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9th grader Sydney Miller's project for Southern Gateway Park at Hip Hop Architecture Camp. [Image via Corgan]
Dallas Hip Hop Architecture Camp Brings Students’ Designs to Life for Southern Gateway Park
by Lance Murray | Jun 28, 2024
Dallas-based Corgan said that during the camp, which took place June 24-28, students presented designs to potentially be integrated into a facility at Southern Gateway Park, a deck park being built over I-35E near the Dallas Zoo and historic Oak Cliff.
by Lance Murray |
Mar 13, 2024
Once Vista's renovation of the old Social Security building at 3225 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. is complete, the new location will serve not only as Vista's largest and latest banking center, but will also provide office space to house the Dallas Black Chamber of Commerce as well as Southern Dallas Progress and the SDFP Innovation Center. A Financial Literacy Center will also serve the community.
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by David Seeley |
Dec 7, 2023
For decades, Dallas has dreamed of a transformational park along the Trinity River near downtown Dallas. This week, the Trinity Park Conservancy announced that a groundbreaking will finally happen in 2024. The 250-acre Harold Simmons Park will offer community-uniting nature, a stunning playground with towers and tube slides, a prairie walk, a two-acre bike and skate park, overlooks with views of the greenway and the city skyline, and more.
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by Lance Murray |
Nov 10, 2023
The construction kickoff for the I-35 deck park was celebrated at a recent Public Green Foundation "groundmaking" event. More than 200 community and civic leaders, donors, and partners were on hand to mark the occasion.
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Valerie Ballard has big plans to help veterans in University Hills
The New Dallas Landscape: Operation Tiny House Tackles the Affordable Housing Problem for Veterans in Southern Dallas
by Nicole Ward, DRC Data Journalist | Jul 20, 2023
In this series on real estate development in Southern Dallas, we introduce you to 15 real estate pros in Innovan Neighborhood's Community Development Roundtable who aim to bring new life to long-neglected parts of Dallas.
Part 2: Meet Valerie Ballard, the executive director of Operation Tiny House with a bold ambition for a groundbreaking development in University Hills.
Part 2: Meet Valerie Ballard, the executive director of Operation Tiny House with a bold ambition for a groundbreaking development in University Hills.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 8, 2023
What do the three-light traffic light, laser cataract surgery, and the first automatic transmission have in common? All were invented by African Americans.
In celebration of Black History Month, the UNT Dallas Rising Blazers program will host a special viewing of the African American Pioneers in STEAM Museum Showcase Feb. 11-12 and 16-17 at the UNT Dallas Innovation Center, 4315 S. Lancaster Road, Suite 180 in Dallas.
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by Glenn Hunter |
Feb 6, 2023
Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson called it a "game-changing investment in the people and families of southern Dallas.” And there’s little doubt the Southern Gateway Park will be transformative once it opens as planned next year.
“We are on track to break ground on the park’s amenities later this spring and open as scheduled in 2024,” a spokesperson for the Southern Gateway Public Green Foundation told WFAA this week, adding that $3 million in new funding has been secured since January 1 for the $172 million project.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jan 20, 2023
Miami-based developer Related Group plans to break ground this spring on Manor Oak Farms, a $120 million apartment community with striking views. How striking? It's being built right across the Trinity River from downtown Dallas on a site next to the former Oak Farms Dairy property, Steve Brown reports in the Dallas Morning News.
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UT Southwestern Medical Center at RedBird. [Photo: UT Southwestern]
UT Southwestern Opens Clinic at RedBird in Southern Dallas
by Kevin Cummings | Aug 29, 2022
UT Southwestern Medical Center at RedBird is a new, 150,000-square-foot hospital that instantly becomes a core feature of the redeveloped Redbird Mall. Located in a former Sears store, the new hospital marks the first time UTSW has transformed a former retail space into a regional medical center.
“In RedBird, we recognized an opportunity to expand our footprint in Dallas and to have a vital presence in a community that has traditionally been underserved by the health care industry," said UTSW's Dr. Marc Nivet.
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by David Seeley |
Nov 23, 2021
$12 million will go toward building The Loop's Trinity Forest Spine Trail South Phase; $8.218 million will enhance mobility within the Southern Dallas County Inland Port, including the purchase of eight on-demand electric shuttles; and $900,000 will help connect communities across the Southern Gateway, from Oak Cliff to the forthcoming I-35 deck park to the Dallas Zoo and the Tenth Street Historic District.
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by Bella Pinera |
Mar 25, 2021
“Dallas is a city that booms north of I-30. Unfortunately, if you live south of I-30 all too often you only hear rumors of that boom,” Dr. Michael Sorrell, president of Paul Quinn College, said during Thursday's opening. “JPMorgan Chase is actively being a bridge builder. It is a repairer of the breach.”
The community branch plans to help Black and Latinx consumers open bank accounts and start businesses as part of Chase's $30 billion commitment to advance racial equity and provide economic opportunities to underserved communities.
The community branch plans to help Black and Latinx consumers open bank accounts and start businesses as part of Chase's $30 billion commitment to advance racial equity and provide economic opportunities to underserved communities.
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![Teachers at Momentus School, a pre-K to 5th grade school specializing in social emotional health, took their team photo this year with Bitmojis. [Courtesy of Momentous Institute]](https://s24806.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Teacher-Bitmoji-poster-final-alt-360x203.jpg)
by Lauren Hawkins |
Aug 12, 2020
Teachers at the Momentous Institute's pre-K through fifth-grade laboratory school are creating virtual classrooms complete with Bitmoji avatars to bring life to remote learning. Now two of its teachers have created a playbook for others.
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[Photo: Dana McCurdy]
‘A Collaborative Village’: Artists, Makers, and Entrepreneurs Embrace Creative Collisions as Tyler Station Hits 100%
by Payton Potter | Sep 5, 2019
The mixed-use creative development in Oak Cliff was the brainchild of new urbanist pioneer Monte Anderson. As one tenant puts it: "I don’t know of anything like it in Dallas or really any other city.”
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by Liz Goodwin |
Jun 28, 2019
Dallas - Oak Cliff's Texans Can Academy hosted the IT Immersion experience last week, giving students the chance to learn about the multitude of careers in the sports world that exist off the field.
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by Alex Edwards |
Jan 12, 2019
In an annual tradition, we look back on Dallas Innovates’ most-read stories in each of our buckets of innovation: Startup, Invention, Education, Social, Creative, and Enterprise. Here’s a roundup of the “Top 12” in Enterprise for 2018.
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by Alex Edwards |
Dec 21, 2018
Take a look back on the stories that grabbed our readers' attention this year.
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![Barbara Bush, co-founder and board chair of the nonprofit Global Health Corps, right, in conversation with Shena Ashley, vice president of Capital One community impact and investment and president at the Capital One Insight Center. [Photo: Capital One Reimagine Communities Summit 2024]](https://s24806.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/CO.BarbaraBushPhoto3RCS.2024-crop.jpg)
