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].

How Grapevine’s Chip Gaines Took a Willy Wonka Strategy in New Memoir Promotion

By Tommy Cummings / March 29, 2021 /

Chip Gaines must have been watching Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory just before he released his new book, No Pain, No Gaines: The Good Stuff Doesn’t Come Easy. In a video that Gaines shared on social media, the Fixer Upper alum revealed that he’s hiding special tickets worth $1,000 cash and other goodies inside…

What’s Developing: Be a Suburban J.R. in Frisco; New Builds in Wylie, Kennedale, Princeton

By Tommy Cummings / March 28, 2021 /

If you have an affinity for Dallas, the megahit television series that ran from 1979 to 1991, then this Frisco development might help you find your own inner J.R. Ewing — without all the greed, lust, and backstabbing. Plano-based Landon Development Co. purchased 637 acres on part of the Brinkmann Ranch in Frisco, formerly the…

Are You Untethered? Remote Work Creates Shift, Even in Dallas; Plus Other Reports

By Tommy Cummings / March 24, 2021 /

Show of hands, please: Who out there likes to commute? Hardly anyone, right? For those lucky enough to work from home, one of the upsides is avoiding the rush-hour commute. Prompted by health mandates caused by the pandemic, the WFH experiment has revealed a dramatic shift in working life. In Apartment List’s latest report, it’s…

Builder Takes Classic Approach to Fort Worth Neighborhood Near Natural Waterfalls

By Tommy Cummings / March 23, 2021 /

In the small city of Westworth Village, Plano-based homebuilder Shaddock Homes announced that it is opening up a development called Westworth Falls not far from Airfield Falls.

Did Elon Musk Offhandedly Drive Up Home Prices in Austin? We’d Like to Think So

By Tommy Cummings / March 22, 2021 /

In a podcast interview last month, Elon Musk told Joe Rogan that Austin had the potential to be the “biggest boomtown that America has seen in 50 years.”