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Movin' On Up (Part 4)
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
The Heights of Lake Highlands
Lincoln Properties
Northeast corner of Kingsley and Audelia
Lincoln Properties – owners of The Village Apartments – is about to debut its first Lake Highlands-based complex.
Lincoln doesn’t own The Heights of Lake Highlands (formerly Highland Crest), but they’ve been brought on board by the owners to clean the place up.
That’s good news for neighborhood residents.
“Of all property managers, they are primo,” says Ebby’s Sheryl Wesson.
Highland Crest hasn’t had a very good reputation as of late. With Lincoln’s help, the owner plans to change that.
“It’s a little over $3 million rehab project,” says Lincoln’s regional manager Mary Beth Scherrey. “Sixty percent of units will be completely redesigned on the exterior and interior.”
Included in the interior updates, she says, are new appliances, new faux hardwood floors, new fixtures, and new hardware. The exterior façade’s wood will be replaced with Hardiplank, the chain link fence will be ripped out and replaced with a black, wrought iron fence, and balconies and patios are being rebuilt.
Work started in October, and Scherrey says Lincoln Properties hopes to have a grand opening in early summer.
“It really is going to be very nice,” she says.
But what should hearten neighbors even more are plans to install a remote-control access gate and screen the criminal and credit backgrounds of current and prospective residents.
“If they pass, they can stay,” Scherrey says.
Also in the works? A plan to open the complex’s large clubroom to the Dallas Police Department.
“We’d like to be their community center – a place for them to take breaks and use our facility when they are out on call,” Scherrey says. “We want to be the leader in deterring crime in that area.”
Courtesy of The Advocate
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