BUSINESS BUZZ

The lowdown on what’s up with neighborhood businesses

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The temp

In April Ace Hardware is moving to a temporary location while it waits for the new building in Arboretum Village to be finished, says owner Khandoo Nagar. Nagar says Ace has to be out of its current location in Lakewood Shopping Center, where it has been serving the Lakewood community for more than 30 years, by April 15. The long-standing rumor is that Ace will be replaced by CVS, although nothing has been officially confirmed. Ace Hardware is moving to another Lincoln property at Gaston-Grand, the shopping center where Cane Rosso and the YMCA are located. It will take over the location Premium Title Lending occupied until recently. Calls to Premium Title have not been returned. Ace already is taking over the Premium Title space, constructing shelves and getting ready. Nagar says Ace might be closed for a week or two in April while it transitions to the temporary space, and then it will probably be there for several months. Nagar doesn’t know when the space in Arboretum Village will be complete, and Lincoln has not returned our calls to confirm a timeline for the construction.

New digs

Joey Milan, the owner of Dallas-based Digg’s Taco Shop, has been in serious talks with Lincoln Property Company about opening a new Digg’s location in the yet-to-be-finished Arboretum Village at the Gaston-Garland-Grand intersection. Last we heard, nothing was in writing. If all goes as planned, Digg’s will be sharing a space with Starbucks near the corner of Gaston and Garland. ”There will be one shell, and Starbucks will get 1,800 square feet, and we’ll get 2,200 square feet,” Milan explains. Milan says Lincoln hopes to finish construction on Arboretum Village sometime this summer, and then Digg’s will take a few months to finish out the project and hopefully open in the fall. Lincoln

More business bits

has not returned calls to Advocate regarding a timeline for the Arboretum Village construction or other possible future tenants. This will be Milan’s third Digg’s location. He originally founded Digg’s near SMU, right across Central from East Dallas. He then opened an Arlington location, but it recently closed and Milan is hoping to resurrect it in Southlake. Aside from Digg’s and Starbucks, we know of at least three other future tenants for the shopping center. First The Fresh Market signed on, and then Ace Hardware agreed to move from its current location in Lakewood Shopping Center to Arboretum Village. Then Luke’s Locker became the third tenant to sign on the dotted line.

Streched

Uptown Yoga is stretched to its limit in the Lakewood Shopping Center. Owner Jennifer Chitwood wants to stay in the area, so Uptown Yoga is relocating down the road near the Gaston-Garland-Grand intersection, in the shopping center next to Cane Rosso White Rock. The new space will be close to 2,500 square feet, as opposed to 1,700 square feet at the current location. She’s hoping the space will be complete in a couple of months.

1 Black Forest Biergarten opened on Henderson in March.

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Ace Hardware 6420 GASTON 214.821.5680

Digg’s Taco Shop 6309 HILLCREST 214.520.0155

DIGGSTACOSHOP.COM

Uptown Yoga 1908 ABRAMS 214.515.9642

UPTOWNYOGA.COM

Black Forest Biergarten 1804 MCMILLAN 214.826.2437

BLACKFORESTDALLAS.COM

Henderson Tap House 2323 N. HENDERSON 972.677.7947

HENDERSONTAPHOUSE.COM

Lakewood Growler 6448 E. MOCKINGBIRD

LAKEWOODGROWLER.COM

Snu er’s Restaurant & Bar 3526 GREENVILLE 214.826.6850

SNUFFERS.COM

Buzzbrews Kitchen 4334 LEMMON 214.521.4334

BUZZBREWS.COM

2 Right down the street, Henderson Tap House hosted a grand opening in March with a three-day celebration. 3 Lakewood Growler, a bar/grower-filling station, opened just east of the Mockingbird-Abrams intersection. Neighbors can buy a 64-ounce glass growler or bring one in to tap into one of Lakewood Growler’s 36 all-Texas brews. 4 The upcoming Ginger Man Pub, which is being built in Lakewood Shopping Center in the location that previously belonged to Angelo’s Italian Restaurant, is turning the upstairs dining room into a semi-open porch. 5 After quite a bit of back-and-forth, the original Snu er’s Restaurant and Bar on Greenville managed to reopen in mid-March. The building was completely demolished in April 2013 and rebuilt from the ground up. 6 Megan Estep with BuzzBrews Kitchen says BuzzBrews is “scouting possibilities in a couple of areas, and will definitely be adding a new BuzzBrews in the East Dallas area.” 7 Neighbor Drew McWay opened PRO Martial Arts, a national franchise with more than 40 locations across the United States, in Lakewood in March

Anglican

ALL SAINTS DALLAS / 2733 Oak Lawn / 972.755.3505

Radical Inclusivity, Profound Transformation. Come and See!

