Saw a story on Channel 5 last night, which follows below, about how Chad Lacerte’s building a wakeboard park up in Allen — you know, the one that was supposed to open on Fish Trap Lake last summer, before Dallas Housing Authority president Mary Ann Russ drowned it last July…
Former TracyLocke CEO Mike Rawlings easily outpaced the field of mayoral candidates by raising a whopping $1.03 million — nearly three times the combined haul of Ron Natinksy and David Kunkle — during the reporting period that ended April 4. Council member Natinsky reported $239,000 in donations, and ex-Dallas Police…
On Monday KERA’s BJ Austin asked the four candidates for Dallas mayor: Why you? At which point Mike Rawlings whipped out his wallet, David Kunkle flashed his badge, Ron Natinsky cued up an eight-track cassette and Edward Okpa offered his campaign’s catchy catchphrase, “Busboy to Mayor.” Today Austin and the…
For as long as I can recall, the city’s been talking about making the Ross Avenue underpass at Central Expressway in the Arts District an art project all on its own. Tonight, it inches closer to reality: On your way home, you’re all invited to an open house meet-n-greet at…
In case you forgot…
As Sam notes below, Angela Hunt was the lone council member to vote against paying architect Santiago Calatrava $10.7 million to design a second version of the Margaret McDermott Bridge. The District 14 council rep believes spending all those many millions on a “signature” component added to a bridge TxDOT…
City Hall was kind enough yesterday to pass along a recording of Monday’s meeting of the city’s Transportation and Environment Committee meeting. That’s the meeting during which DART board member Jerry Christian told council member Jerry Allen he was no longer associated with the litigation attempting to overturn the vote…
The city council by a 13-1 vote this morning approved a $10.7 million contract with architect Santiago Calatrava to design pedestrian and bicycle components for the proposed Margaret McDermott Bridge, but not without strong opposition from council member Angela Hunt. Through a series of questions aimed at Assistant City Manager…
No doubt you recall the show Mayor Dwaine Caraway put on April 1 in front of the Luxury Inn on S. Buckner, where he was joined by the Dallas City Hall All-Stars to proclaim the motel closed due to its myriad “unpleasantries,” with rampant prostitution and drug-related crimes high on…
By week’s end, District 2 council candidate Billy MacLeod expects to file in state and federal court a lawsuit over the city’s decision not to remove Esperanza “Hope” Medrano Elementary School from its list of polling locations for the May 14 election. As you’re no doubt aware by now, MacLeod…
At tomorrow’s meeting, the city council is expected to approve a tax abatement estimated at approximately $1.7 million and an economic grant of $250,000 for Dean Foods. Pete Schenkel, a consultant for Dean who previously served as vice chair of its board, says the nation’s largest dairy producer will proceed…
… but instead, he’s running for mayor. Above you’ll find the spot set to premiere on local TV tonight, which is good timing — Sam’s cover story about the Dallas mayoral race is set to hit newsstands tomorrow. And in it, he discusses when and why “bringing businesses to Dallas”…
It’s been, what, four whole months since last we visited 508 Park Avenue and the surrounding properties, which remain in limbo at this late date. (Though better that than a heap of bricks.) First Presbyterian Church of Dallas acknowledged way back in August 2010 that it wants to buy the…
From the beginning of last night’s forum at the Avalon at Kessler Park, questions from the crowd of nearly 100 District 3 residents focused squarely on natural gas drilling and incumbent city council member Dave Neumann’s ties to the industry. Neumann said the city is monitoring the results of several…
On Friday, Patrick Michels noted that Deep Ellum denizens didn’t exactly greet the city’s long-talked-about plans to two-way Commerce and Elm with open arms. But new streets aren’t exactly around the corner; they’re part two of a three-step makeover that has but the first phase funded. Nevertheless. For those who…
Been trying to reach council member Jerry Allen ever since yesterday; no luck so far. But we know where he’ll be at 3 today: in the Flag Room at Dallas City Hall, standing beside Dr. Frederick Haynes and Rev. Gerald Britt at an anti-payday lender press conference on behalf of…
The council’s Transportation and Environment Committee is being briefed on streetcar funding at this very moment. We’ll get back to that shortly. But a little while ago, the committee was interviewing Dallas Area Rapid Transit board nominees, among them Jerry Christian Sr., who’s a sitting board member and has been…
On the other side you’ll find four videos posted by KERA in which BJ Austin asks each of the Dallas mayoral candidates, more or less: Why you? The best part: No video last longer than two minutes…
The city’s still auditioning would-be managers for Dallas Animal Services, which is still recovering from a disastrous run of bad news, and hopes to have that wrapped by month’s end. And while plenty items remain on the to-do list, one quick fix is identified in this afternoon’s DAS update in…
Took the visiting mother-in-law to White Rock Lake yesterday, and as we were leaving, the wife espied a sign like the one you see above in this photo posted by Jason Roberts to his Facebook page last night. Turns out it’s part of that BlockCamp project about which we wrote…
It’s been an awful long time since last we wrote about John Greenan and Brent Brown’s plans to build that green, sustainable building of tomorrow directly behind Dallas City Hall. But a few days ago, a piece written by a former local crossed my screen celebrating Dallas — and this…
A crowd of Deep Ellum residents and business owners got a look at City Hall’s latest plans for turning one-way Elm and Commerce Streets into models of walkability during a two-hour PowerPoint-n-panel-talk at Life In Deep Ellum last night. Pamè La Ashford from the City Manager’s office spent much of…
