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Community Land Trusts have been kicked around in North Texas for years as an affordable housing option for residents who want to age in place or stay in the community they grew up in. Fort Worth is forging ahead with its new land trust, poised to build and renovate homes on a 15-acre site purchased…
Three years after completing her first million-dollar, new construction build in Dallas’ prestigious M Streets, sustainable home builder and interior designer Aarieanna Ware scored another big win — an uncommon victory among local construction bosses. She was named Miss Texas. The 26-year-old grew up as a self-professed military brat, living in different countries and admiring…
Motels are hip again and Dallas is primed to benefit as a new generation discovers the beauty of the roadside motel. That is if we protect one of our most important architectural and cultural assets, the historic Belmont Motor Hotel. The Belmont Motor Hotel opened in 1947 to the swinging sounds of Ted Parrino’s Serenaders…
Arlington’s Lake Viridian has a few notable developments to its shores this summer. The master-planned community of Viridian, in its twelfth year of development, has announced the opening of the Viridian Biergarten along Viridian Park Lane and the completion of the second phase of Lakeside at Viridian along North Collins. Among these new homesites, prospective…
District 3 Dallas City Councilman Zarin Gracey couldn’t hide his frustration in a late June Housing and Homelessness Solutions Committee meeting. He’s heard from his constituents that they don’t like any of the city’s ideas to repurpose an old hospital on Hampton Road. He wants to sell that site and use the funds to address…
Built in 1959, this Midcentury Ranch is a knockout in pictures, even before you realize where it’s located — and there’s the ballgame. At one end of the block, 4315 Briar Creek Lane lets out on Abrams near the intersection of Mockingbird, just up the street from Hudson House, Dream Cafe, and Sprouts. The other…
