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Farmers Branch Gets a Second Chance on that “Don’t Rent to Illegals” Ban… Maybe

By Candy Evans / September 20, 2012 /

No kidding, I thought this case was zipped. Or rather, zapped. Farmer’s Branch has had a long, expensive fight to keep undocumented immigrants from renting homes in the town just north of LBJ. Of course, with all the construction on LBJ, one wonders how they have any tenants at all. Four years ago Farmers Branch was sued…

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Sad: Rhonda Aikman Arrested for Public Intoxication in Collin County

By Candy Evans / August 28, 2012 /

Maybe she was looking at homes up north of LBJ, but the Dallas Morning News says she was arrested in Murphy and booked into the Collin County jail, hence this oh-so-attractive photo with the towel draped around her neck, a Collin County hallmark. Update 4:45pm: Rhonda is such a beautiful woman, I could not stand…

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Chatting Up the Buyer of Valley View Mall: What Scott Beck Has In STORE for Us

By Candy Evans / May 9, 2012 /

Artists and live music on Saturdays and a five star hotel? A viable urban village at one of the country’s busiest intersections? Scott Beck grew up at Valley View Mall, the same mall he bought about a week ago. Well, not actually in the mall, but within two miles of it, near Beltline Road and…

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Valley View Mall: Another Bishop Arts, The Shops at Legacy Legacy?

By Candy Evans / April 24, 2012 /

Valley View Mall has apparently been purchased by the Jeff Beck family, who plans to turn the hollow, seemingly vacated, 39 year old mall into an outdoor complex called “Dallas Midtown.” According to WFAA-TV,  a press conference at 10 a.m will reveal further details. This will be a $2 billion project along the lines of the hyper successful The Shops at…

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Thursday Three Hundred: Hill Haven MidMod with One Story Deed Restrictions Needs Some TLC But Heck, Who Doesn’t?

By Candy Evans / April 5, 2012 /

I cannot believe there is a home right smack near Jan-Mar for less than half a million. This one is actually, are you ready, only $350,000! Listen up people: $141 a square foot! You get three bedrooms, two full baths, three living areas, two dining areas in a circa 1954 that screams mid-century modern from Hillcrest…

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