Year: 2024

Willow Park to Add More Rooftops to Booming Parker County Suburb

By Joy Donovan / January 19, 2024 /

Things are booming in Parker County’s Willow Park, where residences are in demand. One of the answers to requests for more residential real estate comes from Wilks Development and Clarity Homes. Wilks Development recently sold its remaining 44 acres of residential property to the home builder. Clarity Homes now plans to build 80 homes in…

Report: Dallas’ South Boulevard Park Row is The No. 5 Friendliest Neighborhood in America

By April Towery / January 18, 2024 /

Texas has six of the friendliest neighborhoods in America, with the No. 5 spot going to South Boulevard Park Row, a historic district in southern Dallas.  Before you go trying to snatch up a lot or a brand new build in the area, you should know the study isn’t exactly scientific. North Carolina-based All-Star Home…

Champion Finds Perfect Match With Allman

By CandysDirt / January 18, 2024 /

For her clients, Skylar Champion works to find their perfect match in a new home or selling their current one for the best price. When Skylar, who is consistently ranked as a Top Producer, D Magazine’s Best Real Estate Agent and a Lakewood Advocate Top Agent, went looking last year for a real estate brokerage…

Magdalen House Opens New Men’s Detox Facility With a Little Help From Stager Karen Otto

By April Towery / January 18, 2024 /

A new Magdalen House facility on Caddo Street offers a no-cost two-week social detoxification program for men suffering from alcoholism — and it was important to the nonprofit organization’s leaders that it be safe, comfortable, and feel like a real home. Enter Karen Otto and Home Star Staging.  Otto met Magdalen House Women’s Coordinator Ashleigh…

The Strange Case of 2625 Elm Street: Should a Building With Historic Significance Warrant Preservation?

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / January 18, 2024 /

By Norman Alston, FAIA In recent months, the local community, especially the historic preservation community, has celebrated remarkable progress in the long fight to both recognize and protect our history. Painful losses continue, and the cry that Dallas can’t protect its remaining historic buildings still rings out loudly, but the recent approval of the Deep…