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Bankston Chevy Picks Up Stakes, Relocates

Posted on April 29th, 2008 1:41pm by Glenn Hunter
Filed under Business, Local News

Now you see it, now you don’t. Last week Bankston Chevrolet was occupying the northwest corner of Northwest Highway and Abrams Road in Dallas, as it has for years; this week that corner’s empty and Bankston’s moved to larger digs at 4747 LBJ Freeway, next to its Nissan location. A spokeswoman says Bankston is leasing the Northwest/Abrams property through 2011, and has yet to decide whether to sublease it or put another dealership there.

14 Comments to “Bankston Chevy Picks Up Stakes, Relocates”

Sean @ April 29th, 2008 at 2:00 pm

Where’s the righteously indignant blogging against CPS now that 31 teen mothers have been discovered among the 53 teen girls at the West Texas FLDS compound?
mm @ April 29th, 2008 at 2:08 pm

This item is about a Chevy dealership moving; maybe it’s elsewhere?
Lee, Dallas, Texas @ April 29th, 2008 at 2:37 pm

I talked to the Collision Center this morning and they have not moved.

On the other hand I am not even remotely “righteously indignant” about the move.
the amanda @ April 29th, 2008 at 2:38 pm

I had the same thought last night…but let’s stick to the thread.
Jay @ April 29th, 2008 at 2:43 pm

The only thing that bothers me more than teen pregnancy is driving more than 2.6 miles to get my Chevy serviced.

Boooooooooooo Bankston!

Hellooooooooooooooooo Mobil

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Daniel @ April 29th, 2008 at 3:55 pm

Yeah, and what about all the political unrest in Africa? Why isn’t anyone commenting on that?
Don @ April 29th, 2008 at 3:57 pm

New band name = Righteous Indignants
Sean @ April 29th, 2008 at 4:16 pm

Yeah, I know it’s off topic. But Wick talks about government hysteria http://frontburner.dmagazine.c.....-hysteria/ in the raid on the compound.

Now we learn 31 of the teens are pregnant and one has given birth today. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/s.....TE=DEFAULT

The FLDS says she’s 18. The state says she’s not. The state is probably being hysterical.
Mark @ April 29th, 2008 at 4:19 pm

I thought that place was still Friendly Chevrolet
Daniel @ April 29th, 2008 at 4:35 pm

Sean, you’re confused. CPS did not conduct a raid on the compound. Local law enforcement entities did. In a very, very stupid and reprehensible — yes, hysterical — manner. What would you consider the safest, most efficient way to deal with domestic sexual abuse — sending in the National Guard and a half-dozen army tanks?

As for your other cut’n'pastes regarding CPS — I don’t think very highly of CPS, but I think they handled a difficult situation as best as could be expected.

Opinions on the CPS in general, the CPS’s handling of the situation, government as a rubric, and the Deputy Dawgs who played dress-up in their Big Boy Clothes to raid some damn Little House on the Prairie — these do not come bundled and ready to plug in.

I’m sure you have a point to make, but it’s less than clear what it is.
Dooner @ April 29th, 2008 at 5:41 pm

Years and years. . . no make that, centuries ago before there was NorthPark or even Richardson . . . it was a pony park, where children could ride Shetland ponies around a track. Then the Steakly family turned the property into a Chevvy dealership.
Daniel @ April 30th, 2008 at 8:29 am

In the 70s, there was a pony park as you describe — no Shetlands, however, as I recall — where the SuperTarget is now, on down the road a mile or so from Steakley Chevrolet.
Dooner @ April 30th, 2008 at 9:02 am

Daniel, you’re right about the 70’s and the spelling of Steakley, but the Shetland ponies were at the dealership spot in the (gulp) 50’s.
WWWildcat @ April 30th, 2008 at 11:03 am

OK I came along later but there were all these great places out in the boonies back in the day: Deuback’s Skating Rink, Vickery Park and Pool and even The Western Place.