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Movin' On Up (Part 1)
New developments look to put Lake Highlands on the map as Dallas’
premier
place to put down roots
The Advocate, by Kris Scott
April 2005
Someone must be doing something right in Lake Highlands. How else to explain the windfall of development in and around the area?
There are at least four separate residential projects going on that can only serve to improve upon Lake Highlands’ reputation as a neighborhood overrun with more than its fair share of apartment dwellers. They are:
Trimark Realty Investments – Headed by Bill Baldridge, Trimark is renovating two apartment complexes and nearly 80 town homes at Forest and Abrams.
Urban Reserve – This project, by Urban Edge Developers, is near Royal and Central, bordered by White Rock Creek. They have yet to break ground, but when finished, it will be Dallas’ first community of modernist homes in a low-impact, environmentally sustainable development.
The Heights of Lake Highlands – Lincoln Properties, of the ever-popular complex The Village apartments near Greenville and Lovers, recently took over management and is overseeing a $3 million renovation of this existing 280-unit apartment complex at Kingsley and Audelia, formerly called Highland Crest.
Dixon Branch – Little has been released about this David Weekley development at Plano Road and Northwest Highway, but it should be finished by sometime next year, says a David Weekley spokesperson.
All these projects have more than a few neighborhood residents thinking: “Finally!”
Sheryl Wesson, manager of Ebby Halliday’s Northeast Dallas and Lakewood offices and a longtime Lake Highlands resident, is one of those. Though projects like these have been a long time coming, Wesson says they make “perfectly good sense.”
“Lake Highlands has never gotten away from the small town atmosphere. People know people; they have a lot of pride in the neighborhood, and many are very community-minded,” she says.
She also thinks people are finally realizing that Lake Highlands’ location within Dallas is perfect.
“You only have to get on a freeway to go downtown, to go to the cultural events, to partake of the arts district or Fair Park or anything the city provides. Plus, you’re right by the lake and the trails.”
This development trend, she says, will continue to grow.
“Excitement breeds excitement, I think,” Wesson says. “We here in my office have been contacted by at least three other developers who want to find land in the Lake Highlands area to build quality homes.
“We’re an in-town location with what are now still affordable prices, and we’re a very cohesive community,” she says, “and I think we’re going to see a lot more in the way of development.”
Courtesy of The Advocate
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