The Celina Area Heritage Museum is getting a makeover.
When it is ready to face the public again it will have more display area and a miniature street. Museum patrons will be able to look through windows to see the “Celina Record” office as it looked in the '40s and '50s.
Bob McKnight, treasurer of the board of directors of the Celina Area Heritage Museum has built and installed a row of display cases that will house a number of displays.
The biggest homebuilding slowdown on record has left the Dallas-Fort Worth area with lots of empty lots.
How many? Enough to last more than five years, according to the latest estimates.
"Home starts have declined almost 67 percent while the lot supply has fallen only 2 percent," said local housing analyst Ted Wilson.
For investors, those unwanted properties offer the potential for profit.
That's the message General Growth Properties Inc., the second-largest U.S. mall operator, struggled to get out Thursday after it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
The company said none of its 200 malls – including several in the Dallas area – is closing and shoppers shouldn't notice anything different. But there's a chance your favorite mall could be sold over the next few months, the company said.
