Downtown Dallas

The Mosaic Building, a Downtown Dallas Apartment High-Rise, Catches Fire

By Joanna England / July 13, 2021 /

The Mosaic Building, a high-rise apartment building in Downtown Dallas, caught fire the afternoon of July 13. The apartment building, which has two towers — one at 20 stories and a second at 30 stories — was evacuated after a fire alarm went off. Residents who were in the building at the time say that…

Dishing About Downtown Dallas With Emily Ray-Porter

By Elaine Raffel / August 10, 2020 /

Dave Perry-Miller Realtor Emily Ray-Porter doesn’t just work Dallas’ high-rise market—she and her husband Zac live it. The pair reside in an Uptown condo.

What’s Up Ray Washburne’s Sleeve? Big Plans for the Former Dallas Morning News HQ

By Candy Evans / August 21, 2019 /

On Sunday, Bethany mused on what a creative developer could do with an old newspaper building — as in the very one we have in downtown Dallas, the former Dallas Morning News “Rock of Truth” headquarters that Ray Washburne’s Charter DMN Holdings purchased a little over a month ago. The iconic building at 508 Young…

Downtown’s East Quarter Preserves Buildings But Vibrancy Requires Residential

By Jon Anderson / June 5, 2018 /

Last week, Todd Interests showed plans for a new downtown neighborhood called East Quarter. It’s north of the Dallas Farmers’ Market and west of US Highway 75 from Deep Ellum (think of the Magnolia service station at Commerce Street and Cesar Chavez Boulevard as the tip of a redevelopment arrow heading west towards the Statler).…

Tanya Ragan Launches Restoration of Historic Purse Building in Dallas’ West End

By Candy Evans / April 20, 2018 /

“I’ve spent almost the last 12 years downtown. I was there when no one wanted to be there,” says Tanya Ragan, President of Wildcat Management and one of the few female commercial developers in Dallas. “I know that when you talk about the Central Business District, you are really talking about 15 distinctly different districts.”…