[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Highland Park in Dallas (near Southern Methodist University, the school of Laura Bush) is a highly desireable area in which to live. About 15 years ago a friend bought a small home there and completely leveled it - just for the lot........ I was stunned! lol...... but it happens a lot more now...... damn expensive piece of land don't you think?

[xsmommy]

we live about 2 mi. outside the Beltway. the leveling of houses goes on inside the beltway, bc people want to live close in, in an established neighborhood with trees etc. i would not want to live that close in, that badly, personally. we are lucky to have a new home in an established neighborhood, bc a builder bought an old farm and subdivided it into 4 half acre lots.

[Texan5]

That is happening to some extent in our community, which used to be sort of a summer resort area. I commented to Robert, whose brother lives a couple of roads away from us, about this awhile back. People with the money to do so are buying properties with fishing shacks, trailers and summer shanties on them, knocking down the existing building and putting a big house on it. I suppose the main park road will soon be the only one with that rather charming deserted, semi trashy summer place look to it. I will rather miss that-it has fond memories for me or when I was in high school and college.

My cousin who lives in Richardson told me about what's going on in Highland Park. Crazy......