East Dallas
He’s a quiet, almost shy young man who was born in Korea and came to the United States to study in 1991. Jonas Park lives in East Dallas and has emerged as the leader of a small activist group not happy that a Sam’s Wholesale Club is moving into their neighborhood. “The last thing I…
They took over a large room in the Agape Methodist Church on Columbia Ave. in East Dallas, set up easels, graphs, and maps of the area to let the neighborhood come see Sam’s last Thursday evening. Water and cookies were served. About 12 location residents wandered in, if that many. There were so few residents,…
I was telling my husband about this house at 9930 Cloister last week. We drive by it every single day because it’s at the corner of Cloister and Peavy, a street well-trafficked by anyone who lives on our side of White Rock Lake. This home is rare bird because while some important updates have been done, the…
By now I’m sure you’ve read just about all of the postmortems on the infamous shout fest of a town hall last month regarding a proposed restaurant at Boy Scout Hill. But even if you’ve had your fill, I implore you, find room for just one more: Eric Celeste’s “Whose Lake is it Anyway?” in…
You guys, LOOK at this Walmart store going up in Totten Square, Washington, D.C. I had heard or read that Walmart was doing smaller-scale stores for urban infill sites, even connected with public transit. Look at these two D.C. stores that opened late last year. A third is under construction in Fort Totten. If this…
