{"id":231837,"date":"2026-04-02T13:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T13:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/231837\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T13:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T13:40:09","slug":"dallas-restaurant-bulldozed-on-mckinney-avenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/231837\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas restaurant bulldozed on McKinney Avenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chuy&#8217;s, a Tex-Mex restaurant that opened on Dallas&#8217; McKinney Avenue in 1993, has been bulldozed. Crews knocked down the building near Knox Street this week to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/business\/real-estate\/2026\/03\/25\/work-starts-on-new-knox-street-office-development-and-other-d-fw-real-estate-news\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">make way for a 12-story office tower.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/food\/restaurant-news\/2024\/08\/19\/chuys-close-mckinney-knox-dallas-restaurant-move-greenville-ave\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">The demolition was expected<\/a>, and Chuy&#8217;s ceased operations at that address in spring 2025. The operators took the restaurant&#8217;s iconic Elvis statue with them and relocated to Greenville Avenue.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/food\/restaurant-news\/2025\/04\/23\/chuys-moved-greenville-dallas-tango-frogs-rooftop-patio\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">By Cinco de Mayo last year<\/a>, the new Chuy&#8217;s was serving margaritas, queso and enchiladas in East Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s now a pile of bricks near Dallas&#8217; Knox Street will eventually be a building so tall, it&#8217;ll be visible from Central Expressway.\u00a0Dallas Morning News business reporters Nick Wooten and Neal Franklin report that the coming-soon structure, called Knox &amp; McKinney, is expected to be finished in 2028.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The plan is financed in part by Dell founder Michael Dell. The project is a joint venture with\u00a0BDT &amp; MSD Partners, Trammell Crow Company, the owners of Highland Park Village and The Retail Connection.<\/p>\n<p>The Katy Trail is the heartbeat of the reinvented area, Dallas developer Ray\u00a0Washburne told us last year.\u00a0Washburne remembers being a kid biking to Ashburn&#8217;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\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/business\/retail\/2018\/08\/10\/after-106-years-highland-park-soda-fountain-is-closing\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">before its closure nearly a decade ago<\/a>. Today that plot is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/food\/restaurant-news\/2023\/07\/21\/edgy-dallas-restaurant-mister-charles-now-open-in-place-of-highland-park-soda-fountain\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">high-end restaurant Mister Charles<\/a>, with a new tower above it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Apple, Yeti,\u00a0Lululemon and others opened in the Knox area while family-owned custard place Wild About Harry&#8217;s moved, then closed, dodging new development.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Knox is on fire,&#8221; Washburne said in 2025. &#8220;The Katy Trail is Dallas\u2019 oceanfront property.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chuy&#8217;s, a Tex-Mex restaurant that opened on Dallas&#8217; McKinney Avenue in 1993, has been bulldozed. 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