Articles for January 16th, 2009
Defunct Metro Grill Restaurant Owners Lose Big Lawsuit
Owners Mark and Dirk Kelcher closed Metro Grill and allegedly filed for bankruptcy. Then they did a bunch of bad stuff and got caught. Read all about it.
Check Out Your Neighborhood’s Home Prices
Okay, maybe not your neighborhood. More precisely, the area your neighborhood is in. The DMN has a nifty little map that charts 4th quarter sales. HP is up 3 percent. Oak Lawn is down gazillions.
Triceratops Skull To Be Auctioned On Sunday
A Triceratops skull found in Eastern Montana will be auctioned off on Sunday, through Dallas-based Heritage Auction Galleries. Bidding for the skull starts at $210,000.
File Under: The Best Humor Usually Has A Kernel of Truth
Texas Instruments CEO Rich K. Templeton drew the biggest laugh at the Dallas Regional Chamber’s annual meeting this afternoon at the Fairmont Hotel in Dallas:
“If you read the newspaper, you see a lot of negative economic news and gloom and doom and ‘Oh! My gosh!’ it’s … mostly true.”
In reply, the crowd erupted in laughter. Templeton said that bad times will pass, “but it passes with people who have energy and passion and who invest and get educated, and we go out and innovate new technologies to create different futures going forward. That’s why it’s exciting that we have a community like the Dallas area to do that work in.”
Breaking News (Must Credit Nancy): Highland Park Village Under Contract
Must I do everything around here? You might want to do a sobriety check on your sources, Tim. Ray Washburne is leading a partnership that has Highland Park Village under contract. The deal will close in March. Al Hill Jr. is not on the contract. There are more than a few “undotted ‘i’s.” You’re close on the price. Nice work. (Can I be on Gordon’s show now?)
Breaking News (Must Credit FrontBurner): Highland Park Village Sold for $150 Million
I have it from multiple sources that Highland Park Village has been sold to the Al Hill Jr. Trust for $150 million. The only thing that remains to complete the transaction are a few undotted “i”s.
Correction: It ain’t All Hill Jr. Same family, different Hunt. Info to follow.
Friday Afternoon Random Question (1/16/09)
Why does everyone keep calling Preston Hollow a suburb?
Yup, Jaap’s In Line For A Makeover
For a guy one FB commenter said looks like “the love child of Mickey Rourke and Tom Petty,” I guess I don’t have much room to talk. But for all those who’ve been frightened by the giant mug of DSO maestro Jaap van Zweden staring down at them all over town, take heart. Dallas Symphony Orchestra insiders say the DSO is planning to “soften” the maestro’s image when the next campaign rolls around. First time I saw the Jaap banners–there may be 100 of them around–I thought Orwell’s Big Brother had been installed for sure.
Mike Modano: “We’re Stacking Them Deep, Selling Them Cheap at N9NE”
Apparently his Hully & Mo duties leave Mike Modano enough time to pitch for other restaurants, too. He just signed on as the spokesman for N9NE. [insert snarky comment about Stars performance, the gist of which comes from five minutes of googling to find out how the Stars are doing this season] Full release after the jump.
Rod Dreher As Ombudsman
When do you ID an assailant’s ethnicity? Rod Dreher is calling PC BS on his own paper. Strong move, sir.
Highland Park Village To Be Sold?
Our colleagues at Park Cities People having been working the rumor for a while that the ne plus ultra of high-end Dallas shopping, Highland Park Village, is about to change hands. It’s looking more and more like a possibility.
Rolling Out The Daria Place Welcome Wagon
Love ‘em or hate ‘em, the Bushes will soon be in our midst. And, like any new residents, they’ll need some nuts and bolts tips about their new surroundings. So, listen up, W and Laura: Your city councilperson is Mitch Rasansky. You can renew your Texas driver’s licenses at 11411 Northwest Highway. Registration for Barney and Miss Beasley will be $7 for each dog. And garbage pickup on Daria Place happens Mondays and Thursdays (they’ll pick up your brush the third week of the month). Anybody got any other hints for the former First Couple? Where should they get their hair cut, buy books, take their cleaning, get their shoes repaired? (Sorry, W, didn’t mean to mention shoes.)
Hully & Mo Opens for Lunch & Dinner
Mike Modano and Brett Hull have opened the doors to Hully & Mo. (Don’t expect Buffalo burger on the menu today. They ran out after last night. Hi, Lindy!) Details.
Behringer Harvard: What Recession?
Speaking of Trammell Crow, we have a new commercial real estate legend in the making. Robert Behringer’s Behringer Harvard raised $3 billion for its newest REIT. Amazingly, $530 million of that came in the last four months.
How Come There Always Has To Be A ‘North Texas Connection?’
tobd69 posted that blog comment on an Associated Press story on the Dallas Morning News web site about the pilot of the crashed US Airways airliner having come from Denison. I think it’s a fair question. Seems no matter what the story, North Texas always seems to get its snout into it somehow. Is it because North Texans are so great … or is it that there are way too many reporters with way too much time on their hands? Or is it an incredible case of serendipity?
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