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The Park at Forest-Audelia could help drive ideas for change in the neighborhood.

Last summer, 10 Dallas neighborhoods signed up for a pilot program to give residents more room to exercise and socially distance by blocking through-traffic ...

Dallas Love Field Launches “Lead With Love” podcast May 14, 2021 | 1 Dallas Love Field launches a new podcast on June 1 titled Lead With Love. Rather than a traditional host, it will feature a conversation between multiple voices of Dallas discussing ways that strong leadership, respect of diversity and inclusion, and celebration of local culture make a difference in the community. The show’s guests will converse and answer audience questions in a 30-minute lunchtime discussion. The fir...

Mothers of Reinvention From the moment Honolulu shut down in early March 2020, restaurants and bars have valiantly swiveled to counteract the pandemic’s effects. We have had a dazzling choice of takeout (with spots such as Senia turning it into a high art), chef kits (Pai Honolulu had a creative series), and premium produce (MW Restaurant sold farmer friends’ goods). But some are reinventing the integral idea of what a restaurant is. Alejandro “Aker” Briceño, the former Nobu Honolulu p...

April 23, 2021 MACOMB, IL – As two in a series of new park benches were unveiled in Macomb Thursday as part of Earth Day, the project is interwoven with partnerships with several Western Illinois University organizations. Build a Better Block Macomb has spent over a year collecting thousands of pounds of plastic soda bottle caps, donated by local residents. Those caps were then transported to Green Tree Plastics, an Indiana company that recycles them into park benches. A variety of loc...

Steven Monacelli Lucky’s Hot Chicken recently opened a second location, which is a relief because we can hardly find any hot chicken around here. Steven Monacelli previously wrote about the first location offering: “The tenders and wings plates come piled on top of white bread, which sops up the extra spice blend, a Nashville hot chicken tradition.” When it comes to any food that can employ the verb "sops," there’s always room for more. Postino Wine Cafe opened this weekend next to Mer...

More than 1,500 people were drawn to the opening weekend of a new pop-up food park in South Dallas that launched this past Friday. The aptly named MLK Food Park sits at the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Holmes Street, just a few blocks away from the recently renovated Forest Theatre. The MLK Food Park is open each weekend, Friday to Sunday, until May 2. More than two dozen primarily Black-owned small businesses based south of Interstate 30 will be showcased throughout th...

Build a Better Block Macomb unveils park recycled cap benches & picnic table Linda Lee Blaine, BBB Macomb USA Today Netwrk. MACOMB — Macomb’s public spaces will be receiving six new benches and a youth-sized picnic table thanks to a community wide initiative spearheaded by Build a Better Block Macomb. The benches are created by Green Tree Plastics in Evansville, Indiana (https://www.greentreeplastics.com/) from plastic caps and lids that are otherwise not recyclable. The response to the cal...

Pop-up food park opens for families in South Dallas By FOX 4 Staff Empty lot transformed into space for families in South Dallas For the next month, the MLK Food Park will be open for families in South Dallas with food, vendors, musicians and entertainers. Kristin Leiber with the Better Block Foundation explains. DALLAS - A new food park is open in an often forgotten South Dallas neighborhood. For the next month, an empty lot on Martin Luther King Boulevard at Holmes Street will be transformed ...

Akrons Kenmore neighborhood is investing in small businesses Akrons Kenmore neighborhood is investing in small businesses KAREN FARKAS Akrons Kenmore Boulevard defied COVID-19. While the pandemic decimated many small businesses, Kenmore has attracted six new ones as entrepreneurs were lured by city and local initiatives that have transformed the multiblock area into an attractive, walkable streetscape. The new businesses include a preschool, home care business, tea shop, restaurant and barbersh...