Apartment Leasing

Has Campaign For "A New Dallas" Stalled? Elan City Lights Development Just East of Highway 345 Will Get a Great View of a Crumbling Roadway

By Joanna England / September 30, 2013 /

  (Photo: Steve Brown/DMN) It was just three months ago that all anyone in urbanism forums or on staff at city magazines could talk about was this “A New Dallas” campaign to raze Highway 345 that bisects the urban core of Dallas. As the beautifully constructed website said, the 345 was already crumbling, so instead…

Dallas Housing Authority CEO MaryAnn Russ Says Site Can't Be Used for Market Rate Housing, Pushes Forward With Doubling Project's Size

By Joanna England / September 30, 2013 /

We published an unedited statement from Dallas Housing Authority President and CEO MaryAnn Russ on Friday, in which she said that DHA clients have just as much right as nearby residents to live in an upscale neighborhood, and that the property on Kings Road must be affordable housing because of federal laws.

OK, that makes sense, but the main gripe of community advocates isn’t having low-income housing, it’s how much of it is planned for the site. Before it was demolished last year, many nearby residents said that the Kings Quarters development, a 70-year-old 200-unit public housing project, was rife with drugs and crime. DHA plans include more than doubling the number of units and decreasing parking. It’s a recipe for disaster, says a former neighbor to the DHA development that was razed.

DHA Won't Budge on Rezoning Plan to Add Hundreds More Low-Income Housing Units to Kings Road Development

By Joanna England / September 26, 2013 /

We covered this project not too long ago. It’s a sticky situation wherein the Dallas Housing Authority made plans to construct more than 400 low-income housing units in Oak Lawn without any kind of community dialogue. The units are to be built on the site of a razed former DHA development that was riddled with crime…

LocalDwelling.com Lease of the Week: Gorgeous Park Towers Condo is Still on The Market

By Joanna England / September 25, 2013 /

  Update: Colin Larnder of LocalDwelling.com says that this unit is PENDING! We’ve posted about this unit before, and when I went back and looked at LocalDwelling.com’s available leases, I was absolutely floored that this incredible condo inside Park Towers is still up for grabs. This is a 1,790-square-foot, three-bedroom, two-bath condo that is just…

LocalDwelling.com Lease of the Week: Another Fabulous Penthouse Level Condo With Views of Curvy Reunion Tower

By Joanna England / September 11, 2013 /

Who would’ve thought that when we tweeted last week about the gorgeous Reunion Tower views a 1200 Main Street condo had, that Reunion Tower would reply?

Well, Mr. Tower (or should I just call you Reunion?), we have another great unit at 1200 Main that has excellent views of your curvy silhouette! It’s another penthouse-level unit offered by LocalDwelling.com, an amazing DFW property management company. This one’s a two-bedroom, two-bath unit renting for $2,500 a month!