Joanna England
Joanna England is the former long-time executive editor and a founding editor at CandysDirt.com.
Port Aransas is hot and getting hotter says Valerie Jarvie in her latest dispatch on SecondShelters.com. This Texas Gulf Coast town is home to Cinnamon Shore, a beachside community that will be home to the first-ever Texas Monthly Magazine charity showhouse. The home, designed by top architects in the Gulf Coast vernacular and built by some of…
In the 1950s, developers were throwing up housing in new suburban subdivisions as fast as possible, filling the need for new single-family homes as World War II veterans had their homecomings. Today, many of these neighborhoods are considered inner-ring suburbs, but what about the once heavily commercial or industrial areas that are now ripe for…
In the East Dallas neighborhood of Casa View Oaks, homes on the blocks surrounding Andrea Drive are selling like hotcakes. With their low-slung gabled roofs, walls of glass, and clerestory windows, these homes hit the highlight reel of everything everyone nowadays loves about midcentury modern design. In this transitioning neighborhood with tree-lined streets and upwardly…
If you’ve been ogling over those cute tiny homes that are popping up everywhere, but you’re not sure if a life on wheels or in the boonies for you, this listing from David Griffin & Company Realtor Bart Thrasher shows that you can live itty bitty in the city. Bart, who lives in Winnetka Heights…
We couldn’t be more pleased to have Bethany Erickson on our team. She’s our dedicated education reporter, covering a contentious school board election, expounding on Dallas ISD’s ongoing struggle to expand pre-K, and dissecting the relationship between real estate and education. Erickson, who doesn’t shy from the difficult subjects, sat down with the Dallas ISD education…
