{"id":450839,"date":"2026-09-29T05:48:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T05:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/450839\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T05:48:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T05:48:16","slug":"dallas-tenants-face-move-out-deadline-at-meadows-at-ferguson-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/450839\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas tenants face move-out deadline at Meadows at Ferguson \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is move-out week for tenants remaining at a troubled northeast Dallas complex.<\/p>\n

Residents of the Meadows at Ferguson apartments have endured crime, deteriorating living conditions<\/a>, and now an uncertain future.<\/p>\n

Donna Knipper says she didn\u2019t originally pencil in the end of September as move-out from her third-floor apartment.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been crazy,\u201d Knipper said. \u201cLike the beginning of August is when they said, \u2018oh, we’re shutting down\u2019,\u201d Knipper said. \u201cYou guys got to get out of here. Short notice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Short notice, but she says in many ways, a long time coming for the Meadows at Ferguson – a sprawling complex along Ferguson Road just south of the LBJ Freeway in northeast Dallas with more than 200 units, most unoccupied now, ahead of a Wednesday deadline for all tenants to vacate.<\/p>\n

The city of Dallas sued the complex owners, then called Key City Capital in June 2024 two years ago, alleging multiple code violations.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit arrived one week after NBC-5 highlighted tenants’ frustrations with living conditions at the Meadows<\/a>, shortly after a storm damaged one of the buildings.<\/p>\n

A court-appointed third party, called a receiver, took over management of the Meadows in January from Key City Capital.<\/p>\n

Tie Lasater, with Lasater Capital, said he doesn\u2019t know when that receivership will end but worries about what will happen once the property is emptied of residents. <\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, when you have a vacant property, it leaves a lot of room and space for homeless and crime to come back in,\u201d Lasater said.<\/p>\n

When asked about what\u2019s next for the Meadows at Ferguson, a city of Dallas spokesperson said a response wasn\u2019t immediately available due to city offices being closed Monday, as part of a furlough day.<\/p>\n

The office for council member Paula Blackmon, who represents parts of east Dallas that include the Meadows complex, told us the third-party receiver is closing the complex as it works to remediate extensive mold damage, but is providing moving expenses and returning deposits for tenants.<\/p>\n

Knipper says she hasn\u2019t seen those checks just yet and admits she has mixed feelings on restarting in a new apartment in nearby Garland.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am sad, of course; it’s, you know, leaving something that you’ve been for nine years, all my kids almost were raised and born here,\u201d Knipper said. \u201cSo, it is a little depressing; it’s a little odd feeling just because I’m moving, but I am happy where I’m going; it was a lot better than this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is move-out week for tenants remaining at a troubled northeast Dallas complex. Residents of the Meadows at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-450839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}