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Top Stories: Developers Are Seeing The Appeal In Southern Dallas

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The Red Bird Mall in southern Dallas is being redeveloped into a mix of retail, office and hotel space.

The top local stories this morning from KERA News:

The mayor of Dallas says the southern sector appears headed in the right direction.

Mike Rawlings's GrowSouth initiative has spent six years trying to jump-start growth in that area.

His annual report Thursday pointed to some promising numbers: A 7 percent increase in population,  per capita income and real estate values are up, and median home sales have increased 146 percent.

Other stories this morning:

  • In our Friday Conversation, the Accelerating Campus Excellence (ACE) model has been touted for turning around six failing schools in Dallas, but is it a solution for the rest of the state’s failing schools?

You can listen to North Texas stories weekdays at 8:22 a.m. and 6:20 p.m. on KERA 90.1 FM.

Former KERA staffer Krystina Martinez was an assistant producer. She produced local content for Morning Edition and KERANews.org. She also produced The Friday Conversation, a weekly series of conversations with North Texas newsmakers. Krystina was also the backup newscaster for the Texas Standard.