East Quarter
Preservation Dallas has just announced the 2023 Preservation Achievement Awards recognizing outstanding projects that preserve, rehabilitate, and enhance Dallas’ built history and neighborhoods. Nominees submitted projects for consideration that focus on the historic significance of a building or site and the goals and challenges of the work performed. Nominations are accepted from owners, individuals, groups,…
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Our publisher, Candy Evans joins the board of Preservation Dallas this year. As we celebrated this honor at CandysDirt.com, I thought our readers might enjoy learning about the board and the new members. Donovan Westover, events and development director at Preservation Dallas, gave me some insight. “We have a board development committee that collects information…
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It’s the time of year when we look back and cross our fingers to see if our historic preservation wins outweighed our losses in 2021. Indeed there were some fine saves, but equally, there were gutting losses. The question must continually be asked: Why is the demolition of our history a choice that is made?…
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Sometimes it takes a village to create change. Sometimes it only takes two people with a passion. For Dallas’ downtown core, many who are close to the project know that without Reggie Graham and Patrick Todd, we would not have the East Quarter, the hottest new neighborhood in Dallas. Let’s start at the beginning. About…
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“I was driving down Commerce Street about four years ago, and I looked at all these great, old, vacant buildings,” says Patrick Todd, principal in the family-owned-and-operated developer Todd Interests. “A year later, we bought ’em all up — more than a dozen old commercial buildings.” Today, those buildings are being turned into what is…
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