Dallas Developers
If Dallas is going to stay competitive, it has to lean into its identity as a pro-business urban center to leverage corporate flight from less-hospitable environments and stave off D-FW’s suburban upstarts, according to Mayor Eric Johnson. Speaking at a Metroplex Civic & Business Association luncheon on Tuesday, Johnson highlighted some of the concrete indicators…
The solution to the affordable housing crisis, we’ve been told, is simple: build more housing. Dallas-based Leon Multifamily, a subsidiary of Leon Capital Group, appears to have received the memo. The company secured $134 million in construction financing over a 30-day period for three development projects, one of which is in Mansfield. While many real…
A zoning change that could repurpose three office towers into a mixed-income multifamily housing development will go before the Dallas City Council in late June. Trammell Crow Company’s proposed redevelopment is on nine acres at 5550 Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway east of the Dallas North Tollway. Developers with Dallas-based Trammell Crow Company are requesting a Planned…
One of the premier developers in a Dallas neighborhood fighting displacement and gentrification was recently involved in a hot chicken scandal and did federal prison time for his role in a hydroponic marijuana growing operation. That’s not particularly relevant to his credibility as a home builder, but it’s often raised by legacy residents in the…
A Black woman might feel like the odds are stacked against her in the male-dominated field of architecture and construction. Plus, English isn’t the first — or even the second language — for Wenguel Yohannes, a construction manager for one of Dallas’ premier multifamily developers, Alamo Manhattan. But this story isn’t about how Yohannes beat the…
