Apartment Construction

Dallas Leads Texas in Putting Up Downtown Digs

By Charles Grand / June 10, 2025 /

Dallas is leading the Lone Star State when it comes to downtown apartment construction, with 7,650 units delivered in the city center between 2020 and 2024, according to a study by RentCafe. The online apartment search website compiled a list of the top 50 cities in the United States by downtown apartment units built during…

Luxury Apartment Overbuilding May Help Tenants Save for Down Payment

By Jon Anderson / February 20, 2018 /

Reasonably-priced new construction is fast becoming one of those stories parents tell wide-eyed offspring about the good old days. We all know that new apartment construction within a reasonable commute to a job center has been almost all-luxury. In fact, since construction restarted post-Recession, RealPage estimates that 75 to 80 percent of all apartment construction…

ULI Fall Meeting in Dallas Provided Insights for Everyone

By Amanda Popken / October 31, 2016 /

The Urban Land Institute held its 2016 Fall Meeting in Dallas last week with a tizzy of tours, sessions, networking events, and dinners. In my experience, the biggest benefit of a conference is in the networking. But the content at this one also covered a large array of subjects, from community engagement to redeveloping skyscrapers, to global trends, to niche discussions…

UPDATED: Work Begins on New Luxury Apartments in West Dallas Near Trinity Groves

By Leah Shafer / January 26, 2015 /

Another residential development is underway near West Dallas’ super hot Trinity Groves neighborhood with the construction of Alta Yorktown by Wood Partners LLC. The development will include 226 luxury apartments in three, four-story buildings on six acres. The property, located at 660 Yorktown St., is just one mile west of downtown Dallas, and sits near the…

Land Purchased for Trinity Village Mixed-Use Development in West Dallas

By Leah Shafer / December 19, 2014 /

More good news for development in West Dallas with word Thursday that Dallas-based Stonelake Capital Partners has closed on a 25-acre tract of industrial property on Singleton Boulevard, west of Sylvan Avenue. Along with developer StreetLights Residential, Stonelake is planning a $200 million mixed-use development at 1000 Singleton Boulevard, on the southwest corner of Singleton and…