By Candy Evans and Candysdirt.com Word came Tuesday from Jonas Park, the “Accidental Activist”, that a Dallas county judge has ruled to void an ordinance for a planned development district on Central at Carroll Avenue, across from Cityplace, that was all but certain to be a big box Sam’s Wholesale Club. Talk about David and Goliath: Judge Michael O’Neill ruled…read more →
By Steve Brown and the Dallas Morning News Developers will have the first homes ready in a few months in a 2,000-acre mixed-use community in Forney. The Gateway Parks project south of U.S. Highway 80 will have 439 single-family home sites in the first phase. Builders David Weekley Homes, Gehan Homes and Horizon Homes will sell new houses starting in…read more →
By Steve Brown and the Dallas Morning News One of the biggest projects on Frisco’s much touted $5 billion mile may also be one of the slowest. The $2 billion Wade Park development is the most ambitious of several huge mixed-use developments in the works along the Dallas North Tollway. The 175-acre project at the southeast corner of the tollway and Lebanon Road…read more →
By Steve Brown and the Dallas Morning News The first phase of the $3 billion Legacy West development in Plano is up for sale. FedEx Office’s international headquarters on Legacy Drive near State Highway 121 is being offered for sale to investors. The 265,000-square-foot office campus was built by developer KDC and was the first building to open in the 250-acre…read more →
By Steve Brown and the Dallas Morning News With more than 28,000 apartments set to open in North Texas next year, will there be enough renters to fill them all? As long as Dallas-Fort Worth’s economy keeps growing at current levels, demand for new rental units will remain high, apartment analysts and developers say. But developers say that tougher financing requirements…read more →
By Steve Brown and the Dallas Morning News North Texas’ home market ran up the score in October, with big gains in prices and sales. Median home sales prices last month were 13 percent higher than in October 2015. And sales of preowned homes rose 8 percent from a year earlier. Real estate agents sold 8,418 houses…read more →
By Steve Brown and the Dallas Morning News Since the Great Recession, Americans have been staying in their homes on average about 60 percent longer. Of course, real estate agents don’t make any money unless people buy and sell houses, so the longer tenure of today’s homeowners is on their worry list. In Texas and surrounding states, people who bought homes…read more →
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