By Sujanta Dand  Originally appeared in Dallas Free Press  The South Dallas neighborhood of Mill City, which sits just southwest of Fair Park, has approximately 1,530 parcels of land, most of them residential. However, more than a third of the lots in the historically Black neighborhood are vacant and not being kept up, according to data compiled by Dallas’ Child Poverty Action Lab.  A new city project pledges to tackle this issue, with the goal of cutting crime along with the grass in the neighborhood, but this isn’t the first time there’s been an effort to clean up Mill City. 

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