Neighborhoods

Help This Poor Reader Find a Neighborhood: Where's the Best Place to Park Two (Maybe Three) Kids and a Husband?

By Candy Evans / July 11, 2013 /

A Reader Writes: Here is a picture of the fam in front of our townhome. We are still all over the place in terms of where to live and find the perfect neighborhood. When I wrote you last, it was Lake Highlands. A week before that, it was UP. Today, it’s Lakewood. As you can…

Being Nice: SouthStar Communities' Gives Operation FINALLY HOME a Whole LOT of Dirt

By Candy Evans / June 26, 2013 /

SouthStar Communities is a residential real estate development company with a very soft spot for veterans. Just in time for July 4, SouthStar is partnering with Operation FINALLY HOME, the Dallas Builders Association and the NFL Former Players Association, to build a custom home in The Sanctuary at Lake Ridge, a beautiful gated, neighborhood in Grand Prairie, Texas often…

Being Nice: SouthStar Communities’ Gives Operation FINALLY HOME a Whole LOT of Dirt

By Candy Evans / June 26, 2013 /

SouthStar Communities is a residential real estate development company with a very soft spot for veterans. Just in time for July 4, SouthStar is partnering with Operation FINALLY HOME, the Dallas Builders Association and the NFL Former Players Association, to build a custom home in The Sanctuary at Lake Ridge, a beautiful gated, neighborhood in Grand Prairie, Texas often…

Newman Village in Frisco: Fall in Love With Boulevards and Picket Fences Once Again

By Candy Evans / May 21, 2013 /

“Life Happens Outside Your Front Door” is the slogan, if you will, at Darling’s Newman Village in Frisco. One of the most unusual, and successful master planned developments in this rapidly growing neck of North Texas, homes in this community are drawing from a wide cross-section of generational buyers: young families, professionals, and downsizing Baby…

Let’s Gondola Over to Dallas Midtown Valley View… Shaping Up as a New Dallas Community

By Candy Evans / April 4, 2013 /

Valley View Shopping Center is shaping up on paper like a Victoria’s Secret glossy ad, but one thing’s for sure: it may never again look like the Valley View Mall many of us grew up with! I will never forget the opening of Bloomingdales over there, how cool was that? Alas, now Valley View is…