




| Site by BCD | Hosted by BubbleLife Media
- About Candy's Dirt
- Terms of Use
- Advertise With Us
- Contact Us
Get out and vote! Early voting starts today and runs through Friday May 3. Election Day is Tuesday, May 7. You can find early voting locations here.
This year we did something a little different here on CandysDirt.com: We sent out candidate questionnaires to every Dallas City Council candidate running in a contested race. As a real estate blog focusing on residential properties, we asked questions about city issues that affect property owners such as rules governing water-wise landscaping, the athletic field lights planned for the Ursuline Dallas campus, and how the candidates would help solve the Museum Tower impasse with the Nasher Sculpture Center.
Museum Tower is complete. No more hard hats, workboots, no sawdust. And on January 10, the stunning high rise opened it’s doors to an elegant, tasteful celebration that was more an open house than a big splash opening. The developers did not land via helicopter on a roof-top pad as Ross Perot, Jr. did when the W Residences opened. There were musical performances by the Dallas String Quartet, Zach Hess and Charlie Kim on the piano, Carlos Guedes on the 38th floor. Delicious catering was crafted by Lombardi Family Concepts, wine and champagne flowed everywhere. I felt as if I were in New York City next to Lincoln Center. It was a New Year Celebration for Museum Tower, a soft launch for a building that has been struggling with an unintended consequence of it’s quest to be the most energy efficient residential high rise in the southwest: the glare that is bouncing off those curved windows and frying the Nasher. Like a performance, event cards were passed out at the door:
Read more on Museum Tower’s New Year Celebration: Dallas Is Loving Museum Tower…
I feel like this is a deja vue moment: Briggs Freeman star agent Claire Dewar was marketing Museum Tower back when it was just a gleam in Brook Partner’s eyes. Now it has come full circle: Museum Tower has announced a sales partnership with Dallas-based Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty to market and move those 42 luxury condominiums we have heard so much about.
Read more on Briggs Freeman Sothebys and Museum Tower to Partner on Sales…
Museum Tower shell 2010
You may recall that in early November 2012, Museum Tower came out with a gutzy move to spur condo sales: offering buyers an unprecedented two-year, money-back price guarantee. George Zimmer’s voice kept circulating through my head. At the time, I remember thinking, wowsers, that’s bold and I need to know more about this!
Now here’s an idea for a solution to the Museum Tower/Nasher glare crisis, and it comes right out of one of the hottest spots in the world: Abu Dhabi. Get this: solar rays in this desert town can heat the outside surface of windows up to 90 degrees Celsius — um, folks that is 200 degrees Fahrenheit. That would not just fry grass, it would zap it! But smart architects in Abu Dhabi have figured a way to shield the glass in their buildings from the sun, with a series of computerized screens that keep the buildings cool, reduce glare and still allow diffused natural light.
As promised, here is the statement from the Museum Tower folks, followed by the Retractable Louvre presentation. As I suspected, insurability and liability are two pretty big reasons why they are say no: Continue reading
photo from Nasher Sculpture Center
Jeremy Strick, the director of the Nasher Sculpture Center, sent an email to the Nasher’s members, friends and supporters today asking them (and everyone who loves Dallas) to contact our council reps and get this issue resolved and yes, do the German louvre thing: