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District Rising
Arlington Bets Beyond the Stadiums
Arlington is courting developers and public-private partnerships to grow past its stadium-town identity, and the redevelopment push is gaining real momentum.
The pitch: At Bisnow's Arlington State of the Market on Sept. 30, panelists pointed to retail, mixed-use and hospitality projects rising around an entertainment district that already anchors the Cowboys, Rangers, Six Flags and two Loews hotels.
Filling a gap: Trademark's Monica Luera Kessler said North Arlington trails DFW and South Arlington on retail square footage per capita. Trademark's 43-acre Anthem project aims to close it, having signed 10 tenants, nine of them new to Arlington, with an early-2028 opening.
Reworking the anchors: Fairbourne Properties and AEW Capital Management are redeveloping the 747K SF Arlington Highlands after it slipped below 96% leased, a chance to modernize and bring in new retailers.
Zoning runway: Trademark and Harrison Street secured zoning that could eventually support multifamily, office and hotel development, widening the district's long-term options.
➥ THE TAKEAWAY
The year-round bet: Arlington's wager is that entertainment traffic can seed a durable commercial base, not just game-day spikes. If the mixed-use and retail pipeline leases up, the city finally diversifies beyond the stadiums that put it on the map.
Around Texas
➥ DFW's four counties more than tripled their nominated opportunity zones to 90 tracts under OZ 2.0, steering fresh capital toward urban Dallas and Tarrant.
➥ Victory Park apartments command $891 more a month than Deep Ellum, averaging $2,674 at 95.6% occupancy, proof that Dallas rents turn on micro-location.
➥ Austin's office slump is pushing developers into mixed-use conversions, with vacancy near 25.8% making integrated, multi-demand projects far easier to finance.
➥ A San Antonio Coca-Cola bottler is spending $42M to add roughly 170,000 SF of Eastside warehouse, deepening beverage logistics in a tight industrial market.
➥ Vincent Carrozza, the WWII veteran behind Dallas towers like One Main Place, died at 101, closing a chapter of the city's postwar building era.
➥ A $40M Marriott hotel is rising on the Guadalupe River in New Braunfels, an eight-story, 150-suite SpringHill Suites betting on Hill Country tourism.
Follow the Money
| MULTIFAMILYKATY Dwight Capital closed a $47M HUD 221(d)(4) construction loan for Hunington's 279-unit Vic at Sunterra, a nonrecourse 40-year note. |
| FUNDSTEXAS Texas-based Stonelake closed its $1B Fund VIII, its largest ever, to chase industrial logistics across 13 high-growth markets. |
| POLICYTEXAS Real estate donors are backing Ken Paxton over James Talarico by $1.4M to $272K, a tell on the industry's Senate-race bets. |
| OFFICEAUSTIN Riverside is buying an Austin office asset, a contrarian add in a market where vacancy still runs near record highs. |
| MULTIFAMILYSAN ANTONIO An Alamo Heights owner is eyeing a major addition to its community, a wager on infill demand in one of the metro's priciest pockets. |
| INDUSTRIALFORT WORTH German connector maker Harting is weighing a $192.7M plant that would bring 700 jobs and over 1M SF, relocating its U.S. headquarters. |
| FUNDSDALLAS Stonelake's $1B Fund VIII close, its eighth and largest, shows how Texas investors are steering fresh capital into industrial logistics. |
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