9:00 & 11:00 am Sunday Services. www.allsaintschurchdallas.org

Baptist

LAKESIDE BAPTIST / 9150 Garland Rd / 214.324.1425

Worship — 8:30 am Classic & 11:00 am Contemporary

Pastor Jeff Donnell / www.lbcdallas.com

PARK CITIES BAPTIST CHURCH / 3933 Northwest Pky / pcbc.org

All services & Bible Study 9:15 & 10:45. Trad. & Blended (Sanctuary), Contemporary (Great Hall), Amigos de Dios (Gym) / 214.860.1500

PRESTONWOOD BAPTIST CHURCH / “A Church to Call Home”

Sundays: Bible Fellowship (all ages) 9:15 am /Service Time 11:00 am

12123 Hillcrest Road / 972.820.5000 / prestonwood.org

RIDGECREST BAPTIST / 5470 Ellsworth / 214.826.2744

Sun. Life Groups 9:30 am, Worship 10:45 am / Wed. Nights 6:00 pm

Pastor Greg Byrd / www.rcbcdallas.org

WILSHIRE BAPTIST / 4316 Abrams / 214.452.3100

Pastor George A. Mason Ph.D. / Worship 8:30 & 11:00am

Bible Study 9:40 am / www.wilshirebc.org

Disciples Of Christ

EAST DALLAS CHRISTIAN CHURCH / 629 N. Peak Street / 214.824.8185

Sunday School 9:30 am / THE TABLE Worship 9:30 am

Worship 8:30 & 10:50 am / Rev. Deborah Morgan-Stokes / edcc.org

Episcopal

ST. MATTHEW’S CATHEDRAL / 5100 Ross Ave.

Sunday Traditional: 8:00 & 10:30 am / Adult Education 9:30 am

Servicio en español 12:30 pm / 214.823.8134 / episcopalcathedral.org

Lutheran

CENTRAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, ELCA / 1000 Easton Road

Sunday School for all ages 9:00 am / Worship Service 10:30 am

Pastor Rich Pounds / CentralLutheran.org / 214.327.2222

FIRST UNITED LUTHERAN CHURCH / 6202 E Mockingbird Lane

Sunday Worship Service 10:30 am / Call for class schedule. 214.821.5929 / www.dallaslutheran.org

Methodist

LAKE HIGHLANDS UMC / 9015 Plano Rd. / 214.348.6600 / lhumc.com

Sunday Morning: 9:30 am Sunday School / 10:30 am Coffee

Worship: 8:30 am & 10:50 am Traditional / 10:50 am Contemporary

MUNGER PLACE CHURCH / Expect Great Things.

Worship Sundays, 9:30 and 11:00 am / 5200 Bryan Street 214.823.9929 / www.mungerplacechurch.org

RIDGEWOOD PARK UMC / 6445 E. Lovers Lane / 214.369.9259

Sunday Worship: 9:30 am Traditional and 11:35 am Contemporary

Sunday School: 10:30 am / Rev. Ann Willet / ridgewoodparkchurch.org

WHITE ROCK UNITED METHODIST / www.wrumc.org

1450 Oldgate Lane / 214.324.3661

Sunday Worship 10:50 am / Rev. George Fisk

Presbyterian

NORTHRIDGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH / 6920 Bob-O-Link Dr. 214.827.5521 / www.northridgepc.org / Welcomes you to Worship

8:30 & 11:00 am / Church School 9:30 am / Childcare provided.

ST. ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN / Skillman & Monticello

Rev. Rob Leischner. / www.standrewsdallas.org

214.821.9989 / Sunday School 9:30 am, Worship 10:45 am

Unity

UNITY OF DALLAS / A Positive Path For Spiritual Living

6525 Forest Lane, Dallas, TX 75230 / 972.233.7106 / UnityDallas.org

Sunday services: 9:00 am & 11:00 am

Weathering The Storm

How faith plays a role in our country’s most polarizing issues

Weather extremes in our parts are generally met with shrugs, sighs and sage sayings like, “If you don’t like the Texas weather, wait a minute; it’ll change.”

