Candy Evans

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

Laura Miller Asks Jennifer Gates to Replace Lee Kleinman as her Proxy: Kleinman Responds

By Candy Evans / April 14, 2014 /

A few weeks ago we told you that Laura Miller, Mitchell Rasansky and a bevy of Preston Hollow  “VIPs” had joined the debate over a multi-family complex in the early works over at Preston and Northwest Highway, Behind the Pink Wall. This development is the source of all the “No” signs cropping up in Preston…

Sunday $700: The Bonaventure? How About a Huge High Rise in North Dallas for $739,000?

By Candy Evans / April 14, 2014 /

Seems like we are walking down Dallas Memory Lane, what with the loss of Margaret Crow. Does the name Ray and Clare Stern ring a bell? They were a long time Dallas power couple. Ray “Thunder” Stern was a famous wrestler and self-made man. Born in Brooklyn as Walter Bookbinder, he grew up the son…

Margaret Crow, R.I.P.

By Candy Evans / April 13, 2014 /

On the weekend that Hockaday celebrated it’s 100th anniversary, and one of her sons generously opened his beautiful home to a home tour benefiting the Park Cities Historical & Preservation Society, comes word that Margaret Doggett Crow, 94, wife of Trammell Crow, one of the nation’s most successful real estate developers, has died. Mrs. Crow…

Signs of the Times in Dallas: Say No in Preston Hollow, Enjoy Don’t Destroy Lakewood

By Candy Evans / April 11, 2014 /

Dallas Shopping Center Revival: A Park for Valley View Mall, Bravo for Belk in Texas

By Candy Evans / April 11, 2014 /

As you may know, the City of Dallas is getting very serious about saving two near-comatose shopping malls: Valley View Center at the intersection of LBJ and Preston in the north, and Southwest Center Mall in the south. The council is considering a budget of around $432 million, most of it aimed at helping the five…