Preston Center

Preston Center Task Force: A Meeting Molly Ivins Would Love

By Jon Anderson / April 28, 2015 /

Monday evening saw the latest installment of Councilwoman Jennifer Gates’ Preston Road and Northwest Highway Task Force Meetings. It renewed my belief that the only thing missing from Texas politics are footlights. Molly would have been in hog heaven (versus the real one she’s in now). I’d describe many of the attendees as being Republican…

BombSHELLs: The Shelton’s Secret Penthouses

By Jon Anderson / April 17, 2015 /

Wow! I stumbled into Carolina Rendon’s hip pocket and neither of us felt a thing – but I saw something wonderful that stirred my renovator’s heart. But I get ahead of myself… In 1983, The Shelton popped up in Preston Center located on Luther Lane just south of Northwest Highway and east of the Tollway.…

Preston Center Taskforce Member Says Letters Against Skybridge Were Sent Without Consulting the Group

By Candy Evans / March 22, 2015 /

Don’t you just hate it when you go out of town and try to have a great vacation and then someone sends out a letter without even consulting you? 

CD Exclusive: Transwestern is BACK at Preston and Northwest Highway: Lower Density, Seeking Neighborhood Support

By Candy Evans / March 21, 2015 /

Surely you recall last year’s Behind the Pink Wall ordeals where Transwestern tried to buy out  a group of homeowners — Town House Row, Preston Center Apartments — to build luxury apartments on a glorious slab of real estate dirt at the corner of Northwest Highway and Preston Road? Recall how homeowners hired P. Michael Jung…

Preston Hollow Desperately Needs a Grocery Store? Tongue-In-Juvaderm-or-Restalyn-Filled Cheeks

By Candy Evans / March 18, 2015 /

Eric Nicholson over at The Dallas Observer had a funny, tongue-in-cheek column yesterday about the skybridge battle for Preston Center. Which by the way just got unanimous approval TODAY for all four variances from the Dallas Board of Adjustment. I think the point was to poke fun at a U.S.D.A. map which purportedly shows that…