Is about Urban Acres Local Organic Grocery in Oak Cliff. Check it out:
Every market serves as a distribution point where supply meets demand. What Urban Acres does is reduce the actual and perceived distance between farm and fork. Many local farms, already struggling to compete against heavily subsidized factory operations, have a difficult time finding the market and vice versa. The store brings a bit of country to the big city. On its roof, Urban Acres has a bee colony working to make honey. Inside, shelves made of reclaimed wood give the place a country feel. It’s at once nostalgic and emblematic of Oak Cliff’s progressive, by-the-bootstraps entrepreneurism.For the unaware, Urban Acres is on Davis Street in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, what I call the "Trastevere" of Dallas, i.e. literally 'across the river', funky, eclectic, multi-cultural, and good food! The picture above is from the second Better Block where Urban Acres was one of the focal points (in the background).
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I'm not from Dallas... where is Urban Acres located? Also, can you do a post with pictures? I'd like to link to it if you don't mind... sounds like a good story.
Hi Steve,
Urban Acres is in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, which might be considered like the Trastevere section of Rome - funky, good food, multi-cultural, and across the river.
The store was the centerpiece of the second Better Block project seen here:
http://www.gooakcliff.org/2010/09/recap-of-the-better-block-2/
For that event, the tint was pulled off the storefront windows to create visual permeability and its warehouse around the corner was turned into a beer garden where a regional brewery was giving out free beer.
I'll pay a visit to this area in the near future for sure.
The better block initiative is an excellent one and I can see similar better blocks happening in the Northern Suburbs for sure. The potential exists to do this on virtually every main street I've been on here in the North.
Not only that but Urban Acres has a winning formula with what they're doing. I'm going to try and join and get some fresh goods, locally sourced.
I think its time to shake this place up a bit.
Keep up the good work mate!
Side note: Are you able to tell based on Census tract data for 2010, if it is available at all, how Dallas' more urban parts (Uptown, Design District etc) compared to other Dallas proper suburban areas (North Dallas)?
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