Year: 2024

Plan Commissioners Spar Over Multiplexes in ForwardDallas’ Community Residential Placetype

By April Towery / May 27, 2024 /

The revised ForwardDallas 2.0 comprehensive land use plan is a long way from consensus but plan commissioners continued an intense conversation earlier this month on how they can hone in on providing more quality housing options within the widely debated Community Residential placetype.  City Plan Commission Vice Chair Brent Rubin suggested during a May 16…

Cowtown Kicks Growth Into Gear With Fort Worth Becoming 12th-Largest U.S. City

By Joy Donovan / May 27, 2024 /

Traffic congestion, crowded venues, and certainly the housing market pointed to it, but now it’s been confirmed — Fort Worth is an immensely popular place to live. According to the latest population reports from the U.S. Census Bureau, Fort Worth had the second-largest population gain nationwide in 2023, with more than 21,000 new residents. Only…

Texas Society of Architects Announces Annual Design Award Winners

By CandysDirt / May 27, 2024 /

Texas Society of Architects (TxA) is pleased to announce the 2024 award-winning projects of the annual TxA Design Awards. Complete details for each of the awarded projects can be reviewed on the TxA website.    The TxA Design Awards program recognizes outstanding architectural and urban design projects by architects practicing in Texas to promote public interest in…

First World Problems? Not Here in Southern Dallas [Podcast]

By Shelby Skrhak / May 26, 2024 /

In this clip from Dallas Dirt, Dallas City Councilman Adam Bazaldua offers a glimpse at the problems his southern Dallas constituents are facing. He doesn’t hear from organized homeowners associations upset about the perceived zoning implications of Forward Dallas or the debated density proposed in a multi-million dollar shopping center renovation. Bazaldua hears from an…

Revealed! The Season’s Best Grills and Top Trends

By Elaine Raffel / May 26, 2024 /

Is the old adage true that where there’s smoke, there’s fire? I couldn’t help but wonder after the fifth grill company declined to talk to me about what’s trending in the outdoor cooking scene. So, I did what any good journalist would do and went undercover.