Speaking of the council’s economic development committee …This morning the council will be brought up to speed about efforts to transform the 1.5 acre parking lot bound by Main Street, S. Griffin Boulevard and Commerce Street into Belo Garden — one of the three green spaces included in the Dallas…
Back in July, U.S. District Judge Sidney Fitzwater told the Securities and Exchange Commission that, sorry, but its complaint against Mark Cuban was getting tossed. The SEC, of course, accused the Mavs owner of violating insider-trading laws in 2004 by selling off $750,000 in Mamma.com stock; Fitzwater said Cuban never…
10. This, my friends, is exactly why I wouldn’t have Wade Phillips back as my head coach next season or any season. Simply put, he’s just too soft. Nick Folk misses a field goal in three straight games and Wade just shrugs and says “I ain’t worried.” Says he won’t…
The Continental Bridge won’t be converted into a pedestrian park till the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge is done — spring 2011, so they say. Of course, the city’s starting to look about for role models, and on Tuesday the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee will get a briefing from Dorcy…
The gentleman, referred to as “The Cornman” by Texas and Nebraska fans alike crowding Section 308 of Jerry Jones’s EnormoDome, sat directly in front of me during last night’s Big 12 Championship. He was friendly and funny — not a big taunter, he let the costume do the heavy lifting…
If you’re looking for copies of Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue: An American Life, you’ll be out of luck tonight at Legacy Books in Plano — they’re all sold out after the author’s signing session for hundreds of supporters this afternoon. Our photographer Danny Fulgencio compared the scene to a line-up…
KTVT-Channel 11 investigative reporter Bennett Cunningham has myriad awards to his name — including, most recently, a National Headliners Award for his ride aboard Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s “Gravy Train,” and three Lone Star Emmys, including one for Best Investigative Reporter (his second in as many years). He’s also part…
One month ago we broke the news that Kroger is looking to set up shop on the desolate site formerly occupied by the former Loews Cityplace. Only, well, there’s one small problem: Kroger wants to sell beer and wine in the grocery store, and Dallas City Code says you can’t…
When we cornered Houston Mayor Bill White in late October after his campaign speech in Plano, he said he can appeal to conservatives and moderates as a Democrat because he knows how to make government run efficiently. He added that he’s “honest and straightforward,” which had been tested when we…
Jon Dahlander, spokesman for the Dallas Independent School District, posted a comment on Unfair Park today that perfectly expressed the school system’s official position on the preservation/demolition of Adamson High School. It blames abandonment of the school on the people who have been fighting to preserve it. And then it…
Karl Zavitkovsky, head of the city’s Office of Economic Development, just called back to explain why the city’s moving forward with plans to purchase the JCPenney’s space at Southwest Center Mall, which the chain abandoned in 2001. Fact is, he says, the city is intervening because the owner of the…
This just-posted video of the Dallas Mavericks performing “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” is fairly self-explanatory. Step aside, 1986 Dallas Cowboys. But where’s the downloadable MP3?…
When last we checked in with Tom Persch, vice-president of asset management for ECOM Real Estate and chairman of the West End Association, he was hoping those dead Bodies would revive interest in the West End, especially his long-shuttered Marketplace. But word is, Persch and the association aren’t thrilled with…
Speaking of economic development …Houston-based Rick’s Cabaret, which already owns two gents’ joints in Dallas, announced yesterday it ain’t done in the DFW. Nope — they’re gonna build ’em a brand-new topless bar this close to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Supposed to be a “10,000-square foot building erected and furnished…
M. Night Shyamalan has made some great movies (The Sixth Sense, course, and the far superior Unbreakable) and, more recently, a handful of terrrrrible ones (The Happening, Lady in the Water, The Village). But the kids, at least, anxiously await his next feature: The Last Airbender, Shyamalan’s due-in-2010 adaptation of…
For weeks it’s been rumored that the city’s getting ready to buy the JCPenney piece of the beleaguered Southwest Center Mall. Which, if true, wouldn’t come as much of a surprise: The Urban Land Institute, paid $120,000 by the city council in April to “assess redevelopment options,” suggested that very…
Late this evening, Dallas Morning News publisher and chief executive officer Jim Moroney called to discuss editor Bob Mong’s memo concerning the paper’s new “business/news integration,” which has some of the paper’s section editors reporting directly to newly assigned advertising-side higher-ups. Moroney said he’d been on the phone all afternoon…
Speaking of local real estate deals …A few days ago a Friend of Unfair Park who’s in the commercial real estate business asked, “Ever heard of Eric Brauss?” Couldn’t say that I had. He then pointed me to Today Realty Advisors’ Web site, which details the dozens of transactions the…
View Larger MapEarlier this week, in the comments of this particular item, we played a little game of Local Real Estate Catch-Up, and one Friend of Unfair Park asked what’s become a fairly frequently asked question: What’s up with the former Hard Rock Cafe site on McKinney Avenue? No need…
Downtown Dallas denizens might be a little confused by the sign above, which our Patrick Michels found at the intersection of Akard and Main Streets. But fret not, as the Dallas Police Department has not outsourced its prying eyes. Friends of Unfair Park no doubt have a pretty good idea…
PETA vs. the Pope. Any time a hot, naked chick riles up the religious I’m intrigued. Especially if it’s Joanna Krupa. Who? In theory, there’s supposed to be some sports angle to this. Even, dare I say, a Dallas perspective. Okay, here goes: There are hot chicks and Catholic churches and…
Late this morning, Dallas Morning News editor Bob Mong called Unfair Park to discuss, at great length, Wednesday’s memo in which Mong formalized what he refers to in the missive as “business/news integration,” which involves some section editors reporting directly to advertising-side general managers. He says this arrangement has been…
