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PROFILE 4 Cookie creations DINING 16 Abruzzo’s FEATURES 8 Cozy Kessler home 14 Sparklehorse 20 Businessminded brothers COVER 24 Welcome to Elmwood
Josh Allen and Alexandra Mendez have embraced the charm of details in their Kessler Park home. Read more on page 8. Photography by Kathy Tran.
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Jennifer Stillwagoner uses royal icing, edible markers, food-based watercolors and gold leafing to decorate cookies.
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Lefty Lucy Cookies is reaching new heights in cookie crafting Story by EMMA RUBY | Photography by LAUREN ALLEN
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Stillwagoner handcut a Kessler Theater shaped cookie and watercolored the theater’s design. If Stillwagoner knows she will need a shape for an upcoming custom set, he husband uses a 3D printer to create the cookie-cutter. “It paid for itself in two months,” Stillwagoner says.
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out batches of recipe-tweaked cookies to coworkers, neighbors and students to garner feedback. Stillwagoner began taking cookie decorating classes in 2017. Her first customers were her preschool students’ parents. “(The cookies) were considered a Pinterest fail,” Stillwagoner says of her first commission — a batch of Christmas-themed cookies. “But I was so proud of them. I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, these are crazy.’ Now looking back, I’m embarrassed by it, but also I have come so far.” In 2020, Stillwagoner left teaching for maternity leave after giving birth to her son James and “never went back.” While she’d been making cookies for years, she felt it was the right time to go all in. “I knew I’d be successful. I knew I would be good at this,” Stillwagoner says. “It has just exceeded what I had ever envisioned for myself.” She offers pre-designed cookie sets for holidays, but the custom-cookie sets are where Stillwagoner taps into her creative side. She makes as many as four dozen cookies a week, which she says is the perfect amount to keep her busy without cutting into family time. From bachelorette parties to baby showers, Stillwagoner designs up to 10 different cookies per set, all revolving around the customer’s chosen theme. After getting approval for her sketched-out designs, she starts baking. Stillwagoner can “cook the dough blindfolded” at this point, but coloring all of the icing to the perfect shade takes a bit more time. She prefers to incorporate simpler designs so that her “wow” cookies — which usually cater to the guest of honor and are the “showstopper” design — stand out.
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Pricing starts at $65 a dozen, but touches like gold paint, custom packaging or Stillwagoner’s watercolor technique can be added to designs for an additional price. “I was never really a very good painter, in my opinion, but I am damn proud of how I can watercolor a cookie,” Stillwagoner says. The company name, Lefty Lucy Cookies, is in honor of her dog, Cooper, whose nickname was “Lefty Lucy Goosey” due to his old-age wobble. And the company tagline, “Enjoy ’til the last crumb is eaten!” honors Stillwagoner’s grandmother. The two women enjoyed high tea every Wednesday, and Stillwagoner’s grandmother encouraged her to savor every bite. So now, when clients tell Stillwagoner her cookies are “too beautiful to eat,” she responds that the fleeting beauty is part of the art.
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A C OZ Y K ES S L E R HOME Josh Allen and Alexandra Mendez are proving bigger isn’t always better Story by DANIEL ROCKY | Photography by KATHY TRAN
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The first thing many of us check while looking at homes is the square footage, after the price, of course. Our obsession with having the most amount of space possible isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but dialing back and looking at the finer details can lead to a more nuanced experience with one’s home. No matter how much our state’s motto may imply it, when it comes to creating a home out of a house, bigger is not always better. For Josh Allen and Alexandra Mendez, creating their home started with intention and design followed shortly after. Located directly off Colorado Boulevard near Methodist Dallas Medical Center, the home is not massive. They don’t believe that’s an insulting thing to say either. “I always tell people, less is more,” Mendez says. “It’s better to have more quality.” Especially when considering the soaring costs of housing, living within reason can not only give one a bit more budgeting wiggle room, but it can be a source of inspiration through limitation. 800 square feet. That’s approximately what Allen and Mendez are working with for their home. The intimate floor plan doesn’t matter to the two, though. From the moment they first saw the house two years ago, they knew that it had the right bones to it. They began the process of turning it into something they could love and relax within. “When we initially came here on the first day we believed in it so much,” Mendez says. “It looked so creepy, and the fence was falling down. We called our realtor and we were like, ‘This is our house.’” Neighbors across the road were initially relieved that someone purchased the house, believing that whoever closed on it would bring in a bulldozer to demolish it. To their surprise, the new homeowners were bringing in building supplies and tools. A natural wood shiplap gives the bedroom a warm, lounge feeling. “We discovered this, and we were like, ‘Oh my God, this is the best thing ever.’ It was all behind the sheetrock,” Allen says.
