Downtown Hyperlocal Conversation: The Transformation at West End Station

Hyperlocal Conversations are neighborhood-specific monthly gatherings where neighbors explore ways to improve walkability where they live. Visit our website, dallasurbanists.org/hyperlocal, to learn more about the program, see our full schedule of upcoming conversations, and find or start a conversation in your neighborhood.

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This month's discussion: Redevelopment of West End Square ft Zachary Krochtengel, Sycamore Development

There's been a lot of bad news for Downtown this past year; let's hear some good news! For today's discussion, Zachary will talk about his historic redevelopment project by West End Station. This isn't a future plan; it's a real project that broke ground a few months this year!

Project description from the city's website:

West End Square Lofts is a proposed mixed use development located on the 700 and 800 block of Elm Street adjacent to the West End DART rail station. The project components are a historic building, a historic garage, and a new apartment building totaling approximately 288,000 gross square ft. A total of 20,000 square feet of retail and 205,000 square feet of apartment construction is planned. The site will include an approximately half acre pedestrian plaza between the residential and parking components. Within the existing historic building and the new construction component, 154 units of housing are planned with a portion including affordable workforce housing.

The goal of this new development is to provide affordable housing, revitalize the area around the West End DART station, and provide a new retail destination around the pedestrian plaza. West End Lofts will remove almost an acre of existing surface parking in the downtown grid and
replaces it with open space and new housing.