We’ve had a winter beyond compare in recent memory. School closings. Power outages. Icy roads. Wintry mixes. Frigid temperatures. Oh, and then 70-degree days in between.

The flora and fauna are confused right along with the rest of us. They can’t figure when to bloom, when to come out of or stay in hibernation. As for us two-legged types, cabin fever has become more than a metaphor for being cooped up. Especially when you have young kids in the house.

Summers routinely now bring 100-plusdegree temperatures. Alternating cold spells and heat waves make some cry global warming and others scratch their heads. Are erratic weather patterns the effect of natural or human-caused climate change? Are extremes just aberrations that show up now and then over a long span of weather monitoring, or are they the product of erosion of the ozone layer from our unwillingness or inability to slow carbon emissions?

Science and politics don’t line up on this, partly because of the foul wind that blows between environmentalists and economists. Their back-and-forth generates more heat than light.

Everyday people of faith can contribute spiritually to these matters that seem so polarizing. For example, while we can’t be omniscient about the link between human activity and weather patterns or claim to change them by prayer, we can look upon nature as a living partner in the theater of being. We can resolve to treat it with care and make small changes to the way we live that will heal it where we can. God made the earth and commissioned us to tend it. We should be mindful stewards.

We should also be mindful stewards of our brothers and sisters. Caring for creation and caring for our neighbor must go together. Business and residential practices that should change for nature’s good will cost. Those practices were not devised with the intent to destroy the environment, even if the effects of them now appear to. They also didn’t cause destruction overnight. Draconian measures that punish rather than incentivize will only draw pushback and keep us from progress.

Religion can be used to rend or mend, to tear apart or put together. Conviction and passionate intensity can lead to the center instead of the fringes, toward the common good instead of self-interest.

It’s time to talk about a spirituality of business. The fair and just distribution of goods and services, and even the production of honest wealth, is a God-ordained activity. That doesn’t mean that business gets a pass to do whatever it wants in the name of the free market; it means that it gets to play fairly, though, without a presumption of greed or evil intent.

In “The Second Coming,” a poem of lament that bemoans a world in which “things fall apart,” William Butler Yeats said, “The best lack all conviction, while the worst/ Are full of passionate intensity.” Religion can be used to rend or mend, to tear apart or put together. Conviction and passionate intensity can lead to the center instead of the fringes, toward the common good instead of self-interest.

We need radical — not fanatical — faith. The word “radical” comes from a Latin word that means to go to the root or origin of something. Radicalism has centripetal force, drawing things in. Fanaticism is centrifugal, pulling things apart.

We can weather the weather together better.

People

Sue Coberly , a teacher at Lakewood Elementary, is retiring this year. Coberly has been teaching for 43 years and teaching at Lakewood Elementary for 36 years. She’s taught first, second and third grade. She was raised on a farm in Moorhead, Iowa, and she got her bachelor of science and masters of science from Oklahoma State University. Lakewood Elementary is hosting a retirement party for Coberly on May 14 at Matt’s Rancho Martinez from 3:30 to 6 p.m. Anyone is welcome.

Four years ago, four college kids from Dallas made a movie about their summer travels abroad, asking themselves — and the young people they encountered — about their belief in God. The film, “Beware of Christians,” was wildly successful, drawing big crowds on college campuses around the country and later receiving backing by Lascaux Films, a Dallas-based production company co-founded by former WFAA film critic Gary Cogill. The guys are preparing to release another movie, but this time, they’re ready for the big time. “Believe Me” was filmed in Austin’s fertile film scene and features well-known actors from prime-time television and Hollywood movies. Michael Allen, who grew up in Lakewood, is writer and co-producer. Will Bakke is writer and director. Alex Carroll is lead producer, and Matt Owen went on to a career in real estate.

Community

Construction is well underway — underground, actually — on the Dallas Arboretum parking garage on Garland Road just across from the gardens. The garage itself falls within the existing zoning with three stories above ground, and the Arboretum received approval from the city to build an underground tunnel below Garland to take visitors to the entrance. The entire project is scheduled to be complete this fall. The Rory Meyers Children’s Adventure Garden recently reopened alongside Dallas Blooms after being closed for maintenance over the winter. The parking garage is being built to accommodate a rise in visitors to the Arboretum. According to a study, attendance is expected to double by the end of this year and continue to increase.

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