Richard Malouf’s Back Yard Water Park Not the Only Fish in the Ocean… Another Bigger, Better for Dallas

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Beach entry pool with rock waterfall slide, CA

Terraced pools set in the hillside and a slide, Las Vegas

Well well. Seems I wrote about Richard Malouf’s backyard water-park under construction last week, and this week we see another real estate and house porn outpost has picked up the idea. Curbed.com probably read us, then marched out to sniff out other gargantuan, at-home water parks. Lookie what they found!

There are five luxurious mansions across the USA with over-the-top, private waterparks in their back yards, one in Cali, three in Florida and one in Las Vegas. And of course, once the Malouf’s complete their backyard water park over there on Strait Lane, across from Phil Romano’s and down the street from Ross Perot, Dallas can boast that we, too, have one! Looks like ours will be better than these waterparks, with pools ranging about 102 feet in length, slides and lounge-chair wading pools. I don’t see any with a Lazy River, do you? Nope, Malouf’s trumps them all! Look at that Lazy River behind the Private Sports Complex and keep in mind it covers almost an acre. Everything is bigger in Texas, even our private backyard water parks! I can hardly wait ’till this project is finished! Betcha $100 next season’s Dallas will find a way to film here…

102 foot long pool, Fort Lauderdale

Waterslide from master bedroom to pool, Boca Grande, Fla.

Here are the plans for Malouf’s Waterworld on Strait Lane:

Candy Evans, founder and publisher of CandysDirt.com, is one of the nation’s leading real estate reporters.

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  1. Matt LeCover on July 23, 2012 at 11:12 am

    I bet there's a builder in Dallas who could beat all of those!

  2. Matt LeCover on July 23, 2012 at 11:12 am

    I bet there's a builder in Dallas who could beat all of those!

  3. Joanna England on July 23, 2012 at 11:48 am

    No kidding Matt! There has to be a Dallas builder that can make Hawaiian Falls look pedestrian!

  4. Joanna England on July 23, 2012 at 11:48 am

    No kidding Matt! There has to be a Dallas builder that can make Hawaiian Falls look pedestrian!

  5. Kelly M on July 24, 2012 at 11:47 am

    I'll agree its going to be fabulous, however it seems a bit too indulgent even for a 1%-er. Texas is in sever drought conditions, and how little time they will probably end up using it, the environment would have been better off without it.

  6. Kelly M on July 24, 2012 at 11:47 am

    I'll agree its going to be fabulous, however it seems a bit too indulgent even for a 1%-er. Texas is in sever drought conditions, and how little time they will probably end up using it, the environment would have been better off without it.

  7. Christian Iles on July 24, 2012 at 11:47 am

    So glad they care so much about the planet and the environment. At what point is Enough, Enouph?

  8. Christian Iles on July 24, 2012 at 11:47 am

    So glad they care so much about the planet and the environment. At what point is Enough, Enouph?

  9. Peter Gentry on July 24, 2012 at 3:30 pm

    It's his yard, his well, his money. What are we socialists already?

  10. Peter Gentry on July 24, 2012 at 3:30 pm

    It's his yard, his well, his money. What are we socialists already?

  11. Joe Bing on July 30, 2012 at 12:00 pm

    Is there some reason this Malouf guy hasn't been arrested? Our understanding is that he's cheated the taxpayers and cheated Medicaid.

    There's really nothing funny about this, or the comments above. Why aren't you as a journalist taking steps to ensure the word gets out about his crimes?

  12. Joe Bing on July 30, 2012 at 12:00 pm

    Is there some reason this Malouf guy hasn't been arrested? Our understanding is that he's cheated the taxpayers and cheated Medicaid.

    There's really nothing funny about this, or the comments above. Why aren't you as a journalist taking steps to ensure the word gets out about his crimes?

  13. Giana Forzareli on August 30, 2012 at 10:15 am

    These mansion water parks are very elaborate. I feel that these water parks are a little excessive and extravagant for one person to own. It is not fair that they are consuming an extraordinary amount of water, it is wasteful, and irresponsible of the owners. I found a blog that was discussing efficient water parks and how they maintain a lower water consumption. There are a couple of <a href="http://www.greatwolf.com/concord/waterpark">north carolina water parks</a> that use a different type of pump that saves around 13,ooo dollars a year in water bills.
    I hope we see more effort in preserving the environment by not supporting this level of excessive spending.

  14. Giana Forzareli on August 30, 2012 at 10:15 am

    These mansion water parks are very elaborate. I feel that these water parks are a little excessive and extravagant for one person to own. It is not fair that they are consuming an extraordinary amount of water, it is wasteful, and irresponsible of the owners. I found a blog that was discussing efficient water parks and how they maintain a lower water consumption. There are a couple of <a href="http://www.greatwolf.com/concord/waterpark">north carolina water parks</a> that use a different type of pump that saves around 13,ooo dollars a year in water bills.
    I hope we see more effort in preserving the environment by not supporting this level of excessive spending.

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