BUSINESS BUZZ

The lowdown on what’s up with neighborhood businesses

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Hillside Village shopping center

Three local businesses in Hillside Village shopping center at Mockingbird and Abrams are on the move. Two of the businesses are planning a merger. Random and Ditto Boutique are moving to 9020 Garland, in the shopping center with Hypnotic Donuts, with plans to combine their services when they get there. But don’t look for a Random or a Ditto, because when they arrive on Garland Road, they plan to change the name of the store to Echo. Their new space is in the process of being remodeled, but they hope to be open by Aug. 15. Also, just a few months after expanding inventory to cater to urban gardening clientele, T. Hee Greetings & Gifts in Hillside Village at Mockingbird and Abrams is closing its doors for good come July 31. Last year the Lake Highlands-based gift store shuttered its third location in Preston Center after just three months of business. With the closing of the four-year-old Hillside Village location, T. Hee’s original location on Walnut Hill and Audelia is the last man standing.

Bustling Greenville

Lower Greenville is soon to be home to three more food joints, which are being built next to Trader Joe’s. Jon Hetzel with Madison Partners says the development will be designed to look like three separate buildings, although technically it will be one 6,800-square-foot structure. A restaurant in the back, facing Bell, will be B B Bop Seoul Kitchen, a fast-casual, panAsian rice bowl concept expanding from its original location on Upper Greenville. There will be a takeout window. The one on the corner will be Yucatan Taco Stand, which

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is expanding from Magnolia Avenue in Fort Worth. Yucatan also is a fast-casual concept that features Latin fusion cuisine. Aside from tacos and nachos, it is also known for its “world class margaritas.” The third restaurant hasn’t officially signed on with Madison Partners yet, although Hetzel says it’s “getting close.” He says the location will “likely be a chef-driven, fine-dining, sit-down restaurant concept.” Pipedream, the smoke shop on Greenville, closed a few weeks back. Village Baking Co. will take its place. Village Baking has a location on Upper Greenville at University. It also works with the various market trends — organic, gluten free, etc. Down the road, Muscle Maker Grill plans to take over the old Company Cafe space on Greenville. It caters to any variety of specialty diets — vegan, low-carb and gluten-free — and hopes to open in mid-August. Lastly, Beck’s Prime Restaurant issued a statement saying it closed the doors to its Greenville location on June 30. “After much thought and consideration, we have found that this area was not a good fit for our concept, and the flow of traffic was not as we had expected,” the press release stated.

1 Dallas-based pet care provider City Vet opened its White Rock location in the corner of Lakeview Shopping Center facing Gaston.

2 Rutherford Veterinary Hospital is celebrating its 90th birthday. It was founded by Dr. Frank E. Rutherford in 1924. 3 A personal training studio, Refined Fitness, hosted a grand opening at its new location at 3612 Greenville Avenue in late June, between Green Grocer and Society Bakery. 4 The signs are up and construction has o cially started on the CVS Pharmacy that is replacing the ACE Hardware in Lakewood Shopping Center.

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

Summer Worship: May 25 - Aug. 31 / 10:00am / 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

UNITY ON GREENVILLE / Your soul is welcome here!

3425 Greenville Ave. / 214.826.5683 / www.dallasunity.org

Sunday Service 11:00 am and Book Study 9:30 am

IS THAT A CHURCH?

Or is it a school, a museum or a bed and breakfast?

Will your house of worship continue to house worship or will it someday house a bed and breakfast establishment, a school, an art museum or a supercomputer?

A disturbing trend is emerging in the repurposing of historic church buildings across the globe. Churches that once thrived with flocks of worshipers are being deconsecrated from their original religious intent. They still look like churches on the outside, but on the inside, what once was vital spiritual activity is now commercial, educational or cultural instead.

On a recent trip to the Scottish Highlands, I noticed a stately old church that had become a small hotel and restaurant. In Amsterdam you can see some of the oldest and most beautiful Protestant churches that function now as museums and community centers. The now-defunct Lakewood Baptist Church in our own community is now a bustling private school, Lakehill Academy.

The most striking repurposing of a church building, though, may be in Barcelona, Spain. The grand 19th century church, Torre Girona, was rebuilt after the Spanish Civil War and presents bypassers with the illusion of a sacred space within. But since 2005, within the old church you will find the Barcelona Supercomputing Center that fills the main hall. The MareNostrum supercomputer rests there inside a temperature-controlled glass enclosure. One of the world’s most powerful computers, MareNostrum aided the development of microchip technology, human genome mapping, astrophysics calculations and weather predictions.

