Candy Evans

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

Now Open in Preston Hollow Village: Blue Sushi Sake Grill

By Candy Evans / February 4, 2015 /

I am loving Provident’s brand new development at the corner of Walnut Hill lane and Central called Preston Hollow Village, even if it is trying to look like NorthPark mall’s baby sister. And yes, I know we will hear in the comments that this is NOT Preston Hollow. No, this is not Preston Hollow for…

Texas Home Sales Higher Than Denver But… Oil: Wall Street Vs Main Street

By Candy Evans / February 3, 2015 /

Let’s face it: the Texas real estate industry, and that includes Dallas,  is in Veuve Clicquot mode right now. Home sales had their second best year ever in 2014, selling 66,664 homes throughout the Lone Star state just in the last quarter of 2014. Almost 285,000 homes were sold in the state last year, which…

Late Late Super Bowl Edition: I Want to Live in This Bluffview Home With Pete Carroll

By Candy Evans / February 2, 2015 /

Do you know that, on the day after the Super Bowl last year, 1.5 million Americans called in sick to work and another 4.4 million were late? In fact, many think we should just go ahead and make it a holiday!  A study by The Workforce Institute at Kronos Inc., a Massachusetts based workforce management consulting…

Trammell Crow Implodes ACS/ Xerox Building on Central: Time to Mend Fences and Stop Building Berlin Walls in Dallas!

By Candy Evans / February 2, 2015 /

By the time you read this, the ACS/Xerox Building on North Central Expressway will be another dusty relic of Dallas history. But the implosion won’t erase the anger of the neighborhood and the negative publicity this development fiasco has created for Trammell Crow CBRE. Back in the spring, when I first met Jonas Park and…

Urban Planner Alexander Garvin on Four Tenets of Successful Urban Planning

By Candy Evans / January 30, 2015 /

I don’t know about you, but when I have to make a pretty vital decision, I try to get as many opinions as possible. As many educated opinions from people far smarter than I. Maybe we need to do this on the Trinity Parkway/Tollway/Parkway? Thursday night in New York City (where I am attending Inman…