By Caleb Kostencki NORTH OVERTON – Ramirez Elementary School and the apartment communities off Mac Davis Lane are welcoming change with new renovations coming to Roy Furr Pioneer Park, located at 6th Street and Avenue T. When completed, the park’s renovations will include a dog park, sand volleyball pit and a fitness court as well […]
South Overton Could Soon Be Booming
March 17, 2016 by
By Nicolas Lopez The sounds of hammers banging and saws cutting wood have become a regular part of the sound landscape in South Overton. The neighborhood is in the midst of a transformation, with new construction and remodels of older housing taking place on many of its streets. Longtime friends and business partners, Ian Harper and […]
Apartment Complexes Test Residents’ Patience
December 15, 2015 by
By Kylie Smith Apartments near the Texas Tech campus are popular among students, mainly because of their convenient location. But tenants say there is a price to be paid beyond just rent. For starters, maintenance problems are frequent and can take some time to get resolved. Sara Van-Sickle, a junior finance major from Austin and a resident […]
High Crime to High End
October 9, 2014 by
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 […]
Scream Look-alikes Alarm the Cottages
October 1, 2013 by
By Alicia Keene and Abbie Arroyos Recent stories about break-ins and burglaries near Kortni Robinson’s home at the Cottages of Lubbock in North Overton set her on edge, but nothing prepared her for the shock on her porch just hours before the government shutdown. As if from a bad horror flick, she screamed as two masked figures […]
