Dallas Black Chamber of Commerce

The South Dallas Fair Park Area Plan identifies 2nd Avenue as a key focus area to transform into a walkable corridor featuring retail, restaurants, office space, and housing, with recommendations to change the zoning and create a mixed-use subdistrict to encourage development close to the street and remove parking minimums.

Two high school students from South and West Dallas, Ta'Dondrian Crayton and Christian Williams, were accepted into the University of North Texas's Scripps Howard Emerging Journalists Fellowship and are now working as summer interns for the Dallas Free Press, telling their community's stories.