The city is getting behind a new economic development plan intended to address long-standing inequities. By Alex Macon Published in FrontBurner May 26, 2021 2:44 pm The Dallas City Council on Wednesday unanimously approved a new economic development policy aimed at bringing economic growth to every part of Dallas, especially historically neglected communities in the southern part of the city. It includes plans to incentivize workforce housing and entrepreneurship and, most notably, calls for the creation of a nonprofit economic development corporation that can legally buy, develop, and market real estate to drum up new business. I sounded a skeptical note when I wrote about this last week—it isn’t the first time the city has pledged to bridge the long-standing divide between northern and southern Dallas. But there are reasons to believe this time is different, many of them outlined today in an editorial from the