East Dallas

Thursday Three Hundred: Funky Little Forest Hills Home Reduced to $389K, Has Amazing Insides

By Joanna England / May 22, 2014 /

We wrote about 9003 Groveland when it was still a Friday Four Hundred. But last weekend, when my husband was out on a run through the neighborhood with our son in the stroller, he snagged a bright yellow flier advertising this four-bedroom, two-bath home for $389,000. Whoa! That’s a huge reduction from the last time…

Hoping for a 30 Day Delay & Wear Red: Tonight’s Meeting on East Village Big Box Sam’s Club

By Candy Evans / May 21, 2014 /

A CandysDirt reader attended tonight’s meeting to try and stop development of a Sam’s Club on that 17 acres of land near Cityplace — once owned by ACS — where we learned this week that Trammell Crow Companies wants to built another Sam’s Club warehouse store.  District 2 was out in full force with about…

How To Kill a City: Death by DUMBING

By Candy Evans / May 21, 2014 /

I read Mark Lamster’s quick take on the (from my perspective) real estate travesty that is being discussed right now, that being Trammell Crow’s ridic decision to plop a big box Sam’s Wholesale Club in a new development grazing the east side of Central Expressway, across from Uptown. Mark cleverly calls his post: How To…

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…

Crime Report: A Moving Target in Lake Highlands

By Zachary Dickens / May 20, 2014 /

By Dan Koller CandysDirt.com Contributor I’m in the midst of a move, so I know firsthand how frustrating it can be to transport all of your possessions and knickknacks from one house to another. Still, I wouldn’t want to be in the shoes of the victim in this week’s highlighted crime.