Oak Lawn Committee

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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Centurion American Plans 14-Unit Condominium Tower Along Turtle Creek Corridor

By April Towery / November 24, 2023 /

Pending a variance approval, a 14-unit condominium tower from Centurion American planned for 3503 Fairmount St. could put some new luxury real estate on the Turtle Creek market.  Developer Tommy Mann with Centurion American Development Group presented plans for The Julien at the Nov. 7 meeting of the Oak Lawn Committee.  Cricket Griffin, secretary/treasurer of…

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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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Tomorrow’s Headline: City Council Approves Oak Lawn High-Rise From Pegasus-Ablon and Caven Enterprises

By Jon Anderson / May 12, 2021 /

On Wednesday City Council will vote to approve Pegasus-Ablon’s application to drop a 20-plus-story high-rise into a 36-foot-height neighborhood. I say this with certainty. The votes have been metaphorically counted and the hearing before city council is mere theater to let any opposition believe they actually had a chance of swaying a vote. They don’t.…

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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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