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The Real Estate Council
Last week's announcement of CFT's Housing Impact Fund featured speakers and attendees including, left to right, BFS Advisory Group President Debra Brennan Tagg, CFT Chief Strategy and Insights Officer Nadine Dechausay, CFT President and CEO Wayne White, Dallas City Manager Kim Bizor Tolbert, DPD Chief Daniel C. Comeaux, and CFT Board Chair Connie Blass O'Neill. [Photo: CFT]
Communities Foundation of Texas Launches $50M Initiative to Tackle Dallas’ Housing Crisis
by Lance Murray | Nov 5, 2025
The foundation's initial housing strategy centers around three pillars: partnership and policy, production, and preservation—a combination of strategies it said has proven effective in other cities. More than $4 million in early grants and investments have already been made, amid hopes that future matching grants could create "a $100 million Housing Impact Fund dedicated to lasting change."
by Lance Murray |
Oct 9, 2024
Jamee Jolly succeeds Linda McMahon, who left The Real Estate Council earlier this year to take the helm as the inaugural CEO at the Dallas Economic Development Corp.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 8, 2023
LPA Design Studios has hired D. Alex John, Jr. as an associate principal and design director of the firm’s growing Dallas commercial studio.
A veteran Dallas design leader, John will lead design teams on a wide range of projects, including commercial, science and technology, civic and cultural, residential, and mixed-use developments....
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by Lance Murray |
Oct 28, 2022
In this week’s roundup of hires, promotions, and accolades in North Texas, you’ll also find news from National HME, Brinker International, Robin Autopilot, GlassView, TPG, Weitzman, and others.
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Mattye Gouldsby Jones, TREC PAC Chair / Attorney, Coats & Rose
Mattye Gouldsby Jones on Opportunities in Affordable Housing in Dallas-Fort Worth
by Sandra Engelland | Mar 16, 2022
There's interest by developers from across the country to build affordable housing here, says Jones, a director at Coats Rose and public policy chair at The Real Estate Council.
Stakeholders can embrace the opportunity, the attorney says. The investment in affordable housing "will be catalytic and will beget economic vibrancy."
Stakeholders can embrace the opportunity, the attorney says. The investment in affordable housing "will be catalytic and will beget economic vibrancy."
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by Kevin Cummings |
Mar 4, 2022
The Dallas-based Real Estate Council has announced the lineup of its 2022 executive committee and board of directors.
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by Quincy Preston |
Sep 18, 2020
Donations are being made through AT&T's "Believe Dallas" initiative.
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by Natalie Le |
Jun 19, 2019
Last week, TREC's Associate Leadership Council Class of 2019, Bike Friendly South Dallas, and Cornerstone Baptist Church opened the We-Cycle Resource Center in the Forest District. It's the latest milestone in TREC’s efforts to spur community-driven development.
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WiredScore's Wired Certification will be the standard in the city of Dallas. [Photo by Lance Murray]
It’s a Connection: Dallas Adopts WiredScore’s Building Connectivity Ratings Platform
by Lance Murray | Nov 13, 2018
Dallas becomes first flagship city for Wired Certification in the Southwest, giving the real estate industry a powerful new tool to market the region worldwide.
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by Bill San Antonio |
Oct 10, 2018
The PRO Neighborhoods grant will be used to create a roadmap for bolstering equitable progress in three vulnerable Dallas neighborhoods: the Forest District in Southern Dallas/Fair Park, “The Bottom” neighborhood in East Oak Cliff, and West Dallas.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 26, 2018
Finalists will make their real estate pitches to investors during the live event on Sept. 27.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jan 25, 2018
From formalized accelerator pitch days for startups to events encouraging social innovation, here are the notable events helping bring ideas to reality in North Texas.
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TREC members will vote for one of these three projects next week, Nov. 14, to be the recipient of the new three-year, $1 million grant initiative.
TREC Announces Finalists for Dallas Catalyst Project
by Bill San Antonio | Nov 8, 2017
TREC members will vote for one of these three projects next week, Nov. 14, to be the recipient of the new three-year, $1 million grant initiative.
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by Nicholas Sakelaris |
Nov 3, 2017
All three finalists won investments from the sharks in The Real Estate Council Shark Tank event Thursday night at Gilley’s Dallas.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Nov 2, 2017
Browse our curated selection of events to plan your next week — and beyond.
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by Kerry Curry |
Oct 26, 2017
The park unified Dallas' urban core, and became an instant catalyst for development around its edges.
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