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Changing work environments and decreasing need for traditional office space in major U.S. cities have left many buildings underutilized. This change has led developers to become interested in exploring unconventional and diverse purposes for these structures. At the same time, increasing urbanization is increasing the need for additional housing solutions to meet the needs of the growing population in metropolitan areas across the country. Ryan Kimura Converting office space into residential units has become a cost-effective solution as developers take advantage of rising demand for housing and declining demand for office real estate. Office-to-multifamily conversions allow builders to repurpose office…
Although the commission lawsuit has arrived in Texas, the QJ team lawsuit named as lead plaintiff is different from the Mehr, Sitzer/Barnett, March, Gibson, or Button 2 commission lawsuits. This lawsuit names a major corporate securities company as a defendant. keller williams, ~ side, Home American Servicesand Fathom Realtythe robust list of defendants also includes real estate teams such as: loken group and hexagon groupand personal broker Mark Anthony Dimas. The lawsuit was filed Monday by the plaintiffs. QJ Team LLCa Texas-based home construction company; Five Points Holdings LLC.is a holding company led by DS News founder Mark Hulme, located…
Midway between Fort Worth and Abilene, 120 miles from both, the hills and soft cuestas of the Western Cross Timbers break through the prairie. This is where North Texas's first new state park in 25 years, Palo Pinto Mountain State Park, will be born. “The goal of this facility is to provide more outdoor recreation opportunities for Texans, especially those living in the metroplex,” says Parks Director James Adams. Among them are his 20.5 miles of multi-use trails of varying difficulty, primitive campgrounds, and an abundance of water activities.Located southwest of the Palo Pinto County ranching community of Strahan, the…
Submitted by Dallas Education Foundation The Dallas Education Foundation (DEF), Dallas ISD's direct and designated nonprofit philanthropic partner, held its third annual HeART of Teaching Gala on November 1st in the historic Longhorn Ballroom. This year's gala featured an innovative way to connect the Dallas community with Dallas ISD by partnering with Dallas ISD dance teachers and notable Dallas residents to host a fun and friendly dance competition. Dancing with the Dallas Stars. Not only were Dallas ISD dance educators featured, but musical performances by teachers from across the arts disciplines included a large, burgeoning jazz ensemble, a high-energy cover…
As Dallas continues to maintain its dominance as a sports city, professional tennis has placed more emphasis on the Dallas Open. The annual professional tennis event, which started just two years ago, will be upgraded to an ATP Tour 500-level tournament starting in 2025. This will allow the Dallas Open to increase its standing in the professional tennis world and provide more opportunities. This tournament offers more ATP ranking points and bigger prize money, so it attracts more competition and more top rankers. The centerpiece of GF Sports & Entertainment's bid to upgrade the Dallas Open was its move to…
Dallas police want to hire hundreds more officers to reverse force cuts and continue to reduce crime. The cost of a new police academy to boost recruitment and training is increasing. And the plan still lacks some features the Fort Worth Police Academy already has. The current Dallas Police Academy and In-Service Training Facility is located in an old warehouse building near the Dallas Executive Airport off Westmoreland Road. The Dallas Police Department pays more than $1 million a year to lease them. “The current storage facility we have is outdated and does not meet the needs of our department,”…
WASHINGTON (November 13, 2023) – Median household income for home buyers jumped from $88,000 last year to $107,000, highlighting the increased income needed to purchase a home, according to the National Association of Realtors®. did. 2023 Home Buyer and Seller Profiles1. This annual survey of recent home buyers and sellers (this year tracking transactions from July 2022 to June 2023) has been NAR's flagship report since it was first published in 1981. , provides industry experts with detailed insight into home buying and selling behavior. “When you factor in the decline in housing affordability due to rising home prices and…
Today, AWS announced the general availability of new local zones in Dallas, Texas. This new AWS Local Zone comes with Amazon EC2 C6i, M6i, R6i, C6gn, and M6g instances and Amazon EBS volume types gp2, gp3, io1, sc1, and st1. You can also access Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, Application Load Balancer, and AWS Direct Connect in this new local zone to support a wide range of workloads at the edge. AWS Local Zones are a type of AWS infrastructure deployment that places compute, storage, database, and other selected services near large population, industrial, or IT centers where AWS Regions do…
Above: Parents demand the resignation of conservative Grapevine-Colleyville School Board Trustee Tammy Nakamura. Over the last three years, an interconnected network of political action committees (PACs), largely funded by billionaires who support school privatization, has begun to transform the nature of local school board elections across Texas. They’ve done this with the help of consultants whose efforts have largely gone unnoticed. On August 15, 2022, members of the Carroll Independent School District (CISD) board of trustees, all dressed in Southlake Dragons’ green, posed for a photo with representatives of Patriot Mobile, a Christian Nationalist phone company that spent big last…
The Texas Rangers brought the World Series trophy to Dallas City Hall on November 8th. The Texas Rangers visited Dallas City Hall on Wednesday to present the World Series trophy to Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson and the City Council. The Arlington-based Texas Rangers defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks in five games in November to win Major League Baseball's World Series. This was the team's first victory. But at CandysDirt.com, our version of “Inside Baseball” means a peek inside the properties of former and current Rangers players. If you missed this October feature, see where Texas Rangers, past and present, live. Let's…