Lagoonfest Texas will feature $2.2 million in improvements thanks to a significant increase in investor funding following the success of last year’s Summer Lagoonfest. The event opens May 28.

North Texas’ pseudo-beach love may have its roots in the unlikeliest of places: Dallas City Hall. In 1978 when famed architect I.M. Pei’s Dallas City Hall opened, residents unleashed a torrent ...

The latest plan calls for 1,200 apartment units, down from 1,600 in prior proposals, along with 1 million square feet of commercial space, a hotel and convention center and the lagoon.