Arlington Highlands East
Extended Arlington Highlands with an entertainment, hospitality, and dining phase at a marquee corner — adding hotel and restaurant tenancy to the wider destination.
Located in a retail market with exceptional potential, Arlington Highlands East was one of the most exciting entertainment, hospitality, and dining additions to the overall Arlington Highlands project. It is located at a major corner in the city and west bound off-ramp of Interstate 20.
One of the goals of the original Arlington Highlands development was to provide a unique, community-driven shopping destination for the citizens of Arlington and its visitors where they can "shop, dine, work, play and stay." With a seven story lifestyle hotel, the Arlington Highlands East addition added the "stay" component of the project whereby the "play" component was completed with two high profile national entertainment anchors: Dave & Busters and Splittsville.
This phase brought fine dining restaurants, two additional park areas containing water features, and considerably more retail space offered in a lifestyle setting. It is important to note that the 80% pre-leased tenants in this project were new to the city of Arlington.
Arlington Highlands East presented a number of challenges including land assemblage, an off-site detention facility, a zoning case, and TXDOT approvals as a result of its location. From an architectural standpoint, the need and desire to seamlessly connect the project to the adjacent Arlington Highlands development was a genuine challenge and needed creativity and expertise to execute without issue.
At completion, Arlington Highlands East consisted of approximately 160,000 SF and has an estimated value of over $60,000,000. The projected annual sales at Arlington Highlands East are in excess of $70,000,000, with the City portion approaching $2.5 million annually.