Downtown Dallas
Should Dallas preserve key connections between Oak Cliff and downtown, even if doing so tacks on roughly $600 million to the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center redevelopment? That’s the question Dallas City Council will face next week. The Transportation & Infrastructure Committee recommended raising the height of the project last month after considerable uproar broke…
It appears the fate of Dallas City Hall will be decided on Wednesday, June 10, at a special called meeting of the city council, with four voting items on the agenda determining whether taxpayers will foot the bill to repair 1500 Marilla St. or relocate municipal operations. Two proposals on the table would authorize preliminary…
The siren of opportunity north of Dallas’ downtown area is commanding business leaders’ attention. Given the choice between having a presence in the central business district or Uptown, Preston Hollow, or a northern suburb, they seem to prefer alternatives to the city center, and that’s made for a rough week for downtown boosters. And sandwiched…
The grills are heating up, inboxes are getting ignored, and somewhere inside Dallas City Hall, there’s probably a memo floating around that’s going to stir up all kinds of feelings come Tuesday. Until then, enjoy your Memorial Day weekend! But if you’ve got a second, catch up on some of the headlines making waves in…
The open call for concepts for a reimagination of Dallas City Hall and the surrounding downtown area is officially closed, and one of the submissions getting a lot of buzz is the master plan designed by UT Arlington architecture students. We touched on the plan in an earlier roundup, but more recently, we got a…
