New zoning applications have been submitted for a STEAM nonprofit, a metal salvage facility, and a six-story apartment complex, while an existing site is requesting to build a duplex, and a half-acre site is asking for zoning that would allow for the conversion of a boarding house into multifamily units.
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Dallas could move community care funds to hire more police
The Dallas City Council is considering a budget amendment that would redirect $7.7 million in funds from the Office of Community Care to help reach the city’s police hiring goal for the fiscal year.
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West Dallas site of demolished Bonnie and Clyde filling station to become a car wash
A plot of land in West Dallas, once the childhood home of Clyde Barrow, is being prepped to be converted into a car wash, with plans to have a replica of an old Bonnie and Clyde car and a plaque telling people that this is where the home used to be.
Posted inEducation
How historic J.J. Rhoads elementary school became South Dallas’ resource center for DISD families
The Resource Center South, opened in January 2024, provides resources such as food, mental health, recreational activities, and job training for families in the South Dallas community, with an emphasis on supporting families with children in DISD schools.
Posted inOpinion
New Kid On the Block… With an Old Bag Of Tricks
Jess Washington, the new Publisher of Dallas Weekly, is using her social capital to collaborate with local entities and draw new readers to the publication, while also focusing on the publication’s legacy as the #1 news source for Black Dallas.
Posted inCommunity
TREC’s First Mill City Revitalization Project Gives Zan Wesley Holmes Outreach Center Its Own Building
The former St. Luke Community United Methodist Church building is under renovation. Volunteers have removed the debris that accumulated over time as the building sat vacant, and work should finish by March 2025, so the Zan Wesley Holmes Jr. Community Outreach Center can move in. Photo by Brenda Hernandez In a sense, the Zan Wesley […]
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Follow-up: Whatever Happened to South Dallas’ Malcolm X Plaza?Â
Neighbors say the temporary improvements fell short of long-term impact In summer 2022 South Dallas neighbors watched as a vacant parking lot on Malcolm X Boulevard transformed into the “Malcolm […]
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Driving Unlicensed? Here’s a Free Fix
The South Dallas Driving Academy welcomes its newest students in November at the Dallas College Workforce Center. Photo by Brenda Hernandez South Dallas native Norvel Dumas, 27, had been driving without a license for about a decade. He’d racked up hundreds of dollars in tickets and fines. But all of that is in his rearview […]
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The Future of Malcolm’s Point: Hope or Hot Air?
A new $2.3 million commercial retail center is set to be completed by next spring at the corner of Merlin Street and Al Lipscomb Way, with local entrepreneurs hoping to take advantage of the opportunity and residents hoping to avoid negative outcomes such as increased traffic and loitering.
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Dallas Weekly Joins News Media Alliance’s ‘Support Journalism Fly-In’ In Washington, D.C.
The Dallas Weekly joined advocates from across the nation in Washington D.C. to meet with lawmakers on Capital Hill and emphasize the critical role of quality journalism in a democratic society, advocating for fairness for local publications and the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act.