downtown Dallas
Downtown office space at Santander Tower (formerly Thanksgiving Tower) is getting a new lease on life as an ongoing adaptive reuse project plows forward, with work on phase two promising to deliver 105 luxury apartment units on five floors. Phase one of Pacific Elm Properties’ Peridot Residences wrapped up last October, adding 291 units to…
A special called meeting of the Dallas Housing & Homelessness Solutions Committee will be held Tuesday afternoon to receive presentations on shelter and service options that could help the city get a handle on its homelessness problem. Council Member Cara Mendelsohn (District 12), the committee’s chair, called for the meeting. Officials will hear from representatives…
Holy cow, Dallas City Hall needs to get a handle on downtown before there’s nothing generating revenue but apartment units. That was admittedly dramatic, but it seems like one potential relocation after another lately. Whatever the reasons, mainstays of the neighborhood are looking for alternatives, and this should concern officials. Here’s the latest on the…
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…
Lots of things are cooking at Dallas City Hall, not least of which is the coming fiscal year’s budget. Sick of hearing about it yet? Well, there’s only another five weeks or so to go. Speaking of the budget, a touchstone of the city manager’s fiscal plan is efficiency in the delivery of services. We’ll…
