For the moment, at least, it isn’t easy to access The Former Trinity Standing Wave, known, for now, as The Dallas Wave — though that’s but an unofficial working title being floated out there (see what I did?). Willis Winters, assistant director of Parks and Rec, offered to show it…
Gosh, it’s been … what … four whole days since the last mention of The Zoo? But I can’t help myself: While scouting the YouTube for something wildly unrelated, I came across this just-posted flashback courtesy one “Walter from Waco” (oh, the memories): an old KZEW-FM TV ad starring Johns…
The Trammell Crow Center on Ross Avenue already contains the Crow Collection of Asian Art. But that’s an inside attraction. And that, far as the Crows are concerned, just isn’t good enough. Hence, the announcement that just popped up in the in-box for the Crow Asian Sculpture Garden, described in…
When Sam and I got to Main Street Garden around 2:15 this afternoon for the Statler-sale press conference, there weren’t a lot of people around — just a few folks lingering on benches, and maybe a half dozen diners seated beneath the Lily Pad’s shade. A lectern stamped with the…
Last year, This Old House magazine singled out Junius Heights as one of the Best Old House Neighborhoods in the country, insisting, “Proximity to downtown Dallas, great schools, and recent recognition as a National Register Historic District are driving up Junius Heights’ property values and helping the neighborhood maintain its…
Yesterday we watched ABC News’s David Muir do Diane Sawyer’s bidding and empty the Snow White Drive home of Jon and Anna Usry of everything not made in the U.S. and A. Though, as several Friends of Unfair Park noted, the couple and their kids did get to keep their…
A Friend of Unfair Park tipped us off earlier today: Dallas County property records reveal that the old Statler Hilton has indeed been sold; so too its next-door neighbor, the former Dallas Public Library. And according to the deed sale documents, both were purchased by none other than the Ricchi…
As promised, Patrick “Car-Free” Kennedy has posted his thoughts on the YouPlusDallas video in which Jack Gosnell regales viewers with tales of how Dallas came to bury its businesses beneath downtown. And, like Gosnell and the denizens of the Dallas Fort Worth Urban Forum (where the video likewise prompted a…
Spoiler alert: Last night, Disney Street-ers Jon and Anna Usry and their two kids opened the doors of their house to World News with Diane Sawyer’s David Muir, who promptly backed up the moving truck and emptied their house of everything not made in America.That, after all, is the title…
From time to time we’ve revisited the damage done to downtown Dallas by Montreal urban planner Vincent Ponte, who proposed in the June 1968 issue of Esquire that downtown Dallas bury its businesses underground — a decision then-Dallas Mayor Laura Miller referred to in The New York Times in ’05…
The Woodall Rogers Deck Park Foundation’s still $17 million shy of its fund-raising target, but with construction well under way, the series of major donations announced today was a fine chance for Mayor-For-One-More-Day Tom Leppert to take one last photo op beside a group of kids and wax dreamy on…
Just saw this hot-off-the-virtual-presses release about a February 8 wingding at The Trinity Trust concerning the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge opening-week ceremonies scheduled for October. As you’ll note, there’s a photo of Gail Thomas, Lyda Hill and Lynn McBee standing next to a placard bearing the new slogan: “It’s My…
As I was heading in to the office Tuesday morning, demolition man Scott Dorn shot me a note: JR’s Demolition was revving up the ‘dozers and about to tear down European Crossroads. Of course, we knew this day was coming — have for years, really. I got there as they…
Just got off the phone with Jim Witt, executive editor of the Star-Telegram, who pointedly did not deny this morning’s hot rumor — that the Fort Worth newspaper’s building, which has been on the market since September 2008, has been sold and the staff told to work from home. Sheesh…
At some point this morning I happened onto the Dallas Fort Worth Urban Forum — specifically, the most recent Urban Development page related to the Statler Hilton downtown. And there I espied this posting from yesterday: “A deal has been made, a design team and contractor has already been hired…
Been a while since we’ve had much to say here about the big re-do out at Mineral Wells’ Baker Hotel — the 82-year-old wellness resort that, fingers crossed, is soon to be resurrected by a team including Jeff Trigger, who led the Stoneleigh makeover here in Dallas.But the occasion of…
On Christmas Eve afternoon, radio-radio’s Julia Barton stopped by the offices to interview Schutze and me for an episode of Public Radio International’s Studio 360, which is hosted by Kurt Andersen. Barton had been tasked with doing a piece on Dallas as part of the show’s “American Icons” series, which,…
Whilst cleaning out the in-box I came across this sent-yesterday heads-up from the city involving two new inconveniences for those heading to Love Field, which is presently getting with the Modernization Program. Long story short: Expect lane closures on Cedar Springs, and don’t try to use that West Pedestrian Bridge…
Today, of course, as we mentioned over the weekend, marks a fair-sized milestone in the city’s rich and storied tradition of urban plan unveilings, with a two-part ceremonial drop of the Downtown Dallas 360 plan. In keeping with the public-private partnership-ness of the whole thing, the good folks at MIG,…
An old friend of mine was kind enough to forward along the hot-off-the-presses Marcus & Millichap National Retail Report, the must-read amongst real-estaters; insists my pal of the mixed-to-optimistic forecast, it’s “a pretty thorough insight into the retail world.” In which case, by way of introduction: “Caution gradually gave way…
I’ve tried several times in recent weeks to reach Plano attorney Tom Keen, who reps the Hong Kong consortium that owns the Statler Hilton downtown, but so far, no luck. Not only do Friends of Unfair Park ask, oh, once or twice a week about the place, but Keen has…
The Belo Garden — slated to go in at the corner of Main and Griffin downtown, where the federal courthouse parking lot used to be — has been plagued by soil-quality delays practically since plans began six years ago. But the park, funded by “Belo-related parties” in conjunction with public…
