Chuy’s, a Tex-Mex restaurant that opened on Dallas’ McKinney Avenue in 1993, has been bulldozed. Crews knocked down the building near Knox Street this week to make way for a 12-story office tower.

The demolition was expected, and Chuy’s ceased operations at that address in spring 2025. The operators took the restaurant’s iconic Elvis statue with them and relocated to Greenville Avenue. By Cinco de Mayo last year, the new Chuy’s was serving margaritas, queso and enchiladas in East Dallas.

What’s now a pile of bricks near Dallas’ Knox Street will eventually be a building so tall, it’ll be visible from Central Expressway. Dallas Morning News business reporters Nick Wooten and Neal Franklin report that the coming-soon structure, called Knox & McKinney, is expected to be finished in 2028. 

The plan is financed in part by Dell founder Michael Dell. The project is a joint venture with BDT & MSD Partners, Trammell Crow Company, the owners of Highland Park Village and The Retail Connection.

The Katy Trail is the heartbeat of the reinvented area, Dallas developer Ray Washburne told us last year. Washburne remembers being a kid biking to Ashburn’s Ice Cream, which was on the same block as current-day Knox Street staples Toulouse and Taverna. A shop long known as Highland Park Pharmacy and later called Highland Park Soda Fountain was open nearby for 106 years before its closure nearly a decade ago. Today that plot is high-end restaurant Mister Charles, with a new tower above it. 

Apple, Yeti, Lululemon and others opened in the Knox area while family-owned custard place Wild About Harry’s moved, then closed, dodging new development.

“Knox is on fire,” Washburne said in 2025. “The Katy Trail is Dallas’ oceanfront property.”