I may just post one area at a time. Don't want to make very lengthy posts.
This is Oak Cliff, just directly south of Downtown from the Trinity River. Oak Cliff is like a city within Dallas and it is broken up into sections. This section of Oak Cliff is North Oak Cliff - the original section, a former independent city and streetcar suburb. North Oak Cliff has its own neighborhoods, this is a picture (slightly old now) of Jefferson Blvd in the foreground with Bishop Arts in the middle and Downtown in the background. The mid-rises in the distance is part of the redevelopment going on in Bishop Arts. The city has completely rezoned this area over a decade ago now, to allow for dense urban mixed-use development. The city has upgraded the major streets by converting some back to two way or doing a "complete streets" reconstruction. The red arrow is Bishop Ave. That's one of the streets that was reconstructed to connect Bishop Arts with Jefferson Blvd. Both Jefferson Blvd and Bishop Arts are historic streetcar nodes that developed when Dallas had streetcars. Bishop Arts was the busiest streetcar stop in Dallas. The Black Box behind that new apartment midrise is the planned location of another apartment midrise. The blue box is the phase two location of a mixed use development, that's adjacent to it. The goal is for this area to become a single dense walkable neighborhood. Much of the original housing stock was demolished overtime after white flight during the late 60s and 70s. Common to most inner city areas, they all declined as people moved to the suburbs or newly developed suburban areas within the city. The city also added a streetcar line in North Oak Cliff and it stops at Bishop Arts expansion on Zang Blvd.
Clean pic
The revitalized streetcar nodes are being used as a way to create a complete urban neighborhood. They're extending these nodes further and adding apartments and ground floor retail. Here's one project Victor Prosper Phase II --
Renderings of the project --
Pictures showing it nearing completion on Instagram. New development started here in this area started less than 10 years ago.
In this video taken less than a week ago during Bishop Arts' downtime, it’s cool seeing development popping up along the streetcar line starting at 4:00 to 7:00. Still a lot of infill needed on the remaining empty lots, but progress nonetheless. TBH this is what gentrification in Dallas looks like. You can see the façade in the Instagram pic in Bishop Arts at 7:15 (and the streetcar stop). At 12:45, you can see the Madison Ave and 7th St side, which will have restaurant space on the ground floor. I guess interest rates are the reason it is taking the phase two of the adjacent development at 15:00 so long to start. Those parking lots and older red roof apartments suppose to mirror what’s built next to it (that's what I mentioned as the blue box in the first pic), extending Bishop Arts closer to Jefferson Blvd (which are separated about 4 blocks). Bishop Arts ends at 17:36. Right next to that apartment building on the left at 17:36, HEB plans to build an urban Central Market store with apartments. Oak Cliff ends around 20:20 and you can see all the new 5 over 1s built on Beckley Avenue just south of 30, before North Oak Cliff transitions into West Dallas.
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5CZrVSMUKY
This is more of a driving tour of Oak Cliff, which features all of Jefferson Blvd (3:00-6:08), Davis St (8:40-12:00), and Bishop Arts (12:00-14:10 shown during the summer when it's poppin') -- all of those former streetcar nodes, with Jefferson Blvd being the "old Downtown Oak Cliff" -- a 10 block (1 mile long) commercial district. Also, you can see the historic Texas Theater where Lee Harvey Oswald was taken into custody. This area is in transition. The city is trying to build on the momentum that's happening in the area with the new Oak Cliff deck park nearby that will be completed by 2026 (Link to the story about the deck park:
https://youtu.be/Z6kMYR_vecI?si=5mknYUMqaQJ86lK7). It will connect North Oak Cliff and the Dallas Zoo in East Oak Cliff over I-35E. Developers have already bought up land around the Deck Park. I have heard rumors that the streetcar will eventually connect to the Deck Park. The Oak Cliff Streetcar is planned to be connected to the McKinney Avenue Trolley in Uptown Dallas with a downtown central streetcar link. I would say it will take another 10+ years to really connect all of these nodes together that exists in this one area. The city already has the zoning in place to make it happen. The city and neighborhood wants additional residential density, to support the businesses on Jefferson.
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfIE2oQmaLY&t=762s
Now this is just a kinda a fun fact type of thing
Jefferson Blvd and Zang Blvd - 1956 with streetcars
Jefferson Blvd and Zang Blvd - 1957 after streetcars removed
Video of Jefferson Blvd in 1971 during integration. More healthy overall here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p98vo1Sf4Nk