Missing Middle Housing
Have you ever driven by an eyesore property and thought about how it could be repurposed into something great? It’s in a perfect location; it just needs a little TLC. That’s exactly what happened to Richard Robson, who regularly bicycles the Green Trail and Blue Trail to downtown Carrollton. The home at 1300 Francis St.…
A housing crisis has been declared, and many piecemeal efforts are in place to solve it, but one big call to action looms before Dallas: What is missing middle housing and how do you fix it? Missing middle housing is defined as a range of multi-family or clustered housing types compatible with single-family neighborhoods. It’s…
By Thomas BuckSpecial Contributor In what retired Dallas Observer columnist Jim Schutze calls “today’s weakened media environment,” many have not noticed a storm brewing in far East Dallas. At the intersection of Garland and Centerville Roads, a seven-month “Fight The Height” battle has pitted Lochwood and nearby neighborhoods against the City of Dallas. A developer —…
It’s safe to say most homeowners don’t want a manufacturing plant in their backyard, but many Dallas residents have good ideas about the best use for a piece of property they drive past every day — and city leaders are taking to the streets to find out what residents want. An intense, consultant-guided process of…
The recent D Magazine special edition on Walkable New Urbanism has us all thinking about how Dallas could, or will game this trend. As real estate and design professionals, we all have an opinion, and likely some education we paid good money on for this topic. It’s not, however, easy to see where our skills…
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