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It’s not pretty, that’s for sure, but the 800-space, two level parking garage smack in the middle of Preston Center (west) sure is handy when it comes to parking. On a rainy day — basically the last two months — I have left the car in there protected from hail. Even left the sky-roof open. I…
I grew up north of Houston in a town that straddled Interstate 45 – the preferred thoroughfare for hurricane evacuation from the Bayou City — just a few hundred feet from the San Jacinto River. From an early age, my brother and sisters learned that, while the high winds from a hurricane can pose…
Midday Monday, residents in my high-rise received a double-forwarded note containing a letter I later found out was written by former mayor Laura Miller. The letter (after the jump) makes the case for opposing the sky bridge at Preston Center. Since moving to Preston Hollow, I’ve noticed that any whiff of development is met with…
Today’s Tuesday Two Hundred takes us to Junius Heights in Old East Dallas to look at a lovely Prairie Style house that just hit the market June 1. The Prairie Style of residential architecture made its debut in Dallas in 1907 with a house on Abrams Road, based on the plans Frank Lloyd Wright published in…
Thank God for Wylie H. Dallas. If you don’t know him, he’s a — secret. He is also “erudite and omnipresent.” D Magazine puts it this way: Wherever a post or news article about city affairs appears online, Wylie is sure to show up in the comments, sometimes simply to quip, sometimes to offer other…
Here is a home that offers you two huge plusses, well, maybe three: a paddleboard, a body of water to practice on in your backyard, and a clean slate for a new kitchen. It’s in Hillside. I don’t beat around the bush, except when paddlboarding: not only is the kitchen ripe and ready for a…
