Downtown Dallas

East Quarter: a New Neighborhood Is Brewing Downtown, And We Already Love It!

By Candy Evans / December 6, 2021 /

“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…

Hobbled Cooling Tower Causes Temperatures to Soar Inside Downtown Dallas’ Mosaic Building

By Joanna England / August 26, 2021 /

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…

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…