Tommy Cummings

Tommy moved to Texas from Oklahoma in 1992 and has lived in Mansfield with his wife, Brigitte, and son, Beaumont, since 2002 (after a two-year adventure in California as a tech columnist/editor at the San Francisco Chronicle). Tommy started his media career at newspapers in Oklahoma before becoming an editor in many capacities at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and The Dallas Morning News, where he wrapped up his newsroom career as a digital editor. His work has appeared in news outlets throughout the U.S. Tommy can be reached at [email protected].

Study Says Migrating Millennials Prefer These Two North Texas Cities

By Tommy Cummings / April 5, 2021 /

Who’s surprised to see Frisco and Dallas as havens for Millennials? You shouldn’t be. They’re no longer the places where Millennials’ parents have gone on to settle down. Millennials are settling in the two cities as well. A new SmartAsset analysis makes that point: Frisco ranked sixth and Dallas 11th among top cities where Millennials,…

Veteran Land Developers Waste Little Time in Launching 783-Home Celina Community

By Tommy Cummings / April 4, 2021 /

It didn’t take long for the new Corson Cramer Development firm to hit the ground running on its residential land development business. Land acquisition veterans Larry Corson and Brian Cramer co-founded Corson Cramer Development in January. On April 1, Dallas-based Corson Cramer announced that the firm had purchased 220 acres for a new 783-home residential…

Good News For Austin Real Estate: Elon Musk Needs Double the Workforce

By Tommy Cummings / April 1, 2021 /

If you needed encouragement to move to take advantage of the burgeoning Austin real estate market and needed a job, a billionaire’s tweet might give you that additional push. On Wednesday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk posted a tweet: “Over 10,000 people are needed for Giga Texas just through 2022!” Already, Musk primed the market by…

Dallas, Fort Worth Don’t Always Get Love in Livability Rankings

By Tommy Cummings / March 31, 2021 /

Once again, Dallas-Fort Worth’s suburbs earned high rankings in a liveability list. In Niche’s recent rankings of its 2021 Best Cities to Live in America, Dallas and Fort Worth didn’t exactly dominate. Dallas ranked 84th out of 228 cities. Fort Worth ranked 115th. Conversely, Plano ranked seventh and Richardson 12th. Irving is 41st, Denton 54th,…

Zoomers Represent Twice the State Average of Renters in This North Texas City

By Tommy Cummings / March 30, 2021 /

It makes sense. Denton is the second-ranked Texas city of choice and 12th-ranked nationally by the percentage of Generation Zoomer renters, according to a RENTCafé analysis. Denton is home to the University of North Texas and Texas Woman’s University. The city is the very definition of a college town with a dynamic music, arts, and…