Dallas real estate, architecture, and city life
There are plenty of boutique shops still open for Christmas in the Knox District , but faithful patrons looking for a new look on Knox Street have a long wait ahead. For over a century, the Knox District preserved the feel of an old-timey commercial Main Street, but the September closing of the Highland Park Soda Fountain…
Although local developers tried, Victory Park in Dallas did not land an Amazon HQ2 — but with three more tower projects in progress in or very near the district, there will still be plenty of cranes going into 2019. Let’s take a tour: The Victor In the spring, Houston-based developer Hines submitted plans for a 39-story residential tower , but we could…
Real estate firm Todd Interests made a splash at the start of the year when word went out the developer was buying up nearly two dozen properties in the southeast sector of downtown Dallas’ Central Business District. The acquisitions encompass parts of the Main Street District and Harwood Street Historic District, but CEO Shawn Todd had a…
Just west of the twin brick arches at Market and Elm Streets, which mark the gateway to the Historic West End of downtown Dallas, you can’t help but notice the faded, ghostly five-story advertisements drifting in and out of focus on the side of the Purse Building. That ghost writing might be the only thing many Dallasites recall about…
Drever Capital Management received its fair share of good press over the last two years, as the owners of the California-based real estate investment outfit rode into Dallas like knights in shining armor to save one of downtown’s largest and best-known skyscrapers. Purchased out of bankruptcy in early 2016, the 52-story First National Bank tower was…
Geographically located at the north central apex of Deep Ellum , the Continental Gin Building, for all its great expanse, sits hidden behind unkempt alley trees and the two- and three-story Elm Street Lofts that were also once part of the Continental Gin Company complex. Starting in 1888, it took Continental Gin 26 years to complete construction of…
