June 8, 2026 / 7:04 PM CDT / CBS Texas.

As Dallas council members are set to decide Wednesday whether to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to repair City Hall or abandon it and sell the land, two former mayors are weighing in on the controversy.

Last week, new estimates showed it would cost the city between nearly $532 million to $611 million to make major repairs to the nearly 50-year-old building designed by renowned architect I.M. Pei.