Mike Ablon
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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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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Caven Enterprises is seeking to sell their Cedar Springs lands, which contain a string of well-known LGBTQ+ bars, to developer Mike Ablon who intends to build a pair of high-rises while leaving the bars in place (read the first story here, and the follow-up here). Caven has heavily spun the narrative that without this one…
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The Oak Lawn Committee’s Tuesday night meeting had one case – Mike Ablon and Caven Enterprises’ desire to upzone their parcels on Cedar Springs Road from Reagan to just north of Throckmorton. Caven opened its case with an interesting statement. Essentially, representative and former Dallas City Councilman Ed Oakley told the Oak Lawn Committee to approve…
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Beyond the academic arguments of how historically gay neighborhoods are changing and specifically how Oak Lawn’s gay epicenter will evolve, there are the buildings themselves. Tuesday night, Mike Ablon and Caven Enterprises will present to the Oak Lawn Committee. Honestly, the renderings and numbers that’ll be shown (and have been presented elsewhere) offer little to…
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