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Josh Allen and Alexandra Mendez’s home is bright and inviting.
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The couple worked through layers of drywall and wallpaper to expose the original shiplap from the ‘40s. Claw hammers and saws brought the house back to a fresh slate that Allen and Mendez could build on. Their home is a true testament to how design can usurp measurements on paper. The main entrance to the home opens up to an inviting living space, with an open kitchen space divided by a stainless countertop overlooking it. Bay windows face outwards towards the street, and a set of sliding glass doors and flat windows on the opposing side show off an interior courtyard. Without much artificial light, apart from some accenting lamps and small overheads for the kitchen, the space is comforting and natural. Light wood furniture and stone accents complement the hanging wood frame ceiling, allowing the eye to wander and explore the fine details of the space, the biggest of which is the patinated fireplace. Clad with a form of mild sheet steel from floor to ceiling, it is a contrasty brutalist element that links the interior and exterior design. The dining area sits nestled between the kitchen and the outside patio. With temperamental Texas weather, it’s as close to dining al fresco as one can get while still having access to air conditioning. The remainder of the house is divided into a bedroom and a den, joined by a bathroom. No one area of the home feels cramped or cluttered. Everything, including Allen, Mendez and their energetic German Shepard, Hampton, has a space in which they fit comfortably. “We always talk about how home makes you feel, but when we come to our bedroom now, we actually feel relaxed,” Allen says. Allen and Mendez partner in a design firm called Create Atelier, where they focus on “quality, purposeful and transformational design.” Their cozy home has been a passion project and opportunity to implement that philosophy into their personal lives. “Everyone, everybody deserves good design,” Mendez says.
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Dallas drummer Jeff Ryan is organizing our city’s first event in honor of Sparklehorse.
M U S I CA L MEMORIAL Musicians will gather at the Kessler Theater to pay respects to one of the greats Story by SIMON PRUITT Photography by JULIA CARTWRIGHT
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I N 2 0 1 0, M A R K L I N KO U S committed suicide at 47, after a long battle with depression. He was informally known as ‘Sparklehorse’, the name of the three piece band that he fronted, and renowned as one of the country’s best songwriters. Linkous’ music was emotional, downtempo and deeply human. Many of his songs were characterized by a near-whisper vocal tone that he sang in so he wouldn’t wake up his sleeping wife in the next room. Sparklehorse inspired thousands. Thirteen years later, musicians around the world are still grappling with the loss. Among those musicians is drummer Jeff Ryan, who thumps and crashes his way through Dallas’ alternative rock scene in bands like Motorcade and Pleasant Grove. Ryan’s reverence for Linkous hasn’t faded one bit. This December, he plans to commemorate him. “I just want to celebrate Mark in some way,” Ryan says. “Not in a cheesy way or even in a profitable way. Just celebrate the people that are here in Dallas that maybe don’t know what an amazing American songwriter we had.” Ryan’s celebration will be held at the Kessler Theater, beginning with a screening of the 2022 documentary, This Is Sparklehorse, followed by a full set of Sparklehorse songs performed by a rotating cast of Dallas frontmen. “This is Sparklehorse really shows that quiet human humanistic side of him,” Ryan explains. ”He’s really personable, but he’s really sensitive.” Ryan worked with local artists Jerome Brock and Kim Herriage to craft the instrumentation of the songs. He and members of Pleasant Grove will serve as the backing band while lead singers cycle out, including Tim Delaughter of The Polyphonic Spree and Nathan Mongol Wells of The Ottoman Turks. “It’s strange to curate an event that’s inherently sad,” Ryan says. “But in a way, it’s cool to see so many people excited about it.” The celebration will be the first event held in Dallas for Sparklehorse. For people who might not be familiar with his work, Ryan is crafting his local legacy in a sense. It’s an immense amount of pressure, but not enough that Ryan feels. “I respect him so much and I want to do a good job,” he says. “But it’s already predetermined. I know how everything goes. I’m not creating the songs. I’m just recreating them.” One month out from the event, it seems Dallas is in store for a warm, unifying celebration. “It’s gonna be hard,” he says. “The only thing I’m worried about is getting emotional, but that’s a good thing. Those are real emotions.”
