Year: 2024

A Highland Park Beauty Graces the Market After an Exquisite Makeover

By CandysDirt / July 25, 2024 /

In Highland Park, the competition for the most beautiful home is fierce. However, this renovated masterpiece may take the cake. Listed with Shirley Cohn of Allie Beth Allman & Associates, 3832 Normandy Avenue is a property you have to see to believe. Anybody would be lucky to call the 8,897-square-foot showpiece home and now someone…

North Dallas’ Pepper Square Rezoning Heading for Compromise Ahead of Aug. 8 Hearing

By April Towery / July 25, 2024 /

Several North Dallas neighborhoods rallied last week in opposition to the mixed-use Pepper Square redevelopment project at Preston and Belt Line roads. A planned public hearing before the City Plan Commission, originally scheduled for Thursday, has now been postponed to Aug. 8.  City Plan Commission Vice Chair Brent Rubin told CandysDirt.com on Monday that he’s…

First Baptist Dallas Given Approval to Save the Historic Sanctuary Exterior Walls

By Karen Eubank / July 25, 2024 /

There is good news in the preservation world today. First Baptist Dallas Senior Executive Pastor Ben Lovvorn said in a video to the congregation late yesterday that the city has approved efforts to begin preserving the historic walls. Success is not a given, but as Lovvorn said in the video, “We will do everything we…

Peek Inside Shaquille O’Neal’s Carrollton Home for Sale (Bonus, It’s Close to Babe’s)

By Tommy Cummings / July 25, 2024 /

Living close to a Babe’s Chicken Dinner House means something to Shaquille O’Neal, but the National Basketball Association legend will have to travel further now that he’s selling his nearby Carrollton home. The Texas native, who frequented the famous family-style restaurant, has listed his five-bedroom home in the Denton County portion of Carrollton for $1.695…

This Midlothian Home Impresses With Multigenerational Possibilities

By Brenda Masse / July 24, 2024 /

Midlothian has been garnering more attention the last few years, ever since Google chose the city for the location of its new, massive data center in 2019. The company announced earlier this year that it would be adding another data center to its Midlothian campus to be completed in 2025. For a town that has…