Downtown Dallas
From Staff Reports Downtown Dallas Inc. announced the launch of its 2022 comprehensive Public Safety Summer Operations Plan today during a press conference. The initiative will proactively address quality of life and public safety challenges as thousands more workers return to the urban core and the convention and tourism industry reports a return to pre-pandemic…
Recently named one of the best convention centers in America, the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center Dallas could soon get a $1.5 billion makeover, pending voter approval. The Dallas City Council adopted a resolution last month to call a Nov. 8 election for the convention center expansion and improvement of Fair Park facilities, to be…
In 2001, aerospace giant Boeing decided to move its corporate headquarters to Chicago instead of Dallas. According to those who were privy to the conversation over the move, the chief complaint from Boeing’s executives was that “Downtown Dallas is dead and there ain’t no culture.” Enter Memphis native John Crawford, a commercial real estate developer…
“I was driving down Commerce Street about four years ago, and I looked at all these great, old, vacant buildings,” says Patrick Todd, principal in the family-owned-and-operated developer Todd Interests. “A year later, we bought ’em all up — more than a dozen old commercial buildings.” Today, those buildings are being turned into what is…
How hot can a high-rise apartment get when there’s no air conditioning on a 98-degree summer day? That’s not a question that residents of the Mosaic apartment building in downtown Dallas wanted to answer, but just in case you’re wondering, it’s 96 degrees. The seven-block area of downtown Dallas that includes the Mosaic building lost…
