Jesse Moreno
Almost a year has passed since Elm Thicket/Northpark residents fought City Hall to preserve the character of their historic Freedman’s neighborhood. The residents won their battle to limit the size and height of new construction, but you wouldn’t know it by taking a drive through the area bound by Lemmon Avenue, Lovers Lane, Inwood Road,…
Street and drainage projects aren’t sexy, Dallas leaders can agree, but they’re prepared to give the people what they need in the $1 billion 2024 bond election next May. The Dallas City Council heard from a small sample of residents (about 100 per each of the 14 council districts) in a community survey that infrastructure…
Pride Month kicks off today, and the new housing development Oak Lawn Place is giving Dallas residents something to celebrate. Construction is underway for Oak Lawn Place, a 100-percent affordable, $31 million housing development offering services to the senior-citizen LGBTQIA+ community and those affected by HIV and AIDS. It’s the first affordable housing development of its…
Dallas City Council members resumed a debate Wednesday over whether to support Texas Department of Transportation’s “hybrid trench” recommendation for Interstate 345. TxDOT engineer Ceason Clemens tried to make it easy for them. Clemens reiterated throughout the two-plus-hour briefing that the highway department is committed to the hybrid option, won’t fund an alternative, and delays…
City leaders, Texas Department of Transportation officials, and Dallas residents continued talks this week on the future of Interstate 345. What to do with the elevated freeway that cuts through Deep Ellum and downtown Dallas has been hailed as one of the most important transportation decisions in Dallas’ recent history. However, some Dallas City Council…
