Rudolph Bush // December 11, 2009
Southern Dallas is poised to grow, and the time has come for private investors to jump in, Mayor Tom Leppert told a crowd gathered at Gilley's on Thursday morning.
The tax base there has grown at a faster clip than the rest of the city, crime is down and public money is streaming in, he said.
"We all know there are challenges in the southern part of our city," he said. "But people understand this is the key to our success in this city, this region, this state," he said.
A who's who of southern Dallas showed up to hear Leppert, along with City Manager Mary Suhm, DART chief executive Gary Thomas, and University of North Texas vice chancellor John Ellis Price, among others.
They echoed a message of momentum for parts of the city that have stagnated so long that many Dallas residents have given up on seeing improvement.
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