Resource Center CEO Cece Cox cuts the ribbon to officially open the Oak Lawn Place senior housing facility. See more photos of the grand opening ceremonies online at DallasVoice.com (Tammye Nash/DallasVoice)
Resource Center cuts the ribbon on Oak Lawn Place senior living apartments, announces new health care facility
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Leaders of North Texas’ LGBTQ community spanning the years gathered Tuesday morning, Sept. 10, outside a colorfully-appointed five story building situated right at the curve of Sadler Circle to celebrate the grand opening of Dallas’ first living facility focused on LGBTQ seniors.
Although Resource Center broke ground on Oak Lawn Place just a little more than a year ago in July 2023 and saw construction completed in early July 2024, with residents beginning to move in by mid-July, the road to this accomplishment is a lot longer than that.
As Resource Center CEO Cece Cox pointed out at the grand opening ceremony, “Forty-one years ago, Resource Center’s founders dreamed of a home like this, by us, for us.
“Their dreams were interrupted by a nightmare, the nightmare of going to funeral after funeral for friends, decimated by the early days of the AIDS pandemic,” she said. “Our community was also fighting discrimination everywhere we turned — in houses of worship, in our families, and at work. And even though much progress has been made since then, Oak Lawn Place is one of only a handful of residential settings designed to affirm and support members of the LGBTQIA+ community, ages 55-plus.”
Cox also oversaw the triumphant opening of Resource Center’s iconic community center and headquarters just eight years ago and about two blocks down Inwood Road from Oak Lawn Place. And on Tuesday, while celebrating Oak Lawn Place, she got to introduce the Center’s new health care facility, located directly in front of the apartment building and facing Inwood Road. Nelson-Tebedo Clinic, formerly located at the intersection of Cedar Springs Road and
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