News
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’…
It all started with a sketch. Before a shovel of dirt had been turned or a stone put in place, the owners of the 45-acre parcel in Lipan, Texas, had an idea of what they wanted to build that would one day be their homestead. From that sketch, an architect and custom builder made their…
By Ryan Casey Stephens, FPQP®Special Contributor At the time of this writing, mortgage bonds and interest rates are nearing their second-worst levels since February and there’s a lot of room to the downside. We’ve generally enjoyed rates dropping each week since the first week of March, which spurred a burst of activity in our local…
Editor’s Note: This is the third 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…
