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Valley View Center Is Coming Down After Second Structure Fire Injures Firefighters

By Shelby Skrhak / March 16, 2023 /

This story has been updated with new information about the mall’s demolition and asbestos abatement. Valley View Center is finally being torn down. After Thursday morning’s structure fire that injured two firefighters, exterior demolition began Thursday afternoon on the troubled commercial property that’s been vacant for years. Two Dallas Fire-Rescue firefighters sustained injuries while battling…

Dallas Police Cite Valley View Center With ‘Habitual Criminal Property’ Designation

By April Towery / February 24, 2023 /

Some Dallasites remember the Valley View Center fondly as a place where families bought kitchen appliances at Sears, Roebuck & Co., and the area around what is now LBJ Freeway and Preston Road was made up of cotton fields.  Earlier this month, the Valley View Center caught fire. The cause is still reportedly under investigation. …

Courtney Tauriac Moves to New Beck Realty Residential

By Shelby Skrhak / May 6, 2021 /

You gotta love somebody whose Instagram profile description displays mad word skills. Realtor Courtney Tauriac, who recently made the move from Compass to Beck Realty Residential, describes herself as such: “Real estate hustler. Architecture aficionado. Good vibe contributor. Fitness zealot. Globe jaunting junkie. Mom warrior.” It’s for these fabulous nouns and verbs, and a thousand…

Real Estate Firm With Historic Family Legacies Create a New Future

By Tommy Cummings / April 7, 2021 /

The chemistry was right. The timing was right. “The stars were aligned,” said Ross Frankfurt, who is CEO of Anthem Development, a new Dallas real-estate firm that taps into the legacy of two families that are marquee names in multifamily development. The Frankfurt and Beck families’ relationships go back decades. They’ve come together to focus…

Sweating by the Oldie: Valley View Gives Way to Beck’s Dallas Midtown

By Jon Anderson / June 23, 2017 /

A hot, sweaty Friday groundbreaking seemed the perfect bookend to Dallas Midtown’s four years of sweating through politics and planning. It’s not that the city didn’t want it — heck, the renderings and plans are a wonderful and productive reimagining of what had become another tumbledown mall unable to compete in today’s retail environment.  Given…