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Verizon’s $1.5 billion Irving mixed-use development is poised to move ahead this week
Steve Brown
March 16, 2016

A Las Colinas mixed-use project would add millions of square feet of office space, shopping, apartments and hotel rooms if Irving’s City Council approves the deal this week.

A commuter rail station built at the north end of the project on Hidden Ridge Drive will connect the development with Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Love Field and downtown Dallas.

Plans for the development include more than 3 million square feet of office space, 85,000 square feet of retail, a 150-room hotel and hundreds of new apartments.

The project will be constructed on vacant land across from Verizon’s longtime Irving campus. Part of the development site is the Carpenter family’s original ranch, which became the Las Colinas community.

“We want to see that tidal wave of development keep coming,” Danish said. “This project is ready made for success.”

Construction of the new DART rail station is included in the initial development.

“It’s an affirmation how important our commitment to mass transit has been,” Danish said.

The Hidden Ridge station was one of three deferred transit stops DART could still build in Irving, he said.

“We are taking what was built as a very exurban campus and working with them to build in a neighborhood center and amenities for what will be sites for several headquarters properties,” said Gensler’s Barry Hand.

KDC is talking to several potential companies that could relocate to planned office buildings in the Hidden Ridge campus.

One of the firms interested in the development is Pioneer Natural Resources, an energy firm that is already located in Las Colinas.

Pioneer now leases about 600,000 square feet in the Williams Square high-rise complex on O’Connor Boulevard.

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