High Crime to High End

North Overton’s crime and abandonment was the basis behind Delbert McDougal’s decision to redevelop the area just outside of the Texas Tech University campus in 1999. Today, shopping centers and apartment complexes conceal the area’s dangerous history, but one thing is seemingly missing: the crime. In 2005, halfway through the regentrification project, North Overton’s Wal-Mart was in the […]