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A l i t t l e bi t o f It al y At Abruzzo’s, the charm is in the classics Story by EMMA RUBY Photography by KELSEY SHOEMAKER
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The main dining room in Abruzzo’s is intimate, but a back room offers additional dining space and a working fireplace.
PARMESAN-DUSTED BREAD wrapped in red-and-white-checked paper. Hearty Bolognese sauce served over any pasta shape. Dressings made from scratch just hours before they’re drizzled over a salad. Abruzzo’s may pride itself on being “a little bit of Italy in Oak Cliff,” but here, a little bit goes a long way. Owners Elias and Maria Dolores Rodriguez met in a restaurant. He was an Oak Cliff boy preparing to enlist in the army. She was a girl from Mexico working in an Oak Cliff diner while visiting her grandmother for the summer. Their love and sense of partnership came naturally. Maria Dolores pursued a career in Duncanville ISD, while Elias worked in the engineering and architecture fields after serving in the army overseas. Twelve years ago, looking for a side gig to occupy their time, they decided to take over the cottage on the corner of Davis and Tyler and open a winery. In 2013, an Italian restaurant in Bishop Arts closed after the owner decided to retire. She offered to sell her menu to the Rodriguezes, who jumped at the opportunity. During the past 10 years, Elias says he has gained an “extended family” of regular customers who dine in as many as three times a week. “There’s a sense of satisfaction in providing that service to our clients,” Elias
says. “It makes you feel good when someone says ‘Oh, that was a really good meal that we enjoyed.’ And then they come back.” They have tweaked a few things about that original menu — weeding out redundant dishes and enhancing recipes through techniques or ingredients discovered on trips to Italy. Unlike some restaurant menus that go on for pages, Abruzzo’s home-style offerings hover around a dozen (not including appetizers, salads or dessert) before specials. “We’re not all over the map with the menu,” Elias says. “We do have specials, sometimes I’ ll create something, and we’ ll promote it a week ahead of time just for that one evening to kind of just change it up a little bit and give people another option.” As far as appetizers go, the calamari steaks break from the tradition of round, bite-sized squid and are served with Abruzzo’s marinara sauce. The fettuchini alfredo is a best seller, but the lasagna is Abruzzo’s love. From the four-cheese lasagna to the seafood option, the lasagnas are made from scratch each morning and “if we run out, we run out.” Elias arrives at the restaurant as early as 5 a.m. to make the dish that he could “cook in his sleep, at this point.” And one of Abruzzo’s salad dressings (all of which are made in-house) has a
cult-like following, Maria Dolores says. “We have a basil dressing that (customers have) been asking us to sell and bottle, and I always say ‘No, because then you’ ll stop coming,’” she says. Even after 10 years of proprietorship, Elias finds himself brimming with enthusiasm and ideas for the restaurant. Perhaps Abruzzo’s will one day host a wine festival in the restaurant’s tiny parking lot or a dinner service where fettuccine is served straight out of a giant cheese wheel, he says. And when he thinks about his next trip to Italy, he sees himself in a white chef ’s coat, sleeves rolled up with tomatoes and seasonings swirling, learning the tricks of the trade from a bona fide Italian chef. Abruzzo’s is closed Sundays and Mondays, and open the rest of the week only for dinner service. The reason for the 5 p.m. open: those pesky full-time jobs. The restaurant is a passion project and semi-retirement plan. “We’ve been married for 35 years, and I think as you start to age, you begin to appreciate things in life and share things with your significant other. And this is something that has actually helped us grow a little bit closer,” Elias says. “Honestly, I don’t know what we would do without the restaurant. I don’t care if we ever make any money, but you’ve gotta love it.” Abruzzo’s, 838 W. Davis St., 972.863.8130 NOVEMBER 2023 oakcliff.advocatemag.com
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THE PRINCES OF ELMWOOD Doug and Grant Klembara can’t stop saying ‘Yes’ Story by EMMA RUBY Photography by YUVIE STYLES
Doug (left) and Grant Klembara (right) share an eclectically decorated TURNER office at Story by JEHADU ABSHIRO | Photography by JESSICA the Wax Space in Tyler NOVEMBER 2023 oakcliff.advocatemag.com Station.
