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Home Tour Central: Harlan Crow Home & Library Highlight of Park Cities...
Last Thursday, Harlan Crow was the keynote speaker at the Park Cities Historical and Preservation Society’s Distinguished Speaker Luncheon. Why? Because his home, the fabulous 4700 Preston Road,...
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Where Are All of Dallas’ Transplants Coming From? Surprise!
Everybody knows Dallas is a city of transplants. You’re as likely to meet someone from Berlin or from Seattle here as you are someone who’s a born-and-raised, cowboy-boot wearin’ Texan. Our city is...
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Anthony Graham: Moving Back to the Mothership, SOUTH of LBJ
Great Western Mortgage’s Realtor of the Week is Anthony Graham of Elite Home Sellers. We sent Jeff Lindigrin up to McKinney to get the scoop on the Iowa-born super Realtor: CD: So are you a native...
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A Dallas Home Tour Cheat Sheet!
April and May are traditionally the best months for home tours, because that’s when houses and gardens look the best! As we have been telling you, there are some fantastic tours coming up starting...
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Dallas Home Tour Inspired Tom Greico-Built Home in Lakewood Heights
Our own Tom Greico, one of our select CandysDirt-approved homebuilders — we are kind of picky about these guys, and we interview folks they have built homes for — has a home that was recently featured...
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Inwood Mortgage Home of the Week: Blow Into This Lennox Lane Beauty With Some...
With the wind blowing and crazy storm forecast on tap for the weekend, I thought we ought to feature a home that was not just beautiful but provided some shelter from the storm! When Gordon Todd and...
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Dallas Shopping Center Revival: A Park for Valley View Mall, Bravo for Belk...
As you may know, the City of Dallas is getting very serious about saving two near-comatose shopping malls: Valley View Center at the intersection of LBJ and Preston in the north, and Southwest Center...
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Margaret Crow, R.I.P.
On the weekend that Hockaday celebrated it’s 100th anniversary, and one of her sons generously opened his beautiful home to a home tour benefiting the Park Cities Historical & Preservation Society,...
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Laura Miller Asks Jennifer Gates to Replace Lee Kleinman as her Proxy:...
A few weeks ago we told you that Laura Miller, Mitchell Rasansky and a bevy of Preston Hollow ”VIPs” had joined the debate over a multi-family complex in the early works over at Preston and Northwest...
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Monday Morning Millionaire: This 1976 Masterpiece Overlooking White Rock Lake...
As I was driving to the Mad hatters luncheon at The Dallas Arboretum last week, I passed by this house and stopped dead in my tracks on West Lawther Drive. In fact, it was the reason why I missed half...
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Steve Wolens Owns a Unit at The Athena While Wife Laura Gets Involved in...
You know all about the fracas Behind the Pink Wall, the “No” signs all over Preston Hollow. And you know that former Mayor Laura Miller (and former City Councilman Mitchell Rasanksy, both of whom live...
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Don’t Mess With Texas Highways: Demolish a Downtown Dallas Highway to Spur...
Dallas is a fascinating place to live right now. Downtown, urbanists are lobbying for the tear-down of a short but squirrely elevated highway they believe is choking urban living, creating a schism of...
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Post Tax Day Depression House Candy: This is Almost, Almost a Comstock House...
I know, I hear you. We all wrote huge checks Tuesday, got drunk Wednesday, and just feel poor today. Even worse, I had to return stunning borrowed gems to The Diamond Doctor. Where does our moola go?...
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Is Facebook the New MLS? Were One-Third of Dallas Sales Off-MLS in 2013?
The day started with a few tweets from Rob Hahn, the founder and managing partner of 7DS Associates, a boutique management consulting firm specializing in corporate strategy, product management, and...
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Don’t Mess With Texas Highways Part II: Demolish a Downtown Dallas Highway to...
Yesterday, Ed Woodson, a Dallas attorney, and Aren Cambre, a computer scientist, gave us part I of their insightful, well-researched counter to Patrick Kennedy et al’s passion to tear down I-345 in...
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Inwood Home of the Week: State Thomas Brownstone Makes Uptown Living a Blast...
The State Thomas Home Tour was just last weekend, so we are bringing you a brand new listing (just hit MLS) in the State Thomas District at 2411 Hall Street, No. 1. This is an end unit three story...
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How One Sharp North Dallas Agent Found Her Buyers a Home Off MLS: She Wrote a...
Don’t think the only hot market in North Texas exists south of LBJ. Agents everywhere are going to unconventional extremes to find their clients’ homes. June Graham recently moved into what she calls...
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Monday Morning Millionaire: Historic Beverly Drive Mansion in Highland Park...
This home is so very Easter Monday, and also such a beautiful example of Highland Park neoclassical architectural history that defines Dallas real estate. Built in 1922 by the renown Hal Thompson, it...
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Transwestern Ready to File for Zoning Case as Battle Behind the Pink Wall...
It’s showtime: the case to rezone a critical portion of Preston Hollow to accommodate 220 luxury apartments at Preston & Northwest Highway heads to the Dallas Plan Commission and the City Council...
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The Mockingbird Tunnel: Once Upon a Time This Was a Good Idea Until, Yeah, NIMBY
Back in 2000, I vaguely remember the proposal to build a proposed toll tunnel under Mockingbird Lane from one end of the city to the other, creating virtually a cross-town expressway underground. But...
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