A downtown Dallas 7-Eleven that averaged one police call a day has closed

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Potential customers avoided the location, even though it was the only convenience store in an area with enough pedestrian traffic to support such a business.

Maria HalkiasA 7-Eleven in downtown Dallas has closed after many disruptions to customers and pedestrians and 98 calls to 911 in the last three months– an average of one per day.

Located on the southeast corner of Commerce and Harwood Streets, it’s surrounded by apartments and hotels, the University of North Texas satellite campus on Main Street andIn the last three months, Dallas police wrote 11 reports, mostly related to incidents involving people with warrants who were then arrested, from the 98 calls to 911, said Juan Fernandez, DPD public information officer. Calls often followed disturbances between homeless people that dissipated once the police arrived.

Other storefronts in the 9,000-square-foot building are also boarded up. The building was identified for decades by the Doug’s Gym sign. That business closed in 2018 when the owner retired after operating the gym for 55 years.

 

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All 7-11s in downtown are trash. Homeless maniacs just camp outside and beg. All those new parks around downtown are the next breeding ground of drunks, mentally ill, and violence

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