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hey say you should never do business with family, but it’s a warning Doug and Grant Klembara are well past. You may have seen the curly-haired duo decked out in lederhosen at Go Oak Cliff ’s Oktoberfest. Or celebrating the end of the workweek at the Oak Cliff Brewing Co. tap room. Perhaps they were strolling through Downtown Elmwood or welcoming patrons to a Texas Talk at the Wax Space. The point is, it’s harder to not know the brothers than it is to know them. “Our fatal flaw is always saying yes,” Grant says. Growing up in East Dallas and attending Dallas Lutheran High School, the brothers were close enough. Doug, who is older by five years, went to Texas A&M for school while Grant ventured to Crawfordsville, Indiana, to play football at Wabash, “a little Division III college in the middle of a cornfield.” Before leaving Dallas for school, Oak Cliff was not on either brother’s radar. After returning to the city as a freelance photographer, Doug joined a coworking space in the Design District, where he was surrounded by other artists, photographers and creatives who all seemed to call Oak Cliff home. His curiosity piqued, he started spending time at Davis Street Espresso and getting to know other Cliff Dwellers. Shortly after, it “made sense” to move into the neighborhood. “Elmwood seemed like it was primed for people to care,” Doug says. “It was figuring itself out, and it felt like ‘Oh, this could be a really, really special place.’” By the time Doug settled into Oak Cliff, Grant moved back to town. Landing a job at an ad agency whose office was next door to The Kessler Theater, Grant remembers his first Bishop Arts meal at Lockhart’s and the annual Bastille Day celebration as early evidence of the neighborhood’s charm. Doug and his wife, Kelsi, were starting out on their first enterprise: a photography studio in Tyler Station called The TX Studio. While Grant jumped around several different jobs, the brothers reunited when asked to run the Wax Space, a coworking space in Tyler Station. Getting involved in Tyler Station’s early days set the stage for the brothers’ career trajectory. They have since purchased the Wax Space and hold monthly seminars open to the neighborhood called Texas Talks. Hosted by prominent Oak Cliff leaders, the Texas Talks reflect the Klembara’s dedication to being neighborhood, and neighbor, focused in each one of their ventures. “I think it’s an opportunity for us to put our roots deeper and deeper into a place. Because it takes a lot of courage to build something and to invest into something,” Doug says. Doug is a founder of Elmwood Farms, and both brothers help run the nonprofit Go Oak Cliff. They’ve become partial owners of the Oak Cliff Brewing Co. and Tyler Station. As if that wasn’t enough, they both work full-time for a theology research nonprofit, 1517.
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Elmwood seemed like it was primed for people to care. It was figuring itself out, and it felt like ‘Oh, this could be a really, really special place.’ ” “It’s like a dream, honestly. I think it’s one of those things we’ ll look back on and be like, ‘Wow,’” Doug says. The brothers share an office in The Wax Space, own homes in the same area (their sister, Amy, also lives in Elmwood) and are usually in each other’s proximity during the events they have programmed. It can be “intense” to go into a business or five with a brother, they say. Inevitably, every aspect of their lives are brought up in every conversation. Business planning creeps into dinner table conversations, and with just the swivel of an office chair they can ask, “Have you texted mom today?” It helps that they share similar passions, but different strengths. Grant looks up to his older brother’s ability to connect with anyone, while Doug says Grant is able to think through every hypothetical situation. “I feel like not many people get the opportunity to do this kind of stuff,” Grant says. “I think it has strengthened our relationship big time. We were always close, but I think we’ve been forced to understand each other better and communicate better.” What’s next for the overachieving brothers? The question is: What isn’t?
