University Park
When I was a location scout many moons ago, my number one request was to find a house with an All-American look. That meant one where you could visualize a family playing touch football on the front lawn while mom served up a pitcher of the client’s lemonade we were advertising. Or as the lights…
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A group of community members is appealing a ruling that could give a developer the go-ahead to change the look and feel of Snider Plaza, University Park’s landmark shopping center, forever. Last November, Dallas County District Court Judge Sheryl McFarlin dismissed a lawsuit that was seeking to block a commercial development planned for the southeast…
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A scrapper. That’s how Debbie Grayson, founder of TLC Contract Group, describes the home at 3404 Purdue Avenue in University Park at first glance. But upon a closer look and realizing its potential, she knew the 1930-built home was a real keeper. “The house just needed some help,” she says. She took the house down…
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I call 4421 Purdue a Broody Hen house. Why? I had a salad by that name tonight at Streets Fine Chicken, and it was deelish. I asked what a “Broody hen” was, after I consumed the salad, of course. It’s a hen that sits on her eggs until they hatch. And protects them. Apparently, hens…
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In response to other cities’ invasive species eradication ordinances, it’s nice to see University Park (of all places) nurturing trees and other greenery in their sewers. This unwanted herbage has been allowed to take root sneakily out of sight in sewers and gutters. All these migrant saplings ask for as they work tirelessly, without rest…
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