Jaynie Schultz
This story has been updated with new information about the mall’s demolition and asbestos abatement. Valley View Center is finally being torn down. After Thursday morning’s structure fire that injured two firefighters, exterior demolition began Thursday afternoon on the troubled commercial property that’s been vacant for years. Two Dallas Fire-Rescue firefighters sustained injuries while battling…
An early-morning March 11 shooting in the 6400 block of Royal Lane between Preston and Hillcrest roads left an 11-year-old boy dead and a woman injured. A 30-year-old man was charged with capital murder. Less than two weeks prior, a jeweler was robbed at knifepoint and assaulted in a Galleria parking lot. Later on the…
The Dallas City Council on Wednesday approved a comprehensive urban agriculture plan with the aim of increasing the acreage of neighborhood growing sites and providing access to healthy, local food. Objectives outlined in the Comprehensive Urban Agriculture Plan could serve equity priority areas with high minority populations by increasing the acreage of local growing sites…
Dallas has an arsenal of tools to assist homebuyers and homeowners, and city staff is working to fine-tune its programs to protect against displacement and gentrification, officials said recently. One such tool is the Dallas Anti-Displacement Homebuyer Assistance Program, which allows buyers who have lived in Dallas for at least 10 years and have an…
At the last moment, CandysDirt.com publisher Candace Evans entered the District 11 race against Jaynie Schultz. Evans said she only decided to run this week after reading about the fire at Valley View mall last Friday. She told no one, not even her staff, about her decision. “I just cannot stand to see the waste…
