Preston Hollow

Transwestern’s Pink Wall Proposal Passes Planning Commission Hurdle, FINALLY

By Jon Anderson / September 4, 2015 /

As predicted, we are all two-weeks older since the Planning Commission fobbed-off the vote on the proposed Transwestern development at the northeast corner of Preston Road and Northwest Highway. What, if any, votes changed in those two weeks is unknown, but I suspect few. Certainly attendees were not treated to German band Texas Lightening popping…

How Much Money Does it Take to Live Like a Human in Dallas?

By Jon Anderson / September 1, 2015 /

By Jon Anderson Columnist Candy and I have been opinionating back and forth on low-income citizens and how their access to safe and affordable housing is a means to promote economic upwards mobility. After all, if the poor are less poor, they will live richer lives (by any definition) and contribute more to society. Unlike…

R.I.P. 10300 Strait Lane: 1971 – 2015

By Candy Evans / August 31, 2015 /

Comes word that the tear down of the Bud Oglesby home at 10300 Strait came sooner rather than later. In fact, she is gone, her body laid to a fitful rest somewhere in Lewisville …

Lee Kleinman Has Called Another Neighborhood Meeting for Neighborhood Input on the Transwestern Project

By Candy Evans / August 26, 2015 /

See this room? On Thursday night it will be Dallas City Councilman Lee Kleinman up at the podium, leading yet another neighborhood discussion on the proposal that Transwestern has made for 3 acres Behind the Pink Wall, aka the northeast intersection of Northwest Highway and Preston Road. This comes because and because and because. I…

Midway Hollow Home Has Open Floor Plan, Wraparound Porch, And a Master Bath You Won’t Want to Leave

By Joanna England / August 25, 2015 /

Sometimes investors start with a mixed bag of a home, where they could get by without changing the floor plan while making key upgrades elsewhere. Other times the whole home is due for a makeover, with no finish being spared. There’s a certain alchemy to flipping, though, and sometimes the formula bubbles over before it’s…