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UPDATED: Creeping Rents? Original Black-eyed Pea, an Oaklawn Institution, Closes its Doors

By Jon Anderson / January 4, 2016 /

No sooner have I returned to Dallas than I find that what’s left of the Black-eyed Pea restaurant chain (in Texas and Tennessee) filed for bankruptcy last Wednesday. Letting no moss grow under its feet, after 41 years on Cedar Springs Road, the original location opened by Gene Street was shuttered Saturday night. Most surprising…

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Continuing Coverage of the Renaissance Condominium Garage Collapse: $1m Pool Deck Reno Was Underway

By Jon Anderson / October 23, 2015 /

I was able to reach out and chat with Keith Head, branch manager and associate broker for Coldwell Banker and Renaissance resident about this ongoing story.

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So Before You Vote: Another Update About Adam McGough

By Bethany Erickson / April 21, 2015 /

Update April 26: After talking to Adam McGough’s campaign manager and analyzing more utility bills, we have issued an apology to the Adam McGough for City Council campaign.  Apparently the family’s utility usage was NOT that out of the ordinary, for a family of three boys, despite the low electricity usage records we were sent by a…

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Sweetie Darling, Get Some Champagne for Candy

By Jon Anderson / April 15, 2015 /

  It’s with a still-full stomach and a manageable hangover that I report from the “morning after” of the inaugural CandysDirt.com “Staff Meeting” event. On hand at one of the hippest pocket listings ever at the Athena were the bees’ knees of Preston Center real estate. The invited included a cadre from Ebby – office…

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Transwestern Changes Its Building Plan to Please Preston Hollow Neighborhood: 220 Units Now Down to 165

By Candy Evans / August 5, 2014 /

Newest hot-off- the- press rendering for the proposed development Is it time to take down the “No! Not in Preston Hollow” signs? Maybe! Transwestern, the folks building those fancy new luxury apartments over at Northwest Highway and Preston Road, NOT to be confused with the luxury high rise apartment Crosland Group hopes to build IN…

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