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	History of Cornerstone


	The Cornerstone Community Development Corporation (CCDC) has as its mission to rebuild our targeted neighborhood to better serve the South Dallas and Fair Park communities. In the mid 1980’s to the early 1990’s, the South Dallas community was ravished by the sale and use of illegal drugs. In addition with the frequent drive-by shootings, random gunfire, killing between rival gang members and innocent bystanders, it had become infamously known by the media as the war zone.

	During this period of war many residents exited the community for a better life in other communities of Dallas. This in turn left many apartments vacant in the neighborhood that eventually became a haven for crime, drug trade, drug use, and the like. In the early 1990’s the Dallas Police Department and City of Dallas implemented a program called Operation Clean with the goal of ridding the community of these vacant properties thus reducing the criminal element.

This action left many vacant lots in the South Dallas and Fair Park communities. Lots that are now overgrown with weeds, littered with drug needles and broken bottles, and the site of community loitering where vagrants gather to drink alcoholic beverages and use illegal drugs. The buildings that remained vacant are now havens for the homeless and provide a shelter for prostitutes to plow the trade.

An assessment of the community situation caused many to wonder, “How do you rebuild after a war?” It is in response to this question that the Cornerstone Community Development Corporation, Inc. was organized and in partnership with Cornerstone Baptist Church joined forces to impact this community by rebuilding facilities and lives. With the building of a community center and homes, refurbishing apartment complexes, and reestablishing a viable economic base, the ultimate dream of rebuilding lives, dreams, and hope will be realized.

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