Lilly Watson sits down with her old Ursuline classmate Sarah Crain, Executive Director of Preservation Dallas, for a conversation that starts with high school theater memories and lands squarely in the middle of one of Dallas's biggest civic fights right now; the proposed demolition of I.M. Pei's Dallas City Hall to make way for a new Mavericks arena.
Sarah breaks down the timeline, the billionaire interests, the hotel occupancy tax nobody's talking about, the non-compete clauses that would gut Victory Park, and exactly what Dallas residents can do right now. Plus: grooming in high school theater, dropping out of college for a boy, undiagnosed dyscalculia, surviving the 2008 recession at a bank teller window, and building a career from scratch after divorce.
This one is equal parts personal, political, and deeply Dallas.
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