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Jennifer Staubach Gates' childhood home hits market for $1.1 million

Before they built their 12,000-plus-square-foot dream home over on Ravine Drive, Marianne and Roger Staubach lived at 6912 Edelweiss Cir., just north of LBJ off Hillcrest Road. This is also the house where Jennifer Staubach Gates, freshman city councilwoman for Preston Hollow, grew up.

Now the home is listed with Ebby Halliday for $1,100,000. That price includes a backyard paradise replete with mature trees, stone terraces and lushly landscaped private grounds on a .53-acre cul-de-sac lot.

The circa 1978 home has been extensively renovated since the Staubachs called it home, including nearly 4,000 square feet of brand-new wood flooring, which is half of the 8,708 total square footage. In addition, six of the 8.5 baths (yep, you read that right) have been gutted and redone.

This family home is built for entertaining, with multiple living areas, library, game room, media room, solarium, and amazing pool and spa. Of course the kitchen is beyond fantastic — definitely not the same kitchen where Jennifer poured her Cheerios — and the dining room seats 24.

The five bedrooms are divided into three separate bedroom areas for privacy, and I have never seen so much storage space: built-ins, linen closets — even storage under multiple staircases. If you cannot find a place to store something in this house, then you have too much stuff!

Back to those 8.5 bathrooms — that’s almost one commode per every 1,000 square feet. So we know that although Jennifer didn’t have to share bathrooms with her sibs, she’s going to be a fiscal watchdog supreme: People with multiple bathrooms know where to get the very best prices on TP.

Floor-to-ceiling windows let in the light in the sunroom.

Sunroom at 6915 Edelweiss Circle in Dallas

Photo courtesy of Cummings-Wiessing Group Ebby Halliday

Floor-to-ceiling windows let in the light in the sunroom.

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Grand Prairie expands to the south with new master-planned community

Rendering courtesy of Provident

Goodland Grand Prairie

The City of Grand Prairie is growing fast and expanding to make way for a new master-planned development south of US Highway 287 and along Tollway 360, in Ellis and Johnson counties.

The community development, called Goodland, is the result of Grand Prairie’s recent 1,500-acre annexation extending its southern border toward Mansfield. Overall, with the added land, Goodland will be a 5,000-acre site featuring 15,000 residences including townhomes, custom homes, and gated communities for 50,000 residents.

According to a release, it will be a “city within a city” and a 45-minute drive from Dallas-Fort Worth. Beyond housing, there will be shops, restaurants, schools, public and private event venues, regional sports fields and complexes, dance halls, churches, trail systems, city parks, ponds, and preserved green spaces.

“This is a significant step in our city’s development,” says Grand Prairie Mayor Ron Jensen in a statement. “Unlike many of our neighboring cities, we have the unique advantage of new development opportunities to our south that will drive the growth and prosperity of our city. We recognized the opportunity and took decisive action.”

Leading the development is Provident, a Dallas-based real estate firm that has created other master-planned communities across Dallas-Fort Worth, such as Preston Hollow Village and Hillstead in Collin County. Provident has plans to work nature into the space design with more than 1,600 acres of creek corridors and floodplain land.

Plans are ongoing for a centralized mixed-use walkable Town Center, complete with civic buildings and other commercial development. Further south on the property near Highway 67, light industrial uses and other private employment campuses are already underway, projects that will contribute vital tax dollars for city growth and future expansions.

“This level of placemaking is quite rare, and certainly not easy to execute, especially in a brand-new community," says Provident Managing Director Rylan Yowell in a statement. "We are committed to a long-term vision with a desire to be good stewards of the land."

A new four-lane road called Goodland Parkway will link Goodland to Grand Prairie at Tollway 360 and US Highway 287. It's set to open by December 2025.

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