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Bicycle Safety 101: How Texas Ranks in Bicycle Fatality and Commuting Rates

By Candy Evans / May 28, 2014 /

I am in one of those moods where I could blog all day long, but gotta go meet Bernadette Schaeffler for lunch. So check out this article that tells us Texas is not the worst state for bicyclists. But then, that may be because we don’t have as many bike commuters as does California, Florida,…

Why Can’t We Have This Kind of a WalMart at Cityplace? Thinking OUTSIDE the Big Box…

By Candy Evans / May 28, 2014 /

You guys, LOOK at this Walmart store going up in Totten Square, Washington, D.C. I had heard or read that Walmart was doing smaller-scale stores for urban infill sites, even connected with public transit. Look at these two D.C. stores that opened late last year. A third is under construction in Fort Totten. If this…

Could the New Cityplace “State of Art” Urban Project Be In Jeopardy Because of Trammell Crow’s Big Box Sam’s?

By Candy Evans / May 28, 2014 /

Last year, Dallas real estate developer Neal Sleeper, president of Cityplace Co., said that the east side of North Central is starting to gain some momentum. “The east side of North Central is really starting to gain some momentum,” he told Steve Brown. “Parmenter’s plans make a lot of sense, and I hope they follow…

I Will Be Talking About Shrunken Heads & Real Estate Tonight at 6:30 pm at NorthPark

By Candy Evans / May 27, 2014 /

It’s a closed program for the Dallas Chapter of the International Society of Appraisers, and I’ll be talking House Porn and how Dallas Real Estate is like a shrunken head. I think this little guy has just been to too many Town Hall meetings for zoning changes!

Tuesday Two Hundred: This Claremont Home Has More Than Meets The Eye

By Joanna England / May 27, 2014 /

Yes, I totally ripped the headline of this post from the “Transformers” slogan, but honestly, I couldn’t think of a better way to describe this interesting home in the East Dallas subdivision of Claremont. I actually ran into a couple who just bought their first home in this area on April 1, and I thought,…