If you needed a big dose of hope for the future of Dallas, you should have been on one of the buses that rolled out from Herbert Street onto Singleton...
“Anybody who tries to do it the old way is going to find out it doesn’t work, it’s not sustainable and it’s not good for our city,” said James Armstrong, a West Dallas native now leading the community housing development organization Builders of Hope.
The reason for the tour was a sort of graduation. A group known as the Community Developers Roundtable was founded last year by Maggie Parker, managing partner and founder of Innovan Neighborhoods. Scottie Smith, of Shekinah Legacy Holdings, is working in the Jeffries-Meyers area. Originally from Houston, Smith saw an opportunity in South Dallas when he literally took a wrong turn one day and found himself among vacant lots strewn with trash but filled with potential.
What was striking about the tour, even for those of us who have spent years in southern Dallas, was the reminder of just how open and beautiful it is. Everywhere there is land, much of it with mature trees, rolling topography and vistas of the city that you don’t get in the north.
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