Dallas Growth

Dallas Public Schools: Committed, For Now

By Bethany Erickson / November 24, 2014 /

Last week, I wrote about the decisions we have coming up regarding real estate, and our son’s education. And I love, love, love all the reader feedback and comments. This week? This week I’d like to talk about our thought process thus far. My husband and I are products of public schools – albeit not…

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Ebola Update: Texas Health Presbyterian Issues Statement On the Death of Ebola Patient Thomas Duncan

By Candy Evans / October 9, 2014 /

This is a Real Estate blog, but many of us have concerns — and maybe even some panic — over our home, Dallas, now being Ground Zero for treating and burying the first Ebola victim in the United States. In New York, airplane-cabin cleaners for a Delta Air Lines Inc. contractor at LaGuardia Airport have…

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Water, Water … Nowhere? Texas is Nearing Critical Conditions For Water, But Will We Reach California-Level Drought?

By Joanna England / June 30, 2014 /

The latest issue of Governing magazine has a story that all Texans should read, and then read again. The story’s title is self-explanatory — “Drought-Plagued Regions Struggle to Conserve Water and Make Money” — an issue with which much of North and West Texas are intimately familiar.

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Trammell Crow Says Sam’s Club at Cityplace, er, East Village, is Overwhelmingly Supported by 72% of Residents in Area

By Candy Evans / June 18, 2014 /

Update 9:40 a.m. Here is what Allyn says the residents were asked over the phone. Do you think it was misleading? The Trammell Crow Company is planning to build a new development between Haskell Avenue and Carroll Avenue on the east side of Central Expressway anchored by a one-of-a-kind Sam’s Club and featuring three restaurants and…

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Dallas is Really an Outpost Experiencing Growing Pains, but We Need a Plan (or Two)!

By Candy Evans / May 8, 2014 /

I went to a neighborhood meeting for an un-named neighborhood several months ago. Some of the residents wanted to close off streets to a busy, busy street nearby to put a halt to wild-driving trucks and cars crashing into structures and gouging lawns on corner lots. It’s apparently a huge problem. I went because I…

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