Preston Center

Landmark Setting in Preston Center: Eric Nicholson at The Dallas Observer is Writing a Great Post Mortem of Battleground Preston Center

By Candy Evans / September 29, 2014 /

“Somewhere in Preston Hollow, Laura Miller is wiping clean the dagger with which she eviscerated two proposed apartment developments at Preston Road and Northwest Highway” It’s been a few weeks now since Transwestern walked away, probably as far away as they could run, from the months-long, up-and-down, costly, and then down down down-to-four-stories saga of…

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RE: Leland Burk Has Highland House Site in Preston Center UNDER CONTRACT From Crosland Co, Correction

By Candy Evans / September 2, 2014 /

Well, hold my horses. I should have known better. Leland Burk does NOT own the Preston Doctor’s Center, yet. But if all goes as planned, he will own it by October. I should know the first rule of real estate transactions: it ain’t over until the contract is signed. What happened is that Leland asked…

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Leland Burk Buys Highland House Site in Preston Center from Crosland

By Candy Evans / September 2, 2014 /

Well this was a shocker: former City Council candidate Leland Burk has purchased the Preston Doctor’s Center building on Westchester, the one where Crosland Group was planning to build a luxury high rise called the Highland House. And the plans have been withdrawn along with the re-zoning request. In his article, Dallas Morning News reporter…

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Highland House Rezoning Tabled ‘Til October, Pending Land Use Study for Preston Center, Laura Miller Theatrics

By Candy Evans / June 27, 2014 /

Last Thursday, the Dallas Plan Commission voted to postpone a decision on rezoning for 6215 Westchester, proposed site of the Highland House luxury apartments a Dallas developer wants to build in the center of Preston Center. The reason: to provide time for a land-use study of the area. Laura Miller was there in full theatrics, trying…

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Laura Miller, Steve Wolens & Mitchell Rasansky Throw Weight to Postpone Highland House Hearing at City Hall

By Candy Evans / May 23, 2014 /

Well, maybe everyone down at City Hall just wanted to get out of town for Memorial Day early. And STAY away, what with more than a thousand residents now angry over that proposed Sams Wholesale Club over near Cityplace, and then the Highland House project for Preston Center which has freaked out University Park residents,…

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