Neighborhoods

Larry Hagman Is Not the Only Star Who Lived in Dallas: Here’s Where Judy Garland Slept in Big D (and You Can, Too)

By Candy Evans / December 3, 2012 /

Update, Monday December 3:  360 degree views of Big D from this penthouse including a rooftop terrace with view of the bridge:. 2635 sf. 3 bedrooms, 4 baths, formal dining. And oh yes, it’s leased! Ah, the Maple Terrace. Dallas’ very first “million dollar apartment house”, and no barf beige! The elegant stucco Dallas Landmark…

East Dallas Real Estate is About to Go Up, Way Up, If This Young Man Takes Over Angela Hunt’s City Council Seat

By Candy Evans / November 28, 2012 /

It’s official: Bobby Abtahi is running for Dallas City Council, specifically the seat vacated by term-limited Angela Hunt. Oh excuse me, it’s ROBERT Abtahi, former Dallas City Plan Commissioner. You see, I know him as Bobby, a young man who was friends with my daughter in middle and high school and who, at the age…

Where oh Where Do Those Hamptons Buyers Come From? The Big Apple

By Candy Evans / September 14, 2012 /

This is pretty cool to those of us obsessed with second or vacation homes. Which is, like all of us. Everyone knows that the Hamptons is the vacation home playground of Manhattan — or it is? Actually, yes. A cool blog called PropertyShark did all this research to find that 35 percent of Hamptons vacation…

Growth In Most Major Cities Outpaces Suburbs. Except in Dallas, Where the Urbanists Are Losing

By Candy Evans / July 3, 2012 /

I was in downtown Dallas, cursing the other day. Traffic? No, one way streets. STUPID one way streets. Here we are trying to conserve fossil fuels and make Dallas a “walkable” city with bike lanes, the newest urban fad du jour. (Truth is, I’m sick of hearing about bike lanes. While I might ride on…

Bomb Blast in Residential Plano Neighborhood Has Neighbors Concerned, Curious, Kinda Crazy

By Candy Evans / June 19, 2012 /

This is just strange. Folks up in this nice, relatively quiet Plano neighborhood got a bit freaked out — understandably so  — over a strange series of events that involve an injured man and a possible bomb explosion near an Atmos natural gas control station in the 3600 block of West Parker Road overnight. First…