Vickery Meadow, Dallas

Population density map per Census 2000. Vickery Meadow is the darkest green, northwest of White Rock Lake.

Vickery [1] is an ethnically-diverse neighborhood consisting almost exclusively of apartment complexes in Northeast Dallas, Texas, United States. The Midtown Improvement District states the neighborhood is bounded by Northwest Highway, Royal Lane, Central Expressway, and Abrams. The City of Dallas Office of Economic Development states that the boundaries of the Vickery Meadow Tax Increment Financing district, which was established in 2005, are “the east side of the intersection of US 75 (Central Expressway) and Park Lane and extends eastward along Park Lane to the ‘Five Points’ intersection at Park Lane, Fair Oaks Avenue and Ridgecrest Road.” [2] Leslie Minora of the Dallas Observer described it as "a dense swath of about 100 apartment complexes cradled by NorthPark Center and Whole Foods to the west and Half Price books [sic] to the south. It's an overlooked anthill, population 25,000, packed with people here by circumstance."[3]

The area is one of the most densely populated areas of Dallas and is home to many immigrants and refugees. The area was originally developed to provide housing for childless, upper-income people in the mid-1970s. The area was built out in the early 1980s.[4] With the passage of the Fair Housing Act in 1968, the demographics shifted to a mostly low income, immigrant population from Latin America and other countries around the world. During that time, area public schools began to become overcrowded. The school district responded by opening new schools in the area, including one high school, one middle school, and several elementary schools; some apartment complexes were razed to make room for new schools. The Midtown Improvement District (MID), a public improvement district, serves the Vickery area.

In 2014 the Dallas City Council member representing Vickery, Jennifer Staubach Gates, referred to it as "kind of the melting pot of America".[5]

  1. ^ "Vickery Meadow PID | City of Dallas Office of Economic Development". www.dallasecodev.org. Retrieved 2019-10-20.
  2. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-14. Retrieved 2012-02-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ Minora, Leslie. "The Remaking of Vickery Meadow." Dallas Observer. Thursday February 9, 2012. Retrieved on July 20, 2015.
  4. ^ "Vickery Meadow Youth Development Foundation". Archived from the original on 2012-12-24. Retrieved 2012-03-01.
  5. ^ "Vickery Meadow neighborhood is ‘melting pot of America’" (Archive). The Dallas Morning News. October 11, 2014. Updated October 12, 2014. Retrieved on July 14, 2015.