Highland Park

Highland Park Construction Rule Inspires ‘Sitting Pretty Porta Potty Screen Contest’

By Leah Shafer / June 3, 2015 /

Highland Park is implementing a new requirement that portable toilets be screened from the public’s view at residential construction sites. No one wants to pooh-pooh* the new rule, so instead, two Dallas companies are encouraging creativity and responding with humor. Sardone Construction and HPD Architecture launched the “2015 Sitting Pretty Porta Potty Screen Contest” Monday. Here’s the challenge: We…

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One of the Most Generous Couples in Dallas Lists $10.9 Million Miramar Estate

By Candy Evans / April 6, 2015 /

It was almost two years ago that Pamela and Gary Lee Patsley bought a stunning, $9 million dollar home in Palm Beach County, Florida. That estate was on one- half an acre, several blocks north of Royal Palm Way. The five-bedroom house has about 9,300 square feet of living space, all in one of the most…

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It’s Home Tour Season Again! Here Are a Few of our Favorite Dallas-Fort Worth Home Tours

By Joanna England / March 31, 2015 /

It’s spring, so it’s time to don your blue booties and get to tromping around some of the finest and most fabulous homes in Dallas-Fort Worth. We always enjoy this time of year, because not only does CandysDirt.com feature some of the biggest and best home tours in the region, but we also give our…

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Golfing Legend Justin Leonard Lists Highland Park Property for $15,995,000

By Candy Evans / March 10, 2015 /

Oh my, I needed this. Feast your eyes on Justin and Amanda Leonard’s 14,000 square foot show home at 3700 Euclid which just hit the market March 9. Back in 2010, the power couple painstakingly constructed this masterpiece with the starchitect team of Stocker, Hoestery and Montenegro while Rusty Goff did the honors of putting…

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Attention All Downsizers: 35 Perfectly-Sized Luxury Townhomes Coming to Highland Park

By Candy Evans / February 28, 2015 /

I haven’t even written this post yet, I’m awaiting a call back from the developer, Robert Elliott, but three friends have contacted me and asked me about the new townhome development going in on Abbott Avenue between Knox and Armstrong Parkway, on the far eastern edge of Highland Park. Robert: I am going to predict…

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