Candy's House of the Week

Yep, this one-bedroom house has a $5 million price tag and a bridge runningthrough it

Just off Preston Road, 6124 St. Andrews Dr. blends seemlessly into its woodedlot.
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Yep, those are shrubs cut to look like giraffes.
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The house is (almost) one big wall of windows.
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Whoever lives here loves nature so much he mounted it on the wall.
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More light pours into the kitchen filled with maple cabinetry.
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The informal dining room.
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A bridge connects the master with a study.
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The view out from the upstairs.
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Built-in bookshelves can hold everything you've ever collected in your lifetime.
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The one and only bedroom in this more-than-7,000-square-foot house.
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This might be the most magnificent master closet on the planet.
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With a backyard like this, it's hard to believe this home is just off PrestonRoad.
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Let’s say you love living in Dallas, but the California wine country beckons. You’d love a place in the woods at, say, Calistoga Ranch. And you don’t really need that much space; it’s just you and your significant other. Anyone else — well, let them enjoy the nearest Hilton.

If that sounds like a familiar dream, then take a look at 6121 St. Andrews Dr. in Highland Park. It may be right off Preston Road, but this glassy jewel box affords spectacular views of gardens upon gardens on a heavily treed corner lot.

Walls of glass connect every inch of the 7,631-square-foot house with its magnificent setting. (Well, maybe every inch but the bathroom.)

Steps of Pennsylvania blue stone — both irregular slab pieces and a stacked design that evokes a controlled, blend-in-with-nature feel — lure you inside to the living room, library and over-the-top kitchen filled with maple cabinetry. Nearby looms the informal dining room, the trophy room and the biggest laundry room outside of the Muse estate on Preston Road.

Walls of glass connect every inch of the 7,631-square-foot house with its magnificent setting. (Well, maybe every inch but the bathroom.) And, get this — the home has only one bedroom, a 26-by-14-foot master upstairs.

In addition to fabulous views, the master suite has dual spa baths and the most famous master closet in town. There is also sitting room with a hidden bar so you can nip nip to your heart’s content. The pastor need never know what you are up to — except that the sitting area is open to the two-story living room below.

Then there is the bridge — a dramatic, suspended walkway that connects the sitting room to a private, glass-walled office. For less than $50,000, this room could be converted to a second bedroom and full bath.

The house also boasts a three-car garage, multiple storage rooms, sprinkler, security system and mosquito misting system so you can enjoy the outdoors. Honestly, after last summer, I think a mosquito misting system should be a Dallas home staple.

The home has been on the market since April 2011, but that doesn’t mean the $5,750,000 price is negotiable. Listed with David Nichols of Mathews Nichols Group, this treasured Dallas home was designed by Gary Cunningham, AIA. You may not need more than one bedroom here, but you will need a few cases of Windex.

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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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