Not all repurposing of church buildings requires new secular functions. Gaston Oaks Baptist Church in North Dallas has brilliantly foreseen a way to achieve its spiritual mission differently after the aging mother congregation is gone. It began by inviting financially challenged ethnic congregations to worship in its space. The church is now incubating healthy immi- grant congregations from Africa, Myanmar (Burma) and Latin America. The Gaston church is legendary for sending more missionaries to the world than perhaps any Baptist church in the last century. Now that the world is on its doorstep, missionaries from around the globe are basing their outreach in the Gaston church building.

Next, the church created the Gaston Christian Center that houses community ministries such as the Healing Hands Clinic, which provides medical and dental care to the needy, and Gateway of Grace, a refugee resettlement ministry. This is a promising way of impacting the community even after the host church has ceased to be. Like seeds planted in fertile ground, these efforts will bloom for a new generation of God’s work.

Churches that once thrived with flocks of worshipers are being deconsecrated from their original religious intent.

Other churches are finding new life as new church starts in old church buildings. Munger Place Church in East Dallas gave the property of the declining Munger Place United Methodist Church a new birth. The North Texas Conference and Highland Park United Methodist Church demonstrated entrepreneurial spirit in modeling resurrection life for a once-dying congregation.

Of course, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” as the old saying goes. The best outcome for any church is to maintain a strong worshipping and serving community all along, so that decisions about repurposing need never be made. Faithful members, generous giving, wise leadership and a focus outward more than inward are crucial components of enduring religious ministries.

What will become of your house of worship in the next generation? It will depend in part on you.

If you’ve been around the neighborhood for a while, you might remember Tango Frogs, which once caused such a “ribbiting” controversy on Lower Greenville that even the New York Times had to write about it. Well, three of the six frogs are coming back to the original location on Lower Greenville where they became an icon of national fascination. The story goes that back in the early 80s, the six 10-foot-tall dancing frog sculptures, which were created by famed artist Bob “Daddy-O” Wade, once donned the rooftop of Shannon Wynn’s Tango nightclub at 1827 Greenville. But then there was a whole hullaballoo with Dallas City Hall about the sculptures violating the sign ordinance, and the dancing frogs were eventually taken down. In June, Taco Cabana, which occupies the corner where Tango nightclub once stood, brought the Tango Frogs home as part of the recent revitalization of Lower Greenville. Tim Taft, CEO of the local parent company, Fiesta Restaurant Group, and Todd Coerver, COO of Taco Cabana, also told Guide Live all about their plans. Taco Cabana has purchased the three frogs that have been at the Carl’s Corner truck stop on I-35.

Lakewood Brewing Company brought home a slew of awards from The 2014 U.S. Open Beer Championship on July 4. It received two golds, one bronze and was named one of the top 10 breweries of 2014. The 2014 U.S. Open Beer Championship is the only brewery competition to include professional breweries and award-winning home-brewers. This competition received more than 3,000 entries from breweries all over the world — from Iceland to Australia. With 81 categories, this is the first year Lakewood has brought home an award from this competition. Lakewood brought home golds for its Rock Ryder (American Wheat), and Antigoon’s Revenge (Smoked/ Rauch Beer), and a bronze for its La Dame du Lac (French/Belgian Ale).

The Lakewood Library Friends is seeking donations of gently used books, paperbacks, audio books, CDs, DVDs, and other media items for its Annual Book Sale to be held on Saturday, Sept. 13, in conjunction with LibraryFest. All proceeds from the sale will benefit the Lakewood Branch Library. Donations may be brought to the Lakewood Library Tuesday through Saturday during regular business hours. The Lakewood Branch Library is located at 6121 Worth. Call 214.670.1376 for more information, or go to lakewoodlibraryfriendsdallas.org.

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EVENTS

DALLAS ELKS LADIES’ GARAGE/CRAFT SALE

Sat, Sept 6th. 8am-2pm. 8550 Lullwater Dr. 50 + Families Participate. Cofee Bar / Food Court. Much More.

HIGHLANDETTES ANNUAL FAMILY GARAGE SALE

LHHS Gym. 9449 Church Rd. Sat, August 23 @ 8am-2pm. Furniture, Electronics, Clothes, Toys, Housewares, etc!

