Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Just before 8 a.m., Dallas firefighters responded to a three-alarm blaze in the northwest wing of the 3-story complex, which houses about 215 residents. When they arrived, the rescue team found a small fire in a second-floor room where popcorn had been left too long in a microwave.
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Case in point: a globe-trotting Dallas couple with heads for finance and hearts for contemporary design. The duo had accumulated art and furnishings for years, snapping up pieces as they lived and worked in London and in shorter stints closer to home. Their collection had found a permanent roost in a settled-down Preston Hollow manor. There was space for everything in graciously proportioned rooms...
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
> Arsenio Desmond Petty Petty was convicted Wednesday night of killing Rabeca Rae Kemp on Dec. 30 after he and two other men entered the Gas Pipe in the 18600 block of Marsh Lane. Surveillance video, which police said was key to identifying Petty, showed a man armed with a handgun entering the store followed by another man, who took the gun and began firing while a third man looked on. Also Online...
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
The deal to end a lawsuit over land at the was tossed aside today by a judge who said Southern Methodist University and its legal foe never had a clear agreement on the terms. After listening to arguments for more than an hour from SMU and Gary Vodicka, a former owner of condominiums near the library site, State District Judge John L. McCraw Jr. ruled that a July settlement agreement between the parties...
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Natalie and Yohai Pinhas don't think it was Halloween pranksters that spray-painted obscene and anti-semitic graffiti on the sidewalk and near the front door of their kosher restaurant and market in Far North Dallas. "It could be, but why curse? Mr. Pinhas said Sunday after his wife, Natalie found the vandalism when she arrived at the restaurant Sunday morning. ""I believe it's not Halloween."...
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Dallas-based Luzzatto Excel LLC has bought a 182,154-square-foot office and industrial building at 4550 Excel Parkway in Addison. The property is 60 percent leased.
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
With the help of an accountant, a check printing firm and a mailing service, Rasansky this week sent out 1,013 checks totaling $160,000 to every person or entity who ever gave him a dime. The rest of the money went to cover administrative costs of sending out the checks.
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Exco Resources Inc. has leased an additional 30,450 square feet in the Lakeside Square office tower in North Dallas, building owner Younan Properties said Tuesday.
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
My table went the traditional route on our first visit. Besides a cup of that tasty matzo ball soup, we had a corned beef sandwich, featuring a moderately generous pile of rosy meat that, if perhaps a tad dry and a touch bland, was still pretty good. We also had the Reuben, the grilled deli standby of pastrami, Swiss cheese, sauerkraut and Russian dressing on rye. And the pastrami is simply outstanding:...
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
One of the most ambitious redevelopment projects on the drawing boards for North Dallas is facing possible foreclosure. Lenders have scheduled a forced sale for early next month on the 42 acres at the northwest corner of North Central Expressway and Walnut Hill Lane. Development site The recently cleared hillside property was to be the site of an urban village containing housing, retail and office...
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 09/14/2009
The owners of the Galleria office towers in Far North Dallas have shifted gears and hired a local company to market the high-profile properties. Leasing of the 1.4 million-square-foot office complex has been handed over to John Bowles Co., the real estate firm said Monday. The three office towers - which adjoin the popular shopping mall - are about 90 percent leased. “This will be our biggest...
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Boyette, who works in design and sales at Thomasville in Plano, planned the entire project and calls the master suite her masterpiece. Separate sinks set in slabs of variegated Brazilian granite face each other across the bathroom, which features a pipeless black Sanijet tub and a combination toilet and bidet tucked discreetly away in its own closet. The 6-by-6-foot glass shower, floored with river...
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 09/07/2009
The Disney Streets are not, just now, the happiest place on earth.The small neighborhood in northwest Dallas has become embroiled in a drive to create a conservation district, an effort that has quickly turned bitter. Also Online Longtime neighbors on streets with names like Pinocchio Drive, Cinderella Lane and Dwarfs Circle have ceased talking to each other, and a recent informational meeting with...
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 09/05/2009
CARROLLTON – For Mike Ghouse, 9/11 remains a very personal event. The radio talk show host took to the North Texas airwaves within hours after the killer planes hit the towers in New York, unleashing destruction and years of phobias. "I was determined that day was my day to bring some sanity to the insanity that happened," said Ghouse. He then switched tenses, retelling what he said...
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