Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Katy Trail 5k May 13th

   That time of year again . Time for the Katy Trail 5k on Thursday May 13th . Registration began on March 1st so get signed up already. You might want to begin walking the trail too. Red Mango  yogurt , 2811 Mc Kinney Ave, will be donating to the Katy Trail on the 2nd Wednesday of each month. That will be March     10th this month. 20% of the proceeds will go to the Katy Trail. If you are a bird watcher you might want to check out the trail as this is a great time of the year on the trail.
   Savor Dallas, savordallas.com, is this weekend and you can still get tickets to the events. Friday March 5th and Saturday the 6th you can enjoy the Arts,Wine and Food. This is also Target Saturday at the Nasher Sculpture Center . There is free admission starting at 10am. Check out the web page at nashersculpturecenter.org .
   For those of you that like construction web-cams check out these two sites. Woodallrodgerspark.org and trinityrivercorridor.org . The Trinity river site will give you a great view of the new Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge and Downtown Dallas. This site is not always live ,but, it has been updating recently. The other web-cam is the construction of the Woodall Rodgers Park and it has a birds eye view of the construction.

March winds bring April showers that bring May flowers .    

Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Hank Haney Leaves Uptown

   Hank Haney golf complex is leaving the Uptown neighborhood and moving to Market Center off 35. Should be a good location for them and has great access to 35. They are moving so that the City of Dallas
can extend two streets and maybe finish the trolley turn at Cityplace.
   Oak Grove and Noble streets are to be extended to Blackburn sometime latter this year. The City of Dallas has another huge shortfall in revenue for 2010-11 budget year . The money to extend the streets will come from the Cityplace TIF which expires at the end of 2012. Since there are no planned buildings in the near future, Mary Shiels Hospital is the exception, for Cityplace or West Village the money collected will be used to expand the streets.
   The MATA is hoping that 2010 is the year that the trolley turn around is completed. The large iron structure, in the field next to trolley stop, is the trolley turnaround and it has been sitting there for many years.  There is also money earmarked for a new Dart West side entrance. At this time a little money is being used to build a public stairway from Blackburn to the Katy Trail.
   So long Hank Haney you will be missed by many. Good Luck in your new location.

I think spring may actually start this week just a little early . Enjoy !