Southern Dallas
If you’ve been to a Dallas City Council meeting in the past year, you’ve heard Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Carolyn King Arnold talk about the food desert in southern Dallas. You’ve heard her say that she has to take dignitaries to the International House of Pancakes for business meetings. You’ve heard her say that the…
We haven’t heard much about Hensley Field since the City of Dallas took legal action against the U.S. Navy In August 2023, but we were encouraged to see a photo on social media earlier this month showing members of the City’s Economic Development staff touring the site. “The best meetings take place in a Chinook,”…
The Dallas City Council gave the green light earlier this month to Bonton Gardens, a new multifamily development in Southern Dallas. A complicated development agreement included approving the sale of two Land Transfer Program lots to CityBuild Community Development Corporation and revoking a previous agreement with Notre Dame Place Inc. The project is proposed to…
Friendship-West Baptist Church got a big win when Judge Aiesha Redmond of Dallas County’s 160th District Court granted an injunction that will halt the construction of an industrial warehouse on Wheatland Road near the southern Dallas megachurch. CandysDirt.com broke the story in May that neighbors and members of the megachurch congregation opposed Stonelake Capital Partners’…
The final Dallas City Council meeting of 2023 was a long one, and a rezoning request for a Dallas megachurch got lost in the shuffle amidst hours of debate over daycare facilities and permitting fees. The discussion about Watermark Community Church only lasted about 20 minutes during the Dec. 13 council meeting. Dallas elected officials…
