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The Bishop Arts District keeps expanding. A developer has big plans for the Dallas County Schools complex at the northeast corner of Zang Boulevard at Davis Street.

North Carolina-based Crescent Communities is planning 305 apartments as well as townhomes, restaurants, shops and a 15,000-square-foot public plaza.

take up all but one lot on the block.

The McDonald sisters and their real estate broker, Ben Beaird of HFF, declined to comment. But the zoning, approved in 2010, allows for extremely dense building.

The apartments at Sylvan Thirty , the mixed-use development that opened about a year and a half ago, are for sale. Jones Lang Lasalle listed the property, which has 201 apartments, a pool and a fitness center. The retail portion of the property is not for sale, and there are no immediate plans to sell it.

Sylvan Thirty was one of the first developers to build high-end apartments in West Dallas, where a couple thousand apartment units have since been built or are under construction, with many more planned.

Retail

The property is zoned for buildings as high as eight stories, but Crescent is planning to build six stories on Zang at Davis, scaling back to five, four and three-anda-half stories moving north along Zang, where there will be two-story walkup apartments made to look like townhomes with stoops.

Part of the property, just east of Beckley Avenue, could be developed in the future, possibly as a grocery store.

Four-story apartment buildings with 100-percent lot coverage could takeover the block of Eighth Street between Llewellyn and Adams avenues if a developer buys it.

The block of neatly kept mid1900s apartment buildings just west of the Bishop Arts Conservation District is for sale.

The properties, owned by sisters Ninette and Marguerite McDonald,

Lula B’s, the antique mall that originally opened in Dallas 24 years ago, is now open in Oak Cliff.

The store relocated from Deep Ellum, where it had been since 2010. Previously, Lula B’s had been on Lower Greenville for about 18 years. There also is a second Lula B’s location in the Design District.

Lula B’s Oak Cliff is on Fort Worth Avenue between Hampton Road and Interstate 30.

An Ohio-based women’s boutique, Vernacular, is the first clothing shop to open at Sylvan Thirty. Husbandand-wife owners Chelsea Cabot and Kris Konieczko have three shops in Ohio. After making many buying trips to the Dallas Market Center, they began to feel at home in the Design District and West Dallas. Vernacular is expected to open in the fall.

Restaurants

Tillman’s Roadhouse has new owners.

The restaurant’s predecessor, Tillman’s Corner, opened in the Bishop Arts District in 1992, before “Bishop Arts” was a brand — early reviews described its location as “in a shopping center on West Seventh Street.”

The restaurant was the dream of Ricky Tillman, who died of cancer in 1997. His wife, Sara Tillman, carried on with Tillman’s Corner for about 10 more years until partnering with event planner Todd Fiscus to launch Tillman’s Roadhouse in 2007.

The new owners are brothers Jeffrey Kollinger and Ross Kollinger of Carrollton-based Spice of Life Catering and Innovative Hospitality Group. They hired chef Michael Morabito and plan to renovate the space and create a new menu.

A new cheese shop opened in August on West Davis Street at Edgefield Avenue. Cheese & Chutney, a startup from husbandand-wife business partners Jeff and Chitra Foster, opened in the Tudor revival shopping center that also houses The Book Doctor. The shop offers an “evolving array of artisan cheese, charcuterie and, as its name suggests, chutneys and other accompaniments,” according to a media release from the Fosters.

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BISHOP DUNNE CATHOLIC SCHOOL

Contact: Charleen Doan at 214.339.6561 ext. 4020 or admission@bdcs.org

A co-educational, college preparatory school serving students in grades 6-12. We provide a strong faith and valuebased education with high academic standards, encouraging all students to achieve their full potential. Our curriculum emphasizes individualized attention, and is constantly at the forefront of technology integration through the use of laptops, ebooks, and our Online Education Program. Additionally, we provide a full range of extracurricular activities ranging from athletics, to the arts, to clubs and service organizations.

LAKEHILL PREPARATORY SCHOOL

Leading to Success. 2720 Hillside Dr., Dallas 75214 / 214.826.2931 / lakehillprep.org Kindergarten through Grade 12 - Lakehill Preparatory School takes the word preparatory in its name very seriously. Throughout a student’s aca- demic career, Lakehill builds an educational program that achieves its goal of enabling graduates to attend the finest, most rigorous universities of choice. Lakehill combines a robust, college-preparatory curriculum with opportunities for personal growth, individual enrichment, and community involvement. From kindergarten through high school, every Lakehill student is encouraged to strive, challenged to succeed, and inspired to excel.

Holy Trinity Catholic School

3815 Oak Lawn Ave., Dallas 214-526-5113, htcsdallas.org For more than 100 years, Holy Trinity Catholic School, has been committed to the religious, intellectual, emotional, social and physical growth of each student. This commitment is carried out in a nurturing atmosphere with an emphasis on social awareness, service to others, and religious faith in the Catholic tradition.

The Immaculate Heart Program at Holy Trinity School was initiated to fully realize our school’s mission of developing the whole child by meeting the needs of one of the most underserved and underperforming groups in catholic schools, children with dyslexia.

ST. ELIZABETH OF HUNGARY CATHOLIC SCHOOL

4019 S. Hampton Rd. Dallas 75224/ 214.331.5139 / www.saintspride.com

At St. Elizabeth of Hungary, our fundamental task is the education of the whole child -- combining learning with faith, Catholic doctrines and moral teachings. We introduce all PK3-8th Grade students to the integrated ways of STEM. This approach to education is designed to revolutionize the teaching of subject areas such as mathematics and science by incorporating technology and engineering into regular curriculum. Over the past 10 years, 95% of St. Elizabeth 8th graders were accepted to their first choice high school. Join us for an informational school tour and see for yourself how easy it is to become a Saint! Call 214.331.5139 for information.