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A real estate brokerage, development, and construction company is coming to the South Dallas/Fair Park area, Dallas officials announced Tuesday. Shekinah Legacy Holdings received about $650,000 in economic development incentives from Dallas’ Small Business Center to relocate to a now-vacant building at 1708 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and revitalize the neighborhood at the corner…
My Pop was never happier than when he was in his workshop, with his tools, rebuilding a motor to a lawnmower. Our mowers, much like our cars, could outrun anything on wheels. The rule was that if we came across a mower being left out for heavy trash pick up, we had to pick it…
A few years ago, Sally Purcell and her husband were thinking about a move. She spotted the house at 5823 Richmond Ave. and went to check it out. But again, she was JUST looking. They weren’t quite ready to pack it up. But something happened. She fell in love. She told her agent, “I think…
Editor’s Note: This is the fourth in a series of responses to CandysDirt.com questionnaires issued to all candidates running for office in the May 6 Dallas City Council election. We’ll be revealing their responses over the next several days. Candidates in the races for Districts 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 12 did…
Dallas Builders Association Executive Officer Phil Crone is moving on, the longtime local leader announced Monday. Crone, a CandysDirt.com Newsmaker of the Year, led the Dallas Builders Association for 17 years. In an email to community partners titled “My Next Steps,” Crone said he has accepted a position as vice president of Leading Builders of…
In the 1990s, the makers of Pace Picante Sauce came up with a brilliant advertising campaign. Cowboys sitting around a campfire asked Cookie for more picante sauce. Having run out of Pace Picante Sauce, Cookie hands them a jar of sauce made in New York City. The cowboys get upset and threaten to hang ol’…
