• Home
  • popular
  • Events
  • Submit New Event
  • Subscribe
  • About
  • News
  • Restaurants + Bars
  • City Life
  • Entertainment
  • Travel
  • Real Estate
  • Arts
  • Society
  • Home + Design
  • Fashion + Beauty
  • Innovation
  • Sports
  • Charity Guide
  • children
  • education
  • health
  • veterans
  • SOCIAL SERVICES
  • ARTS + CULTURE
  • animals
  • lgbtq
  • New Charity
  • Series
  • Delivery Limited
  • DTX Giveaway 2012
  • DTX Ski Magic
  • dtx woodford reserve manhattans
  • Your Home in the Sky
  • DTX Best of 2013
  • DTX Trailblazers
  • Tastemakers Dallas 2017
  • Healthy Perspectives
  • Neighborhood Eats 2015
  • The Art of Making Whiskey
  • DTX International Film Festival
  • DTX Tatum Brown
  • Tastemaker Awards 2016 Dallas
  • DTX McCurley 2014
  • DTX Cars in Lifestyle
  • DTX Beyond presents Party Perfect
  • DTX Texas Health Resources
  • DART 2018
  • Alexan Central
  • State Fair 2018
  • Formula 1 Giveaway
  • Zatar
  • CityLine
  • Vision Veritas
  • Okay to Say
  • Hearts on the Trinity
  • DFW Auto Show 2015
  • Northpark 50
  • Anteks Curated
  • Red Bull Cliff Diving
  • Maggie Louise Confections Dallas
  • Gaia
  • Red Bull Global Rally Cross
  • NorthPark Holiday 2015
  • Ethan's View Dallas
  • DTX City Centre 2013
  • Galleria Dallas
  • Briggs Freeman Sotheby's International Realty Luxury Homes in Dallas Texas
  • DTX Island Time
  • Simpson Property Group SkyHouse
  • DIFFA
  • Lotus Shop
  • Holiday Pop Up Shop Dallas
  • Clothes Circuit
  • DTX Tastemakers 2014
  • Elite Dental
  • Elan City Lights
  • Dallas Charity Guide
  • DTX Music Scene 2013
  • One Arts Party at the Plaza
  • J.R. Ewing
  • AMLI Design District Vibrant Living
  • Crest at Oak Park
  • Braun Enterprises Dallas
  • NorthPark 2016
  • Victory Park
  • DTX Common Desk
  • DTX Osborne Advisors
  • DTX Comforts of Home 2012
  • DFW Showcase Tour of Homes
  • DTX Neighborhood Eats
  • DTX Comforts of Home 2013
  • DTX Auto Awards
  • Cottonwood Art Festival 2017
  • Nasher Store
  • Guardian of The Glenlivet
  • Zyn22
  • Dallas Rx
  • Yellow Rose Gala
  • Opendoor
  • DTX Sun and Ski
  • Crow Collection
  • DTX Tastes of the Season
  • Skye of Turtle Creek Dallas
  • Cottonwood Art Festival
  • DTX Charity Challenge
  • DTX Culture Motive
  • DTX Good Eats 2012
  • DTX_15Winks
  • St. Bernard Sports
  • Jose
  • DTX SMU 2014
  • DTX Up to Speed
  • st bernard
  • Ardan West Village
  • DTX New York Fashion Week spring 2016
  • Taste the Difference
  • Parktoberfest 2016
  • Bob's Steak and Chop House
  • DTX Smart Luxury
  • DTX Earth Day
  • DTX_Gaylord_Promoted_Series
  • IIDA Lavish
  • Huffhines Art Trails 2017
  • Red Bull Flying Bach Dallas
  • Y+A Real Estate
  • Beauty Basics
  • DTX Pet of the Week
  • Long Cove
  • Charity Challenge 2014
  • Legacy West
  • Wildflower
  • Stillwater Capital
  • Tulum
  • DTX Texas Traveler
  • Dallas DART
  • Soldiers' Angels
  • Alexan Riveredge
  • Ebby Halliday Realtors
  • Zephyr Gin
  • Sixty Five Hundred Scene
  • Christy Berry
  • Entertainment Destination
  • Dallas Art Fair 2015
  • St. Bernard Sports Duck Head
  • Jameson DTX
  • Alara Uptown Dallas
  • Cottonwood Art Festival fall 2017
  • DTX Tastemakers 2015
  • Cottonwood Arts Festival
  • The Taylor
  • Decks in the Park
  • Alexan Henderson
  • Gallery at Turtle Creek
  • Omni Hotel DTX
  • Red on the Runway
  • Whole Foods Dallas 2018
  • Artizone Essential Eats
  • Galleria Dallas Runway Revue
  • State Fair 2016 Promoted
  • Trigger's Toys Ultimate Cocktail Experience
  • Dean's Texas Cuisine
  • Real Weddings Dallas
  • Real Housewives of Dallas
  • Jan Barboglio
  • Wildflower Arts and Music Festival
  • Hearts for Hounds
  • Okay to Say Dallas
  • Indochino Dallas
  • Old Forester Dallas
  • Dallas Apartment Locators
  • Dallas Summer Musicals
  • PSW Real Estate Dallas
  • Paintzen
  • DTX Dave Perry-Miller
  • DTX Reliant
  • Get in the Spirit
  • Bachendorf's
  • Holiday Wonder
  • Village on the Parkway
  • City Lifestyle
  • opportunity knox villa-o restaurant
  • Nasher Summer Sale
  • Simpson Property Group
  • Holiday Gift Guide 2017 Dallas
  • Carlisle & Vine
  • DTX New Beginnings
  • Get in the Game
  • Red Bull Air Race
  • Dallas DanceFest
  • 2015 Dallas Stylemaker
  • Youth With Faces
  • Energy Ogre
  • DTX Renewable You
  • Galleria Dallas Decadence
  • Bella MD
  • Tractorbeam
  • Young Texans Against Cancer
  • Fresh Start Dallas
  • Dallas Farmers Market
  • Soldier's Angels Dallas
  • Shipt
  • Elite Dental
  • Texas Restaurant Association 2017
  • State Fair 2017
  • Scottish Rite
  • Brooklyn Brewery
  • DTX_Stylemakers
  • Alexan Crossings
  • Ascent Victory Park
  • Top Texans Under 30 Dallas
  • Discover Downtown Dallas
  • San Luis Resort Dallas
  • Greystar The Collection
  • FIG Finale
  • Greystar M Line Tower
  • Lincoln Motor Company
  • The Shelby
  • Jonathan Goldwater Events
  • Windrose Tower
  • Gift Guide 2016
  • State Fair of Texas 2016
  • Choctaw Dallas
  • TodayTix Dallas promoted
  • Whole Foods
  • Unbranded 2014
  • Frisco Square
  • Unbranded 2016
  • Circuit of the Americas 2018
  • The Katy
  • Snap Kitchen
  • Partners Card
  • Omni Hotels Dallas
  • Landmark on Lovers
  • Harwood Herd
  • Galveston.com Dallas
  • Holiday Happenings Dallas 2018
  • TenantBase
  • Cottonwood Art Festival 2018
  • Hawkins-Welwood Homes
  • The Inner Circle Dallas
  • Eating in Season Dallas
  • ATTPAC Behind the Curtain
  • TodayTix Dallas
  • The Alexan
  • Toyota Music Factory
  • Nosh Box Eatery
  • Wildflower 2018
  • Society Style Dallas 2018
  • Texas Scottish Rite Hospital 2018
  • 5 Mockingbird
  • 4110 Fairmount
  • Visit Taos
  • Allegro Addison
  • Dallas Tastemakers 2018
  • The Village apartments
  • City of Burleson Dallas

