Last we checked, Mark Cuban was in “no rush to do anything” with the block of five estates he’s bought up over the past quarter century behind Ebby Halliday’s little white house at Preston and Northwest Highway. But something’s changed in the past eight months. In September, Cuban closed on…
Earlier this week, we spent some time examining why Preston Center, the aging shopping center floating on a sea of Park Cities/Preston Hollow riches, sucks so hard. Little did we know that Crow Holdings already had a plan to fix it. With a skybridge. Last December, Crow purchased the old…
Anyone who’s attempted to navigate the intersection of Preston and Northwest Highway at rush hour will have had ample opportunity while sitting through multiple cycles of the stop light to contemplate one of North Dallas’ most enduring paradoxes. Here, at the spot where the Park Cities and Preston Hollow converge…
It’s been a banner week for the DFW sports media brain trust. First, the Star-Telegram’s Mac Engel told us why we were stupid for thinking Vikings running back Adrian Peterson was a child abuser just because he gone a little too far. Now we have Shan Shariff, a radio host…
Our apologies to WFAA’s Brett Shipp. After a lengthy run as our favorite local investigative TV journalist — occasionally prone to hyperbole, sure, but a fantastic reporter with the proper evening-news mix of charm and obnoxiousness — he has been displaced. That coveted spot in our heart now goes to…
Some situations are not nuanced. That didn’t keep Mac Engel from making excuses for Adrian Peterson in this morning’s Star-Telegram. Peterson, he says, may have abused his two sons when he allegedly beat them to the point of bleeding and scarring, but he is not a child abuser — which…
Neighbors never exactly embraced Wal-mart’s plans to build a Neighborhood Market on Lower Greenville. Suspicious of the chain’s ability to integrate into an urban neighborhood, particularly one as fastidious as Lower Greenville, their opposition was close to unanimous, the only variation being in the intensity of their anti-Wal-mart sentiment. Leaders…
We have an immediate opening for an editorial assistant. This is a full-time, entry-level position, perfect for a hyper-organized self-starter who can successfully juggle tasks ranging from crafting short blog posts to managing listings to monitoring the provisions in the newsroom beer fridge, all while working independently on long-term projects…
After reading Jeff Speck’s book Walkable City, Brian Reinhart had to respond. The book spoke to the issues he and his friends faced in Dallas so clearly, outlining many of the problems they’ve had and the aspirations they have. He wanted to give Speck “an update on the lay of…
When Urban Orchard Market opened to moderate fanfare last October, there was hope that maybe, finally, Downtown Dallas was grown up enough to support a grocery store. It’s not. Ten months after opening, the jaunty “Now Open” banner still hanging above the door, the market has quietly closed. A downtown…
We get the impulse. The easiest way to dive into a story about Oak Cliff, especially if you’ve never spent more than a few days there, is to talk about November 1963. Failing that, you can talk about crime, making it seem as if people who cross the Trinity heading…
What kind of rich people would be more fun to have living along the Katy Trail — family-oriented rich people who prefer short buildings, or fast-paced rich people in high-rises? The current property on 4719 Cole Ave. is not habitable for any type of rich people. The Saltillo apartments building…
Armed with at least his Infowars.com press pass and his smartphone camera, Frisco resident Brett Sanders is staging a one-man crusade for the Bill of Rights. For each of the last three Fridays, Sanders, who says he is also involved in the Open Carry movement, has filmed a different entity…
After the conclusion of arguments that started Friday morning, District Judge Phyllis Lister Brown ruled against a neighborhood group seeking a temporary injunction aimed at stopping construction of a 130,000-square-foot Sam’s Club store near the intersection of Haskell Avenue and U.S. 75. The decision means the city can issue building…
The second act of the East Village Association’s battle to reset the clock on a zoning change that would allow Trammell Crow to build a proposed 130,000-square-foot Sam’s Club near Haskell Avenue and U.S. 75 will not be resolved until at least Monday afternoon, after Judge Phyllis Lister Brown was…
Just about two weeks ago, all seemed lost for a group of residents who were upset about a Trammell Crow development plan that included building of a Sam’s Club near Haskell Avenue and U.S. 75. Zoning for the development had already been approved, so the City Plan Commission’s July 10…
How many Walmarts does a city need to thrive? People living in the hip circle of neighborhoods surrounding downtown Dallas say we have enough Walmarts, Walmart-affiliated stores and other big boxes to sustain us and it’s time to consider some development that isn’t a giant box and acres of ashphalt…
The few parts of the vaunted New Cities Summit that actually dealt with Dallas left Unfair Park feeling a bit nonplussed. We were glad Dallas was selected to host the conference, of course. Anything that brings together a bunch of really smart people to discuss pressing urban issues like density,…
The Dallas County Health and Human Services Department has had a rough week. First, the state cracked down on the department for allegedly falsifying county STI records. The manager of HIV-STI division, Lashonda Worthey, has been fired, and the Texas Department of State Health Services is set to launch a…
Under the city’s development code, the proper time for opponents to voice their concerns about the Sam’s Club proposed next to CityPlace was a year ago this month, before the City Plan Commission and City Council unanimously approved a zoning change for the property to allow a 100,000-square-foot warehouse store…
Sam’s Club will have to wait an extra couple of months before it plants a 140,000-square-foot outpost next to CityPlace. So decided the City Plan Commission, which this afternoon moved consideration of the development plan until July 22. It was a victory for neighbors, albeit a tiny one. As we…
Neighbors are, at this very moment, rallying opposition to the Sam’s Club that Trammell Crow plans to build at CityPlace. They’ve launched the inevitable Change.org petition. They’ve booked Councilman Adam Medrano for a community meeting tonight. They are scouring the final development plan the City Plan Commission is scheduled to…
