Candy Evans

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

Forget Ebola: What is Mark Cuban Doing in Preston Center? Why He Just Bought 8601 Jourdan Way

By Candy Evans / October 15, 2014 /

Eric Nicholson over at the Dallas Observer says Mark Cuban now plans to build some commercial structures on those lots he has been amassing at the northwest intersection of Preston Road and Northwest Highway. Says he just closed on 8601 Jourdan Way… stay tuned…

Pretty Soon You Will Be Able to Ski in Texas — Well, in Grand Prairie, at Least

By Candy Evans / October 15, 2014 /

When we visited Tokyo a few years ago and our hosts told me about the indoor ski resort there, outskirts of Tokyo, I did not believe it until I saw the dome for Zaos, as I think it was called. Sure enough the Japanese loved to ski indoors. The indoor ski resort was on the way…

We Eat Right: Preston Center, Preston Royal Getting Plethora of Healthy Restaurants

By Candy Evans / October 14, 2014 /

Once upon a time there was a quaint optical shop next door to the Write Selection  called Al Hale. Al, an optician, knew how to fit glasses and wore a giant cowboy hat on his way home every night. His former space is now tending to the tummy, after being extensively renovated. A new, healthy-food…

Ebola Nurse Identified as 26 Year Old Nina Pham, Who Has a King Charles Cavalier

By Candy Evans / October 13, 2014 /

Nina and family, we are praying for your speedy recovery and reunion with your precious pup. This photo has been released to the media by Nina’s family.

Dallas Nurse Confirmed With Second Case of Ebola, First Case Contracted on U.S. Dirt

By Candy Evans / October 13, 2014 /

Good morning! Did you ever dream we would be talking about Ebola here in Dallas? Most of us spent our Sunday digesting the sad news that a health care worker who had tended to Thomas Duncan, the city’s first Ebola patient and victim, at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas, had contracted the disease from her job…