Candy Evans

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

Candy: What Else Can We Say About 2020?

By Candy Evans / December 25, 2020 /

It started to feel like Christmas around here in early December. I went to a business dinner that was half outside, all of us spaced apart, at the Second-Floor Exchange in the ATT Discovery District. It was a new restaurant, and the opening was (shocker) delayed. Fewer than half of us were in attendance. This…

We May Be In The COVID Home Stretch, But Manchester Plays it Safe With Your Loved Ones

By Candy Evans / December 17, 2020 /

Funny how the best Christmas present you can get this year is a vaccine! We may be in the home stretch of the COVID-19 pandemic, and it won’t be long before we can return to a somewhat normal way of living our lives, which will include seeing, visiting and HUGGING our elderly loved ones. Even…

Preston Hollow Loses Charley Pride, R.I.P.

By Candy Evans / December 13, 2020 /

It was just last month that our own Charley Pride — who Preston Hollow and North Dallas residents would sometimes get a glimpse of at Texaco, the Forest/Preston 7-Eleven, the grocery store, or St. Monica’s Church — won an amazing honor: he was awarded the Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award at the Country Music Association Awards…

Fire at 21 Turtle Creek Friday Evening Confined to One Unit

By Candy Evans / November 29, 2020 /

A fire broke out Friday evening at the building locally referred to as “21 Turtle Creek,” which is actually located at 3883 Turtle Creek. The condo building experienced a minor fire on the eighth floor the day after Thanksgiving. The building was evacuated at 5:30 p.m. Friday for a few hours due to intense smoke…

After a Turbulent 2020, Let’s Give Thanks and Take Time to Stop and Smell the Roses

By Candy Evans / November 26, 2020 /

I don’t know about you, but I didn’t mind seeing holiday decorations go up before Thanksgiving this year … Usually, I mutter, “Why are they rushing it?” But I think we are all over 2020, clearly one of the most difficult years any of us will ever experience in our lifetimes. And yet, rushing any…