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Is Your High School TikTok Famous? Because Prosper’s is Trending

By Nikki Barringer | March 26, 2024 |

If you’re like me, you’ve probably wondered, “Prosper? What’s that all about? It’s way, way, way up there, a great place to throw a field party and … shoulder shrug … that’s about it.” Yet, people are moving there like crazy. Prosper has been called, “The next Highland Park,” and it has a TikTok famous…

Autumn Leaves Senior Living Community Accuses Former Employee of Stealing From Residents

By April Towery | March 25, 2024 |

The business office manager of an East Dallas senior living community is on unpaid leave after being accused of bilking residents out of more than $67,800.  It doesn’t appear that the woman has been fired yet, pending the results of a police investigation and forensic audit, but she’s referred to as a “former employee” in…

Tavis Westbrook Shows That When The Bones Are Good, Midcentury Modern Magic Can Live On

By Karen Eubank | March 25, 2024 |

Maren Morris sang it metaphorically, but it has a literal meaning as well, “When the bones are good, the house won’t fall.” It might be torn brick by brick and rebuilt, but it won’t fall. Builder Tavis Westbrook knows good bones, and that’s why this Dixon-Furlow Midcentury Modern caught his eye. Dixon-Furlow And The Midcentury…

Colby Craig and Richard Drummond Davis Take The Luxury Home to a New Level

By Karen Eubank | March 25, 2024 |

Dallas has upped its luxury home game in a big way. It was only a few years ago that Realtors heard Dallas didn’t have the product our new East and West Coast buyers wanted. That lit the fire for a “We will show you,” attitude, and boy, have our builders and architects hit a new…

How Will AI Change Architecture? This Panel Discussion Explores The Issue

By Joanna England | March 24, 2024 |

The architecture and design industry is not immune to AI and its influence. That’s why the Dallas Architecture Forum is hosting a panel at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 26, at the Angelika Theater at Mockingbird Station. A pre-panel reception will be held in the lobby at 6:15 p.m. The event, which is free and open…

Where Did Forward Dallas Go Off the Rails? [Podcast]

By Shelby Skrhak | March 24, 2024 |

You might say that Forward Dallas, the City of Dallas’s comprehensive land use plan, has fallen victim to a curse of bad timing. When a controversial — yet hypothetical — zoning idea overlapped a news cycle with the city’s comprehensive Forward Dallas plan, it seems the issues got conflated, says Andrea Gilles, the interim Director…