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].
In the words of broker Ryan Cox, his listing “literally looks like Taos or Santa Fe, New Mexico,” except it’s in an air hangar. Cox is selling a three-story airport property at Hicks Airfield in unincorporated Tarrant County that is definitely Southwestern-centric. “It definitely has a wow factor,” Cox says. From the outside, the property…
D-FW sustained a 20-percent or $6.8 billion drop in commercial and multifamily construction starts value, according to a recent Dodge Data & Analytics analysis.
I blame Tony Stark. Ever since the billionaire Marvel hero showed off his high-tech garage in Iron Man movies, I’ve been noodling on what to do with our 363-square-foot garage. Of course, this garage renovation in a typical suburban Dallas-Fort Worth home will be less than the millions of dollars that Tony Stark spent —…
The year 2020 was loaded with disheartening economic and health statistics. But here’s a good statistic to start 2021: Dallas-Fort Worth home values gained $38 billion last year as increasing residential values and new construction added to the market, according to a recent Zillow report. To put it in other terms, $38 billion represents the…
We’re not kidding ourselves when it comes to North Texas’ ranking for snowbird destinations. We know that the Dallas-Fort Worth area doesn’t necessarily work for the snowbirding lifestyle. It can be uncomfortably hot. It’s vast. No ocean. It’s not Florida. So, when STORAGECafé released its list of best 2021 snowbird destinations, Texas, as a state,…
