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Buyer Makes Plan To Redevelop Longtime Lakewood Eyesore Faulkner Tower

“I’ve been inside that building. It’s weird and ugly. I can’t imagine it could be remodeled. And adding some parking available to Lakewood Shopping Center would help with other problems. So, whatever they do will be a huge improvement. Let’s not do the Lakewood thing and insist that the owner of the property build a unicorn farm. Can anyone even remember why we insisted that Whole Foods not build a fancy store like at Park Lane?” — Bob Loblaw

“Great, so what it needs is a more crowded densely populated area? Really? And yet we couldn’t manage a small parking garage for Alamo Drafthouse? Used to love living here but Lakewood deserves what it gets. It’s unfortunate how a few ‘neighborhood bigwigs’ make all these decisions for the rest of us. Uptown is encroaching down Ross Avenue, Lower Greenville is coming back, there’s a ridiculous amount of expensive condos and apartments being built nearby and the only solution anyone can come up with is ‘MORE!’” — Aar

“Bungalow Court is small thinking. Street level retail with 3-4 stories of apartments on top would make the area much more walkable and interesting. It would be great if we could narrow Paulus, too. It’s a speedway right now.”

STATE POLITICIANS SLAM DALLAS CITY COUNCIL AFTER CONTENTIOUS ‘BATHROOM’ VOTE

“Thepointisthisamendmentshouldbe placed before the people of Dallas. It was quite sneaky how they went about it.” — Guest

“This is interesting. Discrimination complaints can be raised by someone who only “identities” as being of the opposite sex. It does not require that the complainant has gone through an operation or has any other identifiable characteristics. This seems like a rather loose definition of those that this is somehow supposed to protect.” — Ribit

LAKEWOOD THEATER TO BE PRESERVED, BUT NOT NECESSARILY AS A THEATER

“Once again, the owners never really had any other idea except to put in three cafés. But we who would have enjoyed seeing movies there again knew that would be the case but we did try. Owners can do what they want even with the historical designation etc. pretty much. I tried since 1980s to make people aware of how perilous the situation was but it was hard to get people to go to movies there even long before that time. TV, the malls and other places were what finished the downtown movie theaters but again, even now the Majestic downtown is finally having a movie shown on Dec. 20 thanks to the Texas Theatre owners who are financing it. Maybe that will start other sponsors/companies to show more movies at the Majestic.”

— Jeanette Crumpler

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