Downtown Dallas

Talk About House Candy! SkyWalker Buys Historic Candy Factory in the Cedars For Loft Conversion

By Joanna England / October 17, 2013 /

According to Steve Brown, folks in the Cedars can expect more loft housing thanks to a recent purchase from SkyWalker Property Partners out of Arlington. The firm, which buys up distressed industrial, retail, and historic properties in Texas, just bought the 110-year-old Hughes Brothers Candy Factory building on South Ervay Street. The building, which has been…

Show Time: Mehrdad Moayedi May Be Buying the Statler Hilton, Already Bought Up the Creeks of Preston Hollow

By Candy Evans / October 10, 2013 /

Nice to have this confirmed by the solidness that is Robert Wilonsky: Mehrdad Moayedi, one of the largest residential developers in North Texas, at least 677 lots brought up in 2012 from Dallas to Prosper, Celina, Frisco, McKinney, and Aubrey, apparently is working a deal to buy the downtown Statler Hilton from Leobardo Trevino’s Ricchi Investment Group.…

Museum Tower Architect Scott Johnson Files His Response to DMN Architectural Critic Mark Lamster's Scathing Review: Architects Respond

By Candy Evans / October 2, 2013 /

A few weeks ago, Dallas Morning News architectural critic, Mark Lamster, wrote a pretty scathing review of Museum Tower. No fewer than five people, all in some form of real estate, told me they thought it was “obnoxious”; a few loved it, and of course, if critics were not “obnoxious” they would not be doing their…

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…

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…