downtown Dallas
Planning a trip to Tuscany? Cancel those reservations and stay home. Just buy your Valentine the home with the blue-tiled roof on Turtle Creek for Valentine’s Day and you can live in a lush Italianate environment 24 hours a day, mere minutes from downtown Dallas. (And pizza!) What could be more romantic? No need to send flowers, there are plenty in the lush gardens surrounding 3828 Turtle Creek Drive.
Who needs roses? Smell the live lavender, rose, and hydrangea.
Your gift is a landmark estate owned and lovingly restored by Robert Edsel, a remarkable Dallas oil man turned prolific writer, historian, and now filmmaker, notorious for helping hunt down artifacts and art from World War II.
Bye bye Miss American Pie, see the potential life under the old highway? There has been talk, a lot of talk, about removing a section of highway in downtown Dallas. Tear it out, get rid of the concrete somehow (landfill?), and then fill in the space formerly occupied by said highway with development. The proponent…
I had to stop myself from making yet another one of the 20,000 editing mistakes one (I) makes when blogging 3000 to 5000 words per day. I almost typed “Has in Store for the Stoneleigh” instead of Statler, as in Statler Hilton in downtown Dallas. He owns the Creeks of Preston Hollow, too. Mehrdad just…
Photo: Extreme Wow Suite, W Dallas Hotel Credit: W Hotels I showed this CultureMap slideshow to a friend who lives in Seattle and she said (rather predictably): “That’s in Dallas? That doesn’t look like Dallas at all!” What is it with people having this internal stereotype of what looks “Dallas” and what doesn’t. Do these…
There is so much going for this incredible loft. Inside Coombs Bridge Condos at 2401 S. Ervay, it has a laundry list of likable qualities that I’ll just go ahead and tick off for you, dear readers. 1) Excellent location in a historic building just south of Downtown Dallas in the Cedars District. This area…
