Your friendly neighborhood block representative will soon be delivering the June/July issue of the HPNA Newsletter to your porch. The Newsletters should be out around the first weekend of July so please watch for them.

In that issue will be information on our upcoming General Meeting being held on Thursday evening, July 23rd.

We’ll also have information on our Yard of the Month Program, Citizen Patrol, Richardson redevelopment report, and other items.

If you don’t receive your Newsletter after the first weekend of July, please send us an email at contact@heightspark.com

If you haven’t yet heard, the City Council approved a special permit for a food truck park and private club to be located at 522 Bishop Avenue, just north Richardson’s downtown area. Specifically, it’s located in the Interurban sub district on a former residential lot. The Food Truck Park will be similar to the existing Fort Worth Food Truck Park.

The Interurban sub district was recently rezoned to become an eclectic, mixed-use district.

The Park will offer

The Park is scheduled to open mid-summer. Watch for additional information as we have it.

The City Council received an update recently on the CityLine development, the 2.3 million square foot mixed use development located at Plano Road and President George Bush Turnpike.

More than two dozen restaurants have been announced:

CityLine Drive is the new road that runs parallel to Renner and through the heart of CityLine.

On Friday, April 17, State Farm presented the Richardson Police Department with a $25,000 grant. The funds will allow the department to purchase video equipment that will be used to film public service announcements, including announcements focused on teen driving. Videos will be posted to YouTube once they are completed.

Richardson, TX  75081

REDEVELOPMENT ALONG LOCKWOOD, BELT LINE and

RICHARDSON HEIGHTS SHOPPING CENTER

Have you noticed the redevelopment along Lockwood lately — near Quik Trip?

• Travel King has completely renovated the old Army/Navy Store into something very attractive!
• The old post office on Lockwood is being transformed as well into a dental office/software company.
• Thanks in part to this redevelopment, Lockwood is a much more attractive border to our neighborhood!

The old Chevron station at the southwest corner of Belt Line and Central has come down and will become a drive-through Starbucks.

And have you shopped/dined at the Richardson Heights Shopping Center lately? What a transformation has taken place there! The parking lot is full, people are shopping, dining, and movie-going all over the place!

Half Price Books is busy, Alamo Drafthouse is packed, and several great new restaurants seem to be thriving.

If you haven’t been there lately, you owe it to yourself to walk over there. This renovated shopping center will keep our neighborhood ever more popular.

If you like older homes…established neighborhoods…history…Richardson…you’re going to like our next Heights Park program! We’re fortunate to have the Local History Librarian from the Richardson Public Library, Stacey Davis, as our featured speaker. She has photos, maps, and historical tidbits from when Richardson began–specifically from the birth of the Heights Park area. This will be a fun ‘walk down memory lane’ for many of you, and a history lesson for our newer residents.

 

If you want to know how the neighborhood got started…Who settled it? Why? Who lived here? What was it like when it was young? Her program will give a brief overview of Richardson’s origins. She’ll tell us about the history of the Heights Park area, which was started because of the huge population growth during the boom.

 

Davis has been a reference librarian at the Richardson Public Library for over 20 years (she started in Richardson in December, 1995). She worked for the Dallas Public Library for six years before that. As the Local History librarian at RPL, Davis is in charge of the collection of historical photographs, books, documents and maps dealing with Richardson history. She’s been organizing this collection for the entire time that she’s been with the library. She has a master’s degree in Library Science from the University of North Texas and a bachelor’s degree in business from Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches. She’s from a small town in East Texas-with a graduating class of 73. She likes to read (big surprise!) – all kinds of books but she has a special interest in pandemics; anything about the “Black Death” in 14th century Europe, the 1918 Flu pandemic, and small pox-all historical!

 

Don’t miss out! Come to learn more about the history of our great city and your neighborhood. If you have some old photos of our neighborhood you’d like to share, feel free to bring them – be sure to put your name and phone number on the back so we can keep track of them.