Jon Anderson

Jon Anderson is CandysDirt.com's condo/HOA and developer columnist, but also covers second home trends on SecondShelters.com. An award-winning columnist, Jon has earned silver and bronze awards for his columns from the National Association of Real Estate Editors in both 2016, 2017 and 2018. When he isn't in Hawaii, Jon enjoys life in the sky in Dallas.

More Cedar Springs Parcels Up For Grabs. More To Come?

By Jon Anderson / December 21, 2020 /

A trio of parcels (red) located at Cedar Springs Road and Hood Street have come to market — owned by the late Ralph Cutshall and now seemingly being sold by his heirs.  If the Cutshall name rings a bell, I noted their holdings on the other side of Cedar Springs back in July (more later). …

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TxDOT’s Northwest Highway Plan Another Product Car-Centric Thinking

By Jon Anderson / December 14, 2020 /

This year has been humorless. Experiencing the abject failures in dealing with COVID-19 at both the federal and state levels is only laughable in the darkest sense. So thank TxDOT for giving us something to truly laugh at — the Northwest Highway Feasibility Study. What? You haven’t heard of it? Not surprising since the 15-minute…

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True or False: Caven Can Sell Oak Lawn Lots For By-Right, 120-Foot Buildings

By Jon Anderson / December 7, 2020 /

Caven Enterprises is seeking to sell their Cedar Springs lands, which contain a string of well-known LGBTQ+ bars, to developer Mike Ablon who intends to build a pair of high-rises while leaving the bars in place (read the first story here, and the follow-up here). Caven has heavily spun the narrative that without this one…

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Caven and Ablon Present To Oak Lawn Committee

By Jon Anderson / December 1, 2020 /

The Oak Lawn Committee’s Tuesday night meeting had one case – Mike Ablon and Caven Enterprises’ desire to upzone their parcels on Cedar Springs Road from Reagan to just north of Throckmorton. Caven opened its case with an interesting statement. Essentially, representative and former Dallas City Councilman Ed Oakley told the Oak Lawn Committee to approve…

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Oak Lawn Committee To See Caven-Ablon’s Vision for Cedar Springs Strip – There’s A Better Way

By Jon Anderson / November 30, 2020 /

Beyond the academic arguments of how historically gay neighborhoods are changing and specifically how Oak Lawn’s gay epicenter will evolve, there are the buildings themselves. Tuesday night, Mike Ablon and Caven Enterprises will present to the Oak Lawn Committee. Honestly, the renderings and numbers that’ll be shown (and have been presented elsewhere) offer little to…

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