"Floors 100 and 101 feature an outdoor pool deck with a cantilevered pool, a 30-foot RoboCop helmet grotto and a ten-story mural of RoboCop on horseback. ... Floor 105 is an observatory themed around Dallas in the year 2100 ... with a robot bartender bar and panoramic views extending to Fort Worth."
Oh, same. And the "ten-story mural of RoboCop on horseback."
After last night's 9-6 City Council vote to begin exploring a City Hall exit strategy, I received a press release from a local architectural firm proposing a "114-story mixed-use tower to be constructed adjacent to Dallas City Hall." Good one. I'd buy that for a dollar.
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If you're bored, or you give a damn, this is JUST starting: Council will vote to explore relocating City Hall staff out of the building, including 311 AND 911, and "explore options for the disposition of the City Hall site." What else ya got to do tonight?
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Oh, I have asked the city spokesperson many questions about this. MANY.
Cool new statue, Texas Rangers!
Don't worry, no one will go to the Wikipedia page for it to see why it's not at the airport anymore. www.mlb.com/news/rangers...
After ICE sent her mother back to Mexico, a 17-year-old high school senior was left to care for her younger sisters. bit.ly/4rFk3V7
“My house is one place they let them come because they know they’d have to kill me before I let [ICE] in the door. Unless good people step up and let their voices be heard, nothing is going to change. We can’t let this keep happening, especially to children.”
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Nobody asked for this cheap-ass shit.
The city of Dallas, which is about to abandon I.M. Pei's City Hall to Miriam Adelson for a casinorena, is very good at wasting time and money to make things worse. Example ∞, the unnecessary rebranding of one of the few things in Dallas people like, Love Field.
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Yesterday/Just now
The most spot-on description of Dallas and Fort Worth I've ever heard. I would read a whole book of this; listen to it, certainly.
Ah, yes. The Wings. Related to this cluster?
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This morning, Dallas City Council member Adam Bazaldua posted to FB this memo from Sports Mayor, which calls for a vote on City Hall's fate next week. The CM adds: "This process is a joke and an insult to our taxpayers. I hope the voters are paying attention to this Mavericks/City Hall boondoggle!!"
i started a new job in this building a few weeks ago…it’s an amazing building and i really hope Council chooses to save it
i also hope they would reconsider previous proposals for making the plaza a more vibrant public space…when i walk to grab lunch or coffee, it’s like traversing a wasteland
Along with the rest of me, a heap of ashes.
I left this under your FB comment, as well, but I did turn up that one piece of paper that refers to the plaza as “Municipal Complex not Park Property," But as one former city attorney told me Monday, well, this could all be settled by a lawsuit.
Thanks. Somehow missed this, and it didn't come up during several interviews this week with current and past Park Department leadership. Now, of course, Palomino refuses to weigh in, while Parks folks seem resigned to the fact that a sports facility can go on parkland (Cotton Bowl, Wings at Joey G).
When the council gives it away, Dallas will lose the one place in town where we gather to celebrate, mourn, shout, reflect. Which, I think, is why so many folks, like me, so quickly took to this idea that the plaza was sacred parkland untouchable without our OK.
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After a briefing about conditions at Dallas City Hall, which was just a recitation of a publicly available PowerPoint, the city council has been hiding from The People for nearly two hours. Most everyone left. Very respectful city council we got here.
How do you get so many people to
Dallas City Hall? Propose selling and tearing down Dallas City Hall. (For yet another Mavericks arena.)
For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure:
On July 12, 1978, Springsteen & E Street Band played an even smaller venue, to just 1,600 people, after failing to fill Memorial Auditorium 5 weeks after Darkness on the Edge of Town's release. The perfect set from a legendary tour.
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I said the very same thing to someone else.
The State of City Hall report is out.
Read it here:
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Takeaway: The fix is in.
While going through the archives for this piece, I found my favorite photo of Dallas City Hall. Taken while it was under construction in 1975.
David Voss worked for Dallas 3 times.
As a maintenance man who kept the old City Hall in one piece. As manager of all city-owned buildings in NW Dallas. Then, as the man in charge of keeping I.M. Pei's City Hall shining.
Now, he just wants to keep it standing.
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Traffic from the Paris parking lot often spills into Harry Hines. But weeks ago, I asked city attorneys about Pandora's, as a couple of guys who live in Harry Hines' storm-drain tunnels said they'd seen cops busting folks there. Turns out the place is a "brothel."
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More: "We’re grateful for the long-term relationship we have with Mayor Mario Vasquez and the City of Hutchins and look forward to continuing our work to find a buyer or lease tenant that will help drive economic growth.”
Was just texted a statement from a PR rep that says despite being contacted about selling its warehouse in Hutchins, "Majestic Realty Co. has not and will not enter into any agreement for the purchase or lease of any building to the Department of Homeland Security for use as a detention facility."
Thor Christensen's review of the Bruce Springsteen solo acoustic show at the Bronco Bowl on Jan. 26, 1996.
Bruce Springsteen at the Bronco Bowl on Jan. 26, 1996. Photo by The Dallas Morning News' Randy Eli Grothe.
For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure:
“I think I’ll be playing only bowling alleys from here on out. There’s something to it." -- Bruce Springsteen on Jan. 26, 1996, when he played Oak Cliff's Bronco Bowl. Can't stop listening to a show I thought I'd never hear again.
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“I learned more life lessons in that week than if I’d gone to class that Monday."
In 2006, Gustavo Jimenez used MySpace to organize a student walkout & march on Dallas City Hall.
"I was very proud of them," says former Dallas ISD superintendent Michael Hinojosa.
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