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].

India Developer’s Grass-Topped Community in Frisco is ‘Very Close to Nature’

By Tommy Cummings / November 8, 2020 /

Kamal Sagar’s unique vision of high-end homes coming to Frisco is finally coming into complete focus this month. India-based Total Environment Homes’ Tapestry community is starting a sales campaign this month on its 121-home residential community that features Texas native grasses on rooftops. We first heard about this in 2017 in a review by Frisco…

How Dallas Fared in RENTCafé Adaptive Reuse Study on Large U.S. Cities

By Tommy Cummings / November 4, 2020 /

My favorite HGTV shows are the ones in which apartment hunters size up reconditioned historic buildings that are being turned into modern rental units. You hear a lot of descriptions thrown out, such as “charm” and “character.” Lots of exposed brick and ducts, glass, and concrete. It’s a theme on adaptive reuse, converting old into…

Dallas is Rich in Millennials, Just Not Apartment-Hunting Ones

By Tommy Cummings / November 3, 2020 /

RENTCafé ‘s study showed 40.8 percent of 13 million rental applicants in Dallas from 2015-2020 were millennials.

D-FW, Texas Still Face Low Housing Inventories, Plus Other Reports and Studies

By Tommy Cummings / November 2, 2020 /

In any business, low inventory is a bad thing. It’s a delicate balance of having a product, moving it, and having something to replace it. Just recall looking for toilet paper in the pandemic’s beginnings. Wasn’t that fun? Like it is on a national scale, the pandemic is impacting the Dallas-Fort Worth housing inventory. Prices…

Ruth Buzzi Doesn’t Live in Southlake Anymore, But She’s Still a Big Fan

By Tommy Cummings / November 1, 2020 /

Actress Ruth Buzzi of Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In fame was excited to hear that Southlake was again WalletHub’s choice as of the top 150 Best Small Cities in America.