Oak Lawn

Going Up? Snag This Oak Lawn Townhome With An Elevator And You Could Be

By Nikki Barringer / February 17, 2024 /

Clay Stapp & Company’s Kelly Gurnee said his latest listing in Oak Lawn is impeccable. And if there’s a level above impeccable, it’s that. He’s helped the current owners buy and sell several homes and he said they won’t consider anything that’s even .1 percent less than perfection. Then they make it even better. Constructed…

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Oak Lawn Committee: Liquor Store is ‘Not a Wanted Use’ For Unicorn Lot on Fairmount Street 

By April Towery / February 13, 2024 /

The “unicorn lot” at 3104 Fairmount Street could become a liquor store, but not if members of the Oak Lawn Committee have their way.  More than 100 Uptown-area residents and business owners joined a Feb. 6 meeting of the Oak Lawn Committee via Zoom to discuss a Specific Use Permit request for the site at…

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Oak Lawn Committee Sees Proposed Old Parkland Expansion

By Jon Anderson / July 7, 2021 /

The Old Parkland lands stood vacant for years at Maple and Oak Lawn Avenues before Crow Holdings restored the historic hospital campus into a significant landmark in 2009. The new campus surrounds the original 1913 Parkland Hospital building seamlessly. Behind the gates, the historic buildings thrive. Interiors are true works of art, from the intricate…

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Oak Lawn Developments Could Preserve Dallas’ Gayborhood

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / March 8, 2021 /

By Keith W. HefnerRealtor and Dallas Resident In 1970, Frank Caven opened his first gay bar, changing the landscape of Dallas and the Texas LGBTQ+ community forever, at a time when acceptance of homosexuality and frankly dancing too late in the evening was illegal in the city. After many years, and many hard-fought battles for…

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Update: Ablon-Caven Gayborhood High-Rises, Central Market Changes, McKinney/Boll Residential High-Rise

By Jon Anderson / January 25, 2021 /

A new year deserves some updates to previously reported projects. Since the December Oak Lawn Committee (OLC) where Caven Enterprises with developer and former Mayoral candidate Mike Ablon presented their vision for their holdings on Cedar Springs Road, a few things have happened. Time for an update. Ablon and Caven Gayborhood Plan First, the project did…

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