Behind The Pink Wall

Pink Wall: Potential or a Just Nice, Reasonably-Priced Place to Live? Or Both?

By Jon Anderson / May 4, 2016 /

Poking around the MLS (as you do) I was more than slightly surprised to find opportunity in my own backyard.  Lord knows I’ve written enough about the Pink Wall as part of CandysDirt.com’s coverage of the Preston Center Task Force, and certainly I’m aware of the neighborhood outside my windows.  However it took looking at…

Just In: Transwestern Development for Behind the Pink Wall Passes Dallas City Council 13 to 1!

By Candy Evans / November 10, 2015 /

Update: Here’s the video shown by Dodd Communications at today’s City Council meeting: Jon will have all the details in a bit, because he was there! Jennifer Gates of course recused herself, and Phillip Kingston was the lone City Council member voting against it, wanting to wait on Jennifer’s Task Force (the Tsk Tsk Force).…

Preston Center Task Force to Ask Residents How Behind the Pink Wall Neighborhood Should Change

By Jon Anderson / October 6, 2015 /

Get ready. On October 7th, the Preston Center Task Force will be meeting with Zone 4 (Pink Wallers) to get residents’ “thoughts and ideas” on their “vision for the future” for the neighborhood. Certainly the two properties likely being replaced on the corner of Preston Road and Northwest Highway are not the only properties in…

Transwestern’s Pink Wall Proposal Passes Planning Commission Hurdle, FINALLY

By Jon Anderson / September 4, 2015 /

As predicted, we are all two-weeks older since the Planning Commission fobbed-off the vote on the proposed Transwestern development at the northeast corner of Preston Road and Northwest Highway. What, if any, votes changed in those two weeks is unknown, but I suspect few. Certainly attendees were not treated to German band Texas Lightening popping…

ForwardDallas or Backward? The Transwestern Project Behind the Pink Wall

By Candy Evans / September 2, 2015 /

By Claire Stanard Guest Contributor In the CandysDirt.com re-cap of the August 27 Town Hall meeting regarding Transwestern’s proposed four story apartments, she concludes by stating: “This is what we pay them for: the Dallas City Council will vote on the zoning change, basing their decision on the highest and best use of the land not for me,…