November 1, 2020 Dallas County reported 750 more coronavirus cases Sunday, including 746 the county considers new, and four from the previous month. One new COVID-19 death was also reported. The latest fatality was a Dallas woman in her 60s who had been critically ill at a hospital and had underlying health problems. Labs either […]
October 29, 2020 Transit Oriented Development, or TOD, is not a new concept. Simply put, it’s the creation of compact, walkable, mixed-use communities centered around high-quality public transportation systems. A plethora of TOD case studies exist here and nationally, and the City of Dallas and DART have already created a handful of policies to encourage […]
October 30, 2020 “Will you remember that, Texas?” That was President Donald Trump’s question in the last presidential debate after Joe Biden said he wanted the oil industry to start transitioning to renewable energy. Trump saw this as a gotcha moment, perhaps because Texas is easily the nation’s top producer of oil and natural gas. […]
October 30, 2020 An ambitious development set for just north of downtown Dallas is planned as a bridge between Uptown and Victory Park. Dallas’ Hunt Realty will seek city approval for the 11-acre Field Street development, which will include office, residential and hotel towers and retail space. The high-rises will surround a lush central park […]
October 30, 2020 More Dallas County residents have voted in the 2020 presidential election than in any other cycle. Texas’ second-largest county on Friday afternoon surpassed its previous total of 770,590 votes set in 2016, according to a Dallas County source. As of 2 p.m., an estimated 771,200 people had voted. The news the state’s […]
October 30, 2020 It’s that time again. The data from the Survey of Consumer Finances, conducted every three years by the Federal Reserve, has been gathered, examined, organized and put into digital files. So now we can get some idea of how we are doing as a nation and how each of us is doing […]
October 29, 2020 Despite relocating its headquarters from California to Dallas, CBRE says the move is more of a formality than a massive surge of new jobs and people. Dallas is already home to the largest U.S.-based workforce for CBRE Group Inc. (NYSE: CBRE), which has been growing locally since 2006 when the company acquired […]
October 30, 2020 Dallas-Fort Worth is slowly regaining the jobs lost in the nation’s historic economic contraction when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down businesses in March. New data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that North Texas cut its year-over-year job loss by 8,900 in September, the most recent month available. The region […]
The Pitch: Better Block Foundation Named Social Innovator of the Year, New $1M Competition Announced
October 29, 2020 An Oak Cliff-based, grassroots urban renewal startup landed the title as Social Innovator of the Year (and an extra $15,000) at Wednesday night’s virtual The Pitch competition. Nonprofit Better Block Foundation is launching a workforce development program to help students earn a living wage while learning how to use digital fabrication to […]
October 29, 2020 Local and state leaders are reacting to the news that CBRE will move its headquarters to Dallas from Los Angeles, after the Dallas Business Journal broke the story Wednesday. “CBRE is the global leader in real estate and we are proud to welcome its headquarters to Texas,” said Gov. Greg Abbott in […]