Charles Grand
It’s been conventional wisdom for decades that immigrants play an outsized role in U.S. construction, and in the D-FW, the percentage of foreign-born workers in the building trades is outpacing the national average. A recent analysis conducted by the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University put the share of immigrants in the Dallas…
Financial services giant Morgan Stanley is weighing a major permanent expansion in the D-FW that could see it setting up shop in Uptown, but for now, it is going to lease some temporary digs downtown. The company is in final negotiations to sign a four-year lease for 120,000 square feet of space in Fountain Place,…
I hope all of y’all are staying warm as we enter Day 2 of this icy long weekend. Officials are cautioning against taking any unnecessary trips on the roadways, so why not heed the advice and read up on some of the goings on at Dallas City Hall this past week? Staff Regroups After Proposed…
Those who have been worried about the Mavericks potentially relocating outside Dallas city limits can breathe a little easier, at least for now. It seems the NBA franchise has narrowed its list of possible sites for a new arena to the former Valley View Center in North Dallas and an unidentified second option downtown. Dallas…
The city’s proposal to transform the Dallas Public Library system was roundly rebuffed by council members at the Quality of Life, Arts & Culture Committee meeting on Tuesday, resulting in the cancellation of community meetings that had been scheduled for the coming weeks. As previously reported by CandysDirt.com, Library Director Manya Shorr and staff developed…
