Lofty Expectations

SOUTHERN LIVING

Many Dallas and Houston residents have grown tired of suburbia, so they’re trading their big yards and spacious cars for loft living and a good pair of walking shoes.
By: Lynn Ashby

(excerpted)
We work there. So we eat there. And shop there. And play there. Now we can live there. Finally.

After 20 years of rumors and false starts, some of the most historic and handsome buildings at downtown Dallas’ very heart are being respectfully transformed into bright, airy, loft-style units of domesticity – with big windows, wide-open floor plans (averaging about 1,000 square feet), fair prices ($1 to $1.50 per square foot), and architectural details.

Those who choose the lifestyle enjoy total immersion in the city center’s euphonious collision of history, culture and commerce – music from the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, murmuring lunch crowds pouring from office towers, Neiman Marcus’s corner windows, bus-stop preachers, sculpture parks, jackhammers pounding in front of carved-stone building facades, whispery transit trains, sirens in the night. Now imagine home in the middle of it. …..

Feature Photo Caption: Southwest Properties Group is transforming Dallas’ Santa Fe II into a 205-unit apartment building.