Kessler Park, garden oasis from the big, bad streets of Oak Cliff, can surprise even a Dallas native. Beautifully kept $300,000 homes nestle along hilly, tree-lined streets.

For nearly 150 years, it has stood on a limestone embankment above Coombs Creek in what is now East Kessler Park ... 20 years has transformed North Oak Cliff into a trendy home base for ...

"You can see the park really coming, starting to take shape," said April Allen, president and CEO of the Southern Gateway ...

The Kessler Theater opened as an Oak Cliff movie house in the early days of World War II. Once owned by Gene Autry the Singing Cowboy, it was crushed by a tornado in 1957, rebuilt as a revival ...

Fowler added she frequents Kessler Parkway and White Rock ... "It’s a free activity so we enjoy it.” Kiest Park is one of the largest in Oak Cliff and part of the Dallas Parks system that ...