DALLAS | 2401 McKinney | FT | 27 FLOORS

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New McKinney Avenue tower will rise from block occupied by Truluck’s, Gold’s Gym in Uptown

Project Location

The 27-story office and retail tower will sit on a prime corner on McKinney Avenue, Uptown’s “Main Street,” making it the tallest building on McKinney Avenue.

Trammell Crow Co. plans to build the 2401 McKinney tower on the block between Maple Avenue and Fairmount Street.

The more than 2-acre site next to the Crescent is occupied by Truluck’s restaurant and Gold’s Gym.

“It’s in the heart of Uptown,” Trammell Crow senior managing director and principal Scott Krikorian said. “It’s a great opportunity for us to transform this underutilized site with a world-class office development with a significant amount of street retail.

Truluck’s will be the anchor retail tenant for the project.

“They had a 20-year lease,” Krikorian said. “The key was to work out a deal with them to provide for a new restaurant in the building.”

Crow Co. has been working on the site for years.

Plans for the building call for 670,000 square feet of offices, 15,000 square feet of retail and underground parking.

Crow Co. selected Connecticut-based architect Pickard Chilton to design the project, and Dallas’ HKS will be the architect of record.

“In January, we did a design competition,” Krikorian said. “We had five world-class architects come in and give their vision for the site.”

Landscape architect James Burnett will also work on the 2401 McKinney project.

Krikorian said Crow Co. wants the new tower to be worthy of a neighborhood that already has high-profile buildings by architects Philip Johnson, Robert A.M. Stern and César Pelli.

“The buildings are all here along McKinney, from the Crescent to the Ritz-Carlton go McKinney and Olive — incredible architecture,” he said. “We wanted to do something that would be different but also in the same genre of great architecture.”

The 2401 McKinney tower will have landscaped plaza areas on the street and terraces on cantilevered sections of the building’s floors.

“We’ve tried to maximize the open space and push back from the surrounding buildings,” Krikorian said. “We set the building back along Maple so that we could create a connection of our plaza that aligns with the Crescent’s motor court.”

Crow Co. plans to start construction on the tower early next year with an opening in mid-2023.

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Nice!