
A couple of days ago, Candy Evans posted a pic of the asbestos remediation taking place inside everybody’s favorite downtown obsession, the Statler Hilton, which is now in the possession of Leobardo Trevino. And just as Trevino promised last month, the place already looks much different than it did when…
Speaking of the Trinity River Corridor Project …When the boy and I visited the Standing Wave — or The Dallas Wave, as it’ll be known — about a month ago, it had been a long while since it had rained. Kayakers said the Trinity was as low as they’d seen…
Sam’s bringing bagels and coffee to this morning’s meeting of the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee; he’s got questions, many questions, specifically about the second Calatrava bridge that was all but dead a month ago till, well, it wasn’t no more. There’s another bridge on the agenda — the Sylvan…
Don’t tell Dallas Morning News bigwigs that the newspaper business is in trouble: The A.H. Belo-owned Providence Journal reports this afternoon that Chairman Robert Decherd, Publisher Jim Moroney, President John McKeon and Chief Financial Officer Alison Engel made out pretty, pretty well during 2010. The paper added up some figures…
Earlier this morning, Jason Roberts posted to his Facebook page the photo you see here, along with the note: “Zac & his non profit are taking former school portable buildings & making them into amazing homes in S Dallas.” Turns out, Zac is Zac Lytle, co-founder of Bike Friendly Oak…
As we mentioned below, city and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials have called a 1:30 p.m. press conference to announce that more than likely, the Corps will sooner than later sign off on plans to repair the Trinity River levees by pouring those concrete seepage cutoff walls guesstimated to…
Joe Tone, a Village Voice Media veteran and former editor of the Pitch Weekly in Kansas City, was named editor of the Observer today. His first day on the job is Monday. Tone brings a broad mix of reporting, editing and web experience to the post. He previously worked as…
Yes, 105.3 The Fan is tweaking again. But this time it’s not merely another shuffling of the deck, but more so a commitment to talk sports in the morning. Out at The Fan as of April 8 are long-time radio veterans Jagger and Gregg Henson, to be replaced Monday, April 11,…
Last month, you no doubt recall, Walmart announced its $200-million expansion said to involve “more than a dozen new projects in the city of Dallas,” though only a handful were announced at the time. Since then I’ve learned of at least one more on the to-do list: Right next to…
As I write this my farewell post, I keep hearing in my head the lyrics to a song from the Marx Brothers classic film Animal Crackers: “Hello, I must be going/ I cannot stay, I came to say/I must be going.” Similar to Groucho’s character, Captain Spaulding, it seems as…
So back to my conversation with Downtown Dallas, Inc.’s John Crawford. I’d called yesterday to talk about those big empty buildings. But Crawford loves to spread the good news about downtown, so our brief chat got the extended dance remix treatment once he began talking about the small empty buildings…
Seems like only yesterdayfour years ago that ex-WFAA-er Scott Sams was rescued from exile in Sherman (following this incident) and returned to the comforting embrace of Dallas, courtesy KTVT-Channel 11. Ed Bark told D at the time that despite Sam’s bad rep when he left town, it was a smart…
Allow me to introduce you to The Company’s Best Of app for the iPhone, which has just launched to great acclaim. Long story short: Need to know best place to get a strong drink? Done. Best convenience store in which to eat a meatball sub? Boom. Best record store? Click…
John Crawford and I just had a long talk about downtown — since, ya know, it is his thing. And later today I’ll get to some of newsier items he revealed during the course of our chitchat. But I’d originally phoned the president and CEO of Downtown Dallas Inc. to…
Even before the AT&T Performing Arts Center was finished, we were told: “Dallas might have to accept the arts district as a successful destination, not a way of life.” That was more than two years ago. After that, the hits kept on coming, with the most recent being this deep…
A few weeks ago, Leobardo Trevino — the man who bought the Statler Hilton and the adjacent library — led Sam and me on a tour of the Statler. I’d also wanted to see the library, which opened in ’55 and shuttered in ’83, never to be used again; at…
Sure Sign No. 4,928 that a celebrity’s “breakdown” is a bit: He interrupts a celebrity guest’s late-night chat-show appearance to shine the spotlight on himself for a while by acting “crazy” while simultaneously hawking an entire catalog’s worth of product and upcoming appearances on the concert-tour circuit. Which is what…
Dallas Area Rapid Transit sends word today: The old Monroe Shops building, near the Blue Line’s Illinois Station on Corinth Road, was officially rebirthed today as the DART police department’s HQ after close to 20 years on the drawing board. For preservationists, this qualifies as Big News: It was originally…
Since last week’s piece in The News about David Kunkle, Ron Natinsky and Mike Rawlings’s thoughts on the Trinity River toll road is behind the pay levee, allow me to summarize: Natinsky’s still very much for it; Kunkle’s ain’t at all interested, and Rawlings is taking the ol’ wait-n-see. But,…
It’s been a year, more or less, since we last heard Tim Headington talk about his plans to expand The Joule in downtown, which began with his purchase of five properties along Main and Commerce in September 2009. And since we haven’t heard much more since May, when the hotel…
At the end of last month, Patrick Michels was at City Hall for that Complete Streets-Bike Plan-Better Block jam session, where Jason Roberts and Andrew Howard were greeted with “great acclaim” by council members no doubt eager to implement and then claim the pair’s restorative ideas as their own. But…
