Development is finally underway in The Bottom District near downtown Dallas.
A groundbreaking ceremony last month announced a new beginning for the historic Tenth Street community known as The Bottom in East Oak Cliff.
“It’s taken a while to get here, but it appears as though we are finally here,” State Sen. Royce West said at the ceremony.
Texas Heavenly Homes and several minority contractors have started construction on the $110 revitalization project that will eventually include up to 400 new homes priced between $200,000 and $300,000. The city’s Urban Structure & Guidelines document covers the plan.
The Bottom is a 126-acre neighborhood between Interstate-35E to the west, Corinth Street to the east, Eighth Street to the south, and the Trinity River floodplain to the north.
The project started in 2008 when the City of Dallas worked with Dick LeBlanc, Texas Heavenly Homes president, to develop the land, which is alongside the Trinity River in southeast Dallas.
LeBlanc told The Dallas Morning News that rezoning the areas and updating infrastructures, such as water systems, sewage, and streets, have taken longer than expected. The city invested millions of dollars for wider streets, utility lines, sidewalks, new streetlights, and Internet access.
“It has been a complicated thing to go from Point A to Point B,” LeBlanc told The News.
