Shelby Skrhak
Shelby Skrhak is executive editor of CandysDirt.com and producer of the Dallas Dirt podcast. She loves covering estate sales and murder homes, not necessarily related. As a lifelong Dallas native, she's been an Eagle, Charger, Wildcat, and a Comet.
Celina is doing what Celina does best — turning dirt into the next wave of rooftops in northern Collin County. But this wave of development is targeting a segment the market needs badly: the middle. Huffines Communities has broken ground on Serenade Texas, a 468-acre master-planned community near Preston and Marilee roads, with homes starting…
I waddled into this Plano house 18 years ago, five months pregnant and running entirely on Tums and overconfidence. I had color-coded spreadsheets for every project planned for this 1980 house. I probably would have done the same for parenthood if it had occurred to me at the time. What I didn’t fully grasp is…
For years, Rosewood Property Company envisioned office buildings and hotel space for one of Plano’s most visible corners at Plano Parkway and the Bush Turnpike. The market had other plans. Now, the Dallas-based developer is repositioning the project as a residential-led, mixed-use destination — a shift that reflects demand trends across North Texas. A Long-Planned…
In Frisco, there’s a unique neighborhood where the roofs are made of grass and a cascading terrace garden is built into every home. We’ve told you about Tapestry before, but it’s worth taking a closer look at just how different these homes are — and explaining what a cantilevered terrace garden actually is. I’ll come…
All four North Texas stores will close by early summer, and the company owns the real estate under every location — leaving some valuable properties likely to change hands. Weir’s Furniture, the place where generations of Dallas families furnished their homes — and Country Store popcorn placated their children — is closing after 78 years…
