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Thursday Three Hundred: Adorable Cottage in Historic McKinney

By Joanna England / June 5, 2014 /

I know we toss around the words “adorable,” “cute,” and “sweet” around a lot here, but this is one of those homes where you look up the definition of any of these words and it’s sitting there as the perfect visual example. So perfect, right down to the breakfast nook and farm sink. And, it’s…

Battle Behind the Pink Wall: Why We Absolutely Need to Let Transwestern Redevelop Town House Row

By Candy Evans / June 5, 2014 /

Robert Edelman’s Drexel Park Hollow hogs virtually every inch of dirt Guest post by C.C. Allen I attended the meeting Dallas City Councilman Lee Kleinman set up at the University Park United Methodist Church on May 28th. The purpose of the meeting was to have Transwestern update the community on its proposal to redevelop Town…

Dallas Parks Foundation’s CONFAB is Tomorrow! Don’t Miss it!

By Joanna England / June 4, 2014 /

The second volume of the Dallas Parks Foundation‘s revolutionary CONFAB 2014 is tomorrow at 7 p.m. in the Dallas City Performance Hall. This event, which bills itself as a conversation about public space, is actually so much more, and CandysDirt.com is proud to be one of the sponsors. If you care about what kind of…

Trammell Crow Presents Sam’s Club Case to Oak Lawn Council

By Candy Evans / June 4, 2014 /

I will tell you this: Joel Behrens of Trammell Crow seems like a nice, earnest young man of 34 who was sweating up a storm last night as he was the anointed. Anointed, that is, to present Trammell Crow’s case for a super-size Sam’s Wholesale Club to the venerable Oak Lawn Committee, the original protectors of…

Wednesday Wonder: Just a Little Dallas Pied-a-Terre by Robert A.M. Stern

By Candy Evans / June 4, 2014 /

Lisa Blue was back in town last week to attend Lee Kleinman’s Town Hall meeting on the Transwestern rezoning case Behind the Pink Wall. We hope she didn’t muss her beautiful white bedroom because her fairy-tale beautiful Preston Hollow mansion at 5950 Deloache is definitely on the market, in MLS, and has even had a…