Neighborhood

Friday Four Hundred: Lake Park Estates is The New Honeypot of East Dallas, Y'all, And This House on Galway Proves It

By Joanna England / April 12, 2013 /

I’m going to get real with y’all. *Turns chair around and sits in it backward* I love East Dallas, and I live close to Lake Park Estates. It’s a fantastic neighborhood full of great homes and good people. And this house, well, I just want to let you know that it’s awesome, and if you’re…

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The Guy Rebuilding the Pink Wall Behind the Pink Wall and Why We Need Stucco with Fracking

By Candy Evans / February 15, 2013 /

This is Joe Nech, owner of Advantage Masonry, a company that specializes in restoring brick, mortar, stone, anything made of masonry and the folks hired to re-build part of the crumbling “Pink Wall” that circles that cute neighborhood known as “Behind the Pink Wall”. He is only repairing the part in from of the Athena…

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On Being a Single Parent in Dallas: Which Dallas Neighborhoods (If Any) Make It Better?

By Candy Evans / January 7, 2013 /

I’ve been thinking about the best neighborhoods in Dallas for single parents to live after reading Pamela Gwyn Kripke’s essay in Slate on single parenting. Pamela is raising two girls solo and lives the Park Cities, in what she calls a small, $600k-ish stone home, the kind I’m sure builders seek out to tear down.…

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Tuesday Two Hundred: It’s Christmas Day, And This Sweet Little Alger Park House is a Great Gift

By Joanna England / December 25, 2012 /

I know, I know, houses aren’t exactly gifts. But what’s better than two young people in love, buying a house in a great neighborhood? That’s what I envision when I see 1634 McCosh. A young couple, signing the papers at the title company, getting the keys and racing over to their first home together. If…

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More Park Cities/Preston Hollow Crime, Now Behind the Pink Wall

By Candy Evans / September 11, 2012 /

I own a condo here at The Seville, and my daughter and son-in-law live here as well. Both these gracious condos are located on Averill Way, “Behind the Pink Wall”, an amazingly close-in and usually SAFE neighborhood in Preston Hollow, near Northwest Highway and Preston Road. Tonight my daughter gave me this report: “Just found…

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