Candy's House of the Week

A waterfront home in North Dallas? Midcentury-inspired stunner is a lakesideretreat

Candy Evans
Oct 12, 2012 | 3:45 pm
  • 6730 Northaven Rd. is a lakeside respite in North Dallas.
    Photo courtesy of Briggs Freeman Sotheby's
  • The staircase is an architectural masterpiece.
    Photo courtesy of Briggs Freeman Sotheby's
  • One part of the home is thrust out over the water.
    Photo courtesy of Briggs Freeman Sotheby's
  • Natural light pours into the living room.
    Photo courtesy of Briggs Freeman Sotheby's
  • The updated kitchen has 21st century conveniences.
    Photo courtesy of Briggs Freeman Sotheby's
  • 6730 Northaven Rd. sits on 1.5 serene acres.
    Photo courtesy of Briggs Freeman Sotheby's

This is one of my favorite homes in Dallas. Lucky for me, 6730 Northaven Rd. is up the street and on the market!

Dallas architect Gary Cunningham, who designed this sprawling midcentury ranch, drew inspiration from Mies van der Rohe and an unbuilt brick country house designed by the German-born architect.

Van der Rohe is famous, of course, for that transparent box in the woods, Farnsworth House, that was part of my suburban Illinois childhood. This home on Northaven Road, however, was built in 1985. But it looks like it was built back in the 1950s, doesn't it?

One wing of the house is thrust into the environment — in this case over the lake, to create a floating, boat-like effect.

