Dallas Cothrum
With Preston Road lined with aging retail redevelopments and new apartment proposals, one question seems inevitable: Could Preston Plaza become multifamily housing? The Far North Dallas office tower at 17950 Preston Rd. — long challenged by rising vacancy — went to auction earlier this month. No winning bid has been reported, but a new state…
The real estate consulting firm Masterplan has been a mainstay in Dallas for roughly two generations, and until about three years ago, it belonged to the well-known Cothrum family. Now, the brand is back in family hands. Masterplan ran the gamut when it came to local development consulting, offering services related to permit-expediting, zoning, entitlements,…
Big cities like Dallas are poised to see more multifamily housing built, assuming the enactment of SB 840, which will allow developers to bypass rezoning when building multifamily or certain mixed-use projects on land zoned for commercial use. The senate bill, written by Sen. Bryan Hughes (R-Mineola), received bipartisan support in both chambers of the…
The Dallas Board of Adjustment on Tuesday reversed the decision of a city building official who earlier this year issued a “stop work order” for a construction project on Tyree Street in the Elm Thicket/Northpark neighborhood. The Board stopped short of doing the same for a second Elm Thicket builder who has poured thousands into a…
The Dallas Board of Adjustment has been tasked with the unenviable decision of whether to allow builders to finish their construction projects — that were built in violation of a zoning code approved two years prior — or appease the hard-fighting Elm Thicket neighborhood that was granted stipulations via an overlay district to ensure compatible…
