Tenth Street Historic District
Up to $100,000 per household is available in federal grant funds for Dallas’ Joppa, Five Mile, Tenth Street Historic District, and The Bottom neighborhoods. The designated areas are all underserved communities that experienced disproportionately negative impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to city documents. The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Neighborhood Revitalization Program is offering grant…
If you live in West Dallas or the Historic Tenth Street District, the City of Dallas is trying to make your life easier. “Trying” is the key word, of course. They released a new program on December 11 called the Targeted Rehab Program (TRP). The focus of TRP is to help preserve and maintain homes…
Nobody (at least, media-wise) is asking, but we did. And from the candidates who responded to our questionnaires we sent out a few months ago, we know where many of them stand on an ordinance that is allowing the slow death-by-demolition of one of the country’s few remaining intact Freedman’s towns — the Tenth Street…
Although the demolitions continue unabated in the centuries-old Freedmen’s town, residents in the Tenth Street Historic District got at least a little bit of good news Thursday morning as they gathered in one of the many vacant — yet freshly mowed — lots for an announcement. It’s an area that hasn’t seen a lot of great…
Editor’s Note: Preserving the historic neighborhoods that have shaped Dallas should be a priority. But despite historic district designations, Black neighborhoods that were home to Dallasites before, during, and after redlining are seeing a troubling amount of demolitions of homes that, residents insist, would be saved if in other historic districts — predominately white historic…
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