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Trammell Crow's historic Highland Park estate carries hefty price tag

A slice of local history has hit the market: The Highland Park estate of the late Dallas real estate developer and art collector Trammell Crow and his late wife Margaret is now listed with Allie Beth Allman & Associates for $59.4 million.

Located between Preston Road and Turtle Creek Boulevard, the 10,000-square-foot Tudor-style house has a price tag that reflects storied history, palatial size and tony creekside location. As of now, this is an off-market listing not yet in the MLS.

Sitting on almost 6 acres, the mansion was built in 1912 by Henry Lee Edwards, a Dallas cotton tycoon, who hired architect C.D. Hill to design the place. Hill is responsible for many of Dallas’ architecturally significant buildings and residences of the early 1900s, like the Beaux Arts beauty at 106 S. Harwood St. in downtown (old city hall), Oak Lawn United Methodist Church and the Spanish mansion at 3318 Beverly Dr. in Highland Park.

In addition to the main house, the Crow estate has a 986-square-foot guesthouse and a 1,590-square-foot servants quarters, located above the garages, according to Steve Brown at the Dallas Morning News. There’s even a tree on the land that dates to the founding of Highland Park over 100 years ago.

The Crow family has called this estate home since moving there in 1961, but the deaths of Mr. Crow in January 2009 and Mrs. Crow this April prompted the family to put it on the market.

The next owners will not only inherit great stories of a half century of swinging soirées attended by Dallas elite, but they also will have some big-name neighbors: Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and financier Edward “Rusty” Rose. Son Harlan Crow’s mega-estate is just up Preston Road.

To put this $59.4 million price tag in prospective, there’s only one other residential property on the market for more, the Crespi Hicks Estate, home of Tom Hicks. This Preston Hollow mansion is 42,000 square feet, listed for $60 million with less land, but it originally was listed for $135 million for all 25 acres.

The next highest property listed by Allie Beth Allman is 5950 Deloache Ave., at $37.5 million. This 9-acre Preston Hollow estate offers a 15,000-square-foot home designed by legendary architect Robert A.M. Stern. That is, of course, the home of Dallas attorney Lisa Blue.

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A version of this story originally was published on Candy’s Dirt.

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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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