We recently got a taste of Elmwood, an old neighborhood in Oak Cliff with a fresh spate of eateries and cafes.
Photography by Carly May Gravley; Photo-illustration by Sarah SchumacherThe way Will Rhoten describes his neighborhood, you would think he was talking about a small town.
Before sitting down with us, Rhoten was working the counter, clearing tables and visiting with guests. Friends and neighbors would frequently stop by to say hello and congratulate him on the success of Herby’s. “I think the direction it's headed right now is great,” Rhoten says of his neighborhood’s growth. “And I hope to see like more useful spaces in the neighborhood, you know?”In the past year, several food-related businesses opened on Edgefield Avenue. Though vastly different on paper, these spots share similar goals in fostering community in their neighborhood.
Completing this killer three-unit run of businesses is Olmo Market, a shop that’s constantly evolving. It got its start a little more than a year ago selling grocery items and hot foods. Now it's the home of legendary local chocolatier CocoAndre, whose new building in Bishop Arts District is still being fixed up. It’s a sweet little moment of synergy, as both businesses are owned and operated by Cindy Pedraza.
“That's the thing about Oak Cliff — that when you go to a lot of the small businesses, they make you feel like you belong there like they try to interact with you,” she says. “Because you know you're gonna see them somewhere in the neighborhood somewhere later.” Marsh, a former president of the Elmwood Neighborhood Association, is a longtime advocate of the Downtown Elmwood overlay. She speaks of the neighborhood with the same fondness as Rhoten but with a particular emphasis on the neighborhood's older buildings.
“It’s really great because there's a lot of really cool old buildings like this one that haven't been taken care of and that are decaying essentially because they can't get permitting or zoning for businesses,” she says. It’s an unfortunate reality that plagues many “trendy” neighborhoods: when more affluent people begin to move to previously lower-income neighborhoods, the cost of living often rises to a point that existing residents and businesses are displaced.
A handful of restaurant owners can’t speak for the future of an entire neighborhood. That being said, the trio operating off Edgefield Avenue expressed a commitment to keeping Elmwood’s growth community-focused and beneficial to longtime residents and businesses.
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