Sam Kartalis

Forget the mounds of traffic statistics and reports from public institutions and the media. Get into your favorite mode of transportation and dare to drive from downtown Dallas to U.S. 380, or vice versa, during morning and evening rush hours.

Retail developers are planning much less spec space, and restaurants are proliferating. They have become secondary anchors.

Many people who are smarter than me have readily shared their theories, backed by mounds of research, that explain in great detail the impending doomsday. I’m more like David Letterman in that we both see and explain grave issues with 10 distinct, simple points of recognition.

Are the days of the local/regional commercial brokerage companies and their cadre of entrepreneurial Independent contractors going the way of the dinosaur? How about the developers?

Much has been written these past few months about changes at the Henry S. Miller Co. My partners at Novus Realty Advisors and I left the firm last fall to go out on our own, after decades at Miller. I wanted to take this opportunity to pay tribute to the company we left behind and to share memories that I will forever cherish.