7 weeks after Dallas crane collapse, homes are still off-limits for fed-up apartment residents
On their anniversary, Ryan Brockway and his wife got a lemon tree to celebrate two years of marriage.
But seven weeks ago, the Dallas couple had to abandon it when a crane collapse forced them and more than 500 other residents out of the Elan City Lights apartment complex.
Since then, Brockway and other former residents said at a press briefing Saturday morning, communication from apartment management — as well as from Greystar, which owns the complex — has been frustratingly scant, both in terms of substance and frequency.
Meanwhile, they said, their lives are in limbo as they try to move on, with little idea of how, when or if they would be able to recover the things left behind. But some of their things — like that lemon tree, an item whose value was more than monetary — can never be replaced.
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