Candy Evans

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

Inwood Mortgage House of the Week: Highland Park Honey Has Best Guest House in Dallas County

By Candy Evans / May 22, 2014 /

Here is a vintage Highland Park honey built in 1936 but significantly remodelled, majorly taken to the studs, back in 2002. Everything in the main house has been replaced, from windows to roof and of course all the innards, maintaining the traditional finish that just spells “HOME”. Then, the owners went a little maniac (in…

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…