Candy Evans

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

Hoping for a 30 Day Delay & Wear Red: Tonight’s Meeting on East Village Big Box Sam’s Club

By Candy Evans / May 21, 2014 /

A CandysDirt reader attended tonight’s meeting to try and stop development of a Sam’s Club on that 17 acres of land near Cityplace — once owned by ACS — where we learned this week that Trammell Crow Companies wants to built another Sam’s Club warehouse store.  District 2 was out in full force with about…

How To Kill a City: Death by DUMBING

By Candy Evans / May 21, 2014 /

I read Mark Lamster’s quick take on the (from my perspective) real estate travesty that is being discussed right now, that being Trammell Crow’s ridic decision to plop a big box Sam’s Wholesale Club in a new development grazing the east side of Central Expressway, across from Uptown. Mark cleverly calls his post: How To…

We Do Not Need Another Sam’s Club in Uptown East

By Candy Evans / May 21, 2014 /

While I was in West Virginia, I read Steve Brown’s report that a Sam’s was coming to Uptown East at Cityplace, courtesy of Trammell Crow. I thought maybe I had altitude sickness or something. Total head scratcher. Here I have been interviewing builders and developers on how Uptown development is splashing over east of central,…

Highland House Heads to Plan Commission Hearing Thursday, Crosland Shaves Off Three Stories

By Candy Evans / May 21, 2014 /

Crosland Development’s Highland House heads to the City of Dallas Plan Commission Thursday, and the developer has already agreed to shave off three stories in response to last week’s Town Hall Meeting. At least, that is what he has told District 13 City Councilperson Jennifer Gates he is willing to do: reduce his original story…

Guest: Why I Support Highland House in Preston Center – It’s Far Better than the Alternative

By Candy Evans / May 20, 2014 /

Guest post by Claire Stanard At the Town Hall meeting hosted by Jennifer Gates last week, I tried to explain in three minutes why I support Crosland Development’s Highland House project to the large group of neighbors gathered at Northway Christian Church. I was brief , out of respect for the imposed time limits, unlike…