Good Space Bulletin Board

  • Good Space sponsors community events. The 2005 Bishop Arts Block Party & Car Show, organized by Good Space, drew more than 100 classic automobiles and 2000 visitors to the historic district. September 2006's Block Party, co-sponsored with the nonprofit ArtSpirit, attracted more than 1000 to celebrate global peace through children's activities, poetry readings, and world-music performances. Good Space is an annual sponsor of the Oak Cliff Home Tour, the Movies-on-the-Lawn series, Calumet Community Center's bike rally, Rosemont PTA's gala, and the Jingle Bells on Bishop Christmas festival.

  • Bishop Ateliers unexpectedly sold. After renovating a dilapidated 1915 apartment building at 614 N. Bishop Ave. into office studios for lease, Good Space was persuaded to sell the property by a purchase offer that set a price record for the Bishop Arts District. Good Space's gain has been the community's as well: The owners will operate Fusion Advertising and the new CliffDweller Magazine out of the offices.

  • David Spence to write column for Oak Cliff People. With the exciting expansion south of downtown, People Newspapers has tapped Good Space owner David Spence to contribute a monthly editorial on local topics. The column will run in the paper's Park Cities edition as well.

  • Good Space Co-Sponsors Mural Arts Program.During the summers of 2004 and 2005, Good Space joined forces with the Dallas Museum of Art and the Ice House Cultural Center to install eight murals created by talented teenage artists in the Bishop Arts District. The students designed murals to commemorate historical aspects of the neighborhood, and then spent six weeks on scaffolding transforming blank brick walls into works of public art. The Dallas Morning News called the program one of the "Top Ten Arts Events" of the year.

  • Bishop Arts wins Urban Design Award. Good Space, along with city planners and other neighborhood representatives, has been recognized by the Greater Dallas Planning Council for its part in the redevelopment of public spaces in the Bishop Arts District. The Council gave the award for "Built Project Design" in December 2005 to call attention to the street reconstruction and landscaping completed in 2001 that was the product of years of community activism.

  • Bishop Gate wins Preservation Achievement Award. In 2005 Good Space collected its second award from Preservation Dallas for the restoration of Bishop Gate, a 1926 residential hotel reborn as an eight-unit apartment complex. The awards committee noted Good Space's attentiveness to original architectural details and the cumulative impact of Good Space's restorations on the surrounding neighborhood.

  • Bishop Green landscaping garners another award. The City of Dallas selected Bishop Green Apartments for its 2004 Xeriscape Award for commercial properties. The one-third acre grounds of Bishop Green, entirely landscaped with low-water native plants, was the site for the City's televised kick-off to its water-conservation campaign.