Fair Park

City Hall Roundup: Alley Trash Plan Fight, Eminent Domain, Fair Park Spat

By Charles Grand / September 15, 2025 /

The end of budget season is just around the corner at Dallas City Hall, with officials scheduled to adopt a spending package and property tax rate for FY 2025-2026 on Wednesday. We’ll get into what’s ultimately decided in our next roundup, and we’ll see if Mayor Eric Johnson’s budget challenge to council members gets taken…

City Hall Roundup: Park Bucks Flow, Some Cleanup Opportunities

By Charles Grand / July 6, 2025 /

Dallas City Council is in recess until next month, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t City Hall developments worth making note of. Some money came through for a couple of parks and the city’s launching a new email blast on code compliance, which appears to include monthly opportunities for residents to step up and help…

City Hall Roundup: Maintenance Matters

By Charles Grand / June 22, 2025 /

This past week marked somewhat of an inflection point at Dallas City Hall as officials began to seriously grapple with how to go about delivering priority services for residents in a period in which revenues are expected to come up short. It’s fitting that the week kicked off with the induction of a new city…

Fair Park’s Federal Building Wins a Preservation Dallas Annual Achievement Award

By Karen Eubank / April 24, 2025 /

The Preservation Dallas Annual Achievement Awards recognize preservation, rehabilitation, and restoration efforts. They also remind us of what we take for granted. One of the most significant buildings that I think many of us have taken for granted is the Fair Park Federal Building (now known as the Tower Building), designed by Donald Nelson, the…

City Hall Roundup: DallasNow, Paxton Unloads

By Charles Grand / April 20, 2025 /

If anyone’s interested in what’s been going on at Dallas City Hall recently, we’ve got some of that for you this Easter. The biggest news, at least from my perspective, is City Manager Kimberly Bizor Tolbert hitting the pause button on all new real estate acquisitions until new procedures are put in place to better…