Suburb Sunday

Renovated Homes in Richardson: Past, Present and Future

By Shelby Skrhak / November 17, 2019 /

We love Richardson for its particularly cool mix of midcentury-built homes that have lush, large trees and even larger lots. That’s why it’s a favorite for buyers with an eye for good bones to come in and renovate these well-built homes with modern sensibility. For this Suburb Sunday, we’ve found three great renovated homes in…

Frisco’s Chapel Creek Blends New Construction with ’00s-Era Mansions

By Shelby Skrhak / November 10, 2019 /

North of SH 121 and east of the Dallas North Tollway, the Chapel Creek neighborhood in west Frisco has a rare blend of both established homes first built in the early 2000s and brand new, custom-built homes on remaining lots available. Many of the 13 homes now listed for sale in Chapel Creek are from the…

McKinney Has a Mix of Historic Downtown Homes, Well-Taken Care of Classics, and Gated Estates

By Shelby Skrhak / November 3, 2019 /

There’s a lot to love about McKinney, the Collin County seat that’s got one of the best historic downtown squares hands down. There are about 120 shops and two dozen restaurants in this commercial downtown district. The agenda here: Shop the clothing boutiques at 540 Mercantile, enjoy dinner at The Pantry Restaurant, stop for coffee at fILTER(ed)…

Try Addison for Affordable Rentals Near North Dallas

By Shelby Skrhak / October 27, 2019 /

Since Sunday night, almost the minute that the tornado sirens went off across North Dallas and surrounding cities, we started posting information on our social pages and website to help the many thousands of readers affected directly by this multi-tornadic storm like we’ve never seen before. For this week’s edition of Suburb Sunday, we looked…

Among the Largest Suburbs in the Metroplex, Lewisville Has Rich History and Like-New Homes

By Shelby Skrhak / October 20, 2019 /

When the Denton County city of Lewisville was officially incorporated in 1925, the government’s first ordinances regulated medicine shows and set speed limits for automobiles at 18 mph. But it’d already been a bustling town with a gristmill, several cotton gins, and two saloons. With many of its original structures still standing, downtown Lewisville, called…