Southern Dallas
Over the objection of District 12 Councilwoman Cara Mendelsohn, the Dallas City Council recently approved a $1.85 million economic development grant to assist with the “extraordinary cost” of required off-site wastewater infrastructure improvements at a mixed-use development in The Cedars. Councilman Jesse Moreno, who represents the area, said housing is needed in the rapidly growing…
Fifty percent of the Dallas Department of Housing and Neighborhood Revitalization’s annual funding will go toward “equity strategy target areas,” City Council members agreed Wednesday. Upgrades to the city’s development program have been strategized and briefed at the committee level since November, and Housing Director Cynthia Rogers-Ellickson’s proposal received unanimous support. The three equity target…
The Dallas City Council on Wednesday authorized a fourth amendment to a redevelopment agreement for the Shops at RedBird project. The matter was a consent agenda item and wasn’t discussed publicly. A resolution authorized an amendment to developer Peter Brodsky’s Tax Increment Development, Chapter 380 Grant, and Chapter 380 Loan Agreement. It includes some project…
We haven’t heard much about Hensley Field since the City of Dallas took legal action against the U.S. Navy In August 2023, but we were encouraged to see a photo on social media earlier this month showing members of the City’s Economic Development staff touring the site. “The best meetings take place in a Chinook,”…
Southern Dallas homeowner Darryl Baker says Dallas is concentrating a lot of tax credit rental projects in the area where he lives, and it’s a misguided approach to an affordable housing crisis that doesn’t exist — at least in that particular area. Similar to Dallas shouldering the burden of housing the homeless for the entire…
