Irving withholds $44M from Music Factory developer, Kavanaugh confirmation looks like a lock: Your Friday evening roundup

October 05,  2018 By Tommy Cummings and Wayne Carter Good evening! Here is a look at the top headlines of the day. 🔎 Prefer the online view? It's [here](. Toyota Music Factory in Irving has brought in several musical acts to its Texas Lottery Plaza stage. (Nathan Hunsinger/Staff Photographer) DEVELOPMENT Irving is withholding $44 million until developer finishes Toyota Music Factory In a 5-4 vote, the Irving City Council decided late Thursday to [withhold a $44 million reimbursement for the developer of the Toyota Music Factory.]( Although the $180-million entertainment venue has brought the likes of Kirk Franklin, Reba McEntire and ZZ Top to Las Colinas, the council was unhappy with an unfinished storefront on the property. "I've poured my heart and soul into the complex. I can't seem to get there," said developer Noah Lazes, president of ARK Group. [ARK Group has been at odds with the city for more than a month over whether the project is complete]( under the terms of their 2015 agreement. Centerpiece project: Princeton [is getting a new mixed-use town center development with housing and commercial properties.]( Richardson development: Owners of an aging office building at the south gateway to Richardson are [working on plans for a new mixed-use development.]( Living the high life: A new 22-story high-rise just off McKinney Avenue is [aimed at the top slice of Dallas' rental market.]( kavanaugh hearings Maine Sen. Susan Collins backs Brett Kavanaugh, paving way for Supreme Court confirmation Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine said Friday she will vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination, [all but ensuring that a deeply riven Senate will elevate the conservative jurist to the nation's highest court]( despite allegations that he sexually assaulted women decades ago. The dramatic Senate floor announcement by perhaps the chamber's most moderate Republican ended most of the suspense over a tortuous, election-season battle that had left Kavanaugh's fate in doubt for nearly a month after the first accusation against him. It all but assured a victory for President Donald Trump's quest to move the Supreme Court rightward, perhaps for decades, and a satisfying win for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and the GOP's conservative base. The Senate's showdown roll call confirmation vote is expected Saturday afternoon. Editorial: Confirming Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court [is the right decision.]( ARLINGTON UTA student killed in floodwaters was rafting with friends, police records show The University of Texas at Arlington student who died when he was caught in floodwaters was [rafting with a group of friends during heavy storms on Sept. 21, according to records uncovered by]([The Shorthor](n, UTA's student-run newspaper. Alan Amaya, 23, was sharing a green alligator inflatable when he was knocked off and pulled into a pipe in the 700 block of West Nedderman Drive in Doug Russell Park, the Shorthorn reported. The student paper said it obtained UTA's police report through a Freedom of Information Act request. [Amaya shouted for help when he fell off the inflatable, but it took a while for his friends to realize he wasn't joking](, according to the police report. Motorcyclist injured: A motorcyclist was [hospitalized in critical condition after striking a bridge pillar]( Friday morning in the Stemmons Corridor. ID sought: Irving detectives [released a compilation video Friday of a suspect in connection with a fatal hit-and-run]( that left a woman dead Tuesday. Guilty plea: A Sherman [doctor who prescribed pain meds that led to 7 overdose deaths pleaded guilty]( to drug charges. (Shaban Athuman/Staff Photographer) Photo of the Day The building at the corner of Canton and Walton streets has been stripped of its shabby gray shingles and faded maroon window frames; the tin-metal awning over the front entrance is gone. Metro columnist Robert Wilonksy remembers it as the mid-1990s home of Naomi's, a tiny country-and-western outpost in the rock-club scene of Deep Ellum where acts like the Old 97s and Eleven Hundred Springs frontman Matt Hillyer cut their teeth. [And he's worried about its future.]( editors' picks - Unfriendly skies? A Rockwall family says they were removed from an American Airlines flight in Dallas [because their autistic son became upset during boarding.]( - Chapter 11: Houston-based Mattress Firm [plans to close as many as 700 stores as part of a prepackaged bankruptcy.]( - Scary find: A couple walking in their Frisco neighborhood say [they came across loaded gun — with the safety off]( — across the street from a school. - Xs in Texas: Remember when the X-Men [visited the State Fair of Texas?]( - Does your neighborhood flood? This map shows where Dallas [plans to improve]([flood protection.]( - Security risk: Most Wi-Fi routers in the U.S. [are vulnerable to cybercrime](, technology columnist Jim Rossman writes. - Weather: A storm’s brewing near the Gulf of Mexico, [but Texans shouldn’t worry about it.Â]( Finally... Casey Gerald went from South Oak Cliff to Yale and Harvard. It nearly destroyed him Casey Gerald was born to run. His dad, Rod Gerald, had been a star quarterback and wide receiver at Ohio State under legendary coach Woody Hayes. Casey became a speedy defensive back for South Oak Cliff High School, where he played well enough to get into Yale. Casey grew up wondering whether his father would be home or out scoring drugs, or locked up. Or if his mother, suffering from manic depression, would ever come home. These facts of his life kept him running as fast as he could toward high achievement: Yale, Harvard Business School, Wall Street. He even considered running for Congress. Then, one day a few years back, he looked in the mirror and realized he didn't recognize the guy staring back. He had just appeared on the cover of Fast Company magazine and on the cable talk show "Morning Joe." He was about to give a TED Talk. And he was miserable. He sat at the table of a friend in New York and wept. "I'm so alone," he whispered to himself. That was around the time [he stopped running and started writing.]( [Subscribe to our Real Estate newsletter]( 👋 That's all for this evening! For up-to-the-minute news and analysis, check out [DallasNews.com](. Share the love! If you like this newsletter, please [check out our other newsletters here](. Do you have feedback? 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