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Luxury, Location, Lush: A Most Unique Forest Creek Home Is Loaded, Loaded, Loaded

By Candy Evans | April 8, 2025 |

There are not many homes that put my head into a spin. But then there is 6617 Forest Creek Dr. I stopped counting how many times “amazing” came out of my mouth while touring the home. And the neighborhood: Forest Creek is in North Dallas just south of Forest Lane, south of LBJ. Dallas has…

Staff Puts Faith in Free Market to Sort Out Dallas Parking Policies

By Charles Grand | April 8, 2025 |

City staff got put in the hot seat on Monday during a meeting of the Dallas Economic Development Committee, during which the controversial subject of parking reform was discussed. As previously reported by CandysDirt.com, Dallas’s City Plan Commission (CPC) advanced a measure that would eliminate or decrease the minimum parking spaces that developers are required…

Mark Cain Just Listed Atrium Homes’ Head-Turning California Modern 

By Karen Eubank | April 8, 2025 |

It’s agonizing when I know a dramatic California Modern is on its way but just not quite ready for the reveal. Happily, today, I can tell you all about it! Two of the most important things to know are that it’s in Preston Hollow and was meticulously designed and built by Atrium Fine Homes, which…

Be Nice to the Planet on Earth Day 2025

By Joy Donovan | April 8, 2025 |

Grab a bike. Take a walk. Ride a bus. Forget the plastic. And like they said in the groovy 1970s when Earth Day was launched, “Give a hoot; don’t pollute.” It’s time to celebrate Earth Day 2025 throughout North Texas. Always April 22, Earth Day this year carries the theme “Our Power, Our Planet.” First…

Suzanne Warner Just Listed a Brookside Estates Beauty for $18.49 Million

By Karen Eubank | April 7, 2025 |

When it comes to exclusivity in our fair city, it doesn’t get much better than Brookside Estates. Rarely does a property come up for sale here, so the fact that Compass realtor Suzanne Warner has just listed a gorgeous Mediterranean mansion is indeed exciting. You may be scratching your head thinking, “Where the heck is…

Convention Center Plans Could Hinge on Ray Washburne

By Charles Grand | April 7, 2025 |

It looks like city staff and downtown stakeholders are landing on a particular layout for the redevelopment of the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center that does indeed require the cooperation of developer Ray Washburne. The Black Academy of Arts and Letters hosted a community briefing on the latest details of the convention center master plan…