Opinion

Tomorrow’s Headline: City Council Approves Oak Lawn High-Rise From Pegasus-Ablon and Caven Enterprises

By Jon Anderson / May 12, 2021 /

On Wednesday City Council will vote to approve Pegasus-Ablon’s application to drop a 20-plus-story high-rise into a 36-foot-height neighborhood. I say this with certainty. The votes have been metaphorically counted and the hearing before city council is mere theater to let any opposition believe they actually had a chance of swaying a vote. They don’t.…

Will the DFW Housing Market Crash Soon? Rogers Healy Answers

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / April 28, 2021 /

By Rogers Healy Early in 2020, as the pandemic began to impact the economy, there was no way we could have predicted the booming market that has been in full swing essentially all year. It seems that there is no end in sight for this unprecedented year-long spring market to slow down, or cool off.…

How The Mask Mandate Plays a Role in Real Estate And Why I’m Worried

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / March 12, 2021 /

By Rogers Healy The mask mandate has been lifted and coinciding with that decision, my concern levels rose as well. As owner and CEO of one of the largest independently-owned real estate brokerages in Texas, my stress levels hit an all-time high after the announcement was made. I worry for the over 350 Rogers Healy…

Miller vs. Gates: District 13’s Not-So-Great Jesuit Debate

By Jon Anderson / April 23, 2019 /

At last night’s debate between District 13 Dallas City Council member Jennifer Gates and former Dallas Mayor Laura Miller, I fully expected the political point-scoring and backbiting that is politics. What I didn’t expect was the paucity of actual answers to questions. Part of that rests on moderator Tim Rogers for not calling out either…

Accurate Measuring Sticks Are Needed for PD-15 Traffic and Density

By Jon Anderson / April 22, 2019 /

If traffic and density are supposedly the issues most feared by PD-15 development, we need an accurate measuring stick to insert reality into the discussion. The coming traffic study will do that, but … In the fullness of time, I started to think about one of the tidbits from last week’s PD-15 meeting with City…