Pleasant Grove
Waiting in line for several hours in the sun, rain, or snow is a way of life for hundreds of Dallas residents who rely on the Inspired Vision Compassion Center for a bag of groceries. What if that could be a more pleasant, dignified, even enjoyable experience? District 5 Dallas City Councilman Jaime Resendez and Better…
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Dallas City Council District 5 doesn’t make a lot of headlines — good or bad. The area of Southeast Dallas represented by Pleasant Grove native Jaime Resendez, has the second-lowest crime rate of the 14 council districts. Residents in District 5 have expressed concerns about vehicle theft, vandalism, and car parts theft, compounded by complaints…
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Clean and spacious three-bedroom homes with Dallas ZIP codes don’t often make it into the 100s – unless they’re classified as “cute” or a “fixer-upper.” This one is, in fact, cute, but it’s already fixed up and billed as a turn-key investment property. Listed by Juan Vega with Rendon Realty, the home at 9922 Hustead…
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Just in case you missed it, Dallas ISD’s Annie Webb Blanton Elementary in the Riverway Estates-Bruton Terrace neighborhood in Pleasant Grove has had quite the turnaround — from not meeting state standards five years in a row to an A in the state’s A-F accountability ratings. It’s almost impossible to overstate the strides the school…
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The Pleasant Grove in playwright Jonathan Norton’s ‘penny candy’, suffice to say, is home, but fraught with the attendant turmoil of a neighborhood in transition. Norton, who grew up in the Grove, portrays a snapshot of time in the community in his latest work, “penny candy,” which hits the stage with its world premiere as…
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