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New antique mall in town

City View Antique Mall opened in the fall and held a grand opening event in May. The popular shop, owned by Lake Highlands resident Ellen Paulsen, relocated to Lake Highlands from the Design District. More than 50 independent dealers scour estate sales and antique markets to fill City View’s 13,000 square feet with furniture, art, glassware, primitives, and European and American antiques.

Single-family home development

The property at the corner of Church and Skillman has been sold to Lake Highlands resident Stephen Davis of MasterPlan Development. Davis plans to build single-family homes on the property. The land has been a source of contention over the years as neighbors loudly expressed an unwillingness to allow the construction of more multifamily development there — based on the zoning of the property, which essentially called for multifamily use, it looked like more apartments, or at least a multifamily senior living community, was going to be inevitable. But several Lake Highlands residents, who also happen to be experts in certain areas concerning real estate and zoning, fought hard for something else and were successful. Both Prescott Realty Group, developer of the Lake Highlands Town Center, and Forest Meadow Baptist Church owned the land before Davis purchased it. The sale to him was based hugely on the ability to get the land rezoned for single-family residences,