CLASSES/TUTORING/ LESSONS

ALL AGES: LEARN PIANO WITH WADE COTTINGHAM LakewoodPianoLab.com Since 1998. 214-564-6456

ART: Draw/Paint. Adults All Levels. Lake Highlands N. Rec. Ctr. Yearly fee. 18-59 yrs-$15, 60+$10 Mon-1-3: Wed 10:15-1:15, Jane Cross, 214-534-6829.

ARTISTIC GATHERINGS

Casa Linda Plaza. Art Classes & Drop In Pottery Painting For All Ages. 214-821-8383. Tues-Sat 10am-6pm

GUITAR OR PIANO Fun/Easy. Your Home. 11 Yrs Exp. Reasonable rates. UNT Grad. Larry 469-358-8784

LEARN NEW TESTAMENT GREEK

Beginners intermediates; Rice, TCU, DTS ex; John Cunyus 214-662-5494 www.JohnCunyus.com

MUSIC INSTRUCTION Especially For Young People Aged 5-12. Guitar, Piano, Percussion. ChildPlayMusicSchool.com. 214-733-1866

TUTORING: Writing coach. Manuscript Editor. 20+ years exp. 469-263-7004

Dreamboat

CLASSES/TUTORING/ LESSONS

Learn to draw this summer with Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain ®

Visit www.PerceptionDrawing.com

Brenda Catlett Certified Instructor (972)989-0546

Childcare

LOVING, CHRIST-CENTERED CARE SINCE 1982 Lake Highlands Christian Child Enrichment Center Ages 2 mo.-12 yrs. 9919 McCree. 214-348-1123.

Employment

AIRLINE CAREERS Begin Here. Get Trained As FAA Certified Aviation Technician. Financial Aid For Qualified Students. Housing & Job Placement Assistance. AIM 866-453-6204

PET SITTERS, DOG WALKERS Email Recruiting@pcpsi.com

Services For You

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DISH TV RETAILER Starting at $19.99/month (for 12 months) & High Speed Internet starting at $14.95/month (where available) Save. Ask about Same Day Installation 1-800-615-4064

GRAPHIC DESIGN BY SOZA DESIGN Logos, Brochures, Posters & More. wsoza@yahoo.com 214-287-6499

Professional Services

A WILL? THERE IS A WAY Estate/Probate Matters-Free Consultation. 214-802-6768 MaryGlennAttorney.com

ACCOUNTANT/BOOKKEEPER 20+ years professional exp. Visit my web site rcp.spectangular.net or call 214-699-0499

ACCOUNTING, TAXES Small Businesses & Individuals. Chris King, CPA 214-824-5313 www.chriskingcpa.com

BOOKKEEPING NEEDS? Need Help Organizing Finances? No Job Too Small or Big. Call C.A.S. Bookkeeping Services. Cindy 214-821-6903

FARMERS INSURANCE CALL JOSH JORDAN 214-364-8280. Auto, Home, Life Renters.

Local Resources TO ADVERTISE 214.560.4203

Professional Services

OSTEOPATHY—CRANIAL OSTEOPATH Forstructuralor internal problems, head & body, newborn, young child, all ages. Liz Chapek, D.O. 214-341-8742. www.chapek.doctorsoffice.net

PROFESSIONAL PERSONAL TRAINING To Suit Your Specific Training Needs.Terry 214-206-7823. terryrjacobs@outlook.com

REED & RIORDAN PLLC Dallas Family Law Attorneys 10000 N Central Expy Dallas. 214-570-9555 reedriordan.com

Kids helping kids

East Dallas Girl Scout Troop 1518 is collecting items with a goal of making thousands of bags for the 50,000-plus unaccompanied children flooding the Texas border, thousands of them on their way to Dallas. Pictured: Sydney Let, Sarah McLaughlin, Elizabeth Tudor and Abigail Wheelan.

Row your boat

More than 1,800 athletes, representing 133 clubs from 106 cities, competed at the USRowing Youth National Championship in Sacramento, Calif. Two local boys, Collin McKinney and Robert Bolt of White Rock Rowing, won the men’s varsity pair race, becoming the fastest high school rowing duo in the country. Both are seniors, McKinney at Hillcrest High School and Bolt at Woodrow Wilson High School.