Mixed-Use Development

More Than 3,500 Homes Planned For Fields ‘City Within a City’ Development in Frisco

By April Towery / August 23, 2022 /
Fields Frisco

Everything’s bigger in Frisco by the looks of a 2,500-acre “developer’s dream” site off Legacy Drive that will include homes, apartments, lakes, parks, offices, and hotels.  The $10 billion Fields project was announced about a year ago and developers signed Taylor Morrison Homes as its first builder. Republic Property Group and Crow Holdings Industrial have…

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Dallas Is a Big Part of the Increasingly Popular Live-Work-Play Trend

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / June 21, 2022 /

According to a RentCafé study, apartments in live-work-play buildings have grown from niche to trendy. They are rapidly rising in popularity, quadrupling in number compared to 10 years ago.

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RIBA Stirling Prize Claimed By Public Housing Project Shows What Can Be Done

By Jon Anderson / October 25, 2019 /

The Royal Institute of British Architects awards the Stirling Prize to the best building of any type built in the UK during that year. First awarded in 1996, the Stirling Prize has been awarded to everything from the media gallery of the Lord’s cricket pitch in 1999 to the rebirth of a 12th century fortified…

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Walkable Urban Places: DFW’s Wake Up Call to a Real Estate Trend Sweeping the Nation

By Amanda Popken / April 10, 2019 /

The January release of “The WalkUP Wake-Up Call: Dallas-Fort Worth” happened quietly, though the implications for investment are huge. This is the largest study done on D-FW on the most profitable type of real estate in the nation. Walkable Urban Places (WalkUPs) are seeing higher property values, lower vacancy, and commanding higher rental rates. Even…

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Crescent Communities Brings their A Game to Bishop Arts District

By Amanda Popken / July 18, 2016 /

Just as our trolley track construction wraps up and the Bishop Arts stop comes online, expect the building construction to begin. Developer Alamo Manhattan has made headlines with their infamous Bishop Arts project, hopefully designed a bit better now than at first. Their Phase 1 plans would create a five-story full city block with residential…

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