An apartment community is being built near I-35W and Highway 170 in honor of Opal Lee, known as the grandmother of Juneteenth.
Checking out the fitness room and touring one housing complex gave Lee a good feel for its up-and-coming sister property, a community that will bear her name.
The groundbreaking is to celebrate the Fort Worth Housing Solutions development called The Opal, which will be A 339-unit, mixed income community in north Fort Worth."I’d say The Opal is going to be, as the young people say, the bomb," Lee said. "I said, ‘Ramon, do you think we could get Miss Opal to let us name it after her?’ So Ramon called Opal and the rest is history, but I want to tell you we do listen and I’m listening Miss Opal," said Terri Attaway, who is on Fort Worth Housing Solutions’ Board of Commissioners.
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