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Oak Cliff Becomes Cool Embracing What Other Parts Of Dallas Have Fought: Builders, Bikes And Immigrants

By Jim Schutze February 25, 2010

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The Oak Cliff Mardi Gras
Parade last February 7 was a deliberate effort to draw people from surrounding Latino neighborhoods into the Bishop Arts District
in North Oak Cliff. City Council
member Delia Jasso thinks young
professional newcomers to the
area will meld successfully with
the working class Mexican-American
families who got there ahead of them.

clockwise from top:
Edwin Cabaniss is converting an
abandoned movie house into
The Kessler Theater, a music venue and regional cultural center. Monte Anderson (kneeling) turned an old Travel Lodge motel the hip, retro Belmont Hotel. Scott Griggs, a lawyer, likes the idea of North OakCliff starting to be a little bit Austin.

Rick Garza, an architect and neighborhood leader, helped clean out some bad-news apartments on Kings Highway by buying and rehabbing them himself.

David Spence was one of the first developers to gamble that young professionals
would move into North Oak Cliff if they had cool places to live.

A.K. Sandoval-Strausz, an urban historian at the
University of New Mexico, has chosen Oak Cliff as
one of five areas in the United States to study for an
upcoming book on the Hispanicizing of American cities.

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The Oak Cliff Mardi Gras
Parade last February 7 was a deliberate effort to draw people from surrounding Latino neighborhoods into the Bishop Arts District
in North Oak Cliff. City Council
member Delia Jasso thinks young
professional newcomers to the
area will meld successfully with
the working class Mexican-American
families who got there ahead of them.

Sara Kerens

The Oak Cliff Mardi Gras Parade last February 7 was a deliberate effort to draw people from surrounding Latino neighborhoods into the Bishop Arts District in North Oak Cliff. City Council member Delia Jasso thinks young professional newcomers to the area will meld successfully with the working class Mexican-American families who got there ahead of them.

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