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Anyone following industrial development knows that the United States has data center fever, and Dallas isn’t missing out on the building craze. The California-based digital infrastructure company Equinix Inc. recently filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation for more than $836 million in new construction and interior outfitting costs related to a new…
Feeling on top of the world is a daily reality at the home found at 3028 Mountainview Ct. in Grapevine. The street it’s built on tells a lot. Perched high above Northeast Tarrant County, this home on Mountainview Court offers sweeping treetop views that stretch across the horizon. It doesn’t look or feel like Texas,…
One of the best features Texas has to offer is its sky. No other state does sky the way Texas does. The blue color is so deep and so vast that it is easy to lose track of time looking up and enjoying the natural beauty that is Texas. Nowhere is this more evident than…
Volk Estates is a neighborhood of architect-designed estate homes that is essentially hidden in plain sight in the middle of University Park. Developed on 41 acres purchased from SMU by Leonard Volk in the 1920s, it was designed to be an exclusive neighborhood where wealthy people could build large homes on scenic lots. Not much…
A recurring critique of Dallas City Council’s alleged propensity for approving multifamily rezoning applications is that officials are cynically using the housing affordability crisis to justify the construction of upscale projects in the face of neighborhood opposition. If there’s a shortage of affordable housing, the criticism goes, how is greenlighting a high-end development in Preston…
Forty-one years ago, it was probably enough for the inaugural Ryan Place Candlelight Christmas Tour to simply open up holiday-decorated houses and let the public muse on the “quaint” vintage houses that comprise Fort Worth’s first planned development. Alas, no more. I’ve been covering the storied tour for over 10 years, and I can attest…
