Turtle Creek is a neighborhood running along
Turtle Creek and adjacent
Turtle Creek Boulevard
Turtle Creek Boulevard is a thoroughfare that runs through the Turtle Creek neighborhood of Oak Lawn, Dallas, Texas (USA), generally alongside the actual Turtle Creek. The street has been broken up by dedication of Reverchon Park and by constr ...
in the
Oak Lawn area of
Dallas
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,
Texas
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(
USA).
Turtle Creek has also become an adopted nickname for the Oak Lawn neighborhood, though never an official one. The nickname also sometimes applies to a spillover of the Uptown area, which has become the official moniker for the area between
downtown Dallas
Downtown Dallas is the central business district (CBD) of Dallas, Texas, United States, located in the geographic center of the city. It is the second-largest business district in the state of Texas. The area termed "Downtown" has traditionally ...
and Oak Lawn beginning in the 1980s. (In actuality, however, Uptown itself is a part of the Oak Lawn district, as is the Turtle Creek neighborhood.)
The name Turtle Creek also graces a number of business and real estate properties in the area, many of which have addresses away from Turtle Creek Boulevard. There is even a ''
Turtle Creek News
The ''Turtle Creek News'', is a weekly newspaper that serves the upscale urban core of Dallas, Texas, U.S.A. This includes Downtown Dallas, Victory Park, Uptown Dallas, Park Cities and The Greater Turtle Creek Corridor of the city.
Established i ...
'' which is published twice weekly and circulated in
Uptown
Uptown may refer to:
Neighborhoods or regions in several cities
United States
* Uptown, entertainment district east of Downtown and Midtown Albuquerque, New Mexico
* Uptown Charlotte, North Carolina
* Uptown, area surrounding the University of C ...
, Oak Lawn and
Highland Park.
Media
''
The Dallas Morning News
''The Dallas Morning News'' is a daily newspaper serving the Dallas–Fort Worth area of Texas, with an average print circulation of 65,369. It was founded on October 1, 1885 by Alfred Horatio Belo as a satellite publication of the ''The Galves ...
'' is the Dallas citywide newspaper.
Park Cities People' is a local community newspaper.
External links
The Turtle Creek AssociationPhotographs and Descriptions of Every Turtle Creek Neighborhood
http://turtlecreeknews.com
References
Photographs Representing Every Style Home, High-Rise, and Town-House in Stylish Turtle Creek
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