‘What we do, others will follow.’ Opal Lee ‘delighted’ community named in her honor

A new affordable housing community in Fort Worth is named after the grandmother of Juneteenth, Opal Lee.

Lee, 98, joined community leaders at Thursday’s grand opening of The Opal, a mixed-income housing development in North Fort Worth, near the Alliance area along the 13000 block of Green Cedar Avenue.

We’re honored today to be able to continue her legacy of promoting equality, affordable housing and safe places where families can thrive and children can do better than the next.

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