1/ A decade ago, some houses in this Dallas neighborhood were valued at a mere $11,000. New townhomes carry prices soaring above $600,000. Gentrification has made Gilbert-Emory one of the hottest real estate plays in the city.
to allow for more high-density residential apartments and retail. Destruction of the metal buildings began in April.
“That’s the minimum,” Mendoza said in Spanish, standing at his front gate as the family dog, Cuca, barked at an ice cream truck. Asked how many developers have come, Mendoza only said, “Muchos.”One Sunday last fall, sunlight streamed through the amber-colored windows of the Greater Mount Pilgrim Church on Bayonne Street.
After services, Armstrong, a tall man in a gray suit, greeted congregants in the back kitchen with bowls of corn chips and chili. The church has been in Gilbert-Emory since the mid-1990s when its predecessor, Mount Gilead Baptist Church, moved further south. Mount Gilead had been on Bayonne Street since 1926 and its congregants came from the neighborhood, McKnight-Calhoun said.In 2018, Armstrong hosted a meeting with a developer who bought the land that had housed the Frederick Douglass school on Bayonne Street.
But when the bidding began for the sale that closed in 2017, the Armstrongs said they saw no notification. At the site of the former school, 27 new homes with starting prices above $550,000 were sold last year and this year. The homes are painted shades of gray and navy with metal gabled roofs. The development is called Emory Park. Nearby is a mini-park named after Helen C. Emory, the Black grocer.
Tax rates have gone up as market values have soared, a hardship for the established working class in the neighborhoods but a plus for the city of Dallas, McGregor said. Hutchison said she asked Brickman whether his company could fund housing repairs for existing homeowners in the neighborhood. Brickman said he doesn’t remember the request.Hutchison and other property owners made other attempts to preserve the character of the neighborhood.
A few blocks away, Gloria Johnson, a 77-year-old preacher and former model, tried to relax in her home. This was in December. Silk bouquets of purple flowers decorated the tables. Lilac curtain sheers framed the window. Black angels in porcelain perched on an end table.
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