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Mayor Eric Johnson to Business Leaders: Dallas Isn’t Suburbia — and That’s the Point

By Charles Grand / February 4, 2026 /

If Dallas is going to stay competitive, it has to lean into its identity as a pro-business urban center to leverage corporate flight from less-hospitable environments and stave off D-FW’s suburban upstarts, according to Mayor Eric Johnson. Speaking at a Metroplex Civic & Business Association luncheon on Tuesday, Johnson highlighted some of the concrete indicators…

Trading Skyscrapers for Suburbia: AT&T Will Leave Downtown Dallas for Plano

By Charles Grand / January 6, 2026 /

Well, it’s happening. AT&T is going to build a new campus outside of downtown Dallas, opting to relocate its global headquarters to Plano instead of maintaining operations in the city center. In a statement, a spokesperson for AT&T said that a 54-acre site at 5400 Legacy Dr. would provide the necessary space to consolidate its…

City Hall Roundup: Another Bad Beat, But Not on Y’all Street

By Charles Grand / September 7, 2025 /

Officials at Dallas City Hall spent another week navigating the budget process as key deadlines get closer. We’re not going to get into all that today, though. If you’re itching for budget highlights, it looks like Skillman Library might get a new lease on life — albeit operating only three days a week. And a…

AT&T Signs New Lease in Richardson, Plans Workforce Expansion

By Charles Grand / May 26, 2025 /

Dallas-based AT&T is growing its footprint in the metroplex, signing a new lease to support the planned relocation and expansion of its Richardson call center operations. As early as this summer, AT&T call center office workers could be moving into their new digs at Lakeside Boulevard Tower, where they’ll have the run of some 186,000…

Novel Turtle Creek Legally Right But Dings Spirit of Zoning

By Jon Anderson / March 25, 2020 /

After the March 10 Oak Lawn Committee meeting, I wrote a pair of fiery columns about Crescent Communities’ coming Novel Turtle Creek apartment building now under construction near Oak Lawn and Irving Avenues (behind the Fedex and across from Holy Trinity). You can read them here, and here. Their presentation to the OLC was informational-only,…