Parks at Wynnewood Could Become Mixed-Income Development

Big news, potentially, for folks in Wynnewood North: A proposal to rework the Parks at Wynnewood apartments (owned by Banc of America/front and center in concerns about Wynnewood Village Shopping Center) will go before the Dallas City Council on Sept. 7. If all goes as planned, rezoning would be in order by December.

As City Councilman Scott Griggs told neighbors last night, Phase I would mean razing 108 existing units that are in “functional obsolescence,” building 140 new ones for low-income senior housing, and making way for a mixed-income development that would “revitalize Wynnewood [Village] Shopping Center.”

The gist, here, is that Griggs and others want to release part of the deed restrictions that have limited the Parks at Wynnewood to low-income folks — meaning about half the complex would still be income specific, and half of it would be open season for market-value apartments.

By Georgia Fisher Sep. 1, 2011 | 11:58 am | 1 Comment | Comments RSS
1 comment to "Parks at Wynnewood Could Become Mixed-Income Development"
  1. HeFlewTheCoop @ September 1, 2011 at 3:52 pm
    In celebration of this milestone, the community should rally to build Mr. Griggs a throne. But wait, its not because of Councilman Griggs that the Parks at Wynnewood may eventually see new life. The project has been on the table for several years and worked on by Ed Oakley, Dave Neumann and various Oak Cliff neighborhoods and residents. Mr. Griggs has only been on the council for 2 months and therefore enjoying and finalizing the fruits of somebody else’s labor. I wonder if Mr. Griggs will encourage residents of the senior housing to install their own chicken coops, grown their own veggies or maybe just move out so that the “low income demographics” make way for his ego.

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