This isn’t new, since it was more or less announced in October, but now it’s a done deal: the Dallas Morning News is leaving its longtime home on Young Street and moving next door to the soon-to-reopen Statler Hilton, in the spot formerly occupied by the Dallas Central Library. To answer your obvious biggest question, the very first thing that clearly sprang to mind, here’s Belo CFO Katy Murray:
“We’re looking at how to incorporate the Rock of Truth into the new facility,” Murray said [referring to the three-story stone tablet on the facade of the Young Street building which led to some employees pretty much out of nowhere recently calling the actual building that — like it had been common parlance for decades, even though I’d literally never heard anyone do that — or The Rock, which sounds cool, but come on [NB: Since it has been on Netflix, I can now do an almost-perfect impression of Sean Connery saying, “Gentleman, welcome to The Rock”]]. “We know it can be taken off, but it is three stories. Over the next six months, we’ll be finalizing those plans. The Rock of Truth in some form will be coming with us.”
Anyway, downtown denizens are likely to see a certain someone who is absolutely not pictured here stomping around that area of the CBD sometime in the late spring or early summer.
