{"id":631,"date":"2025-10-13T17:03:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T17:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/631\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T17:03:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T17:03:17","slug":"279-unit-polk-street-apartment-complex-to-start-construction-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/631\/","title":{"rendered":"279-unit Polk Street apartment complex to start construction in December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tConstruction on a downtown redevelopment project is set to start at the end of the year, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tdlr.texas.gov\/TABS\/Search\/Print\/TABS2025026678\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">filing<\/a> with the Texas Department of Licensing and Registration.<\/p>\n<p>What you need to know<\/p>\n<p>Richardson City Council members <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/dallas-fort-worth\/richardson\/government\/2025\/02\/11\/downtown-richardson-redevelopment-project-to-add-279-apartments\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">approved<\/a> the redevelopment project at their Feb. 10 meeting after several Richardson residents spoke both in favor and against the project.<\/p>\n<p>The 303,700-square-foot apartment complex will include 279 units and is located on Polk Street, near the intersection of S. Greenville Avenue and E. Main Street.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the complex will be four stories with a five-story parking garage, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tdlr.texas.gov\/TABS\/Search\/Print\/TABS2025026678\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">filing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Zooming in<\/p>\n<p>In order to build the apartment complex, numerous properties will be demolished and removed, including:<\/p>\n<p>Four commercial buildings, including Staycation CoffeeThree undeveloped propertiesTwo parking lotsOne residential property<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>However, Staycation Coffee <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/dallas-fort-worth\/richardson\/business\/2025\/07\/24\/staycation-coffee-relocation-canceled-store-set-to-close-in-september\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">closed<\/a> in September instead of relocating as originally planned due to a \u201cmyriad of things [that] shifted behind the scenes,\u201d according to a social media post from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DMFqrqLsjwm\/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">business<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The project will also close McKinney Street from Polk Street to Kaufman Street, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cor.net\/home\/showpublisheddocument\/42595\/638745462849570000\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">city documents<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The multifamily complex was allowed by right but included design changes that required city approval, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cor.net\/home\/showpublisheddocument\/42595\/638745462849570000\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">city documents<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One more thing<\/p>\n<p>The complex is being developed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highstreetresidential.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">High Street Residential<\/a>, which is a subsidiary of Trammel Crow Company.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Construction on a downtown redevelopment project is set to start at the end of the year, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[712,713,716,715,714,160,718,711,723,162,161,721,720,722,719,1019,1018,1021,1023,1024,1020,1022,717],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-dallas-fort-worth","tag-downtown-plano","tag-independence-construction","tag-park-and-preston","tag-parker-road","tag-plano","tag-plano-budget","tag-plano-construction","tag-plano-fire","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-plano-parks","tag-plano-parks-and-recreation","tag-plano-police","tag-plano-tax-rate","tag-polk-street-apartment","tag-richardson-development","tag-richardson-downtown-apartment","tag-richardson-road-closures","tag-richardson-road-updates","tag-staycation-coffee-richardson","tag-transportation-updates","tag-us-75-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","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=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}