It’s no secret that the public schools are the prime attraction for families moving to the neighborhood. Living within the LBJ Freeway loop but not having to send your children to the weaker Dallas ISD campuses has advantages.

Having first been announced in 2007, and after the city has already sunk millions in infrastructure in support of it, the Lake Highlands Town Center at the intersection of Skillman Street and Walnut Hill Lane still hasn’t come close to living up to the promise of the renderings on which it was publicly sold.

The primary tension in the neighborhood has long been between multifamily developments — including some that too-long neglected by out-of-town ownership — and single-family homeowners. In recent years, some of these complexes have been razed.