Episode 2 - Downtown’s Reality Check

Episode 2 digs into whether Downtown Dallas is collapsing or simply being repriced in real time. We unpack the vacancy narrative, AT&T’s departure, crime perception, flight to Uptown and the suburbs, and what moves like Morgan Stanley’s actually signal.The episode isn’t about panic or optimism—it’s about leverage, capital, and adaptation. Is downtown structurally breaking, or is it shedding outdated assumptions? And if Dallas is winning as a region, does it matter if the core has to shrink before it stabilizes?