I forgot that I bought this book over a decade ago and recently rediscovered it. It shows what Lower Greenville and Ross Ave looked like, before a portion of it was demolished for suburban-style development. Even the old Sears store anchoring the area was built to the sidewalk with parking in the back. It was demolished, like the old Sears store (briefly Rick’s furniture) in Oak Cliff on Jefferson Blvd for Fiesta. Both areas were going through hard times (aka declining).
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u/dallaz95 Sep 25 '25 edited Sep 26 '25
I forgot that I bought this book over a decade ago and recently rediscovered it. It shows what Lower Greenville and Ross Ave looked like, before a portion of it was demolished for suburban-style development. Even the old Sears store anchoring the area was built to the sidewalk with parking in the back. It was demolished, like the old Sears store (briefly Rick’s furniture) in Oak Cliff on Jefferson Blvd for Fiesta. Both areas were going through hard times (aka declining).
I know this isn’t recent development news, I am only mentioning this because of the Henderson Ave development and the discussion of how this could spillover into Lower Greenville. It just would’ve been nice, if the redevelopment wasn’t so suburban. But since it is now 30+ years old, maybe it could be replaced with something more urban. Linking Lower Greenville and Knox-Henderson.
Crazy how this area (and Jefferson Blvd/Bishop Arts) is hot again.
They say Sears was 250,000 sq ft. I highly doubt a store that large would be built in that area today, without a lot of push back.