high life

Designer dresses, elaborate dinners, pampered passengers — air travel was different back then Above/ Lake Highlands’ Sherry Hunley (woman on right) and a fellow flight attendant welcome home Vietnam war veterans

Seeds of hope

Rising above the chaos surrounding her, an 11year old embarks on an apartment-community gardening project 13

Give a little

This month, a handbag sale helps breast cancer survivors and more 16

The trains! The trains! NorthPark’s annual holiday exhibit is up, Chihuly exits the Arboretum, and Spruce

Up celebrates 200

Zoning: New homes, more apartments?

Lake Highlands resident Stephen Davis of MasterPlan Development is hoping to purchase nearly 10 acres on the southwest corner of SkillmanChurch. Commercial broker Bill Blaydes, who is representing Davis, says the sale would yield “singlefamily detached housing” on 37 lots. The City Plan Commission is expected to review the plat in November. “The contract is subject to being able to get the plat through,” Blaydes says. If it does go through, “I think it will turn out to be something that the neighborhood will be really proud of,” he says. Nearly seven of the acres are being sold by Prescott Realty Group, developer of the Lake Highlands Town Center, and Forest Meadow Baptist Church also is selling a portion of its acreage.

—Keri Mitchell

Find updates on the Skillman-Church land at LAKEHIGHLANDS.ADVOCATEMAG.COM.

Plans are moving forward for a 325-unit apartment complex at Lawther and Northwest Highway, the current site of Duncan’s Liquor. In October the City Plan Commission approved a zoning request to change the property to a “Planned Development Multi-Family.” The final vote is scheduled to take place at the Nov. 14 city council meeting. The project is in Councilman Sheffie Kadane’s District 9, and he says he plans to recommend approval.“I think it’s an excellent project. I can’t think of what else could go there,” Kadane says. “And it goes along with our transit-oriented development goals in Dallas.” Residents would have direct access to DART’s White Rock Station and the White Rock Creek bike trail.

—Ellen Raff

Read Raff’s full story, including what Lake Highlands Councilman Jerry Allen thinks of it, at LAKEHIGHLANDS.ADVOCATEMAG.COM.