People Newspapers is a Dallas, Texas

Dallas, Texas

Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...

-based publisher of three weekly community newspapers, Park Cities People, Preston Hollow People, and Oak Cliff People.

The publisher began in 1981 with Park Cities People, founded by Reid Slaughter and covering the Park Cities

Park Cities, Texas

Park Cities is a term commonly used in reference to two communities in Dallas County, Texas - the town of Highland Park and the city of University Park...

 enclave of Highland Park

Highland Park, Texas

Highland Park is a town in central Dallas County, Texas, United States. The population was 8,842 at the 2000 census. Located between the Dallas North Tollway and U.S. Route 75 , four miles north of downtown Dallas....

 and University Park

University Park, Texas

University Park is a city in Dallas County, Texas, United States, and a inner suburb of Dallas. The population was 23,324 at the 2000 census. The city is home to Southern Methodist University. Like its neighbor, Highland Park, it is a city partially surrounded by the municipality of Dallas...

. As of April, 2007, the paper's official circulation was 8,200, with the readership having an average household income of $410,472 and average home value of $1,004,340, well above the countywide median

Median

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 home value of $137,200.

In 1989, the company began to publish a second paper, North Dallas People, which was distributed free of charge in additional affluent neighborhoods. Following the 2003 purchase of the company by D Magazine

D Magazine

This article is about the magazine about Dallas. For the Italian magazine, see La Repubblica.D Magazine is a monthly magazine covering Dallas-Fort Worth. It covers a range of topics including politics, business, food, fashion and lifestyle in the city of Dallas. The first issue was published in...

founder Wick Allison

Wick Allison

Wick Allison, birth name Lodowick Brodie Cobb Allison , is an American magazine publisher and author. He currently is the owner of D Magazine, a monthly magazine covering Dallas-Fort Worth, which he co-founded in 1974, and the principal owner of People Newspapers, which he purchased in...

, the company created eight additional niche papers covering similar communities:

• Bent Tree People (Bent Tree and Addison
  Addison, Texas
  Addison is a city in Dallas County, Texas . The population was 14,166 at the 2000 census, and 15,737 according to a 2009 estimate. Addison is a northern suburb of Dallas...
  
  ) - Circulation 2,800
• Bluffview People, (Bluffview
  Bluffview, Dallas, Texas
  Bluffview is an upscale neighborhood in north Dallas, Texas . It is bounded by Lover's Lane on the south, Midway Road on the west, Northwest Highway on the north, and Inwood Road and the Devonshire neighborhood on the east.- Geography :...
  
  , Greenway Parks and Devonshire neighborhoods) - circ. 3,200
• Lake Highlands People (Lake Highlands and White Rock Lake
  White Rock Lake
  White Rock Lake is a reservoir located in east Dallas, Texas . The lake was formed by damming White Rock Creek, which today widens into the lake before continuing south out of the spillway and emptying into the Trinity River...
  
   areas) - circ. 6,600
• Lakewood People (Lakewood) - circ. 5,600
• Oak Cliff People (Oak Cliff) - circ. 3,500
• Preston Hollow People (Preston Hollow
  Preston Hollow, Dallas, Texas
  Preston Hollow is a neighborhood in north Dallas, Texas, USA.-History:In 1924 Ira De-Loache bought a farm in 1924. Preston Hollow's first lots were carved out of the former farm parcels. De-Loache and Al Joyce developed Preston Hollow, with development largely occurring in the 1930s. Initially...
  
   and Strait Lane area) - circ. 8,700
• Turtle Creek People (Turtle Creek, Uptown
  Uptown Dallas
  Uptown is a PID and neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. Uptown is adjacent-to and north-of downtown Dallas, and is bordered by US 75 on the east, N Haskell Avenue on the northeast, Katy Trail on the northwest, Bookhout Street and Cedar Springs Road on the west, N Akard Street on the southwest and Spur...
  
   and West Village) - circ. 2,400
• West Plano People (Plano
  Plano, Texas
  Plano is a city in the state of Texas, located mostly within Collin County. The city's population was 259,841 at the 2010 census, making it the ninth-largest city in Texas and the 71st most populous city in the United States. Plano is located within the metropolitan area commonly referred to as...
  
  ) - circ. 6,000

New parent company Allison's City Newspapers L.P.

Limited partnership

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bought the paper Northside People at the same time as the People Newspapers acquisition and announced the discontinuation of North Dallas People at the same time the eight new papers were established.

External links

• People Newspapers official site