I’ve left a few messages today for Taylor Burns, the officer at Park Cities Bank charged with tending to 807 Elm Street. As I noted Monday, PCB, which got the property in foreclosure, would like to raze the 85-year-old building sitting in a parking lot across from El Centro, though…
UCR Urban’s Jack Gosnell — who helped convince Forest City to redo the Merc and the Continental — is among those who’ve been charged with recruiting retail to downtown. Which, presumably, is why Aaron Gentry, our pal Justin Terveen and the You+Dallas crew accompanied Gosnell on a tour of downtown,…
On Saturday we took the 7-year-old who lives in our house to the Trinity River Audubon Center, where he quickly became obsessed with the Pete Delkus-narrated flood-maker showing how high’s too high. So. This morning, out of nowhere, he asked: “Is the Trinity going to flood?” I told him to…
Patrick MichelsHow, ahem, “Walnut Park” looked in the summer of ’09. Now, there’s a little more grass … and graffiti.Twice last summer — in June, then again ’round this time of the year — we checked in on our favorite 42 acres at the intersection of Walnut Hill Lane and…
Bobbie Wygant Interviews Harrison Ford for Star Wars 1977 from Atombomb.tv on Vimeo.First it appeared on The New York Times’s Web site this morning, courtesy fellow nostalgist Dave Itzkoff (who actually stumbled across it on The Daily Wh.at); then, MTV’s. This six-minute clip of Channel 5’s Bobbie Wygant interviewing Harrison…
The Oak Cliff spirit of urban development and community outreach, which we are physically incapable of not writing about here in the paper and online, continues — this time, with an urban planning storefront that’s the result of a partnership between the Oak Cliff Chamber of Commerce and the University…
The original announcement came back in May: The Texas Theatre, threatened by the wrecking ball as recently as the mid-’90s, was on the road to recovery as a revival house — a much-needed, much-welcomed addition to the local cinemascape. At present, the Texas is closed for much-needed, much-welcomed renovations with…
It’s been almost six months now since Jubilee Park residents began protesting the Dallas Independent School District’s plans to seize their businesses and homes by any means necessary to make way for a new O.M. Roberts Elementary. In that time there have been countless protests and meetings, and only recently…
It’s quite the reunion this morning: Ex-Dallas News-er Emily Ramshaw, now at the Texas Tribune, sits down with ex-Dallas Observer-er and former Dallas Mayor Laura Miller, now director of projects for Summit Power, which is in the clean-coal (big) business. Miller, who hasn’t done many sitdowns since leaving office, opens…
This morning, First Presbyterian Church of Dallas’s senior pastor, the Rev. Dr. Joseph J. Clifford, left a comment in Monday’s item concerning the church’s pending purchase of 508 Park Avenue, the beleaguered downtown site in which Robert Johnson, Bob Wills and, legend has it, Charlie Parker once recorded. Clifford’s office…
Soon as I stumbled across that News & Tech piece noting that The Dallas Morning News is set to begin charging for staff-generated online content, I asked the paper’s publisher and CEO, Jim Moroney, if that was true. At 9:02 this morning, he responded via e-mail. This is what he…
At this very moment, the City Attorney’s Office is awaiting a verdict in the 4-year-old case of City of Dallas v. TCI West End, involving the demolition of the MKT Freight Station in the West End in ’06. The trial lasted two weeks, and word is both sides put on…
I just sent an e-mail to Dallas Morning News publisher and CEO Jim Moroney. I asked him one simple question: Is the paper about to start charging for some online content? Because that’s what a report from something called News & Tech says this afternoon:The Morning News’ strategy will include…
A Friend of Unfair Park wonders: What’s with all the bulldozering at Malcolm X Boulevard at Interstate 30? Well, I responded, if I’m not mistaken that’s the site of Larry James and Central Dallas Ministries’ “center of hope,” which we mentioned back in March — that 3.6-acre multimillion-dollar development paid…
A few minutes ago I spoke with LIG Assets Inc.’s founder Jeff Love, who says, why, at this very moment he’s “writing an offer” on the former Statler Hilton, which, we discovered Friday, Love wants to buy and rehab. “The owners should have it today,” he says. “Now, I don’t…
Earlier today, a Friend of Unfair Park sent the most curious heads-up: Something called LIG Assets Inc., a real-estate and oil-and-gas company fronted by an investor named Jeff Love, says it’s going to rehab the Statler Hilton Hotel across from Main Street Garden. Love says on the LIG site that…
In late June, the Better Block project — which, in April, transformed the dangerous intersection of Kings Highway, W. 7th Street and N. Tyler Street into a pedestrian-friendly plaza — reached the pages of the Houston Chronicle. And, some time after that, it found its way to Anderson Cooper’s producers…
Perhaps you vaguely recall the press conference during which architect Phillip Johnson stood with Michael Piazza to announce his plans to build upon the Cathedral of Hope grounds a so-called Interfaith Peace Chapel — which Johnson called “the finest job I’ve ever had in my life. … a big civic…
Over on DC9 yesterday, Pete posted the latest Smile Smile video, “Truth on Tape,” which is a very naked, guest-star-laden clip shot entirely at the Rachofsky House. So, then, funny thing: When Pete passed along the clip, I went to the Rachofsky House’s website, only to find the following heads-up:…
Until Saturday, only a few thousand folks had taken a look at the Vimeo offering titled “Quakecon 2010: Attendee Blunder of the Year.” But that number skyrocketed after AutoBlog, then Jalopnik, took a closer peek at the contents of the video, which was filmed at the Hilton Anatole a few…
There’s a big ol’ story on the front page of this morning’s New York Times in which Charles and Sam Wyly insist the Securities and Exchange Commission — which recently charged the two with moving and hiding $550 million in “undisclosed gains” — ain’t got nothin’ on them. The same…
Ten days before Christmas we broke the news: The Dallas Independent School District has purchased the old Oak Cliff Christian Church with the intentions of razing the 94-year-old 10th Street structure to make way for an athletic complex accompanying the W.H. Adamson High School redo. But court hearings and negotiations…
