A state district court judge approved an agreement between the City of Dallas and the owners of a historic Dallas meatpacking company, allowing the business to reopen after being closed for more than a year.
Following a vote by the City of Dallas Board of Adjustment in April 2012 to revoke Columbia Packing Company's certificate of occupancy, the business asked the district court to determine that the revocation was improper and to allow Columbia to resume meat processing and packing operations as well as distribution from the facility in east Oak Cliff.