West Dallas
James Armstrong’s first experience with affordable housing occurred when he was about 5 years old, sleeping on a twin mattress with his mother and sister in the projects of West Dallas. HIs mother, who at the time worked as a janitor at Head Start of Greater Dallas, had to briefly live in a homeless shelter…
Just 2,370 new housing units were added to the Dallas tax rolls in 2021, a city council member mentioned in a phone interview with CandysDirt.com last week. Maybe that’s a pandemic problem. Maybe it’s the result of inflation or high construction costs. Maybe it can be attributed to the City of Dallas permitting debacle. The…
As cities worldwide embrace adaptive reuse, why is Dallas still limping along? Atlas Metal Works is simply the latest notch in the bedpost of developers that don’t get it or don’t care. There are companies here that do embrace rich industrial architecture. You only have to look at the enormous success of Todd Interests East…
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, people all around Dallas have celebrated with festivals, exhibitions, and live events that highlight and commemorate the culture and contributions of Hispanic Americans. Dallas has certainly developed and changed over its 170 years as a city, but its neighborhoods have retained several of the landmarks so important to its…
A few weeks ago, Dallas-based Megatel Homes got the thumbs up from Dallas City Council to start development of The Villages at SoHo Square, a $1 billion mixed-use project that includes a lagoon, thousands of residents, and retail and entertainment space near Singleton Boulevard and Borger Street in West Dallas.
