Agreement 0003119, filed with the Texas Comptroller by Dallas County.
Where a deadline above has passed, no public record exists of whether it was met — not in the Comptroller’s filings, nor in the local government’s own disclosures. That is not evidence of non-compliance. Texas requires nobody to record it.
A local abatement waives only that taxing unit’s share of the property tax bill. School districts, counties, cities and hospital districts each sign separately.
| Field | Value & quoted source | Page |
|---|---|---|
| Granting body | Dallas CountyDallas County, Texas (“County’), duly acting by and through its Commissioners Court | 4 |
| Contracting entity | 1210 South Lamar, LP1210 South Lamar, LP (“Owner’), duly acting by and through its authorized officers | 4 |
| Parent / guarantor | Matthews SouthwestMatthews Southwest, which has previously developed the Omni convention center hotel and converted a former Sears mail order complex into 457 housing units, has announced plans to build a new $39 million, 4-story, 270-unit residential development | 2 |
| Instrument | Tax Abatement AgreementThis Tax Abatement Agreement (“Agreement’) is made and entered into | 4 |
| Governing chapter | Chapter 381, Local Government CodeDaniel, District 1, and seconded by Commissioner John Wiley Price, District 3, the following order was passed and adopted by the Commissioners Court of Dallas County, State of Texas: BRIEFING DATE: 2/18/2014 FUNDING SOURCE: n/a Be it resolved and ordered that the Dallas County Commissioners Court, per Section 381.004 (g) of the Local Government Code, does hereby authorize the provision of a 75%, t | — |
| Capital investment | Not stated in the agreement | — |
| Grant or incentive | Not stated in the agreement | — |
| Jobs committed | Not stated in the agreement | — |
| Wage requirement | Not stated in the agreement | — |
| Square footage | 172,620 square feetBeing a 172,620 square feet or 3.9628 acre tract of land situated in the John Neely Bryan Survey | 12 |
| Acreage | 3.9628 acreBeing a 172,620 square feet or 3.9628 acre tract of land situated in the John Neely Bryan Survey | 12 |
| Performance deadline | January 1, 2017effective no later than January 1, 2017, subject to the project having completed the aforementioned 270 housing units | 1 |
| Expiration | Not stated in the agreement | — |
| Effective date | March 18, 2014EXECUTED this the 18th _dayof___ March , 2014. | 10 |
| Signatory | Mark MotsenbockerMark Motsenbocker | 10 |
| Chain status | Terminal document — no later agreement in the registry names this one as its predecessor | — |
Agreement 0003119 is filed with the Texas Comptroller. Pull the PDF, go to the page number beside any row, and read the sentence. If a figure here does not match the document, tell me and it is corrected the same day.
Where the contract says nothing, the field is left empty rather than filled with a guess.
This is a single agreement. I have read 1,645 of the 4,428 Texas has filed, resolved which have been superseded, and recorded what each commits a company to.
Send me an entity and a county and I will tell you what is on it — quoted, page-cited, checked. Free for the first one.