Downtown Dallas Inc. stepping up security, homeless outreach for summer
The operation also will support cleanup and code-enforcement efforts aimed at improving overall quality of life downtown.
A Downtown Dallas Inc. public safety officer patrols Pacific Plaza on Wednesday.(Tom Fox / Staff Photographer)
9:01 PM on Jun 30, 2021 CDT Updated at 10:15 PM on Jun 30, 2021 CDT
With activity in Dallas’ central business district picking up as the pandemic eases, Downtown Dallas Inc. is launching an operation this summer to improve public safety.
The economic development group is planning to partner with law enforcement to add security and expand homelessness-outreach efforts. The operation also will support cleanup and code-enforcement efforts to help improve the overall quality of life downtown.
National Chili Day is today, and even if fake holidays are silly and winter s bite left us almost as quickly as it arrived, it’s still a good time to eat a bowl of chili in Dallas. (In Texas, any day is a good day for chili.) I myself like to celebrate Texas Independence Day, March 3, every year with the state dish of Texas.
Dallas has a history with this particular dish and there’s no shortage of restaurants that serve it.
National restaurant chain Chili’s was born in Dallas, and their bowl isn’t half bad. Tolbert’s in Grapevine offers the bowl of red that launched the Terlingua Chili Festival. Plano’s Holy Grail Pub has served their nice-and-spicy ghost pepper chili for over a decade.