Northwest Highway Preston Center

TxDOT’s Northwest Highway Plan Another Product Car-Centric Thinking

By Jon Anderson / December 14, 2020 /

This year has been humorless. Experiencing the abject failures in dealing with COVID-19 at both the federal and state levels is only laughable in the darkest sense. So thank TxDOT for giving us something to truly laugh at — the Northwest Highway Feasibility Study. What? You haven’t heard of it? Not surprising since the 15-minute…

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New Report Exposes Preston Center Plan As Financially Bogus

By Jon Anderson / February 13, 2018 /

Good news. You don’t have to go to Idaho to fish in Bogus Creek.  Last October, I wrote about how the NHPRAP (Northwest Highway and Preston Road Area Plan), not even a year old, wasn’t designed to be economically viable.  Essentially, my scribbles revealed that were its Zone 4 area to follow the recommendations contained…

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Preston Center Task Force: A Meeting Molly Ivins Would Love

By Jon Anderson / April 28, 2015 /

Monday evening saw the latest installment of Councilwoman Jennifer Gates’ Preston Road and Northwest Highway Task Force Meetings. It renewed my belief that the only thing missing from Texas politics are footlights. Molly would have been in hog heaven (versus the real one she’s in now). I’d describe many of the attendees as being Republican…

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CD Exclusive: The Sky Bridge of Preston Center, View From the Parking Garage

By Candy Evans / February 16, 2015 /

This is an artists’ rendering of what the proposed skybridge to connect Preston Center Pavillion to the 2-story concrete parking garage at the center of Preston Center west will look like from the garage interior. The garage is owned by the City of Dallas but has numerous parking rights deeded to the property owners surrounding…

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Stakeholder Task Force for Preston Center, Northwest Highway Includes Laura Miller, Ashley Parks, Baxter Brinkmann and Leland Burk

By Candy Evans / February 14, 2015 /

Been wondering when this would take shape. But word came Friday from City Councilwoman Jennifer Staubach Gates that the Stakeholder Taskforce to figure out future development for the Northwest Highway and Preston Road Area Plan has almost been assembled and the first meeting scheduled. From Gates’ email: Staff from NCTCOG and the City of Dallas, City…

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