New industrial activity at Shingle Mountain must force Dallas to fix its unjust zoning decisions
Southern Dallas leaders Frederick Haynes and Michael Sorrell call out the city for failing to protect this vulnerable neighborhood from environmental racism.
Dr. Frederick Haynes, pastor of Friendship-West Baptist Church, asked for accountability from Dallas city leaders during a community meeting Monday, streamed on Facebook Live, at the home of Southern Sector Rising leader Marsha Jackson.(Brandon Wade / Special Contributor)
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Dallas City Hall’s failure to fix unjust decades-old zoning decisions sends a “y’all come” invitation for the next Shingle Mountain to invade the southeast neighborhood of Floral Farms.
Fear, mistrust and an election hangover threaten west Oak Cliff master plan. Can it survive?
Fear, mistrust and an election hangover threaten west Oak Cliff master plan. Can it survive?
Dallas Council member Chad West says the goal is neighborhood preservation, but opponents contend that many residents are being left out of the discussion.
Students and parents cross Clarendon Drive after leaving Winnetka Elementary on Thursday. The school and the homes of the families whose children attend Winnetka are within the boundaries of the neighborhoods that are being considered in the West Oak Cliff Area Planning initiative.(Jeffrey McWhorter / Special Contributor)
Will GrowSouth Be Enough to Incite Economic Growth in Southern Dallas?
In the wake of Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings’ GrowSouth initiative, there’s no doubt businesspeople are looking harder at opportunities in the city’s southern sector.
On a cold Saturday morning in January, Southwest Center Mall looked much like it has over the past decade. The shopping center’s vast parking lots were mostly empty, as were many of the storefronts inside. Within a few months, even Macy’s, an anchor tenant, would be closing. Like many of the shopping malls that sprouted up across America in the 1970s and 1980s, Southwest Center Mall, which opened under the name Red Bird Mall in 1975 at the intersection of Interstate 20 and U.S. 67, once was a symbol of a promising economic future. But on that morning this past January, there was something eerie about the mall’s emptiness, like a scene out of a 1980s horror film.