Home Building
Pulling a permit from the Dallas Development Services Department may have just gotten easier for builders who submit up to 10 plans per week. The Residential Plan Review Fast Track Permit Program launched earlier this month, allowing developers who submit a high volume of repetitive permits to have multiple floor plans reviewed and approved at…
Want a home in the shape of a four-leaf clover with the stem as a hallway? That’s a specific and perhaps unusual dream, but Richardson-based My Robot Builds Robotics can make it happen, extruding concrete walls from a 3D printer like a soft-serve ice cream machine. Company president Craig Pettit has invested in real estate…
Do you think you have a stressful job? Try being Andrew Espinoza. Dallas’s director of Development Services basically holds the keys to the city’s future growth and development, and it’s currently at a near-standstill due to a problem created before he was hired according to city council members on Wednesday. It seemed the cavalry had…
It’s no secret that Dallas’s Development Services Department has struggled to cut the turnaround time for building permits and that the department’s director, Andrew Espinoza, is making strides to course-correct. The results of an audit conducted by Matrix Consulting Group were recently released, and Espinoza said many of the recommendations are already being implemented. He’ll…
Business for Dallas-Fort Worth homebuilders has changed drastically since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. While demand for new housing stock created market conditions that had builders canceling contracts with buyers and cutting out agents, a new report from the National Association of Home Builders shows a steep decline in outlooks for homebuilders in the…
