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Splintered wood, insulation, and charred kitchen cabinetry sat for weeks after a Plano home gas explosion until the owner finally cleared the rubble under threat of property lien. Plano city officials were prepared to condemn the possibly uninsured property after repeated requests to clean up the hazardous site. The violent gas explosion may have been…
How hot can a high-rise apartment get when there’s no air conditioning on a 98-degree summer day? That’s not a question that residents of the Mosaic apartment building in downtown Dallas wanted to answer, but just in case you’re wondering, it’s 96 degrees. The seven-block area of downtown Dallas that includes the Mosaic building lost…
Preservation Architect Norman Alston offers us a counterpoint to last week’s column about the renovation of the White Rock Lake Stone Tables, why it’s a loss, and what we can learn from this situation. By Norman Alston, FAIASpecial Contributor Dallas has always thought of itself as not having much history — especially an architectural history…
Every week, the detail-oriented folks at Green Scene Home Inspections will give CandysDirt.com readers an education in inspection. Want to see what they see? Tune in for “Upon Closer Inspection.” You know who you are. You’ve walked past that leaky faucet a hundred times thinking you’ll fix it later. You haven’t changed your air filters…
You may have noticed by now that I just love cultural references. It is only natural being a child of the ’80s. The shows were pretty funny, the movies were awesome, and the music always had a great beat. When I saw the house featured in this week’s column I automatically thought of Rick James.…
Avanta Residential, a Denver-based that focuses on single-family rentals, announced that it has successfully closed on the purchase of 27 acres of land within Painted Tree to develop a build-to-rent neighborhood of 276 homes and townhomes.
