Village View apartment FisherRoad and Skillman

[SDORN]

The re some mention on the signature point thread about this one, but moderator how about moving the post that pertain to this building here. Intercon demo has got yet another big apartment demo.

Here is the ist photo to start the thread.

http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/3725/villageviewlu1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Forrest Gump]

http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/DN-village_25bus.ART0.State.Edition1.3a1dd9f.html

2008
By STEVE BROWN / The Dallas Morning News
stevebrown@dallasnews.com

Another major Dallas apartment community has a date with the bulldozer.

The Village View Apartments at Skillman Street and Fisher Road are being demolished to make way for redevelopment.

Built in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the rental community is across the street from Medallion Center and is just east of the big Village apartment complex.

Florida-based developer ZOM Inc. acquired the buildings in late January. All the tenants have been relocated.

The new owners plan to replace the old complex with 422 new units – about the same number being knocked down.

"Demolition should begin in about 90 days," said Kevin Wisdom, who heads ZOM's Dallas office. "We think it's an attractive location."

The two- and three-story apartment buildings planned for the site will stretch along Southwestern Boulevard from Skillman to Abrams Road.

Mr. Wisdom said construction will start in June and should take more than a year to complete. The new apartments will rent for about $1.40 per square foot.

ZOM has recently been an aggressive developer in Dallas' Uptown neighborhood. The builder constructed the high-rise Mondrian apartments on North Central Expressway near the West Village. And near the Crescent, ZOM developed the Trianon apartments on McKinnon Street.

The area around ZOM's Village View apartment site on Fisher is also a neighborhood that's in the midst of a makeover.

Developer Trammell Crow Co. is demolishing the nearby Timbercreek apartments on Northwest Highway to make way for a shopping center.

And Village apartments owner Lincoln Property has replaced many of the oldest units in that complex with new buildings.

To the south, near Lovers Lane and Skillman, developers are buying up even more old apartment buildings for redevelopmen

[jimbone]

This is just overbuilding there is no need for any new shopping center.

[SDORN]

Here a view from Abrams and Fisher

http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/139/villageviewabramsbd4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/139/villageviewabramsbd4.f8f948b4cc.jpg (http://g.imageshack.us/g.php?h=522&i=villageviewabramsbd4.jpg)

[amshepar]

glad to see these go too. i used to alway see teenagers stealing stuff from the 7-11 across the street and running into the apartment complex. Also, the first floor of these are partly below ground. Some of the first floor windows are about even with the ground outside. You don't see that in development anymore. Its not much more to simply level the ground and raise the structure higher. It creates more prominence in the structure.

[vman]

This is just overbuilding there is no need for any new shopping center.
I kinda agree with you. With that mega shopping center going up across from Npark and the other development going in due NW of Npark, this seems a little much. I would have loved to see this site dedicated to well built, urban designed single family housing. It would have been a good way to draw people into this area that may never have looked at the eastern side of central to purchase a home.

[hamiltonpl]

It's going to be apartments. . . not a shopping center.

[jimbone]

It's going to be apartments. . . not a shopping center.
Really well if true then they will be torn down in another 2-5 years

[hamiltonpl]

Really well if true then they will be torn down in another 2-5 years
Post #2 clearly says that apartments will be built. It said "the new owners plan to replace the old complex with 422 new units – about the same number being knocked down. "

Which 2 year-old complexes have been torn down before? That's quite a bizarre statement.

[vman]

It's going to be apartments. . . not a shopping center.
I thought jimbone was referring to the Timbercreek property across NW Highway where that shopping center will be built.

[LH_Newbie]

I'm surprised they aren't asking for another floor - with the focus on increasing density, it would seem the developer would be able to get that variance pretty easily. The retail in the area certainly wouldn't complain one bit! In fact, doesn't the current zoning allow for 36' (3-story)? I believe that complex is 2-story now, so if it's 400 units, they could easily bump it up to 600 units without a zoning change, assuming parking requirements can be met.

[Lakewooder]

Village View: Vanished