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I have calls into various folks at City Hall, all of whom are in the council meeting at the moment, for an explanation concerning what, precisely, this piece of land will be used for if and when the parkway is built. And ... where.

If I am not mistaken, this is where part of the "parkway" flies over the levies and connects to I-35E/Tx-183.

That's about 14 grand per resident. It's a good day for Jerry Booze.

Daniel, Jerry's getting $22,744. Some are getting a little more; some, a little less; some, as little as a few hundred.

Where's the outrage? Oh, I guess here. That is a fine example of Googie architecture.

But I'm more worried about Raul and the Longhorn Ballroom on the other side. They are trying to bulldoze Raul's (the property across from the Longhorn) and pay him just the land value. He's a good guy and he's going to get fucked. And then, there will be no parking lot for the Longhorn and they'll lower his occupancy.

Where is the money for this coming from?

There WERE still all-you-can-eat clams on Wed. nights, right?

Perhaps you're confusing it with the Swedish Institute, which was closed down by the cops some time ago.

@ brett

Excellent. This will be the actual CC hotel; a monorail will connect it to the CC itself.

Robert,

See what you can find out about the deal... I remember that there were some "odd" issues surrounding the purchase. For example, why is this particular parcel one of the only ones bought by the city? There's a way to handle stuff that's in the way of highways--- it's called condemnation proceedings.

It would be interesting to know who the "real" prior owner of the hotel was prior to the City's purchase-- it's probably something like "Shady Orange Motel Ventures, L.P.," but see if you can find out who the controlling owner was. I'm guessing it was someone with some very good relations at City Hall, but I'd love you to prove me wrong.

I know someone who lives in this drug addict dump and he got 24k from the city to live down the street. His rent is paid for 2 years at a fairly new extended stay hotel. He feels like he struck the lottery--how sad for Dallas.