City Hall
The open call for concepts for a reimagination of Dallas City Hall and the surrounding downtown area is officially closed, and one of the submissions getting a lot of buzz is the master plan designed by UT Arlington architecture students. We touched on the plan in an earlier roundup, but more recently, we got a…
Mayor Eric Johnson let loose on the city’s spending practices in a newsletter on Sunday, criticizing his fellow council members for repeatedly voting for “bloat” every budget season. As previously reported by CandysDirt.com, City Manager Kimberly Tolbert implemented a number of emergency spending measures last month to mitigate a projected budget shortfall in the tens…
Council members had a light load this past week, but Dallas City Hall isn’t exactly easing into spring either. Between tightly held materials many say should be public and ballooning project price tags, there’s still plenty to catch up on. Staff Won’t Immediately Release City Hall Concept Submissions Local media outlets trying to get a…
By Rudy KarimiCandysDirt.com Contributor There are countless forgettable moments when the conversation inside Dallas City Hall and the conversation happening in the community are completely out of sync. This is not one of those moments. This is one of the most pivotal moments in a very long time. Right now, there are very serious discussions…
At a packed resident town hall last week, AIA Dallas executive director Zaida Basora proposed a 10-year phased plan to repair Dallas City Hall for a fraction of the city’s roughly $1 billion estimate. That $1 billion figure has been criticized for assuming an all-at-once approach: relocating the entire City Hall staff during construction, replacing…
