Preston Hollow

Drive Like Your Kids Live Here

By Candy Evans / July 31, 2014 /

These signs are proliferating in Preston Hollow and I’ve seen a few in the Park Cities. Anyone seen them? They are the creation of a Wethersfield, Ct. woman, Petulia Pugliares, who lives between two elementary schools and a high school and thinks people there drive too fast. She has witnessed several accidents and was even…

What Kind of Luxury Apartments Transwestern Might Build Behind Pink Wall — NICE!

By Candy Evans / July 31, 2014 /

It’s August, and still we see those “NO!” NIMBY signs all across Preston Hollow, indicating homeowner’s opposition to a potential multi-family residential development by a company called Transwestern, at Preston and Northwest Highway, Behind the Pink Wall. It’s been eight months since I wrote these words:

Alan Peppard Covers for Me While I’m In San Francisco: John Post DID Tear Down a 19,000 SqFt House on Strait Lane

By Candy Evans / July 17, 2014 /

Well, kind of. I didn’t have time to get you the background dirt circa early ’80s on the breathtaking Oats home at the southwest corner of Strait and Royal — you know, this week’s $19.5 million Monday Morning Millionaire. I was busy getting ready to head to San Francisco for Connect. Thankfully, Alan Peppard took…

West Nile Virus Found on Brookshire Drive in Preston Hollow, Spraying Tonight?

By Candy Evans / July 14, 2014 /

I don’t know about you, but the mosquitos are so bad this year I have taken to carrying OFF in my purse! They are biting me like crazy, and in fact the City of Dallas has found signs of the virus in the 6600 block of Brookshire, in 75230. The City was planning to spray…

Monday Morning Millionaire Extraordinaire: President Obama Should Just Go Ahead and Buy the Dallas White House for His Next Visit

By Candy Evans / July 14, 2014 /

It’s July, it’s getting hot, muggy, who’s really working? Take the day off and go to a pool and pretend you are swimming at this house, the famous Dallas White House at the corner of the regal Lanes Strait and Royal. Last week when President Obama was in Dallas, he should have toured this house…