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1 week ago | 
candysdirt.com | Joy Donovan
You can’t get much more all-American than a flag flying high from the front of a house. Add a brick sidewalk marching up the steps, past carefully landscaped front beds, up to an expansive porch with chairs for rocking, and what All-American home-shopping person’s heart wouldn’t beat a little faster? Check your heart rate upon viewing this tidy home at 6221 Winter Park Dr. in North Richland Hills.
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1 week ago | 
candysdirt.com | Joy Donovan
Sometimes it’s time for a nip and tuck for those so inclined to look in the mirror and want to fix a few things. Maybe a facelift to smooth out the wrinkles and define the contours. Well, sometimes a shopping center needs to go through a little smoothing and redefining on its own. An aging Arlington shopping center just got a radical remodel that’s a trend-setting example of what’s fashionable in retail settings today.
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1 week ago | 
candysdirt.com | Joy Donovan
Definitely there’s a fairy tale unfolding behind the door at 1207 Walmsley Ave. in Dallas. The house with the eye-catching wood door and the steep roofline is where the once-upon-a-time begins for a lucky new homeowner, no fairy godmother required. Open that round-topped front door, glimpse at a light, bright interior. “When you walk in, you get a sense that it’s magical,” said listing Realtor Hanna Rivera with Compass Real Estate.
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2 weeks ago | 
candysdirt.com | Joy Donovan
Grab a bike. Take a walk. Ride a bus. Forget the plastic. And like they said in the groovy 1970s when Earth Day was launched, “Give a hoot; don’t pollute.”It’s time to celebrate Earth Day 2025 throughout North Texas. Always April 22, Earth Day this year carries the theme “Our Power, Our Planet.”First celebrated in 1970, Earth Day was estimated to involve 20 million Americans to raise awareness about the environment.
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3 weeks ago | 
candysdirt.com | Joy Donovan
Here are three great reasons to buy the house at 1510 R Ave. in Plano. First, it’s locally famous since it’s known as Plano’s official Halloween house. This designation even brought the house its 15 minutes of fame — being highlighted on The Kelly Clarkson Show. A film crew came to Plano, and this house’s Halloween glory was seen on national TV. It seems the original owner, Dottie Hasford began giving out full-sized candy bars before that was a thing.
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3 weeks ago | 
candysdirt.com | Joy Donovan
Car lovers, here is the house for you. You love your cars, all of them. Your neighbors? Not so much. Here’s where this house at 126 S. Montreal in Dallas will allow you to own up to five cars, getting them off the street and your annoyed neighbors off your back. The home’s detached garage will house two cars, and the carport will shelter three more. There’s just no reason to clog up the streets and tick off the neighbors with this kind of car storage.
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1 month ago | 
candysdirt.com | Joy Donovan
We all have expectations. Expectations that a trip to Neiman’s downtown flagship store in Dallas would be special. Expectations that we would be dazzled by the perfumes that floated through the air when we entered and that the sales associates would be impeccably dressed in the latest attire and that the Zodiac Room’s popovers would always be served with strawberry butter. And expectations that it would always be there, but we were wrong. This is the iconic store’s final week.
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1 month ago | 
candysdirt.com | Joy Donovan
Fly your flag and strike up the band. No, it’s not the Fourth of July yet, but a new National Medal of Honor Museum is opening March 25 in Arlington — Texas, not Virginia, that is. The National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation will unveil its new 100,000-square-foot museum and monument next week, located at 1717 E. Randol Mill Rd. The Medal of Honor is the Armed Forces’ highest military decoration, awarded for acts of valor in combat.
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1 month ago | 
candysdirt.com | Joy Donovan
Buyers who want their free time to be fun time, here’s one to consider. On the market in North Dallas is a former model townhouse in the newer phase of a gated townhome community. Like the idea of a lock-and-leave lifestyle? Here you go, because this one’s set up for a low-maintenance, enjoy-your-Saturdays living. “It’s really easy, low-maintenance living,” said real estate advisor Brian Davis who has listed the North Dallas property.
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1 month ago | 
360westmagazine.com | Joy Donovan
Captain Christopher J. Cassidy has never opened a museum before, but the U.S. Naval Academy graduate has walked in outer space, so it’s surely not the scariest thing he’s ever done. “The first time you open that hatch, man, it gets your attention,” Cassidy says. “Walking in space is by far scarier. The first time you do anything is scary because there are some unknowns involved.”He will open the doors to the new National Medal of Honor Museum on March 25, located at 1717 E.
