Charles Grand
Dallas City Council on Wednesday heard new phased repair strategies and a brand new estimate for City Hall repairs — for less than half the original $1 billion assessment. Consultants Gresham Smith and WM2 Company were hired after a March 4 city council resolution called for phased repair scenarios and a corresponding funding strategy for…
The Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center redevelopment is going back to Dallas City Council after the Transportation & Infrastructure Committee realized the current plan might unnecessarily inhibit the southern sector’s access to downtown. In a 4-2 vote on Tuesday, the committee recommended to city council that the convention center project be reverted to the earlier…
Representatives for the controversial mixed-use project proposed at Preston Road and Royal Lane unveiled updated renderings Friday evening to a packed crowd of neighborhood residents, many of whom remained skeptical despite revisions to the plan. The community engagement meeting, hosted by Council Member Gay Donnell Willis (District 13) at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church on Royal…
Things are really starting to heat up at Dallas City Hall, and it’s not even June yet. Between frustration over the potential rerouting of the Houston and Jefferson Viaducts and the apparently existential question of what to do with 1500 Marilla St., tempers seem to be running high. And then, of course, there’s the budget.…
Virtually no one was happy at a community meeting over city staff’s latest proposal to reroute traffic on the Houston Street and Jefferson Boulevard Viaducts, which connect Oak Cliff to downtown. And the upset went beyond the specific plan presented. Several dozen people turned out to the Eloise Lundy Recreation Center on Friday for the…
