Preston Hollow

Want to Represent Your Neighborhood? First, You Have to Get Your Name on Ballot

By Zachary Dickens / January 28, 2015 /

One way to ensure that your property values stay high is to get involved in your community. For example, you could represent your neighborhood on the city council or school board. Of course, you’d have to convince your neighbors that you’re worthy of their votes. But that comes later. First, you need to get on…

Preston Hollow Village is So Wonderful We Get Free Food There Saturday

By Candy Evans / January 27, 2015 /

You know how much we love Preston Hollow Village, the new development that is making lemonade out of the lemon (to put it nicely) that was the northwest intersection of Central Expressway and Walnut Hill Lane. And yes, I know that calling the area “Preston Hollow Village” is a stretch because that’s really the Meadows,…

Mark Cuban’s Letters to Jennifer Staubach Gates Are a Virtual Eyeroll at Neighbors

By Joanna England / December 15, 2014 /

Sure he hasn’t technically done anything wrong, but Mark Cuban’s unwillingness to kowtow to the neighboring homeowners of  the spate of Preston Hollow properties he’s recently bought up sure doesn’t seem, well, neighborly. He’s cleared trees from the estates that line Northwest Highway and Preston Road, leaving little visual screening from the busy six-lane thoroughfare. Dallas City…

Crow Holdings Wants to Build a Skybridge From the New Tom Thumb to That Preston Center Parking Lot

By Candy Evans / December 15, 2014 /

Update: Just got word that Margot Murphy, City Councilwoman Gates’ planning commissioner, will hold this item until mid January. Letter to Jennifer Gates attached below. This is one of those stories that makes me love what I do ever so much more. The Preston Center real estate saga continues only — please do grab your…

Master Plan Meeting I for Preston Center: Mark Cuban Has Half of Preston Hollow on Prozac

By Candy Evans / November 1, 2014 /

True confessions here: I did not get to Thursday’s meeting at six, since I thought it started at seven and had a commitment. Thankfully, Eric Nicholson from the Dallas Observer was there, and I am going to turn most of this post over to him to tell us what went down. I saw Laura Miller…