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‘Challenging Conversation’ Planned to Discuss Future of Fort Worth’s Panther Island on June 15

By April Towery / June 12, 2023 /

After almost two decades of talking about Fort Worth’s $1 billion Panther Island project, a panel of city leaders, academics, and consultants will gather June 15 to see how the politically tense plan can get off the ground — or if it should at all.  The meeting of the minds to discuss Panther Island is…

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Luxury Condo Building is The New Face of Fort Worth’s Samuel’s Avenue

By Eric Prokesh / September 17, 2021 /

I hadn’t expected to be back on Samuels Avenue after only one week. After researching and briefly documenting its former glory as Fort Worth’s first premier neighborhood, I took a drive down the avenue to get the lay of the land. Needless to say, there have been a few changes in the past 120 years.…

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Plan Commission Fails Math Quiz On Mill Creek Project

By Jon Anderson / November 23, 2020 /

Last Thursday, Mill Creek’s West Dallas Modera Trinity project presented to, and unanimously passed, Plan Commission (catch-up here, here). Did any of the commissioners do the math? The base zoning approved was a building height of 95 feet (85 feet of building and 10 feet for mechanicals – sea of roof air conditioners, elevator housings,…

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Jon Anderson: Another Project Threatens to Kill The Dallas Skyline (Again)

By Jon Anderson / October 14, 2020 /

Earlier in the week, I wrote a column about Dallas ruining its skyline. It struck a chord with tens of thousands of readers. That column resulted in a tip on a case hitting Plan Commission on Thursday that illustrates my point of Dallas not caring about its surroundings. Case Z190-226 is a trio of parcels…

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Miller vs. Gates: District 13’s Not-So-Great Jesuit Debate

By Jon Anderson / April 23, 2019 /

At last night’s debate between District 13 Dallas City Council member Jennifer Gates and former Dallas Mayor Laura Miller, I fully expected the political point-scoring and backbiting that is politics. What I didn’t expect was the paucity of actual answers to questions. Part of that rests on moderator Tim Rogers for not calling out either…

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