McMansions or 'Recycled Homes'?

Homeowners calls them McMansions. Developers consider them reinvesting and recycling homes.

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May 19, 2005, 11:00 AM PDT

By Brenda Meyer

"To builders, they're 'recycled homes' -- market-driven products that raise property values, bolster the city's tax base and replace neglected, deteriorating houses. And the more than 1,500 such dwellings that have cropped up across the city since the late 1990s, many of them in historic areas in North and East Dallas, are responsible for one of the most divisive neighborhood debates in recent memory.

'Builders see it as healthy redevelopment, that they're building a product responsive to what the market wants. And homeowners view it as outside forces coming in and changing the character of their neighborhood...' "

Thanks to Brenda Meyer

Read the full story: The McMansion next door Teardowns are the bane of many neighbors, but developers call them reinvesting and recycling

Tuesday, May 17, 2005 in Housing Zone

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