Dallas Convention Center additions South Side on Lamar American Renaissance Dallas Cedars Station 1994 Convention 2000 2001 Airlines Center 2001 Richardson Hotel Transit-Oriented Center Station Victory Station Galatyn Park Station Over the years, DART rail Sheraton Dallas West Village Colonial Reserve Eisemann Center stations have attracted: Pearl/Arts Cityplace/ Medical District for Performing Arts 1998 District Station 2001 Uptown Station 2007 2002 apartments Galatyn Park Development SWMD/Parkland Station Condo and Mockingbird Station The Awalt Building Rail access to Station Mosaic Apartments ® apartment 2001 Mockingbird 2001 West End Station State Fair of Texas Akard Station Along DART Rail: 1994-2015 Station 2009 Fair Park Station 2007 buildings Eastside Village Granville Arts The Ambrose 21 Forty Medical Downtown Plano Center renovated apartments 2002 Station 2003 2009 2009 District apartments and expanded Baylor Univ. Corporate Highlights of major projects, many still SWMD/Parkland Downtown Medical Ctr. UNION at Station headquarters evolving, illustrate the scale and scope Gilley’s Dallas/ Oaks 5th Street Garland Station Station Carrollton Square Blue Cross Blue Palladium Ballroom Crossing 2003 2009 Downtown Shield campus Cedars Station Downtown Garland 2012 2009 Carrollton Station Galatyn Park Station When DART Rail first opened in 1996, it did more than The Beat Lofts Station DART Police K. Hovnanian Homes Downtown improve mobility – it transformed the real estate environment. 2012 Cedars Station 2011 Headquarters at Mustang Crossing Shops at Park Lane revitalization Illinois Station 2013 Farmers Branch 2009 Park Lane Station Downtown Dallas was the first to benefit from the Southwest’s Station first light rail system. Lofts and luxury apartments began to Perot Museum of Irving Convention Omni Dallas Hotel Mustang Station sprout where formerly underutilized buildings had stood. The Convention Center Nature and Science Center 2012 2012 Farmers Branch Entertainment revitalization continues as new restaurants, retail, hotels and Station Akard Station 2013 2011 Irving Convention KDC Richardson Station venues arts venues take their place in a newly vibrant downtown. George W. Bush Lake Highlands New Parkland Center Station & State Farm Presidential Center Town Center Hospital Richardson 2013 2013 SWMD/Parkland Mockingbird Lake Highlands 2015 Expansion But it was the 2001 opening of the Mockingbird Station mixed-use Station Hospitals Station Lancaster Urban Village Station 2015 Bush Turnpike development, adjacent to its namesake station, which sparked Station Southern Land VA Medical imaginations and firmly established DART Rail as a catalyst 2013 15th & Ave I 2014 Center Station for transit-oriented development (TOD). Artfully mixing new Downtown with old, transit with cars and pedestrians, and residences with Plano Station Hotels restaurants and shops, the compact micro-neighborhood epitomizes New Urbanism and remains its standard bearer in the region. RED LINE BLUE LINE GREEN LINE ORANGE LINE Since then, the viability of TOD – once considered risky and Market Southwestern Medical Inwood/ Multiuse Center District/ Parkland Love Field Burbank Bachman Univ. of Dallas Los Colinas Irving Convention N. Lake College BELT LINE novel here – has become conventional wisdom, and development Urban Center Center developments up and down the DART Rail lines has thrived. Nearly $8 Walnut Hill/ Downtown N. CARROLLTON/ billion in new projects, and millions more in renewal of existing Mockingbird Denton Royal Lane Farmers Branch Carrollton Trinity Mills FRANKFORD properties, is clustered near stations. In addition to helping set Museums and A-Train to Denton (DCTA) performance halls off a building boom, DART has created a more livable region T & P STATION Fort Worth ITC Richland Hills Bell CentrePort/ West Irving Downtown Irving/ Medical/ Victory Cityplace/ ORANGE LINE Weekday Peak Only Heritage Crossing Market Center West End Akard St. Paul Pearl/ by linking employment, medical, educational, recreational and DFW Airport Arts District Uptown entertainment destinations throughout the DART Service Area. Lovers Park Walnut Forest LBJ/ Spring Arapaho Galatyn Bush Downtown PARKER WESTMORELAND Hampton Tyler/Vernon Dallas Lane Lane Hill Lane Central Valley Center Park Turnpike Plano ROAD Zoo 8th & Corinth Cedars Convention Center Union Station Shopping districts NORTH White Rock Lake Highlands LBJ/Skillman Downtown DOWNTOWN LEDBETTER VA Medical Center Kiest Illinois Morrell BUCKNER Lake June Lawnview Hatcher MLK, Jr. Fair Park Baylor University Deep Ellum Forest/Jupiter Medical Center Garland ROWLETT 12 inmotion • Spring 2013.