Chad West
Kevin Rachel and his wife moved to Kessler Park in 2020 because they liked the character of the North Oak Cliff neighborhood with its diverse historical architecture, hilly topography, and lush landscape. About a year after the Rachels found their dream home on Canyon Creek within the Kessler Park Conservation District, construction began nearby on…
Councilwoman Cara Mendelsohn raised an interesting point during a discussion about affordable housing at Friday’s Dallas City Council meeting on the 2024 bond election. Why spend bond dollars — which require issuing debt and paying interest — on affordable housing when there are already more than a dozen mechanisms in place that could accomplish the…
Dallas businessman Monty Bennett isn’t counting on bond funds to ensure that the Westmoreland Skate Park becomes a reality. The founder and CEO of Ashford Inc. hospitality real estate company and his wife, Sarah Zubiate Bennett, donated $25,000 this week to the Oak Cliff park amenity. Monty Bennett, who also serves as publisher of The…
Every Dallas City Council member agrees that an unaffordable housing crisis exists in North Texas, but there are differences of opinion on how to best solve the problem. Case in point: A mid-December meeting of the City Council’s Housing and Homelessness Solutions Committee about reducing minimum lot size to provide for greater residential density was…
There was no shortage of people to write about on the Dallas City Hall beat at CandysDirt.com this year. It was a year of cyberattacks, lawsuits, and an exodus of high-ranking Dallas housing employees. We also saw the advent of noteworthy projects and the emergence of many local rising stars. Reporters at CandysDirt.com continued to ask…
