What you missed: A recent robbery victim recounts a harrowing tale on TV news; cool new restaurants pass on Lake Highlands; and the late comic artist Harold LeDoux lived in our neighborhood.
A rendering of south Richardson’s newly approved town center-esque development
New and exciting restaurants and retail are coming to … Richardson. Hey, at least it’s close to Lake Highlands. Restaurant Park, a new development west of Central and south of Belt Line met approval by the Richardson City Council to break ground, according to City of Richardson’s cor.net. The project is a lynchpin of Richardson’s reinvestment and redevelopment strategy for the West Spring Valley Corridor. This announcement brings mixed feelings to residents of northern Lake Highlands who are part eager to have The Rock Wood Fired Kitchen and VertsKebap setting up nearby, part disappointed that it is not nearer by, at the Lake Highlands Town Center, which is currently basically languishing at the center of a stalemate between its developers and Dallas’ city planners. (Also: read more about that in our July magazine, on doorknobs next week.)
Still from WFAA report
A couple weeks ago, Advocate broke the news about a dramatic home robbery involving duct tape, near death and a desperate and public plea for help. At the time of our reporting, details were murky and few. A WFAA report this week reveals more about the victim and the crime. “I was coming out of the garage, going to get my newspaper,” recalls 75-year-old L.D. McCoy to reporter Marie Saaverda. “I took a couple more steps and looked up, and the man was on the porch, already in the air coming to grab me.” The assailant made off with McCoy’s coin collection, TV and vehicle and left the elderly man bound and badly injured. “[He] threw me down on my back right here on the kitchen floor,” McCoy continues. “He tied my hands and tied my feet, and after that I passed out.” McCoy’s attacker is still at large. Full story is here.
Judge Parker creator Harold LeDoux died this week at age 88.
“Harold LeDoux, who spent most of his life illustrating one of the most famous comic strips to appear in [our] or any other newspaper, died earlier this month in Dallas. The man who drew Judge Parker was 88,” reports the Dallas Morning News’ Robert Wilonsky, who delivers a fascinating post about LeDoux’s life, which was lived, for some time, in Lake Highlands. “LeDoux never became as famous as some comic-book artists — Jack Kirby, say, or Will Eisner or Frank Miller,” Wilonsky writes. “But he was read by millions every day for decades.”
