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COPYRIGHT 2005 The Dallas Morning News
Feb. 25--City officials heralded their success in southern Dallas on Thursday, presenting economic statistics that paint a brighter picture of development south of Interstate 30.
"We believe some of our initiatives in southern Dallas are beginning to pay for themselves," Assistant City Manager Ryan Evans said.
And if it hadn't been for development in the southern sector, Evans said, Dallas' tax base would have dropped between 2003 and 2004.
"In the six years I've been here, I finally feel like we're making headway," council member Leo Chaney said.
The 78-page presentation, delivered Thursday before the council's business and commerce committee, offers an inventory of recent activity in the southern sector -- maps, graphics and a roster of city actions and private developments.
The report is the most complete recent accounting of southern sector economic activity compiled at City Hall, where budget cuts have decimated its economic development staff. The city last year did restore the department's budget back to 2001 levels.
But it is still hard to evaluate the sector's overall performance because the report does not show how key economic factors in southern Dallas compare with similar measurements with the rest of the city or with the rest of North Texas.
For example, the discussion of employment lists jobs created and jobs retained as one category: It's not...
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