Preston Center Task Force
Yesterday, Holly Haber of The Dallas Morning News’ Philanthropy page noted that the Perot family had donated $15 million to the Episcopal School of Dallas. The money is to help ESD’s younger students move from Saint Michael and All Angels Church (in Preston Center) to the main ESD campus on Merrell Road. The $44.3 million…
Read MoreIf Preston Hollowers felt a disturbance in The Force in June, it was likely the transfer of the latest Preston Hollow estate near Northwest Highway and Preston Road to Mark Cuban. The billionaire continues his crusade to own the entire northwest quadrant of that intersection. The property at 8600 Douglas Avenue is the former home…
Read MorePart 3 continues … and ends … my self-serving, completely subjective high-rise awards based on equally dubious categories. Click here if you missed Part 1 or Part 2. 8. Best Private Club Feel: Ritz Residences
Read MoreI read about this Tuesday: why would the city spend $4.6 million to put a hideous pedestrian walkway connecting an empty lot to an auto parts store across the street? Is this what our city geniuses envision for Preston Center? Robert Wilonsky did some heavy digging on the “bridge to nowhere” for the Dallas Morning News, and…
Read MoreLast night’s Preston Center Task Force meeting laid bare their purpose — development. It’s funny how way back when, this body was begun to study traffic and parking in the Preston Center area and yet, as we’ll see, these critical concerns from neighbors have been kinda pushed into the back seat by development. Back in…
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