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We Do Not Need Another Sam’s Club in Uptown East

By Candy Evans / May 21, 2014 /

While I was in West Virginia, I read Steve Brown’s report that a Sam’s was coming to Uptown East at Cityplace, courtesy of Trammell Crow. I thought maybe I had altitude sickness or something. Total head scratcher. Here I have been interviewing builders and developers on how Uptown development is splashing over east of central,…

Lease of the Week: The Living is Easy in Kessler Square, With Culture, Shopping, and a Short Commute

By Joanna England / May 21, 2014 /

Here’s another fantastic opportunity to live in Oak Cliff: This beautiful Kessler Square traditional offers lush landscaping and a fantastic neighborhood experience. At the southeast corner of Edgefield Ave. and Colorado Blvd. in Kessler Park, you’ll find this gorgeous home at 1154 N. Edgefield. It’s a stone-clad 1938 traditional that has been carefully updated and…

Guest: Why I Support Highland House in Preston Center – It’s Far Better than the Alternative

By Candy Evans / May 20, 2014 /

Guest post by Claire Stanard At the Town Hall meeting hosted by Jennifer Gates last week, I tried to explain in three minutes why I support Crosland Development’s Highland House project to the large group of neighbors gathered at Northway Christian Church. I was brief , out of respect for the imposed time limits, unlike…

As PV14 Nears Completion, Thoughts Turn To Preserving Views of White Rock Lake

By Joanna England / May 20, 2014 /

If there’s one thing that the discussion regarding the proposed restaurant at Boy Scout Hill has done it is galvanize a movement to preserve White Rock Lake. I suppose, depending on your viewpoint, this could be both positive and negative, as preservation often means ex-nay on any kind of development (or even re-development, for that…

Tuesday Two Hundred: Purrrrrfect Kessler Plaza Cottage Gets Major Points For Being Owned by a Cat Lover

By Joanna England / May 20, 2014 /

I know that all of the staging advice we publish says, rather unequivocally, to make the home look as if only humans live there. It gives buyers an opportunity to picture themselves in the space, and not all buyers have furry friends. In fact, some people are not pet lovers at all. But I do…