is it true that Dallas has big eyes for tiny tract by convention center hotel site?”
Dallas has big eyes for tiny tract by convention center hotel site 12:06 PM CST on Wednesday, January 6, 2010 By RUDOLPH BUSH / The Dallas Morning News rbush@dallasnews.com If you walked past it every day, you still might never notice what could become one of the priciest and most interesting pieces of land in downtown Dallas. It’s a small rectangle of asphalt 25 feet wide and hardly big enough to squeeze a tractor-trailer on. It sits on Young Street, just west of Lamar Street, and is surrounded on three sides by walls protecting the construction site of the city’s convention center hotel. The reason the land’s pricey is because Dallas City Hall wants it. The reason it’s interesting is the city might have to test its powers of eminent domain to get it. “We certainly know there are a number of uses that would make sense” for the land, Assistant City Manager A.C. Gonzalez said. The land isn’t needed to build the hotel. But it will
If you walked past it every day, you still might never notice what could become one of the priciest and most interesting pieces of land in downtown Dallas. [Click image for a larger version] JIM MAHONEY/DMN JIM MAHONEY/DMN A small rectangle of asphalt along Young Street, surrounded by walls on three sides, sits untouched as crews work on the convention center hotel nearby. The City Council agreed to offer the landowners $297,000 for the 2,500-square-foot parcel, but the owners haven’t budged. It’s a small rectangle of asphalt 25 feet wide and hardly big enough to squeeze a tractor-trailer on. It sits on Young Street, just west of Lamar Street, and is surrounded on three sides by walls protecting the construction site of the city’s convention center hotel. The reason the land’s pricey is because Dallas City Hall wants it. The reason it’s interesting is the city might have to test its powers of eminent domain to get it. [Click image for a larger version] COURTNEY PERRY/DMN COURTNEY PERRY