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Elmwood sits on the other side of the tracks. For a long time, the neighborhood’s claim to fame was its cameo in Tom Cruise’s 1989 film, Born on the Fourth of July. At the time, the Downtown shops that lined Edgefield were decorated with brightly painted signs and storefronts. Everything from ice cream to fish tackle could be bought during a short walk down the street, and neighbors prided themselves on the fact that Elmwood, whilst a part of Dallas, functioned as its own city. Today, much of the neighborhood’s Downtown charm exists under a layer of dust. Crime was a factor in the decline, and hyper-specific zoning has made city permitting especially difficult for business owners to successfully operate. But, in the last year, there has been the buzzing
of new business. First Olmo Market opened. Then Peaberry Coffee and Oak Cliff Pilates. Slow and Steady Coffee stands as a welcome marker into the neighborhood and the future storefront for Herby’s Burgers is a bright yellow beacon. With every fresh coat of paint, it becomes more and more clear a renaissance is upon us. But it’s a tricky thing to navigate. Bringing in development without encouraging gentrification. Maintaining a small-town feel whilst being Oak Cliff’s largest neighborhood. Balancing the groundwork laid by an older generation with the visions of millennials venturing into home ownership. According to Neighborhood Association President Whitney Marsh: “Elmwood was created to be its own town.”
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OAK CLIFF’S MAYBERRY Marsh describes Elmwood as the “land of opportunity.” She and her husband moved into their “dream home,” a humble but charming Tudor, in 2020. Their first foray into home ownership, the couple fell in love with Elmwood’s “grit and character.” Marsh entrenched herself into the neighborhood culture right away. For a while, her design business was located in a Downtown Elmwood store which she painted and revamped. Then, she purchased a small strip of storefronts along Edgefield from the grandson of the original 1940s builders. Marsh has brought in tenants like Peaberry Coffee and Oak Cliff Yoga, and a third space is set to open at the end of this year. She finds herself in an “interesting” position as neighborhood association president and a developer, but has approached her retail spaces with the intention of finding local, small businesses that will meet the needs of Elmwood she hears about in meetings. “You can’t make everyone happy. All I can do is take care of my stuff and build the community I want,” Marsh says. “There’s nothing wrong with wanting better and wanting a safe place for our kids.” Despite Marsh’s endearing optimism, businesses face substantial challenges when trying to get off the ground in Elmwood. Insurance companies assess the area as “high risk” because of crime. (“We found bullet casings outside of our building the other day,” Marsh says.) And navigating city permitting is a full-time job. “I’ve (opened a business) a couple times now in the last five years, and it isn’t getting any easier,” says Peaberry Coffee Owner Elijah Salazar. Pe a b e r r y ’s s e c o n d l o c a t i o n opened on Edgefield in August. Salazar knew opening a business in Elmwood would come with permitting challenges, but he took steps to help speed up the process.
