Charles Grand
The years-long Pepper Square saga appears to have come to an end this week after Far North Dallas neighborhood activists dropped their lawsuit to stop the controversial development. But the new Senate Bill 840 may have rendered the residents’ legal battle for less housing density irrelevant by giving developers broader rights to build more housing.…
Zoning is one of the most powerful tools a city can wield. It not only determines where buildings can go but also how neighborhoods grow and function — or don’t. No wonder folks in Dallas are engaging with the issue as the city embarks on a historic overhaul of its land use policies. The Dallas…
A Dallas-based short-term lending platform with serious money behind it is looking to scale up and become the go-to source of reliable financing for home flippers. Crebrid (think credit and bridge, as in bridge loan) has gone all-in on leveraging AI to put itself at the forefront of fintech. The company previously operated out of…
Another controversial rezoning request was approved by the Dallas City Council this week, marking another instance in which the drive to redevelop trumped neighborhood concerns at the horseshoe. However, officials mitigated the ordinance with additional stipulations, a move that will soon be outside their scope of power in a lot of cases when Senate Bill…
Everyone at Dallas City Hall is back at work and not a moment too soon, as budget season heats up and city leaders look to craft a tax and spending plan for the coming fiscal year. That’s not to say that there aren’t other newsworthy developments out of City Hall, but let’s face it, the…
