Dallas Dirt
An elected official who recently held the Vince Lombardi Super Bowl Trophy visited Dallas City Hall on Wednesday. Kansas City, Missouri, Mayor Quinton Lucas said he has just one question for Dallas city leaders. “More than anything, I came down to see why so many young people from Kansas City move down here,” he said.…
It’s his old district, that’s for sure. At the southeast corner of Beltline and Preston Roads where a smattering of shuttered stores — from the old Stein Mart (once a Tom Thumb) to restaurants in a shopping center called Pepper Square — lie vacant, former District 11 Dallas City Councilman Lee Kleinman is working with…
I know how this all started. In recent days, Dallasites have been abuzz with rumors that the Galleria Dallas is shutting down after the Dallas Morning News reported — via Steve Brown — that the deed to the three-level mall and Westin Hotel was taken over by an investment unit of Metropolitan Life Insurance. It…
We can all agree that 2022 was jam-packed with real estate news. We saw big wins for neighborhoods, elected officials who spoke their minds, and influencers who showed up and showed out. With some of these folks, there are too many stories to capture in one post. They are, after all, newsmakers. And one thing…
A lot happened at Dallas City Hall in 2022 — some good and some that led us to shake our heads and say, “Sounds like a 2023 problem.” We at CandysDirt.com were challenged in narrowing it down to the biggest eight stories to come out of Dallas City Hall this year. City Manager T.C. Broadnax…
