Charles Grand
Mayor Eric Johnson appears to be taking a page out of President Donald Trump’s playbook in an attempt to get Dallas’ fiscal house in order. On Friday, Johnson requested an item be placed on the city council’s agenda for August 27 that proposes to rename two of the city’s eight established committees and limit when…
When it comes to keeping the lights on, not all states are created equal. Some are powerhouses of reliability, while others always seem to be making headlines over the frequency or duration of their power outages. Press coverage is one thing, though. Underlying data is another. Now, I don’t want to name any names, and…
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…
