Dallas

Dawson State Jail: A Developer’s Potential Valentine for the City of Dallas

By Candy Evans / February 15, 2018 /

We were all too busy yesterday, either with our Valentines (nice!) or, sadly, processing the news of yet another high school mass shooting in Florida. Truly, it’s hard to think of real estate right now. But yesterday, it occurred to me that a North Texas developer has given the city a potentially HUGE gift, the…

Would You Buy the First House You See? Married at First Sight Comes to Dallas

By Candy Evans / October 20, 2017 /

Married at First Sight is an American reality television series based on a Danish series bearing the same name. The format created in Denmark has been adapted in the USA, Australia, United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, France, Finland, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Poland.  The series features three couples, paired up by relationship experts, who agree to…

Zero in on the Best Halloween ‘Hoods with Zillow’s Trick-or-Treat Index

By Heather Hunter / October 19, 2017 /

  What a treat! Zillow released its annual Trick or Treat Index, and this year, Dallas haunts the chart at No. 11. The index narrows down the best cities to score candy based on single-home density, average home values, and number of children under 10. In summary: More candy for less walking. After the jump,…

Amazon Won’t be Coming to Dallas … Unless

By Jon Anderson / September 20, 2017 /

Last week, Amazon announced they are seeking proposals from municipalities to build a second headquarters away from their original Seattle location.  They expect to spend $5 billion to fully build-out the campus that would house “as many as 50,000 high-paying jobs” and be the same size as the Seattle campus … over the next 15…

Last-Minute Restraining Order Halts Dallas City Council’s Attempt to Remove Statue From Lee Park

By Joanna England / September 6, 2017 /

Robert Wilonsky and Tristan Hallman at the Dallas Morning News alerted us that, just as soon as crews were trying to figure out how to remove the statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee astride a horse in Oak Lawn’s Lee Park, work was ordered to stop. That’s thanks to a temporary restraining order filed by one…