Lake Highlands
Less than three months have passed since residents in Dallas City Council District 10 rang in the new year, and in that time, three homicides, 349 assaults, and 274 thefts have occurred in the Lake Highlands area. The crime rates in almost all categories for District 10 are lower today than they were at this…
By Chris CarterSpecial Contributor Editor’s Note: Chris Carter is one of four candidates seeking the Dallas City Council District 10 seat vacated by Councilman Adam McGough due to term limits. Carter is running against Brian Hasenbauer, Kathy Stewart, and Sirrano Keith Baldeo. I’m 60 years old. My family has lived in District 10 (Lake Highlands) for 57 years. I graduated…
What do you do with a crime-ridden extended-stay hotel in close proximity to a major highway and a DART station that has been dubbed the “Hotel From Hell”? If Mark Melton is involved, it’s likely to be used for affordable housing. A letter of intent was signed last week by Volunteers of America to purchase…
Nobody knows the insides and outs of a neighborhood like the people that live there. But what if the person that lived there was also a Realtor? Boy oh boy, we just might be on to something. Here’s a weekly feature called…NextDoor. I’m kidding, that one’s taken. I’m not ever going to name it, really,…
In Lake Highlands, where houses were built as early as the 1950s, it’s not uncommon for a home to be sold and either completely torn down and replaced by a new, more modern one or completely renovated. So when a home such as 9507 Covemeadow Drive went through an all-encompassing renovation, down to the studs,…
