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From My Lips to God’s Ear: Valley View-Midtown May Finally Get Developed

By Candy Evans | March 7, 2025 |

The news came from the man who has written even more than I have on this topic: the demise of the former Valley View Mall renamed Midtown and promised, promised, promised to be delivered for at least 12 years. Twelve long years. That man is Robert Wilonsky, who recently returned to the Dallas Morning News,…

Enchanting Westcliff Cottage Ticks All the Right Boxes

By Eric Prokesh | March 7, 2025 |

I probably don’t need to tell that it’s tough out there but, with inventory at near all time lows, I needed two hours to suss out something special in one of our favorite Fort Worth neighborhoods. Here in the heart of Westcliff, on Westcliff Road West, in fact, is an oh, so easy to love,…

Buy This North Dallas Townhome for a Lock, Leave, and Go Shopping Lifestyle

By Joy Donovan | March 7, 2025 |

Buyers who want their free time to be fun time, here’s one to consider. On the market in North Dallas is a former model townhouse in the newer phase of a gated townhome community. Like the idea of a lock-and-leave lifestyle? Here you go, because this one’s set up for a low-maintenance, enjoy-your-Saturdays living. “It’s…

Find Beachy Design Inspiration at Port Aransas’ Cinnamon Shore Spring Break Home Tour

By Shelby Skrhak | March 6, 2025 |

This spring break, Cinnamon Shore — a master-planned vacation home community in Port Aransas — is opening “Sage and Sea” as a design showhouse for its first-ever Best in Texas Coastal Home Tour. From March 8-22, the public can tour the home daily from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., with proceeds benefiting the Port Aransas…

What Dallas Neighborhoods Are Vulnerable to Gentrification? More Than You Think

By Charles Grand | March 6, 2025 |

While lower-income residents in some Dallas neighborhoods find themselves especially vulnerable to gentrification, Dallasites of all stripes have been feeling the heat from rising housing costs and property taxes that could price them out and leave them susceptible to displacement, too. Groups like Builders of Hope Community Development Corp. are working to help prevent and…

This Stevens Park Tudor Revival Is a Stunning Before and After Showplace

By Karen Eubank | March 6, 2025 |

This Stevens Park Tudor Revival has always been a showplace. Built-in 1940 on a half-acre lot with an unimpeded view of Stevens Park Golf Course, it was over 3,000 square feet at the time.  A bit of digging revealed it was the home of District Judge P. Oswin Chrisman for 18 years. When you find…