Phil Crone
Do you think you have a stressful job? Try being Andrew Espinoza. Dallas’s director of Development Services basically holds the keys to the city’s future growth and development, and it’s currently at a near-standstill due to a problem created before he was hired according to city council members on Wednesday. It seemed the cavalry had…
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Alan Hoffmann was a green builder when green building wasn’t cool. Now at the forefront of the sustainable building industry, Hoffmann was honored by his peers this month as the recipient of the Dallas Builders Association’s 2022 Hugh Prather Trophy. “I was really pretty surprised,” Hoffmann told CandysDirt.com. “They were introducing the winner of this…
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It’s no secret that Dallas’s Development Services Department has struggled to cut the turnaround time for building permits and that the department’s director, Andrew Espinoza, is making strides to course-correct. The results of an audit conducted by Matrix Consulting Group were recently released, and Espinoza said many of the recommendations are already being implemented. He’ll…
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It’s steadily becoming a woman’s world in the Construction Management program at Collin College. In just four years since Craig Johnson brought his real-world education to the Allen campus of Collin College, the construction program has grown leaps and bounds. This year’s freshman class is 22 percent female — twice the 11 percent national rate…
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Business for Dallas-Fort Worth homebuilders has changed drastically since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. While demand for new housing stock created market conditions that had builders canceling contracts with buyers and cutting out agents, a new report from the National Association of Home Builders shows a steep decline in outlooks for homebuilders in the…
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