Hunt Realty Proposes $5B, 3,000-Unit Reunion District Redevelopment

Hunt Realty Investments has proposed a $5 billion mixed-use redevelopment on its more than 20-acre property around Reunion Tower in downtown Dallas, between Interstate 35E and Houston Street. The plan calls for up to 3,000 apartments across roughly a dozen high-rises totaling about 5 million square feet. San Francisco-based Hart Howerton prepared the master plan.

The project includes a 600- to 1,000-room convention hotel, 150,000 square feet of retail, and up to 2 million square feet of office space, plus a 3- to 4-acre public park. The development is timed to coincide with the city's roughly $3 billion rebuild of the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center.

Up to 1,500 units, about half of the planned apartments, are designated as workforce housing. The project would add about 5,000 residents, roughly one-third of downtown's current population. Plans also include redevelopment of historic Union Station and improved pedestrian connections.

Hunt Realty has owned the Reunion property since the 1970s; Reunion Tower and the Hyatt Regency were completed there in 1978.