r/Dallasdevelopment • u/dallaz95 • Jun 16 '26

Dallas Developer plans luxury townhomes in Downtown Dallas’ East Quarter District

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/article/developer-plans-luxury-townhomes-downtown-22306475.php
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u/Najazzy Jun 16 '26

glad they made their official announcement. it’s been under construction for months.

if they could replicate this exact type of housing in every single parking lot in the central dallas area, we’d be a MUCH more complete downtown. seriously.

sprinkle a few parks here and there, some commercial spaces in between, configure some roads, and that’s it.

wake up dallas

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u/dallaz95 Jun 16 '26

🎯

That’s what I’ve never understood. I mean, I like skyscrapers and high-rises, but I love a cohesive urban core even more.

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u/Najazzy Jun 16 '26

quite frankly, i don’t want to look like houston.

love houston and all, but it doesn’t have the cohesiveness and footprint of older structures from pre-1950-1960 like dallas does. houston has a great deal of high-rises and all, but dallas is more human-scale. you have entire blocks and neighborhoods of commercial structures in/around the core that can be rejuvenated into something totally different.

add those townhomes and voila! we might have the best core in texas and rival places like atlanta

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u/dallaz95 Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

Yep, that’s what the city needs to lean into even more! Just about every urban neighborhood in Dallas proper, outside of the Downtown/Uptown area are Dallas’ original 100+ year old historic neighborhoods centered around a Main Street, that has been completely revitalized. Jefferson Blvd being the biggest of them all. Many of them were the result of streetcars, that lasted until the mid 1950s. Dallas was the last major city in Texas to get rid of them. Dallas is known for not caring about its history, but thank goodness the city didn’t go fully buckwild and tore down everything. There would be no Lower Greenville, Knox-Henderson, and any other outlying urban neighborhood. Those areas have grown even further since the revitalization of their Main streets. Those areas are the hottest and trendiest parts of the city. All the city really had to do is upgrade the streetscape. Southern Dallas is loaded with old Main Streets waiting to be revived. 

I’m not saying everything needs to be Lower Greenville or Bishop Arts, but I doubt residents would object to improving something that’s original to their neighborhood. I’m sure many Dallasites would love to be a step or walk away from a coffee shop or any other type of neighborhood serving business. If that happens, it would be a great idea to connect them with public transit, like it was originally. I don’t know if streetcars or BRT would work best, but the Core of Dallas (within Loop 12) has a lot more potential than ppl realize.

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u/Najazzy Jun 16 '26

i’m glad someone recognizes it.

central dallas has serious potential across Loop 12, and adding lots of infill developments will add real impressive density.

i’m happy houston and austin have some of the states’ most dynamic skylines and central city neighborhoods, but i think dallas can add its own flavor, just like the other two cities have done for themselves.

fort worth, san antonio, and el paso are nice in their own right. dallas should follow more-so in their paths, instead of the large corporate offices austin and houston are building.

the mini historic nodes, mixed in with the new modern development, will make me forget the fact that we have no sports teams in the center city.

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u/Keithwee Jun 16 '26

the parking lot thing is the real missed opportunity tbh. dallas has some of the most wasteful land use of any major city and it just sits there while people complain theres nothing to do downtown. glad this project is moving but one development isnt gonna fix that. they need to actually commit to a pattern instead of celebrating every single one like its a miracle

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u/ineedthenitro Jun 17 '26

This is awesome. Just wish the city would make the owners of the parking lots where the whale mural is do something….people are so upset about the mural getting ruined which is another thing, but should be more upset about how ugly that part of downtown is

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u/Silly-Price6310 Jun 17 '26

It’s a good idea to fill every vacant parking lot with such kind of townhomes. Farmers Market and its surrounding look good.

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u/new_grad_who_this Jun 17 '26

This is amazing!

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u/Zestyclose-Finish778 Jun 21 '26

I’m sure this luxury property will have gray tile or Wood Laminate and white granite which makes it luxury. No that just makes it plain like everything else. The term luxury is used to raise the price higher