{"id":451997,"date":"2026-09-30T10:16:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T10:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/451997\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T10:16:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T10:16:21","slug":"amazon-appears-to-be-mystery-tenant-at-galleria-north-tower-in-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/451997\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon appears to be mystery tenant at Galleria North Tower in Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/8a53cfb22b2ed4abf9f3ee8011d71f727a113eff863112a719adcf20302381c9\/lightyear_networkapi\/resizefit_w960%3Bquality_80%3Bformat_webp\/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Fthe_real_deal_435%2F20b72e2ff47bfb38b4e483423a8c3512.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" alt=\"\" height=\"640\" width=\"960\" class=\"yf-1f8hkhu loader\"\/><\/a> Jeff Bezos with Galleria North Tower (Getty, Google Maps)           <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Amazon appears to be the mystery tenant at a 16-story high-rise in Dallas.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Galleria North Tower I at 13737 Noel Road will undergo an estimated $57 million renovation in two phases, according to a recent filing from the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. The project is filed under the name &#8220;DFW 22 Galleria North Tower I Phase 1,&#8221; and the tenant is named as &#8220;DFW 22.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">The owner&#8217;s phone number is linked to an Austin-based Devin Ward. A corresponding Devin Ward is named as a construction manager at Amazon on LinkedIn. The tech giant signed a five-year lease at the nearby Two Galleria Tower in 2024.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">The tower is owned by Boston-based WS Development, which bought the property with a $63 million loan from Athene Annuity &amp; Life Company, according to prior reporting in The Real Deal.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">The renovations are scheduled to take place from Jan 1. 2027 to August 13, 2027. The tower is 395,000 square-feet in total, but the first phase covers approximately 223,000-square-feet.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">The various indicators that seem to point in Amazon&#8217;s direction as the tenant have caught the attention of real estate watches on social media.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">&#8220;While officially unconfirmed, we are betting heavily that this is Amazon,&#8221; posted the account Coming Soon Texas on Facebook. &#8220;The &#8216;DFW 22&#8217; moniker perfectly matches the e-commerce giant&#8217;s signature internal naming convention (using local airport codes and sequential numbers).&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Amenities at Galleria North Tower I include a gym, a cafe and an outdoor courtyard. CBRE handles leasing at the property, TRD reported in 2025.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Amazon or WS Development did not immediately respond to a request for comment.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">As financial firms and tech giants continue to flock to the area, the vacancy rate in Dallas-Fort Worth office markets has been declining. At the end of Q2 2026, the vacancy rate rests at 23.5 percent, decreasing 40 basis points from 23.9 percent a year earlier, according to research from Kidder Matthews.  <\/p>\n<p>        Read more              <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">This article originally appeared on The Real Deal. <a href=\"https:\/\/therealdeal.com\/texas\/2026\/09\/29\/amazon-appears-to-be-tenant-at-dallas-high-rise\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=feed\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click%20here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;source:content-canvas%20default\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Click here&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yTrafficOrigin&quot;:&quot;content-canvas default&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Click here<\/a> to read the full story.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos with Galleria North Tower (Getty, Google Maps) Amazon appears to be the mystery tenant at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5559,102,104,103,155369,155371,5220,155370,6969],"class_list":["post-451997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-amazon","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-devin-ward","tag-galleria-tower","tag-jeff-bezos","tag-north-tower","tag-texas-department-of-licensing-and-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}