lakewooder

• 11 months, 1 week ago
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  Adding more DART rail lines fails to promote ridership

  Open the Knox-Henderson station which is below ground, but not finished out...

  
  
• 12 months ago
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  Taco Bueno of Farmers Branch looking to find a buyer

  Addicted to Bueno frijoles..

  
  
• 1 year ago
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  Black Eyed Pea on Greenville Avenue closed, new branch to open in Preston Center

  Actually it was on Greenville just north of E. University between Desperado's and Rusty Taco. Maybe they should have stayed in their original building instead of putting up a typical suburban box facing sideways...Desperado's has been in business for how many years???

  
  
• 1 year, 1 month ago
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  2012 Food Truck Field Day

  http://m.facebook.com/pages/Light-Hor... Woodrow Wilson High students rock band performing.

  
  
• 1 year, 4 months ago
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  UPDATED: Trader Joe's opening stores on Lower Greenville and in Plano

  Big score for East Dallas.

  
  
• 1 year, 10 months ago
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  Is Lakewood the new Uptown?

  The author of this article is a graduate of Woodrow Wilson High, so she knows how the area ticks. It seems to be very misunderstood by the masses who don't live here. However, once someone moves in they find that everything they want to do is within 10 minutes of home. They don't want to leave.
  

  Incidentially "Woodrow" is now an accredited IB World School. Feeder J.L. Long Middle School is a candidate school for IB MYP (Middle Years Programme) and will therefore be offering International Baccalaureate curriculum starting September 1st. Less than two dozen Texas public middle schools offer this program.
  

  So look for more price appreciation in Lakewood!

  
  
• 2 years ago
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  Deep Ellum is a neighborhood that refuses to die

  I hardly think Lower Greenville is on the decline with the reopening (and massive renovation) of the Terilli's block, the new food park on the site of the Arcadia and the super-wide sidewalks, landscaping and traffic softening going in just south of that. Also the old Blockbuster and Whole Foods block will be in for some positive changes and has been mentioned for everything from a Trader Joe's to another branch of Elliot's Hardware (that could still happen). Henderson is hot and Greenville practically merges with it at Ross.

  But back to Deep Ellum - I know people with businesses there for over a decade and they were always thriving despite the bad publicity about crime - which really was some bad clubs open very late on weekends. As East Dallas continues its gentrification Ellum will benefit. It may not have the good schools of Lakewood but there will be massive spillover as that area will become super-expensive.

  
  
• 3 years, 6 months ago
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  Junius Heights 3rd Annual Historic Home Tour

  Excellent event and a good chance to see always-exemplary Lipscomb Elementary, which is drawing students back from private schools.

  
  
• 3 years, 8 months ago
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  Deep Fried Butter makes Letterman Top 10 List

  Congrats to Woodrow grad Abel - he and fellow Wildcat Neil Fletcher are Food Kings of the Fair!

  
  
• 4 years, 2 months ago
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  State Rep. proposes legislation that would break up Dallas ISD

  Clay213 Anonymous DISD can't graduate a literate student anyway.

  Yale, Princeton, Harvard, M.I.T. etc. don't share that opinion - DISD graduates from Woodrow, Hillcrest and W.T. White have been accepted there and are thriving.

  Harvard had the whole Mock Trial team from Woodrow (second place in state, 2008) up there a couple of months ago, in fact.

  
  
• 4 years, 2 months ago
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  Moving day

  Quite a Friday, both you and Megan moving west.

  
  
• 4 years, 3 months ago
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  Dallas ISD schools get a nod from National Center For Urban School Transformation

  Congratulations to Bonham, which serves the Vickery Place and Cochran Heights neighborhoods. I believe it has also been ranked exemplary for five years. We are lucky to have so many exemplary and recognized schools in East Dallas/Lakewood.

  
  
• 4 years, 4 months ago
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  Dallas real estate entrepreneur Trammell Crow died on Wednesday

  Yes, the world will remember. He was once the largest developer and landlord in the world. He shaped not only Dallas but the world.

  He will always be my great model of what a successful person should be. I was lucky enough to meet him several times working on the Woodrow Alumni Association. Not only was he inspiring and determined, but he was also the Wildcat and Texan ideal of being friendly first.

