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Dallas officials are working to overhaul how the city handles its real estate portfolio, with staff pitching a new framework to manage real estate assets following a series of high-profile missteps. On Monday, staff outlined a proposed governance framework to the Finance Committee that would place the Office of Real Estate at the center of…
“When you come home from a holiday, you should feel like you are still on vacation,” Rafael Collazo said about his new company’s debut property in Forest Hills. He has followed through on that sentiment beautifully. Collazo and his wife spend as much time traveling internationally as possible, and those travels spark creativity. Tulum, Mexico,…
It looks like Morgan Stanley is ready to put down deeper roots in Dallas, with the Wall Street giant reportedly signaling it chose the Big D over suburban Atlanta for a new regional hub. Morgan Stanley signed a lease last month at downtown’s Fountain Place, providing a temporary home while a roughly $1.3 billion Uptown…
An experiment using $6 million in taxpayer money to attract private investment and philanthropic contributions for affordable housing is showing some real scale in Dallas. The Dallas Housing Opportunity Fund has supported the construction of 858 affordable multifamily units across 10 investments since its launch in 2022, according to a new three-year impact report by…
HOAs take a lot of heat. In the last few weeks, I’ve read about residents raging against things like surveillance concerns, debt disputes, and architectural guidelines. While many of these issues rightfully irk residents, having a stopgap against tacky teardowns and gawdy developments is nice for many neighborhoods. For non-HOA communities like University Terrace, they…
