Link: http://www.dallasobserver.com/2000-10-12/news/deadbird/

From August 2009 until October 2005 I was a hangar tenant at Redbird Airport (or as it is now known, Dallas Executive Airport). I ultimately moved to Lancaster because of escalating hangar rental rates for no improvement in amenities, and a feeling that the airport was being evolved to cater for business aviation, and us "little guys" were no longer welcome.
When I first told fellow pilots that I was considering renting a hangar at Redbird, I was warned off the airport, with lurid tales of theft of avionics and other malfeasance being produced by way of explanation. When I raised these issues with the rental office, they agreed that, yes, all of those things had occurred, since the hangars had been in private ownership, but the city had repossessed them and was going to ensure that things were run properly in the future. I moved into my hangar, and never had any problems with theft or other malfeasance, although the hangar floors were substandard and the taxiways had been built up through resurfacing, which caused water to drain towards (and into) hangars rather than the other way round.
This article in the Dallas Observer, ironically titled "Deadbird", provides a none-too-flattering history of the malfeasance that occcurred at the airport up to the beginning of 2000. Once again, the race issue is writ large in the history, as the airport amenities became part of the minority business boondoggle mindset that seems to be a perennial fixture in city politics in many parts of the modern USA. Reading this article, one could be forgiven for thinking that Redbird Airport at the time was in some Third World country...