  Without a doubt he was my favorite famous alum but I think he would probably be glad to toss that torch to Carroll Shelby, who has many of the same traits.

  
  
• 4 years, 5 months ago
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  Greenville Avenue Area Business Association to award scholarships to Dallas ISD high school students

  Thank you to Mr. Levy (I've been enjoying Desperado's Restaurant for 30 years) and the GAABA. I'll spread the word to grateful Woodrow alums - see you at the parade.

  
  
• 4 years, 6 months ago
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  Dysfunctional D Magazine blogs place Dallas media in paralysis

  I'm sorry to learn about this. I hope that the loss of the newspapers will mean more inclusion of those areas in D.

  Good luck to those who have lost their jobs.

  
  
• 4 years, 7 months ago
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  Ask the Troup: Presidential Fountain edition

  Pershing Street is named for him in Cochran Heights - off Henderson behind the Old Monk Pub - home to many architectural masterpieces by Charles Steven Dilbeck.

  Did you know the old KLIF building was once a Magnolia Station with office above? My daddy worked there for a bit before moving to the Magnolia Building.

  I think I heard that fountain was donated by some family and it was moved to another location..I'll think more and maybe I shall remember...

  
  
• 4 years, 7 months ago
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  Ask the Troup: Bonnie and Clyde edition

  Interesting. I knew some of that but not the Halloween prank. There is a program on Bonnie and Clyde which airs on KERA Channel 13 at times - I believe Clyde's sister who was interviewed has since passed away.

  
  
• 4 years, 8 months ago
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  Dallas County deputy constable gets caught lying about work by satellite tracking device

  How about the constable who is alleged to have been out of his district on Ross Ave. 'visiting' with business owners about changing the name to Chavez?

  
  
• 4 years, 8 months ago
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  Census Bureau report determines that most affluent city in the U.S. is Plano

  Plano had a little soul back when there was one high school and they beat HP at Texas Stadium. Then the white flight continued and it became a monster of slab houses and composition roofs on the prairie with teens in 1,500 member high school classes.

  They all ran away from poor people so why is it a surprise the poverty rate is so low? It's also no suprise that they send their poor to Parkland Hospital but refuse to pick up the tab. Why would they? The corporation will probably transfer them soon and it's on to Cary, Rancho Cucamonga, Peachtree City or Naperville. Very few people up there have generations of family invested as is the case in my area - that's how you develop 'soul'.

  Meanwhile the cancer of urban sprawl and white flight will continue as "West" Plano's 29,000 apartment units start to be overcrowded with low-income people, causing the current (or temporary) residents to move farther north or back to the gentrifying city.

  
  
• 4 years, 8 months ago
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  UPDATED: State Fair of Texas announces 2008 list of weird fried foods

  I'll have to taste the chicken fried bacon several times before I know if it sucks.

  Congrats to Abel Gonzales, fellow Wildcat, on his innovative food stylings. Fire and Ice sounds perfect for a sunny warm day at the Fair.

  
  
• 4 years, 11 months ago
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  Hard Rock Cafe coming back to Dallas?

  A historic building like Union Banker's Trust in Ellum? The perfect marriage of music and a place which needs a hotel.

  
  
• 4 years, 11 months ago
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  Frisco man has car stolen by a Craigslist respondent

  I've just been glad I never go to Frisco ;)

  
  
• 5 years ago
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  DFW-area high schools named tops in nation by Newsweek

  Hey don't forget W.T. White, my beloved Woodrow Wilson and Hillcrest - and the other two DISD high schools on the list - all placed above schools in Richardson, Plano, McKinney and Frisco.

  So Realtors, stop directing buyers to the sticks.

  
  
• 5 years ago
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  Former Arcadia site on Greenville Avenue in Dallas will become mixed-use retail center

  Net worth is more important than income and hard to document. There's a lot of net worth around there (especially to the east and north), most long-time residents have no mortgages (and their homes are still appreciating nicely -unlike depreciating Park Cities).

  Some old-money types take lower paying jobs for fufillment (such as education, acting, arts). Question is, they can afford whatever they want - but will they buy?

  
  
• 5 years, 1 month ago
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  Severe weather summary around North Texas

  Hey y'all I am 50 and the only tornado of any consequence in Dallas was a year before my birth. Something to think about?

  
  

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