Not only did Cunningham design the home, but he also updated and renovated it twice. According to Dallas agent Douglas Newby, who once listed this home at the humdinger price of $2,750,000 (then lowered it to $2.1 million), this was Cunningham's first AIA award-winning home.

It would not be his last: Cunningham has collected more design awards and accolades than this home has bricks. The home retains a classic midcentury feel in every nook and cranny of its 4,902 square feet, enhanced by natural light and post modern elements.

Even more rare: The home is located on a small, private lake and 1.5 wooded acres that take full advantage of those water views. In fact, one wing of the house is thrust into the environment — in this case over the lake, to create a floating, boat-like effect.

This Northaven beauty has five bedrooms, four and a half baths, two-car garage, pool overlooking the water, and gourmet kitchen with 21st century conveniences. The home also has a bridge-like driveway it shares with a neighbor.

Waterfront homes are rare in Dallas, even more so when they are perfectly plopped just north of Preston Hollow and seven miles from downtown Dallas. You are close to everything but still have a zen-like lakeside retreat in the heart of town.

As for nearby shopping amenities, I have two fabulous words: Preston Royal.

Coincidence in the house: One owner of this home is a French-born research physician, Dr. Jacques Banchereau, director of the Baylor Institute for Immunology Research. He ran into one of the listing agents, Lisa Besserer, at an open house in the neighborhood.

Turns out Besserer was once one of his patients, and Banchereau's research helped save her life. Talk about a happy, grateful listing agent. The home is listed also with Pogir and Bonnie Besserer at Briggs Freeman Sotheby's for $1,990,000.

unspecified
news/real-estate

most read posts

4 Dallas high schools graduate to America's best and more top stories

Dallas steakhouse chef to open his own restaurant on Greenville Ave

Dallas-Fort Worth pitmasters lead Texas’ growing halal BBQ boom

A little Italy

2 new Prosper mega-developments will include Venetian village with canals

John Egan
Aug 24, 2026 | 11:31 am
The Marco Prosper
Rendering courtesy of BlackStone Communities
A canal-and-lagoon system will lend a Venetian feel to the $300 million Marco development in Prosper.

Fast-growing Prosper, an affluent town in Collin County north of Dallas, is poised to grow even more.

Two mixed-use projects — with a collective price tag exceeding $500 million — are bringing more than 4,400 homes along with stores, restaurants, and hotels to Prosper, whose population soared more than 50 percent from 2020 to 2025.

Bella Prosper, a $240 million development at First Street and Legacy Drive, will feature 83 townhomes, stores, restaurants, offices, a child care center, and a 139-room waterfront hotel. The Prosper Town Council endorsed the project in June.

The 63-acre Bella Prosper project will be developed in four stages set for completion from 2028 to 2035. Prosper Tollway Palazzos and PTP Retail Holdings, both based in Plano, are the developers.

Bella Prosper Features of the $240 million Bella Prosper development include a 139-room hotel along the property’s waterfront.Rendering courtesy of Daake Law

Plans for another project, the 143-acre, Italian-inspired Marco development at the Dallas North Tollway and U.S. Highway 380, call for 4,400 homes — apartments, condos, villas, townhomes, bungalows, live-work spaces, and an age-restricted “enclave.” In addition, the project would include street-level stores, offices, a performing arts center, and a hotel.

In keeping with the Italian theme, Venetian-style canals large enough to accommodate boats would flow from a lagoon. The canal-and-lagoon system would cover more than 15 acres. Among other planned Italian touches are a traditional passeggiata walkway, a public square, and courtyards.

The $300 million Marco project, which has no completion date yet, awaits approval from the Prosper Town Council. Dallas-based BlackStone Communities is the developer.

From sleepy to sought-after
The Marco and Bella Prosper will add thousands more homes to a town already bursting with new neighborhoods. A ranking released in May by RentCafe put Prosper’s 75078 ZIP code at No. 9 among the 50 fastest-growing “new neighborhoods” in the U.S. “that barely existed a decade ago.”

Projects like The Marco and Bella Prosper continue the town’s evolution, as described by Dallas-based TBC Development, from “a quiet small-town suburb” to “a hub of economic activity.”

In January, Mayor David Bristol said development along the Dallas North Tollway represents the future “economic generator” for Prosper.

Prosper’s wealth continues to rise along with its growth prospects.

In 2025, personal finance website GOBankingRates ranked Prosper as the No. 3 fastest-growing wealthy suburb in the country, with median household income at $187,603 in 2023. A year later, the income figure climbed to $195,281, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

development prosper
news/real-estate
Loading...