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Thursday, December 20, 2007

Dallas apartment complex to residents: Merry Christmas and get out

by PegNews wire

Every single resident of the Timbercreek Apartments in Northeast Dallas was served with an eviction notice on December 5 because the complex is due to be torn down and replaced with a shopping center. The area was rezoned by the Dallas City Council in May 2006, but residents had not been given any warning prior to the eviction notices of when they were expected to move.

Posted by Alex B.

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When is a good time to receive an eviction notice? I assume this is related to the Lake Highlands Town Center project?

Aaron Johnson Verified

1 year, 11 months ago
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Not making residents move out during the school year is a good idea... but why is sending them a notice that they'll have to move in X months at that time a bad one?

Pavel Lishin Verified

1 year, 11 months ago
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Clearly, you did not RTFA.

kphagen Anonymous

1 year, 11 months ago
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what stupid reasoning...i'd rather have more time to look for a place and make plans, i don't see why moving "during the school year" would be any worse than moving during christmas..

luniz Anonymous

1 year, 11 months ago
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Can't tell by your journalism if the Landlord is an orgre or not. How much of a notice did he give the tenants who are month-to-month?

Don't you think the tenants that were month-to-month had an inkling that maybe they might have to move some time?

Come on Pegasus Newswire, you can do better than this kind of reporting. Seems like you have a bias in this storyline.

bobdon000 Anonymous

1 year, 11 months ago
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bobdon000,

I made no extraneous comments on this story -- simply reported what was in the original CBS11 story. If you care to read their article and call them out in the same manner, please do so. Hugs and kisses -- Alex

Alex Bentley Staff

1 year, 11 months ago
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This is the complex that's been in the news forever - the one where they're going to destroy an urban forest for more concrete and retail. I have a friend who used to live at Timbercreek and I visited him there. It wasn't that well maintained, and at least once someone asked him to buy drugs, but he had a gorgeous view off his balcony of a river with trees, animals & birds. Just when you think people are starting to pay attention to the environment, they push forward with something like this. I don't even want to think about what these people will go through - not to mention the wildlife calling Timbercreek home. Horrid.

http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws...

We have Trammel Crow to thank for these business practices. I once lived in a complex that they sold into low-income housing without informing the residents. I would advise anyone not to align their living arrangements with this company.

WhitneyTM Anonymous

1 year, 11 months ago
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I can't wait to see them level that complex and start on the new transit oriented center! I'm so tired of driving past that eyesore blocking access to the creek. Thank you trammel crow for doing your part not to hinder the progress being made to improve the Lake Highlands area and dallas as a whole!

Aaron Johnson Verified

1 year, 11 months ago
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http://www.pegasusnews.com/news/2007/...

Aaron Johnson Verified

1 year, 11 months ago
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Folks, this is not transit-oriented redevelopment, and this is not Lake Highlands anything. It is located at Skillman and Northwest Highway, miles from any DART line, and you can expect more big-box retailers. Score: cars 1, trees 0.

bmslaw Anonymous

1 year, 11 months ago
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Ohh, my mistake. Still happy to see the apartments go though...

Aaron Johnson Verified

1 year, 11 months ago
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Regarding the Lake Highlands Town Center (a totally different development, as noted above) - I've got news for you. A transit-oriented development is not a welcome sight for anyone who knows anything about Lake Highlands, where I grew up. In this case, the evil we know (outdated, crime-ridden apartments) may indeed be better than the evil we don't. It's a widespread fallacy that the DART is a good thing for Dallas. Don't believe me? Go sit up at Mockingbird Station for a while, where I worked for two years after the Station and the DART line opened. If you don't see an endless line of homeless, panhandlers, and the like seeking free bathrooms, water, handouts and anything else they can get their hands on, I'll buy your train ticket to Lake Highlands myself.

WhitneyTM Anonymous

1 year, 11 months ago
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I currently live (and own my home) in lake highlands and I (as well as many of my neighbors) disagree with your opinion.

Aaron Johnson Verified

1 year, 11 months ago
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Wait, so DART is evil because... homeless people like warmth and not crapping behind a dumpster?

Pavel Lishin Verified

1 year, 11 months ago
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No Pavel, DART is evil because it rhymes with FART. .<;-)

Just spreading a little holiday cheer!

Aaron Johnson Verified

1 year, 11 months ago
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At least the crime-ridden (supposedly) apartments were well hidden by nice trees and vegetation. Now I'll probably have a beautiful Wal-Mart or somesuch to drive by every day...Actually, since Trammel Crow managed to hoodwink the council into rezoning without really agreeing to or verifying what they even wanted to put there, there's pretty much no limit to how much they can destroy this little corner (as far as I know from everything I've read). I know there was some discussions from the Corp of Engineers about re-routing the creek, but it seems like nothing really was decided on that.

James Scott Verified

1 year, 11 months ago
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In 1988, my Mom (76 yrs old) was living with my sister in Houston. My sister died. I drove my Mom back to Dallas to live with me- I was recently divorced and living alone.
I rented us a two-bedroom apartment at Timbercreek especially for the creek and woods outside our back door. My Mom- still a Missouri country girl at heart, loved the view.
We were living there when a year later she died.
I will always have a connection with the place.

It's tough to be sentimental about a certain place anywhere in a country so driven by corporate financial gain.

Rick Yost Verified

1 year, 11 months ago
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God knows there is a dirth of places to shop and eat in Dallas, so why hesitate to level anything even connected to nature and human lives...on a timely basis with sensitivity... when the need to house strip centers and not-so-fast food and clothing and gifts (that are more common than grackles at sunset) is a civil Dallas MasterCard mandate.

Rawlins Gilliland Verified

1 year, 11 months ago
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Well said Rawlins.

However, as much as I painfully recognize the inequities, waste, and countless absurdities of this life in the wealthiest of countries, along-side the most egotistical and blatantly selfish people on the planet, the more I learn of (most) other countries- the more I'm glad I'm here. And like most of my countrymen, it'd be like pulling teeth to get me to change. We are terminally addicted to the American way of luxury.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to Starbucks.

Rick Yost Verified

1 year, 11 months ago
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It's a concept we call "highest and best use" in real estate... and as we say in the real estate business "time kills all deals" especially developments that are IRR driven.