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COPYRIGHT 2005 The Dallas Morning News
Byline: Emily Ramshaw
Feb. 24--In anticipation of improvements to Haskell Avenue, the city halted new construction and issuing of building permits.
Haskell Avenue should be prime real estate, its lots ripe for redevelopment. Instead, the two-mile strip linking Uptown to Fair Park is a blighted mess of crumbling homes and shuttered apartments papered with tattered "For Rent" signs.
While much of sleepy Old East Dallas is roaring back to life, property owners along Haskell Avenue have been forced to sit idly, the result of a 14-year-old thoroughfare plan that the city has yet to implement.
"It's inhumane -- you can't get building permits, you can't get permission to remodel or to build, you can't sell and you can't develop," said Candace Rubin, an East Dallas real estate broker. "The city either needs to go ahead and condemn [the property] and pay the people, or just let them go."
In 1991, after more than a year of community discussion,...
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