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Planners from the Trinity Park Conservancy on Friday released a mock-up of much of the long-planned Dallas Trinity River Park, as well as a promotional video for a groundbreaking ceremony scheduled for 2024. NBC5 first reported in June that the park would not be built between the downtown levees, as had been planned since 1998, when voters first approved the park. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which manages the spillway, never supported building a park within the levee, which was approved by Dallas voters in 1998. The latest plan for Harold Simmons Park, named after the family that donated…

Costco Wholesale Corp. is the highest bidder for a 10-story office building adjacent to one of its largest stores in Dallas, the latest in a series of similar deals by the retail giant across the country. be.The 198,374-square-foot office building known as North Central Plaza I at 12655 North Central Expressway is being auctioned off by real estate firm Hartman SPE, which is in bankruptcy proceedings. The property owners asked the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for Delaware to approve the $14.25 million sale to Costco.This is not the first time the wholesale club has purchased an office building. Over the past…

Many areas in the Dallas-Fort Worth area could see a chance of rain Thursday afternoon, with the possibility of hail if storm activity increases, the National Weather Service in Fort Worth said.Jennifer Dunn, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Fort Worth, said rain is “likely” for the region, which includes Collin, Dallas, Denton and Tarrant counties. Dunn added that small to quarter-sized hail is also possible.”Probably the best time for hail storms will be mid to late afternoon,” Dunn said.Dunn said the rain is expected to be “intermittent” across much of the Dallas-Fort Worth area and end around…

Born in Livingston, Texas, Margo Jones grew up as an energetic child who knew what she wanted to do from an early age. Her older sister died when she was 11 years old, and according to her biographer, that's when she became the woman her older sister wanted and she wanted to move on from Livingston. At age 15, she attended Women's Technical College (now Texas Women's University) in Denton. She wrote a dissertation on Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, which foreshadowed her life as a theater pioneer in Dallas and the world. After studying theater on trips from near DFW…

WFAA has obtained a 911 call made by NFL star Von Miller's girlfriend on Wednesday. She downplayed the incident in a text message to WFAA, saying, “No one assaulted anyone.” DALLAS — Star NFL linebacker Von Miller assaulted his pregnant girlfriend in a high-rise apartment in Dallas this week, according to multiple law enforcement officials, law enforcement officials and court documents obtained Thursday by WFAA. He is accused of having committed a crime. Dallas police officials confirmed that a warrant had been issued against Miller, a 34-year-old DeSoto native who plays for the Buffalo Bills, for assault on a pregnant…

Dallas-based nonprofits The Commit Partnership and Child Poverty Action Lab's Opportunity 2040 Plan has raised $120 million in partnership with New York-based Blue Meridian Partners. The goal of this initiative is to cut the number of children living in poverty in Dallas County by half and double the number of youth earning a living wage by 2040. “To get here, we worked with trusted partners to create a long-term roadmap that strengthens interventions that benefit the entire Dallas County community,” Opportunity 2040 Fund Chairman John McPherson said in a statement. Stated. “We know this work will take more than a…

Watch the Los Angeles Clippers vs. Dallas Mavericks basketball game at Crypto.com Arena on November 25, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. Note to User: You expressly acknowledge and agree that by downloading or using this photo, you are agreeing to the terms of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Allen Berezovsky/Getty Images)Getty Images Mark Cuban's blockbuster sale of majority ownership of the Dallas Mavericks to Miriam Adelson and the Dumont family is shaking the sports world. In a joint statement released Wednesday afternoon, Adelson and her son-in-law, Patrick Dumont, president and chief operating officer of Las Vegas Sands LVS,…

Three icons of North Texas business made a rare joint public appearance Thursday to talk about transportation, technology and the future. The Dallas Citizens Council's annual meeting promoted technological advancements that could also facilitate improvements in safety and education to prepare the workforce needed as North Texas' population booms. Ross Perot Jr., chairman of Perot Companies and Hillwood Development, moderated the discussion with the chief executives of Southwest Airlines and Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad. Perot was making explosive population estimates. “In 100 years, the population will be 33 million people. By 2130, there will be 33 million people living…

Mortgage firm Mr. Cooper Group may soon be adding to its growing number of sublease offices in the Dallas area.The company is considering putting most of its northwest Dallas headquarters on the rental market.Cooper has more than 175,000 square feet of office space in the Cypress Waters development near LBJ Freeway and Loop Road, just east of Coppell. Founded in 1994, the company was previously known as Nationstar Mortgage.”As Mr. Cooper transitions to a 'home-centric' remote environment to provide additional flexibility for our team members, we are strategically evaluating our office footprint and exploring sublease possibilities. We have partnered with…

Born and raised in DFW, I feel like I'm part of a special club these days. Growing up here, I remember riding around the city in what was commonly known as the “Little White House” with my mother, who was a real estate agent for Ebby Halliday, and watching the city change. I remember seeing the West Village when it was an empty lot. I also remember when there was almost nothing north of Route 635. And I'm just a millennial. jack stone Over the past three decades, the entire DFW region has transformed into a vast hub of activity,…