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Paving paradise

Defenders of the simple life in east Plano fight an uphill battle against a developer's bulldozers

By Holly Mullen
Oct 16, 1997

Robert Gessel and his family made some carefully calculated choices in buying a home in east Plano in 1991. They wanted a neighborhood with hills and trees. They wanted minimal noise and traffic. And they wanted as much green space as possible, which they found in Bob Woodruff Park, a...
Dr. Lucas' Little Shop of Horrors

What drove veterinarian LISSALUCAS to allegedly starve dozens of animals and repeatedly butcher routine surgeries?

By Holly Mullen
Oct 9, 1997

Paul Skendrovic cannot forget that smell--the thick stench of death and rot that met him as he entered the eerily quiet house. The Arlington police detective had been dispatched around 10 a.m. on February 2 shortly after a neighbor called to complain of a "bad odor." What he saw as...
Rest in peace

A compromise promises to end a battle over development in Greenwood Cemetery

By Holly Mullen
Sep 18, 1997

A year-long clash over the fate of a patch of land in Dallas' historic Greenwood Cemetery is apparently about to end, with both sides in the dispute hammering out a compromise. The feuding parties--Columbus Realty Trust and Friends of Greenwood Cemetery--agreed to a tentative compromise over the development of 2.7...
Road warriors

East Dallas residents rally to buy time against Haskell Avenue bulldozers

By Holly Mullen
Sep 18, 1997

Four years ago, David Chandler thought himself one of the rarest of breeds--an urban pioneer committed to rebuilding a crumbling Dallas neighborhood. He was the proud owner of the old Southwest Telegraph & Telephone building on the northwest corner of Main Street and Haskell Avenue in Old East Dallas. The...
Digging in

Friends of Greenwood Cemetery prepare a long-shot effort to protect paupers' graves

By Holly Mullen
Sep 4, 1997

When last we checked with the Friends of Greenwood Cemetery, they were furiously writing letters, making phone calls, and gathering photos, faxes, maps, and traffic studies. Their mission? To convince Dallas City Council that a powerful Uptown neighborhood developer has no business building a tony apartment complex on top of,...

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