Charles Grand
The end of budget season is just around the corner at Dallas City Hall, with officials scheduled to adopt a spending package and property tax rate for FY 2025-2026 on Wednesday. We’ll get into what’s ultimately decided in our next roundup, and we’ll see if Mayor Eric Johnson’s budget challenge to council members gets taken…
Mayor Eric Johnson is challenging the rest of the Dallas City Council to propose their own budget cuts so that the proposed property tax rate could be lowered further. In a memo on Friday, the mayor proposed eliminating $339,000 budgeted for the city’s state lobbying team, arguing that the team is “not delivering results commensurate…
There aren’t many available options out there for a company of some size looking to settle into Class A office space in Fort Worth. In fact, there are only a handful of properties in Cowtown that can currently accommodate a tenant in need of at least 40,000 square feet of contiguous Class A space (which…
Home security is becoming more important for super wealthy households in Texas and throughout the United States, leading to increased spending on high-tech security features for luxury properties. Christie’s International Real Estate’s latest annual luxury forecast survey found that around 66% of the real estate agents who responded said their clients were more concerned about…
The tension was palpable on Monday at a community engagement meeting held by H-E-B as part of its push to build a 127,000-square-foot store and two-story parking garage at the southeast corner of LBJ and Hillcrest Road. As previously reported by CandysDirt.com, some neighborhood residents are deeply concerned over the potential implications of the project,…
