Year: 2024
The City of Dallas dropped its proposed 2024-25 budget Friday night, and it’s a big one. The $4.97 billion budget prioritizes public safety and service delivery, Interim City Manager Kimberly Bizor Tolbert said in an email to local media Friday night. Tolbert also is proposing the largest single-year property tax reduction in modern history, a…
Most of us who follow architecture in Texas are familiar with the career of architect Frank Welch, known as the Dean of Texas Architecture. His brand of regional modernism was nurtured by the legendary O’Neill Ford, who, in the late 1950s, offered him the opportunity to work as the on-site architect of the Texas Instruments Semiconductor Building…
We may need a new term for Midcentury Modern homes when they are this large, this architecturally intact, and absolutely built for entertaining. I think it needs to be the Martini Ranch! Our own Candy Evans dubbed it the House that Chevy Built when she wrote about it years ago. Y’all, let me know your…
Fairview residents celebrated a victory last week as members of the town council denied a conditional use permit for a 173-foot spire atop a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. But the next day, church members said they plan to take legal action. More than 70 people spoke against the proposal for a “McKinney…
Staff Reports A Montfort Drive multifamily project north of the Dallas Galleria that will offer mixed-income housing and shelter for the formerly homeless will open in early 2026, officials announced recently. Sycamore Strategies’ Zach Krochtengel, Hunt Capital Partners, and Bonner Carrington were awarded $20 million in Low Income Housing Tax Credit financing for the 168-unit…
