2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (624+ words) The Dallas Mavericks have filed a zoning application for the former Valley View Center in North Dallas, taking their most concrete step toward developing the site as a new sports and entertainment district. On Wednesday, the franchise told local media…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago   (462+ words) During the latter part of my college years, I was an official Lower Greenville resident. I rented a two-bedroom four-square unit on Vickery Boulevard, wrote the newsletter for the Lower Greenville Neighborhood Association, and spent a ton of time at…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (327+ words) Mayor Eric Johnson has moved to dissolve two city council committees and replace some council members in key leadership positions in a major shakeup of committee assignments on Friday. The mayor announced in a memo that he was dissolving the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (948+ words) At Dallas City Hall, finding more money for programming means taking it from somewhere else, while buying more time on the zoning front can be as simple as writing a check. Both dynamics were on display this past week as…...

2+ week, 17+ hour ago   (409+ words) If you’ve driven around the neighborhood just west of Greenway Parks lately, you’ve seen the shift firsthand. Like many classic Dallas pockets of yore, this area is undergoing a gradual transformation. There’s no denying the location’s draw. It sits just…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (592+ words) Dallas City Council members set 69.78 cents per $100 of assessed value as the ceiling for next year’s property tax rate Tuesday, landing on the city manager’s proposed rate. The final rate could end up going lower when the council adopts its…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (553+ words) Dallas officials are working to overhaul how the city handles its real estate portfolio, with staff pitching a new framework to manage real estate assets following a series of high-profile missteps. On Monday, staff outlined a proposed governance framework to…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (918+ words) Sometimes, the dynamics of Dallas land use and zoning don’t reveal themselves until something catches fire or a small business runs headlong into an obscure line of the development code. Here are some curveballs that came out of Dallas City…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (1098+ words) Running a city is partly about preparing for what comes next and partly about catching up with everything that has already happened. Officials at Dallas City Hall are doing a little of both right now, contending with new development pressures,…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (858+ words) A North Dallas zoning case that was seemingly settled five years ago found itself back in front of the city council on Wednesday, with the developer looking to amend a planned development district that Melshire Estates neighborhood residents fought bitterly…...