He hired an expeditor to help move applications and paperwork through the city offices faster, but that didn’t seem to do much. He registered with the city as a contractor in December 2022, hoping to have more control over his documents, but he didn’t get access to the contractor portal until September. Most of Downtown Elmwood is zoned for office spaces and auto mechanic shops, and “it’s been said countless times” that most zoning issues for a budding business go back to parking. Salazar was initially told Peaberry Coffee didn’t have enough parking to open, despite the long row of empty spots in front of the building. He applied and was approved for a to-go business certificate of occupancy (CO), which reduced the number of parking spots the store was required to have, and a health inspector signed off on the opening. But a September code sweep through Downtown Elmwood struck the business with a violation warning, and Salazar is now having to reapply for a new CO that allows for seating within the store. If he has a question for the city permitting office, he says the answer depends on who happens to pick up the phone. “I know my little business doesn’t compare to some of these giant companies in Dallas,” Salazar says. “But we get forgotten about because we’re smaller and it feels like we don’t matter as much.” While challenges to Elmwood zoning did weigh on Salazar’s decision to open a business in the neighborhood, his second neighborhood spot will open its doors by the end of the year. Opening in the spot between Olmo Market and Oak Cliff Yoga, Herby’s Burgers will be a collaboration between Salazar, Elmwood resident Will Rhoten and Jake Saenz of Rev’s Grilled Cheese. Rhoten, who performs under the pseudonym DJ Sober, moved to Elmwood in 2007. H e re m e m b e rs wa t c h i n g t h e NOVEMBER 2023 oakcliff.advocatemag.com
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Downtown area sit “dormant” for years. “There didn’t seem to be much going on on that block. I always looked at these spaces like, ‘man, that’d be really cool if someone put something there,’” Rhoten says. “I really did like the facades of the buildings and liked how it looked and just felt like there was space to do something cool in my own neighborhood.” Rhoten likes that the development of Downtown Elmwood has been “homegrown,” with businesses taking on a “by the neighborhood for the neighborhood” mindset. Leading up to a grand opening, Herby’s has done popups at Tyler Station and at the yellow-trimmed storefront. Rhoten wants to put on a Downtown Elmwood movie night, and organize other programming that “all kinds of people can be involved in.” Elmwood, he thinks, is set to become the type of neighborhood that people in other cities “start hearing about,” and want to visit. “What sucks is, I think that when people see an area start to get some attention, or they see buzz happening, that’s when the people with the big bucks come in,” Rhoten says. “Which, to me, is always disheartening, because I feel like you lose the charm that drives people to places.” THE BISHOP ARTS BOOGEYMAN Janet Smith moved to Elmwood in the late 1990s. Smith is gregarious, and the type of person to say everything happened “about 20 years ago.” Despite the fact that there are many people who have “lived in Elmwood longer” than she, Smith represents a deeply rooted generation of Elmwood residents. While she tends not to “think about money too much,” she knows she wouldn’t be able to afford her home today, if she hadn’t paid it off all those years ago. “I noticed before the pandemic that things were starting to really move and shake,” Smith says. “And then all these young folks were moving in and were really invested.” Before the pandemic, Smith remembers Elmwood as being a more renter-heavy neighborhood. But in the last
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three years, a wave of homeowners, most of them young and first-time buyers, have joined the neighborhood. “There are babies everywhere now,” she says. Before the Bishop Arts boom, “everybody knew everybody,” in Oak Cliff. Smith was so social she earned the nickname “The Mayor,” one that has stuck even today. But the development of Bishop Arts serves as a sort of boogeyman for Elmwood residents. Smith, Marsh and Rhoten all pointed to the neighborhood to the north as an example of what they don’t want for their enclave. “I don’t know anybody that doesn’t want to see something nice come from Downtown. And it’s getting there,” Smith says. “(Overdevelopment is) a big concern for a lot of folks. Nobody that I’ve ever talked to wants to be like Bishop Arts, and I think that is the saddest thing that’s ever happened to Oak Cliff.” Smith wasn’t significantly involved in the Elmwood Neighborhood Association in her early years, but she feels the association’s involvement has been bolstered in recent years. She focuses most of her efforts on beautification projects and has no ambitions of presiding over Elmweird, as she likes to call it. (“I’m happy to just be The Mayor,” she says.) The creation of Elmwoof Dog Park in 2018 was a rallying point for neighbors, she says. And the Downtown Elmwood authorized hearing, which will address street calming and walkability, is currently circulating through the city plan commission and city council process. Modeled after the West Oak Cliff Area Plan, the plan has been a major conversation in neighborhood association meetings in recent years. Outreach is the biggest problem facing neighborhood efforts. While Elmwood’s newest residents tend to be “super involved,” residents who are older or may not speak English are often difficult to reach. “That’s the really hard part. That’s the biggest downside of Elmwood, it is just so damn big,” Smith says. “I don’t want to change it personally, you know… But without change, you don’t have growth. So I’m like, whatever happens happens.”
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