Charles Grand
There’s always plenty at Dallas City Hall we didn’t catch in time, and that’s especially true this past week. An over-the-top Christmas display in a North Dallas neighborhood that went viral might have some policy implications for the holiday spirit, and controversial zoning cases remain a source of tension between residents and city officials. Hopefully,…
Attorneys faced off in court again over the redevelopment of Pepper Square Friday morning, with a neighborhood association seeking a temporary restraining order barring the city from taking any further action to advance the project. The plaintiff in the case, SAVE Pepper Square Neighborhood Association, argued that rezoning of the site to mixed-use is a…
It can be difficult to wrap your head around all the various signals in the housing market these days. What does it mean that new home sales are going up? Prices coming down is a good thing, right? Is the upcoming end of Jerome Powell’s term as chair of the Federal Reserve a big deal?…
Despite a city-imposed suspension of new real estate transactions, the Dallas City Council made two big deals on Wednesday — voting to sell a troubled office building on Stemmons Freeway and buy part of the old Dallas Morning News downtown campus for its convention center expansion. Council members voted 13-2 to authorize spending $51 million…
The D-FW housing market might be heading into correction territory, with an increase in new construction inventory driving steep declines in home prices in some North Texas counties. Prospective homebuyers in North Texas have been weathering high prices for several years now amid an ongoing housing shortage. Now, economic certainty surrounding President Donald Trump’s tariff…
