powerbelly said:
walton91 said:
Kellso said:
riverrataggie said:
Kellso, if the tax revenue falls short I'm sending you a bill. Bc you know they won't cut budgets elsewhere. You just gave them free light it increase taxes.
Back in the 1920's and 30's there were San Antonio residents that were against the city passing a Bond that would secure funding for a major city project called the River Walk.
Why should taxes go up for something no one would ever use?
Who the hell would ever want to vacation in San Antonio?
Do you all remember when Victory Park was a sewage waste facility?
That area looks totally different after the city decided to fund the construction of the American Airlines Center, and develop Victory Park.
Downtown Dallas has made tremendous strides over the past 10-15 years.
10 years ago who would have thought that Downtown Dallas would have a community gathering spot (AT&T Discovery District) that would would put Sundance Square in Ft Worth to shame?
There are 5 parks (Klyde Warren Park, Carpenter Park, Pacific Plaza Park, Main Street Garden Park, West End Square, and the AT&T Discovery District) in the Dallas CBD that were not there in 2010.
Proposition A taxes visitors while making long term improvements to the city.
I voted for this only because of the money that is desperately needed for Fair Park, which should be one of the premier parks in the country. Having said that, the convention center is such a huge waste of money and more importantly a huge waste of land it makes my head hurt. I lived downtown, near the conv ctr, and its an incredible dead spot in downtown. I've never understood sacrificing so much land and its opportunity (and its a lot) for people who don't live here. Dallas would be much better served developing that land into more residential tying it into the Cedars.
Don't be surprised when Fair Park gets the shaft on this deal. It should have been two separate props to make sure Fair park got the proper share.
What if....(and admittedly this is the sort of pie in the sky type of ideas that get floated at developer meetings and Dallas networking functions.......)
What if the South Dallas neighborhoods around Fair Park were gentrified into being a Gay Black neighborhood?
A neighborhood like Bishop Arts full of musicians, artists, eclectics and people comfortable around Gay People....that also happen to be a skip and a corner around a trap house.
The current crack house neighborhoods that surround Fair Park would be moved deeper down in South Dallas around one of the train stations.
This would eliminate the biggest problem that people have with Fair Park....which is the surrounding area.
I've seen plans for a deck park if 1-30 were to ever be trenched. This Deck park would connect the Fair Park area with Deep Ellum.
These are things that might not happen for another 20-30 years, but they are things that are being talked about.
Why couldn't Fair Park be a year round City Park destination like Grant Park in Chicago?
A place with World Class Museums and year round activities like concerts, sporting events and live stock shows instead of limiting all of that to one time a year in October?