Lochwood Neighborhood Association
A controversial Garland Road apartment complex is moving forward, as officials with the Dallas Public Facility Corporation announced recently they’ve closed on the property. Keith Pomykal, president of the Dallas PFC shared the news with board members in an Oct. 27 email. “This afternoon the DPFC closed on ‘The Hayden,’” Pomykal said in the email. “This…
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The Standard Shoreline multifamily project attracted a lot of attention back in 2022 when it became one of the first proposals to be approved under the Dallas Public Facility Corporation financing structure. Residents in East Dallas’ Lochwood Neighborhood Association raised concerns about what they called a 75-year tax break. They were worried that the 60-foot…
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Many residents who live along the Garland Road corridor and near White Rock Lake in Dallas City Council District 9 have lived there for decades and love their neighborhoods. They host neighborhood block parties and are thoroughly engaged in local zoning and development matters. They don’t talk a lot about crime, and for good reason:…
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The Dallas City Council on Wednesday unanimously approved Ojala Holdings’ Standard Shoreline, a once-contentious Garland Road rezoning request, allowing for the construction of a 300-unit, four-story apartment complex adjacent to the Lochwood neighborhood. The rezoning request approved at the Wednesday Dallas City Council meeting was initiated by Ojala Holdings and involved the purchase of a…
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By Thomas BuckSpecial Contributor In what retired Dallas Observer columnist Jim Schutze calls “today’s weakened media environment,” many have not noticed a storm brewing in far East Dallas. At the intersection of Garland and Centerville Roads, a seven-month “Fight The Height” battle has pitted Lochwood and nearby neighborhoods against the City of Dallas. A developer —…
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