with the starting price for the smallest of homes in the area rising to over $300K, the residents are gonna push out these types of businesses…

The economy has nothing to do with it. Those bars/restaurants sucked. You guys ever eat at some of those places? Gag me wiff a spoon!

I agree with the above but will add that the neighborhood has deterred North Dallasites from coming down as well. I love Teppo but the area is a bit creepy at night especially on weekends. I always am sad to see any business fail but hopefully if the bars go away the replacement business will encourage more diversity in the area.

Even Lower G’ville is slowing down like Lowest.

I respectfully disagree with you, Jessica. I’d say higher density redevelopment is in the works for Lower and Lowest. Businesses on the ground floor and lofts on top.

Recruit the Andres Brothers to lease out these spaces. They are locals who have the long-term interests of the city in mind. And they are doing a great job on Henderson.

I don’t have any financial interest in their company - other than my Cochran Heights home has gone up 359% in value since they starting revitalizing Henderson.

“New apartment, retail complex going up on Greenville http://www.dallasnews.com/shar.....1b9ae.html

the biggest problem, at least in my not-so-humble opinion, with businesses on the ground floor and lofts on top is who over the age of 22 wants to live above a restaurant or bar?

i have no idea why someone with a family would live in that “uptown” area, but i guess some do, although i doubt many Texans want to live in high density areas. the ones that do, move to NYC, LA, D.C. etc.

and that whole multi-use malarkey simply isn’t feasible in today’s market no matter how much real estate agents/developers want to believe it is

look at the fiasco that is GloryPark in Arlington…if Mr. Hicks is having trouble finding adequate financing and tenants then that doesn’t bode well for a possibly similar, albeit smaller, development on greenville

Despite Michael and Jason’s like-yikes-Scoob trepidation, and over Jessica’s objections, it is precisely the grit of Lower Greenville that may prevent it from becoming another Snyder Plaza. It’s a very cyclical place, and its latest incarnation finds it as a stomping ground for bellicose, profoundly ill-bred frat boys drinking more than they can handle and “slumming it” with sociopathic, deeply ignorant inner-city cheese dealers. The kinds of establishments that cater these ****** are here-today-gone-tomorrow by nature; just by happenstance, several of them have hit the skids at the same time. Coffeehouses, hipster boutiques, etc., would do better here than anywhere else in town — certainly better than Deep Ellum (no offense, DM). As for Snyder Plaza, no hipster would be caught dead there. (No big fan of hipsters, but it’s a very legitimate demographic.)God bless Kuby’s, but they really should just rename that whole area Cotton Island.

The question is whether “better than anywhere else in town” is good enough. Is that a canary I hear, or have the frat boys just stopped honking the horns of their Broncos?

Daniel: Broncos, really? that’s so 90’s (or was it 80’s). I think you were thinking Yukons, but whatever. Frat boys are a legit demo as well. I think I will start a charity with that tagline.