Ten years ago, Leighton Durham, Kirk Pittard and Thad Spalding gladly left downtown Dallas office buildings behind and headed due west across the Trinity River to set up their law practice a mile and a half away in a cozy Oak Cliff rent house.
And as the decade passed, the law partners at Kelly, Durham & Pittard watched outside their office windows in amazement as a stream of other new businesses and residents followed them across the Commerce Street Bridge into this once-neglected area of the city.
