If you’ve ever driven down Henderson between Belmont and Ross, windows up and sidearm at the ready, you’ll know what Jim Schutze is talking about in his Observer column this week — what a difference a day or two make for that street. Jim talks with the Andres brothers, whose family seems to own just about every other block in East Dallas, about their role in the ongoing and remarkable transformation of Henderson from riff-raff into ultra-cool. Schutze raises an interesting point, too, about the city’s seemingly never-ending subsidies of downtown construction — when is enough enough downtown, and how is that the rings around downtown are doing better without the city stipends? Angela Hunt talks about her view on subsidies/tax abatements on her blog, too, although her focus is more on South Dallas neighborhoods. Both Schutze and Hunt are wandering toward the same question, though: Do we need to be taking a harder look at where and to whom the city is handing out money? And how much money should we be handing out when it appears that smart developers like the Andres family are making a go of areas like Henderson without much city assistance?