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Take a look at the $20 million rec center Oak Cliff residents always deserved but had to fight a decade to get Determined to bring a first-class facility to southern Dallas, council member Tennell Atkins wrangled diverse stakeholders for - at long last - a big equity win. A Blue Line DART train pulls into the Camp Wisdom station outside the newly opened Singing Hills Recreation Center in Oak Cliff Friday. The state-of-the-art facility, which includes an adjoining senior center, is an example of a transit-oriented design that serves the needs of the surrounding community.(Tom Fox / Staff Photographer) In a part of our city where people have too often been told they had to settle for “less than that,” Oak Cliff residents living around the icky old Singing Hills Recreation Center vowed that this time would be different. ....