Before you take a long look at the 62-page sneak peek at the park the city plans to build upon the Continental Avenue Bridge with $10 million donated dollars, I’d recommend going back to our January Q&A with Jim Parrish of CH2M Hill, the Dallas-based project manager for the project…
The day before Mayor Tom Leppert and the city council deferred voting on contract extensions for the food and retail concessions at Dallas Love Field Airport, the Dallas Black Chamber of Commerce faxed Leppert a letter urging him to direct staff to “return to the drawing board,” according to a…
If you thought the Park and Rec board’s decision yesterday to defer a vote on a proposed sale of Samuell Farm and Samuell New Hope Park meant that was that till August 5, so sorry. But, hell, might as well go five-for-five this work week with one final item on…
First thing this morning I saw Sarah Blaskovich’s story about Friends of Fair Park’s decision to cancel Fair Park Fourth — no money, natch. Well, that’s disappointing. I’ve been once; my folks, a few times. The Gruccis did a nice job. And, as evidenced by our trip down there last…
Angela Hunt has mixed feelings about the June 9 gathering of the city council to sign their names inside the center arch of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge. “I think it’s nice to have great iconic structures in our city, but, at the same time, if we’re going to have…
All kinds of folks are crammed up in City Hall’s sixth-floor Parks and Rec meeting room — ladies who lunch, guys in suits, city officials and, of course, some dude who stinks pretty bad. It’s so full some people are actually standing in a storage closet.Plenty of stuff to cover…
We’ve written plenty about one item in particular on today’s Park and Rec Board meeting agenda, but it’s not the only item of interest. As in: Were you aware that the city’s about to put out the call for bids for a Stevens Park Golf Course redo? Colligan Golf Design…
One of the arguments presented by Mayor Tom Leppert in his quest to bid out the contracts for the food and retail concessions at Dallas Love Field Airport is that no one’s really interested in the 46 percent of the square footage at the brand-spanking new terminal that’s scheduled for…
Welcome to Day Three of our continuing coverage of Park and Rec’s proposal to sell, among others, Samuell Farm and Samuell New Hope Park, which will be taken up by the park board at its meeting tomorrow morning at City Hall. (Which Andrea’s covering, thank God.) So far we’ve spoken…
Later today I’ll post at least the first part of my chat with City Manager Mary Suhm about how she plans to gutcut the city’s FY2010-’11 budget, which needs to shed $131 million even after last year’s $180-some-odd-million bloodletting. But here’s a relevant sneak peek related to an item on…
When W.W. Samuell left the city of Dallas thousands of acres of park land upon his death in 1937, he left very explicit instructions: “Real estate to the City of Dallas Park Board for park purposes – not to be sold.” Yesterday we broke the news that the Park and…
We’ve got July 12 circled in red on our calendars: That’s when Ron Slovacek goes to trial in U.S. District Judge Barbara M. G. Lynn’s courtroom — making him the way last defendant to be tried in the Dallas City Hall federal corruption case. Hard to believe we’re not done…
This isn’t our first item about Park and Rec’s proposal to sell Samuell Farm and Samuell New Hope Park, and it won’t be the last. I’m waiting to hear from the Texas Attorney General’s Office how it feels about Thursday’s agenda item, given that it was but 14 months ago…
Today or tomorrow, depending upon when she’s got the time to wrap up our chat, we’ll post the Unfair Park Interview with Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm concerning this year’s $131-million budget cutting that’s more like a gutting following last year’s to-the-bone. So far in our conversations she’s used words…
Man, those were good times back in February and March — headin’ down to the George Allen seemingly every other week for a hearing in City of Dallas v. Museum of the American Railroad. But there hasn’t been a court date in a long while, and there may not be…
I just spoke with Willis Winters, assistant director of Park and Rec, about the potential sale of Samuell Farm and how it landed on the board’s agenda this Thursday in the first place. Says Winters, it actually came up when the City Attorney’s Office was asked to prepare docs regarding…
The city has spent the better part of six months trying to come up with a proposal that’ll allow neighborhood farmers markets to keep operating without cutting into the city-owned downtown market’s business. The latest proposition goes in front of the city council’s Transportation and Environment Committee this afternoon –…
I expect this won’t be our last item on this subject today, given the years of blood, toil, tears and sweat that have been spilled over Samuell Farm. But just a little more than a year after the city and Texas Attorney General’s Office hashed out an agreement over the…
Happy Sunday, Friends! While you were out having a nice, relaxing weekend full of neighbors and sun and beers and loveliness, I was at the 2010 Texas Republican Party Convention having a blast talking about ‘Murka and stuff. It was a fun- and camo-filled two days, but I’ve managed to…
As Representative Dan Branch told us yesterday afternoon shortly after addressing the delegation from John Carona’s senate district, what a difference two years has made for state Republicans, whose attitude has changed since 2008’s Republican Party of Texas convention in Houston. “There seems to be a lot more positive feeling…
There are any number of interesting and important items on the council’s agenda this week — like the latest suggestions for regulating neighborhood farmers markets (which I’m gonna pass around this morning when I head over to the White Rock Local Market), the proposed budget for street services in the…
Steven Michael was hired in April 2007 as an Environmental Inspector III for the city of Dallas Water Utilities Department, at which point he told his immediate supervisor, Yilam Zerihun, that he had a disability that didn’t allow him to lift anything heavier than 20 pounds. Michael, who employment was…
