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    City News Roundup

    Big boom coming to East Dallas and more city news this week

    Teresa Gubbins
    Jan 17, 2015 | 12:51 pm

    East Dallasites need to prepare for a big boom, and freeway aficionados get a chance to see TxDOT up close and personal. Here are some of the biggest things that happened in city-of-Dallas news this week:

    Sam's Club implosion
    Despite neighbor protests, Trammell Crow is taking the next club-footed step on its dastardly plan to build a Sam's Club in East Dallas with a building implosion scheduled for February 1. Executive VP and general counsel Scott A. Dyche wrote a "Dear Neighbor" letter outlining its game plan, which will begin at 8 am on a Sunday morning, when it blocks off Carroll Avenue between 75 and Coles Manor Place.

    They describe the noise level as "similar to or less than a thunderstorm overhead."

    "There will be a loud, albeit brief, series of explosions and noise as the building collapses, as well as a temporary dust cloud in the immediate vicinity," the letter reads. "You should close your windows and outside vents, and turn off your heating/AC for 30 minutes. We also recommend that you bring your pets indoors during the implosion and for a period of 30 minutes thereafter."

    Even if you don't live in that neighborhood, doesn't that seem horribly galling?

    Animal cruelty unit
    New Dallas County district attorney Susan Hawk went to the SPCA in a photo-op to announce her intent to expand the Animal Cruelty Unit in her office. The unit was started in 2012 and currently has one prosecutor and one investigator. She's planning on adding a second prosecutor, plus a community liaison to work with animal rights advocates and solicit funding.

    Freeway shopping list
    Armed with a $1.6 billion purse granted to the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) in the November 2014 election, officials are making their shopping list of road projects to build. Those include a direct roadway between State Highway 360 and Interstate 30 in Arlington, and connectors between the Dallas North Tollway, I-30 and Woodall Rodgers Freeway. TxDOT will hold meetings for public input on January 20 at 4 pm at its Dallas and Fort Worth district offices.

    No love for Southern Gateway
    Dallas City Council members Scott Griggs and Dwaine Caraway held a meeting on January 13 to discuss the Southern Gateway Project, TxDOT's attempt to improve traffic flow on I-35E in Oak Cliff. The design includes converting some HOV lanes to toll lanes, widening main and frontage lanes, and more.

    The project would rebuild I-35 from Colorado Boulevard to US 67 and add reversible toll lanes, the first toll lanes in Dallas south of downtown. So if you didn't want to deal with the traffic, you could pay to bypass it, similar to what's being built on the LBJ Freeway and I-30.

    The meeting attracted about 80 people; none of them like the idea.

    Before the Sam's Club can be built in East Dallas, implosions must happen.

    Sam's Club rendering
    Photo courtesy of Trammell Crow
    Before the Sam's Club can be built in East Dallas, implosions must happen.
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    Affluent Dallas neighbor boasts 4th biggest holiday spenders in 2025

    Amber Heckler
    Nov 20, 2025 | 9:03 am
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    Flower Mound residents are expected to spend over $3,900 on their Christmas gifts this year, WalletHub found.

    Residents of Dallas' well-to-do suburb Flower Mound aren't stressing about stretching their holiday spending this year: A new report from WalletHub found Flower Mound residents have the fourth-largest holiday budgets in the nation for 2025.

    Gift givers in flourishing Flo-Mo are expected to spend $3,941 on their festive presents, says WalletHub's 2025 "Holiday Budgets by City" report.

    To determine the U.S. cities with the biggest holiday budgets, WalletHub's experts compared 558 cities across five categories: Income, age, a debt-to-income ratio, residents' monthly income-to-monthly expenses ratio, and their savings-to-monthly expenses ratio.

    According to the study's methodology, a consumer is considered to be in a "comfortable financial position to engage in holiday spending if they have: 1) enough emergency savings to cover at least six months of expenses and 2) a debt-to-income ratio smaller than 22 percent for a renter or 43 percent for a homeowner."

    The three U.S. cities that outrank Flower Mound with the loftiest holiday budgets are Palo Alto, California (No. 1); Mountain View, California (No. 2); and Newton, Massachusetts (No. 3). Palo Alto residents are expected to spend nearly $4,500 on their Christmas gifts this year, with the latter cities budgeting for $4,266 and $4,069, respectively.

    Flower Mound's current holiday budget is $400 higher than it was in 2024, when the city ranked No. 7 in WalletHub's top-10 list of cities with the biggest holiday spenders. It's also higher than the $3,485 projected budget from the 2023 report, when Flower Mound ranked No. 3 nationally.

    Festive neighbor Frisco has continued to slip farther outside of the top-10 for 2025 after previously ranking as the city with the third-highest holiday budgets in 2023. Frisco first fell into No. 11 last year, but now currently sits one spot lower as the U.S. city with the 12th largest holiday budget.

    Even with a continued dip in the rankings, Frisco residents are still expected to spend a lofty $3,491 on their holiday presents this year. They're definitely competing with Mr. Claus for the "best Christmas present" award.

    Dallas proper moved up the list into No. 193 with a $1,559 projected holiday budget this year, or $153 more than last year's budget. Fort Worth ranked No. 144 nationally with residents expected to spend $1,719 on their gifts, or $637 more than the previous year.

    These are the projected holiday budgets for cities elsewhere across North Texas:

    • No. 28 – Allen ($3,055)
    • No. 40 – Plano ($2,812)
    • No. 55 – McKinney ($2,502)
    • No. 56 – Carrollton ($2,498)
    • No. 82 – Richardson ($2,146)
    • No. 96 – North Richland Hills ($1,985)
    • No. 106 – Lewisville ($1,928)
    • No. 136 – Irving ($1,772)
    • No. 144 – Fort Worth ($1,719)
    • No. 150 – Grand Prairie ($1,703)
    • No. 172 – Denton ($1,621)
    • No. 182 – Arlington ($1,557)
    • No. 277 – Mesquite ($1,323)
    Regardless of the dollar amount, North Texans should pay attention to their spending and pick a budget that works for their financial situation, experts say. The National Retail Federation expects holiday sales to surpass $1 trillion this year, and the report warns credit card debt is a major challenge faced by many Americans as they plan their holiday shopping sprees.

    "The holidays bring plenty of joy, but they can also spark seasonal stress, much of it tied to overspending," the report's author wrote. "In Q3 2025, the average household carried $10,227 in credit card debt, up 2.3 percent from the year before, according to WalletHub data. Adding holiday shopping on top of that can quickly increase the financial strain, especially if balances roll into the new year."

    Other Texas cities that made it into the top 100 biggest holiday spenders include:

    • No. 19 – Pearland ($3,277)
    • No. 20 – The Woodlands ($3,265)
    • No. 22 – Sugar Land ($3,191)
    • No. 31 – Cedar Park ($3,028)
    • No. 34 – League City ($2,997)
    • No. 47 – Round Rock ($2,641)
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