Howard Hughes
For the second year in a row, the minute I leave town, Candy decides to throw parties in Dallas’ most expensive and storied digs. Last month it was Deion Sanders’ Collin County mega-mansion and Walnut Place’s walk down the auction catwalk and into Mehrdad Moayedi’s hands for $36 mil. Well I’ve had enough. This year,…
Read MoreHe called it “Villa Paradiso,” and the pool house at this eight-bedroom, 14-bathroom, 15,000-square-foot compound in Palm Springs, was designed just for Cary Grant, who was just one of several old Hollywood royalty to vacation at the lush abode. According to listing agent Marc Lange with Hom Sotheby’s International Realty, the nearly four-acre compound sits…
Read MoreIn 2015 I wrote a pair of articles about Howard Hughes Corporation’s purchase and development plans for 60 acres in the Kaka’ako section of Honolulu (here, here). The development is sandwiched between downtown Honolulu and world-famous Waikiki and is slated for 16 high-rise condo towers with 4,300 units plus over 1 million square feet of…
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