New Four-Star Golf Resort to Open on Northwest Highway

Posted on March 24th, 2008 3:54pm by Tim Rogers
Filed under Real Estate

I need some help, dear FrontBurnervians. On my way last weekend to secure an Easter ham, I saw the below house under construction on Northwest Highway, just west of Inwood. DCAD and Google street view weren’t much help. Anyone know who is building that monster?

Update: You’ll find the answer in the comments.

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22 comments

  1. My vote is a “Nothing.”

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088323/

    @ 4:03 pm on March 24, 2008

  2. Future home of W?

    @ 4:06 pm on March 24, 2008

  3. Alan Prepard told me it was Sandra Crenshaw’s new digs.

    @ 4:24 pm on March 24, 2008

  4. Some goober, fixin to file bankrupy, puttin all their money in their house, so they can keep the cash!! Or W!!!!!!!!!!!!

    @ 4:31 pm on March 24, 2008

  5. Ding, ding, ding! We’ve got a winner!

    Thanks to the helpful FrontBurnervian who pointed me to the right DCAD account. Moving into the digs when they’re done will be Thomas Dundon, CEO of Drive Financial. They’re in the subprime business — but think cars, not homes. Drive was sold late last year for $636 million.

    http://www.automotive.com/features/90/auto-news/25077/index.html

    @ 4:35 pm on March 24, 2008

  6. yeah I saw that estate back in December and was absolutely gob-smacked by its size. Maybe Ms. Crenshaw knows

    @ 4:36 pm on March 24, 2008

  7. T.W.P.,
    That can’t be true, since the only black person Alan Peppard has ever met or spoken to was a waiter at Al Biernat’s.

    @ 4:40 pm on March 24, 2008

  8. But wait! There’s more!

    Another FBvian points us here:

    http://platinumserieshomes.net/neighborhood.asp?neighborhood=9

    Check the NW Hwy home on the far right. It’ll be 19,500 square feet. And, yes, it will have a mud room.

    @ 4:51 pm on March 24, 2008

  9. At least his cars will be safe from (cue dramatic music) THE CARSONIST….

    @ 5:02 pm on March 24, 2008

  10. Speaking of weird places on NW highway

    http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Dallas,+TX&ie=UTF8&ll=32.858442,-96.870484&spn=0.001032,0.001808&t=h&z=19&layer=c&cbll=32.857923,-96.870587&cbp=1,231.3656583629903,,1,-1.2855871886121057

    Plaza de Toros is possibly the awesomest place in Dallas currently. A Taqueria has built an authentic Mexican bull ring behind their restaurant. Complete with bull riding(real kind, not mechanical gringo kind), mock midget matador bull fights, goats dressed as clowns.

    Dare anyone to find a cooler, odder place than that within the Dallas city limits.

    Olé!

    @ 9:31 pm on March 24, 2008

  11. premier club’s own Tom Dundon.

    @ 7:19 am on March 25, 2008

  12. Hey, Tim, Dundon works out at your club! Should make those noon pick-up games kinda tense, huh Rogers?

    @ 7:37 am on March 25, 2008

  13. tom doesn’t play at lunch.

    @ 7:55 am on March 25, 2008

  14. I’m so happy that I have no idea what a mud room is. Now, we do have a wine tasting room at our Casa View Estate. We usually call it my it’s less formal name, kitchen

    @ 8:05 am on March 25, 2008

  15. My parents have a mud room. It’s basically room, usually between the garage and the kitchen, where you can take off your muddy/wet clothes and shoes. Sometimes the washing machine and dryer are in there as well. If they’re super fancy, they have tubs and stuff for rinsing off those muddy boots, and all sorts of accoutrements.
    http://www.decoratinginspiration.com/premium/decorate/preview/browse.jsp?dcat=117953
    http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-mud-room.htm

    @ 8:13 am on March 25, 2008

  16. Timmy, next time you want a holiday ham order it from Ham I Am. I can’t believe you drove across town for a Honey Baked Ham.

    @ 8:44 am on March 25, 2008

  17. I thought a mud room was a vulgar nickname for the bathroom.

    @ 9:51 am on March 25, 2008

  18. It could be ;)

    @ 10:20 am on March 25, 2008

  19. thanks for the link, Bethany.

    “Since a mud room bridges the space between indoors and outdoors..”

    Now, we call that a porch mat in casa view.

    @ 1:23 pm on March 25, 2008

  20. The detritus my stepdad can acquire on his person can often eclipse the bounds of a porch mat. When they built the new master suite, my mother insisted on a mud room.

    @ 4:36 pm on March 25, 2008

  21. Does no one remember when this site was the local YMCA (back in the ’70s I think)?

    By the way, no mud room of a multi-million dollar manse in Dallas is complete without a drip/dry area & a dog-wash-sized shower aera.

    @ 10:54 pm on March 25, 2008

  22. Buncha city slickers. Every farm house in the U.S. has a mud room.

    @ 10:48 pm on March 27, 2008