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For $3 million and change, you can keep your fitness resolutions at this sportyWillow Bend manse

5600 Cradlerock sits on 1.5 acres in Willow Bend.
Photo courtesy of Paulette Greene/Ebby Halliday
Swim morning laps in the pool.
Photo courtesy of Paulette Greene/Ebby Halliday
Brush up on your backhand on the tennis court.
Photo courtesy of Paulette Greene/Ebby Halliday
Entertaining-ready dining room.
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Polish your pool game in the billiard room.
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The master bedroom has a sitting area, spa bath and exercise studio.
Photo courtesy of Paulette Greene/Ebby Halliday
We can't figure out the statue on the counter.
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The interior reflects the decade in which it was built: the 1980s.
Photo courtesy of Paulette Greene/Ebby Halliday

Happy New Year! Because most of us resolve to eat less and exercise more, I found a home that will make it oh-so-easy for us. And it’s only $3.15 million!

Come this time next year, you will be challenging Martina Navratilova, mimicking Mark Spitz and giving Jane Fonda a run for her money. Then you can look all sexy shooting pool.

This home has a huge swimming pool, tennis court and billiards room. And what everyone needs in the new year: a private exercise studio.

This studio is right off the master, which rivals the one at Champs d’Or, with sitting room, fireplace and spa bath. So no more excuses. Roll out of bed, get into your Lulu’s and get out the Pilates ring.

Better yet: Have a hot instructor come on over at 8 am sharp.

The home sits on 1.5 acres up in Willow Bend, so you could have your own jogging track too. It was built by Todd & Hughes — as in Gordon Todd and Randy Hughes — in 1986. Hughes played football for the Cowboys from 1975 to 1980, so it really has the ’80s written all over it.

But, hey, those were not such bad days for interiors, and the bones are in place for a mini-facelift. At the recent Waterworks opening, I was talking to starchitect Richard Drummond Davis and luxury homebuilder John Sebastian about old homes versus new homes. Davis said his home built in 1922 has old windows that almost welcome in the dust and cold air.

Not this house. It has great windows; it just needs a little nip and tuck. And 5600 Cradlerock Circle — love that street name — is a big one. You get 10,526 square feet, six bedrooms, seven full baths and two half baths. And there’s a four-car garage and a home theater.

For that cool $3 mil you get all of the above, plus a wine cellar, butler’s pantry, covered outdoor patio with fireplace, several balconies, gorgeous grounds, and a porte-cochère — which comes in handy on rainy days.

The kitchen is very marble-y, and I’m dying to know what’s with that statue on the counter in the bar. One wild party, and that thing’s a goner.

Still, I think this is a great home at a great value, considering all that’s jam-packed into it. At the current price tag, you are paying less than $300 per square foot.

Best of all, with square footage like this, even if you never do one sit-up, you can get in shape just walking around this place.

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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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