DMN building sale falls through, Citizens Council ending endorsements, courage in a courtroom: Your Monday evening roundup

December 10, 2018 By Wayne Carter Good evening! Here is a look at the top headlines of the day. 🔎 Prefer the online view? It's [here](. A $33 million deal for The Dallas Morning News' longtime downtown campus has fallen through after Amazon bypassed the D-FW area for its HQ2 project. (Rose Baca/Staff Photographer) Real estate Developer backs out on buying historic Dallas Morning News campus after Amazon HQ2 bypasses D-FW A development group [is dropping its plans to purchase the historicÂ]([Dallas Morning News]([ building]( in downtown Dallas. An affiliate of Dallas developer KDC and investor Hoque Global signed a contract in October to pay $33 million for The News' more than 7-acre former campus on the southwest side of downtown. The developers pitched the property at Young and Houston streets as a site for Amazon's second headquarters complex. But Amazon decided to split its $5 billion investment between Washington, D.C., and New York City. The property at 508 Young Street — next door to the Dallas Convention Center and across the street from a rail transit hub at Union Station — is one of the largest development sites in downtown Dallas, with the potential for several million square feet of construction. Winter chill: Dallas is one of the top 10 U.S. markets [hit with a housing slowdown.]( Politics Powerful Dallas business leaders will no longer endorse candidates for mayor, City Council elections From political columnist Gromer Jeffers Jr.: For the first time in decades, leaders of the Dallas Citizens Council, a group of powerful business executives, [will not endorse candidates]([in the mayoral and city council races next year.]( The decision means the group will no longer direct members to pour money into Dallas mayoral and council races, particularly in neighborhoods where they don't live. The 81-year-old Citizens Council has been involved in massive infrastructure projects like Central Expressway, the desegregation of schools, the arts community and the construction of arenas and D/FW Airport. Such goals require support from elected officials, and board members believed backing like-minded candidates would help their efforts. Jere Thompson Jr., chairman of the Citizens Council and CEO of Ambit Energy said the group's opposition to candidates who then became Dallas City Council members stifled its ability to advance an ambitious agenda. "When you alienate people sitting around the horseshoe, it makes our role in making Dallas a better place to live, work and play very challenging," he said. Transportation issues: Dallas ISD stumbled through launching bus service after Dallas County Schools' shutdown, [but leaders say they're turning a corner.]( Guidelive Plano native named one of Time magazine's 'Most Influential Teens of 2018' Plano native Marsai Martin has been named to [Time magazine's list of "Most Influential Teens of 2018."]( Marsai stars as Diane Johnson on black-ish. The 14-year-old is one of 25 teens on the annual list. Marsai has won two NAACP Image awards, a Young Artist award and a Screen Actors Guild ensemble award for her role on black-ish. Next, she will star in and executive produce a movie, Little. Queen of the court: Tennis star Serena Williams launched her fashion collection [with an event in Plano.]( (Louis DeLuca/Staff Photographer) Photo of the Day The Sparkling Scarlett combines a tea-infused simple syrup with prosecco, lemon juice, club soda and mint. Tea leaves are one of the world's oldest ingredients, and tea-infused savory recipes are one of the many ways the leaves have been used throughout history. Plano food blogger Rebecca White shares the recipe for [the Sparkling Scarlett and two dishes]([that include loose-leaf teas as flavoring agents.]( editors' picks - Caught on video: An armed robbery outside a Carrollton home [may be connected to a string of Dallas crimes.]( - Weather: Dallas-Fort Worth will warm slightly [before a cold front brings lows in the 30s and rain.]( - Arlington: A 31-year-old [died after being assaulted by a fellow resident]( at an assisted-living facility, police say. - Travel:  You don't have to move mountains to enjoy a ski trip. Here are some tips from the pros [if you're considering the slopes for the first time](. - Murder warrant: Dallas police are searching for a teenage suspect in a southeast Oak Cliff shooting [that left two people dead and one injured.]( Finally... Young woman shows great courage as ex-Baylor frat president from Garland gets sweet deal From Metro columnist Sharon Grigsby: Justice may have been served Monday in Waco, but as I watched the opposing sides in a sexual assault case walk out of the packed courtroom, it was difficult to initially feel anything but despair. Moments earlier, state District Judge Ralph Strother had accepted a generous plea deal that outgoing McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna made with former Baylor fraternity president and Garland resident Jacob Walter Anderson. The woman who accused Anderson of sexually assaulting her and leaving her face down in her own vomit dissolved into her own lawyer’s embrace. Attorney Vic Feazell steadied her as -- sobbing and trembling -- she tried to absorb the loss. By all appearances, Anderson was the winner here. But in my eyes — and the eyes of the many people worldwide who have supported this young woman through her ordeal — [she is nothing short of a twenty-something superwoman.]( [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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