Plano transit development will include pickleball venue as sport’s popularity rises

A brand new transit-oriented development in Plano will include a pickleball middle.

Houston-based developer Hines is teaming up with the landlord of the construction web site alongside DART’s new Silver Line. The builders are in quest of zoning to construct residences, retail and the pickleball facility on seven acres between Metropolitan Avenue and N Street, south of Plano’s ancient downtown.

The undertaking is named Railside Lofts and Courts and could be constructed simply blocks from a brand new commuter rail station. It’s one in every of a number of transit-oriented mixed-use initiatives within the works for the world north of Bush Turnpike.

The proposed development will include 390 residences and the pickleball courts will be positioned in a repurposed current commercial construction at the web site.

“The development will be located at the southeast corner of 13th Street and Municipal Avenue, immediately east of the new 12th Street DART Silver Line Station,” landowner Metropolitan Interests Corp. mentioned in a letter to town planners. “Railside Lofts and Courts will expand live/work/play opportunities that are critical to generating transit ridership and expanding downtown as a regional urban center.”

Developers had been concentrated on houses alongside the brand new transit line working from DFW International Airport to downtown Plano.

“The redevelopment opportunities presented by DART have long been recognized and demonstrated by the transformation of downtown Plano,” Metropolitan Interests’ officers wrote. “Recent area development demonstrates the area of downtown south of 14th Street is transitioning to an urban mixed-use development pattern.”

Plano just lately authorized every other condo undertaking alongside the transit line that will be constructed through Trinsic Residential.

Plano’s making plans workforce highlighted the proximity to the brand new rail station within the submitting for Railside Lofts’ zoning request.

“The proximity to the Silver Line station would likely be an attractive feature of the proposed development to future residents and businesses,” consistent with the zoning submitting. ”Additionally, the request meets the overall imaginative and prescient for mixed-use development within the discipline close to the Downtown Plano Station.”

Dallas architect GFF is designing the undertaking. Houston-based Bouldin Acres will perform the pickleball middle.

“The large warehouse building along the DART railroad right-of-way is proposed to be preserved and re-used as an outdoor commercial amusement development (pickleball),” consistent with the making plans paperwork.

Bouldin Acres operates two pickleball and eating amenities in Houston.

Developers and leisure corporations are scrambling to construct pickleball facilities in North Texas on account of the upward push within the sport’s popularity.

The proposed Plano development will be the newest Dallas-area condo undertaking through developer Hines. The company constructed the 40-story Victor condo high-rise within the Victory Park development northwest of downtown.

In Dallas’ Uptown district, Hines is construction a 21-story condo tower adjoining to the landmark Maple Terrace construction on Maple Avenue.