Friday is set to be an exciting day for Dallas County, most notably the southern portion of the county. April 13, 2007 will mark the grand opening of the Dallas Logistics Hub. The Allen Group will host an opening ceremony for the facility on Friday from 10:00 a.m. to noon...
Friendship West Baptist Church in Dallas hosted its second Faith Summit on Poverty March 30 & 31. Part of the weekend's focus was The Bill of Rights for the Poor which was introduced at last year's summit. Dr. Hanyes' vision has spawned legislation by State Representative Yvonne Davis of Dallas...
Michael Davis at Dallas Progress broke down the 4th quarter income for some Dallas' hot sheet motels. Go to this link to see Mike's zip code level analysis of these "businesses" that are generally accompanied by crime, drugs, and prostitution.
According to sources close to the negotiations, the owners of the proposed New Fine Arts store in the Red Bird Area have agreed to sale the building. They claimed to have invested $1 million dollars in the property. Work is still going on at the site, but the sign designating...
With the news of the Cotton Bowl game moving to Jerry World in Arlington, critics have again placed the blame at the feet of Laura Miller and the City of Dallas. The mayor and the council are easy targets. I mean it has to be somebody's fault that the new...
I have to say I was shocked when I found out that New Fine Arts would soon be a neighbor of mine. As politicians talk about economic development and bringing businesses to the so-called “Southern Sector,” I didn’t think that a sexually oriented business was what they had in mind....
Steve Brown of the Dallas Morning News had an article in Thursday's Business Section hailing the start of construction on The Beat condominium project in the Cedars Area of town. If you aren't familiar with the Cedars, think Southside on Lamar. The Beat will be 10-stories high, and across the street from...
In one of my initial posts on this blog (Is Education the Salvation) I talked about the impact that could be made in Southern Dallas by the presence of the University of North Texas at Dallas. On Tuesday, leaders from across the area celebrated Dallas taking one step closer towarxs having a...
I was blessed to meet Mr. Wilton Hollins 8 years ago when he was the director of Friendship-West's J.C. Holmes Male Chorus. Our subsequent friendship led to a collaboration that we called "Buy It Out", where we advocated cooperative economics in the African-American community through a selective buying program. Wilton is Human...
Because I didn't do any blogging over Christmas, I was late in founding out via Michael Davis at Dallas Progress that Albertson's was closing it's West Cliff Shopping Center location. I had probably been in there within hours of his post, though I've never done a whole lot of shopping there. Good thing Mike had given...
