Downtown Dallas’ future is being discussed by everyone in town in hyperbolic terms. It needs saving. It’s doomed. Everyone is leaving. The only way to save it is to tear down City Hall and replace it with (checks notes) whoops, not a stadium.
I’ll tell you what I see, as a person who visits restaurants full-time. This spring, seven new lunch spots opened in downtown Dallas.
I could get on a soapbox here and point out that the billionaires won’t be the ones to “save” downtown. I could remind you that the real saviors will be the people moving downtown, living there, opening businesses there, and committing their days to the neighborhood. I could muse about the effectiveness of grassroots campaigns compared to tablets handed down from the Park Cities mountaintop…