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You may know Ed Murchison as one of our go-to resources on Midcentury Modern homes, but this West Plano listing from the Coldwell Banker Realtor is one you shouldn’t pass up. Located inside West Plano’s popular Ports O’Call neighborhood, this week’s Highlight Home of The Week sponsored by Senior Loan Officer Lisa Peters of First Horizon is a great house…
As I sit here typing this week’s column, hoping my laptop’s battery doesn’t run out because the power is out from another round of big North Texas storms, it occurred to me that a timely topic for this week might be recovering from North Texas storms. Homeowners face all kinds of problems after big storms…
A Dallas native who owns a 100-year-old fourplex in Oak Lawn is claiming that a memory care facility next to her property is blowing toxic chemicals into the homes of her tenants and her protests to the City of Dallas Development Services Department have gone unanswered. The 12-story property at 4215 Herschel Ave., operated by…
In the iconic 1980s movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High, history teacher Mr. Hand deduced that all of his students and basically, society in general, are on dope. This movie was made well before dope became legalized in various states. Mr. Hand was a visionary. Who knew? Now, Mr. Hand was the first person I…
Space travel for tourists. Communicating through wrist watches. Self-driving cars. A woman named Alexa answering encyclopedia facts. All of these things we thought were sci-fi stuff we’d probably never really experience. We were so wrong. Here’s a new one: a 3D-printed home, and one is coming to Fort Worth Texas. Fort Worth 3D-Printed Home Cowtown’s…
Following a months-long search, an internal candidate was named Dallas’ director of Housing and Neighborhood Revitalization on Thursday. Longtime city employee Cynthia Rogers-Ellickson has served as the interim director since David Noguera submitted his resignation in September. Noguera left the City of Dallas to work for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in…
