Hoteliers launch effort to block Dallas Convention Center hotel
A small group of area hoteliers Tuesday launched a petition drive intended to trigger a public referendum on whether city government should build a publicly funded Dallas Convention Center Hotel. The...
View ArticleAnti-convention center hotel radio ads now airing
We’ve received a few reports that the group Citizens Against the Taxpayer-Owned Hotel has this morning begun radio advertisements promoting their cause. Don’t have a script or a dollar amount yet —...
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Pro-Dallas Convention Center hotel group to form Wednesday
A number of Dallas politicians and businesspeople will on Wednesday announce they’re establishing an organization to counter the efforts of a small, but well-heeled group of hoteliers and real estate...
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‘Build the Hotel’ group kicks off effort to promote planned Dallas Convention...
As expected, a coalition of Dallas politicians and businesspeople today formed an organization dedicated to promoting a publicly owned Dallas Convention Center hotel, then conducted a veritable pep...
View ArticleHow much money are Dallas Convention Center hotel interest groups raising and...
Despite what’s already an expensive battle over whether Dallas should build a publicly owned convention center hotel, we won’t know until next year who is bankrolling these organizations, or how much...
View ArticleCitizens Against the Taxpayer-Owned Hotel leaders to submit petition...
An organization attempting to block construction of a publicly owned Dallas Convention Center hotel will submit Thursday nearly 60,000 petition signatures to City Hall — an action almost assuring a...
View ArticleCitizens Against the Taxpayer-Owned Hotel submits petition signatures
A line of young, attractive men and women in powder blue shirts this morning hauled in 13 cases of signatures into Dallas City Hall — signatures that the group Citizens Against the Taxpayer-Owned...
View ArticleConvention hotel opponents to Dallas city secretary: Don’t screw up
Along with nearly 60,000 signatures Citizens Against the Taxpayer-Owned Hotel submitted today to Dallas City Secretary Deborah Watkins is a letter from group spokesman Brooks Love — himself a former...
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Build the Hotel organization: Signature gathering drive ‘manipulative,...
Build the Hotel, a group backing city efforts to construct a publicly owned Dallas Convention Center hotel, are calling foul on the methods used by a hotel opposition group to collect petition...
View ArticleNew advertisement by Dallas Convention Center hotel opponents
Now that the Citizens Against the Taxpayer-Owned Hotel group appears primed to trigger a citywide referendum on a publicly owned Dallas Convention Center hotel, they’re thanking the tens of thousands...
View ArticleThe final count: 60,409 petition signatures collected by Citizens Against the...
That’s the word from Brooks Love, spokesman for the anti-Dallas Convention Center hotel group. Previously, the group said it submitted a number just shy of 60,000 to the Dallas City Secretary’s Office...
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Ron Natinsky and Anne Raymond on the Dallas Convention Center hotel’s...
Two very different perspectives on the conceptual design of the proposed Dallas Convention … [visit site to read more]
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Come petitions, referenda or lawsuits, Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert believes...
The Dallas City Council’s plan for a Convention Center hotel is such: select a private operator in November, sign a development agreement in December and sell revenue bonds to fund construction in...
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Taxpayer bill for Dallas Convention Center hotel petition certification: More...
Dallas taxpayers will foot a $41,125.55 bill for non-routine costs — overtime, overhead, printing — associated with the Dallas City Secretary’s Office certifying a petition aiming to block City Hall’s...
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Citizens Against the Taxpayer Owned Hotel not against raising serious cash
Citizens Against the Taxpayer Owned Hotel, led by real estate mogul Harlan Crow and top executive Anne Raymond, raised nearly $1 million to fuel their efforts to block the construction of a publicly...
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Opponents of Dallas Convention Center hotel file injunction in district court
Citizens Against the Taxpayer Owned Hotel has filed an injunction against the city of Dallas to stop construction of a planned and publicly owned Dallas Convention Center hotel, according to court...
View ArticleJudge denies convention hotel restaining order, Dallas presses forward with...
The Dallas City Council is poised Wednesday to approve separate operating and development agreements for a planned Dallas Convention Center hotel despite a flurry of ultimately unsuccessful legal...
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Harlan Crow, benefactor of anti-Dallas Convention Center hotel effort, has...
Dallas real estate mogul Harlan Crow and his family have donated more than $900,000 through last year in an effort to derail a planned, publicly owned Dallas Convention Center hotel, according to city...
View ArticleIt’s official: Pair of Dallas City Charter amendments on the May 9 ballot
The action was largely a formality. But without debate or discussion, the Dallas City Council just unanimously ordered a special election for two proposed amendments to the Dallas City Charter. The...
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Tom Leppert, Anne Raymond clash in first Dallas Convention Center hotel debate
In their first face-to-face debate, Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert and real estate executive Anne Raymond sparred over whether the city government should build a publicly owned Dallas Convention Center...
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