forest forward

The City of Dallas approved an $8 million grant for Forest Forward's restoration efforts of the historic Forest Theater Forest Forward.

Posters and playbills featuring Broadway musicals line the walls of […]

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What originally started as an effort to revive the theater has expanded in scope, with Forest Forward acquiring several surrounding parcels of land between Julius Schepps Freeway and SM Wright Freeway. Forest Forward now owns the theater, the former liquor store just north of the theater, the gas station next door to the liquor store, and the lots behind the theater where an infamous gambling house once stood.

The nonprofit Forest Forward owns South Dallas' historic Forest Theater and about 20 pieces of land surrounding it.

Watermark submitted a proposal to the City of Dallas for a new planned development district (PD) for the almost 10-acre space on July 12 — less than two weeks before it held its second community meeting.

“I’ve never seen the marquee light up before,” noted Elizabeth […]