You can see more of Kimberly Armour's house on Saturday. (Staff photo: Chris McGathey)

Kimberly Armour’s Preston Hollow house is one of 12 that will be featured in the inaugural Dallas Modern Home Tour, which is scheduled from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday. Pick up a copy of this week’s Preston Hollow People to learn more about her via our “Deep in the Hollow” Q&A.

David Genecov has owned 6423 Prestonshire Lane since 2006, according to county tax records. Last July, he acquired the property next door. Genecov wants to replat the properties into one lot and “remove the existing front yard building line,” according to the agenda for Thursday’s meeting of the City Plan Commission. City staff is recommending approval of the removal but denial of the replat.

The blogosphere is all a twitter with the news that Khloe Kardashian, along with her NBA player husband Lamar Odom, will soon be headed to the Big D. The Fort-Worth Star Telegram has already suggested Preston Hollow as a potential homestead for the couple.

What say you, opinionated (potential) neighbors?

I can’t speak to the impact sports has had on the commercial real estate industry, the purview of the Real Estate Council, but I know one way it has affected the residential real estate business: Preston Hollow residents Dirk Nowitzki and Shawn Marion would not have purchased their palatial homes if their professional basketball careers had not brought them to Dallas.

If the NBA lockout has you missing these two and their teammates, perhaps you’d like to attend an event hosted by the Real Estate Council tomorrow morning. Talk show host Norm Hitzges will moderate a discussion about what a big business sports is in this region. Panelists will include Mavericks general manager Donnie Nelson; Joshua Price, an assistant professor of economics at UT-Arlington; and Trey Yelverton, Arlington’s deputy city manager of neighborhood services.

The discussion will take place over breakfast beginning at 7:30 a.m. at the Belo Mansion. The cost for nonmembers is $90. For more information, contact the Real Estate Council at 214-692-3600.

Two super-modern Preston Hollow homes are stops on this year’s American Institute of Architects Dallas home tour on Saturday and Sunday. The houses, 11310 Crestbrook Dr. and 6265 Boca Raton Dr. (left), feature sleek exteriors and high-end finish-out worthy of a glossy magazine spread.

The Boca Raton home designed by Gary Olp of GGO Architects is slated for LEED-H Platinum certification, the highest rating in the system. The Crestbrook abode is a gallery of windows, acting as a sieve for tons of natural light. And that pool? Well, I just want to jump right in.

Want to see more? Head to the home tour’s website.

Maples are stunning additions to fall gardens.

Perhaps you’ve noticed a home in the Hollow that has a spectacular fall display right now? Colorful trees? Pumpkins aplenty?More mums than you can shake a stick at?

Comments are open, y’all.

In a narrow vote (7-6), the City Plan Commission approved Prestonwood Baptist Church’s proposal for a 40-foot illuminated cross in the northeast corner of its property at 12123 Hillcrest Road. Four neighbors spoke in opposition to the plan, including former commissioner Carol Scott, who gave an impassioned defense of trees and darkness.

“I can’t understand the illumination and the massive tree removal only to show off a 40-foot cross,” Scott said. “I have it on good authority that this large cross … will make a terrific traffic and accident area.”

Pastor Chris Kouba said the lighting will face the building and is “not intended” to reflect on anyone’s home. He said it will be turned off at midnight, along with the rest of the lighting already on the property.

“The trees we have already done our due diligence on,” he said. “We do have the right to remove any trees as long as it’s tied to a permit, which it is.”

Despite this disagreement, Kouba said the church’s desire is to be “good neighbors.”

“We do not think [the cross] will affect in any way our relationship with the surrounding community,” he said.

You know that shopping center on the southwest corner of Walnut Hill and Central? The one that includes Iron Stone Bank and PPG Paints? I remember struggling to figure out what its name was late last year, when Claire St. Amant was looking into a rash of robberies at the Subway there.

Well, now I know: It’s called Lakeside Village. And I know that because I received a press release yesterday trumpeting the shopping center’s sale to Retail Plazas Inc. by Henry S. Miller Companies, its owner since 1999. The release says Lakeside Village was developed by Property Company of America in 1986.

“Some of the tenants are still the original tenants in the center, like SAS Shoes and Lakeside Cleaners,” said Vaughn Miller, head of the Henry S. Miller retail division, “and that speaks volumes about the strength of the center and the market area.”

Good news for the new owners: Not one crime has been reported at the Lakeside Village Subway this year.

The owner of a property on the corner of Park Lane and Preston Road is seeking exceptions to the fence height and visual obstruction regulations. So says this agenda for next Tuesday’s Board of Adjustment meeting.

According to the agenda for tomorrow’s City Council meeting, Atkins Bros. Equipment is going to get a $10 million contract to install water and wastewater mains at 25 locations, 16 of which are in City Council Districts 11 and 13, the districts that cover Preston Hollow:

District 11

Brookridge Drive from Spring Valley Road north

Easement between Churchill Way and Willow Lane from Archdale Drive to Hillcrest Road

Roaring Springs Lane from Tahoe Drive northeast

Stonebrook Circle from east Ridgeview Circle to west Ridgeview Circle

Stonehaven Drive from Valleybrook Drive west

Tahoe Drive from Roaring Springs Lane to Thistle Lane

District 13

Forest Bend Road from Drexelwood Drive to Harvest Hill Road

Princess Lane from Royal Club Lane to Marquis Lane

Rockmoor Court from Rockmoor Drive northeast

Seguin Drive from Marsh Lane to Mixon Drive

Shady Oak Lane from Timber Trail Drive southeast

Shelterwood Circle from Shelterwood Lane east

Shelterwood Lane from Northaven Road south

Talisman Drive from Channel Drive to Sundial Drive

Wildflower Drive from Talisman Drive to Webb Chapel Road

Woodleigh Court from Woodleigh Drive north