Photo credit to Jeremie Fletcher Bourcy.
The Little Casa View Neighborhood Association is actively working to beautify its neighborhood.
Casa View’s neighborhood association is a group of volunteers working to improve the pocket neighborhood, gathering monthly for code and law enforcement meetings, Volunteers In Patrol training sessions, neighborhood socials and garbage collection events. In recent years, several residents have sought to eradicate the issue of common graffiti tags on a trash enclosure behind the Ferguson Street Wash-n-Dry.
This high-traffic area is in direct view of Casa View residential streets and lies next to the Iglesia Pentecostal Church. After receiving approval from Kenneth Ahn, owner of the property, a mural project began to take shape.
Artist Jeremie Fletcher-Bourcy, a Casa View resident, designed the mural, which features colorful flowers, peace symbols and neighborhood resident handprints.
“The entire area has been steadily transforming into an eclectic hotspot, which houses many different kinds of people. It is a melting pot with many different facets and unique flair, which is exactly why I adore this area.” says Jeremie. “I joined the Little Casa View Neighborhood Beautification committee a few years ago and we decided that we wanted to do a high-impact project for the community.”
Led by Fletcher-Bourcy, members of the community group spent three weeks painting the custom mural with painting contributions from Heidi Bassett, Meredith Rowley, Cecilia Packheiser and John Powell. They concluded the project by hosting a neighborhood-wide event on May 4, inviting nearby residents to personalize the mural with their handprints and names.
“Including the handprints allowed residents to feel ownership in the creation and care of the mural. Neighborhood buy-in is important, given that this enclosure has been defaced with graffiti many times in recent years,” says Little Casa View Neighborhood Association President, Heidi Bassett. “This mural is intended to promote peace and community and to serve as a symbol of passive resistance and nonviolence. Residents of our neighborhood are dedicated to taking back the neighborhood from deterioration and decay trends of the past.”
The Greater Casa View area is bordered by Garland Road to the west; and Interstate 635 to the north; La Prada Drive, Oates Drive, and Ferguson Road to the east; and Peavy Road and Buckner Boulevard to the south.
As a haven for independently owned shops, Casa View has been undergoing a gradual transformation into a vibrant hub. Popular nearby attractions include White Rock Lake, Flag Pole Hill Trail and the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden. In the heart of Casa View is LuBella’s Patisserie, which is set to double in size this year to meet customer demand.
The neighborhood of Little Casa View, a pocket neighborhood of Greater Casa View, sits directly behind the historic Casa View Shopping Center, a property that underwent a large restoration in 2018. Since then, this area has attracted new, locally-owned businesses ‘and homes in the neighborhood have been renovated and have attracted new owners.
