Apartment Abundance

The 10 biggest fancy apartment complexes blow up Dallas housing market

Common space at Elan City Lights apartments in Dallas

Elan City Lights is the biggest apartment building to go up in Dallas last year.

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That rental reprieve that was forecasted for 2016 might have something to do with the number of apartments constructed in Dallas in 2015. Although not quite as busy as they were in 2014, when they built more than 6,000 units, developers still erected 19 buildings with more than 50-plus units each, totaling 5,351 new apartments this past year.

RentCafe looked at the newcomers to determine the 10 largest contributors to the rental market, using data from "apartment market intelligence source" Yardi Matrix. Let's just say there are some behemoth new living choices in Dallas.

Elan City Lights, on Live Oak near the Latino Cultural Center, is the biggest, with 424 units and a whopping 320,737 total square feet. The LEED-proposed Silver 3700M, on McKinney Avenue in Uptown, is close behind, with 381 units spread out over 340,864 square feet. The Alexan Fairmount comes in third, with 368 units, most of which are one-bedroom apartments.

Not all of these new complexes are in and around downtown; Lake Highlands, Prestonwood, and Addison all make appearances on the top 10 list, which includes these:

Olympus at Ross, 368 rental units
NorthRock Lake Highlands, 362 rental units
Locale, near Lemmon and Dallas North Tollway, 348 rental units
SkyHouse Dallas, near the Perot Museum, 336 rental units
Aura Prestonwood, 322 rental units
VV&M Boutique Residential Living, by Montfort and Belt Line, 310 rental units
One Dallas Center, near Bryan and St. Paul, 276 rental units

All told, these 10 properties account for 3,500 of the new units constructed in 2015. As is to be expected, all of these apartment communities boast top-of-the-line finishes and perks: tanning beds, relaxation gardens, granite and quartz countertops, fitness and yoga studios, and dog runs.

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Viral food critic Keith Lee has moved from Las Vegas to Dallas

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TikTok food critic Keith Lee is now a Texas resident.

Social media sensation and local restaurant reviewer Keith Lee has packed his bags and made the big move from Las Vegas to Texas.

The famous food critic "let the cat out of the bag" officially in a recent post on the social media platform TikTok, where he posts all of his restaurant reviews. But he'd already previously revealed that he and his wife, Ronnie, became homeowners in a different video posted in mid-October.

"Not only have those food reviews played a pivotal role in changing me and my family's life, over 150 families' lives across the nation in less than a year's time," Lee said in the video. "And on top of that, I just became the first person in an entire generation to own a house."

Though Lee didn't share which Texas city he and his family moved to, posts on X (formerly known as Twitter) tipped it off that he'd moved to Dallas, while at the same time urging fans to give the guy some privacy.

"If you’ve met Keith Lee in Dallas recently don’t be weird and post what area," one X user wrote. "He’s still human & he’s new here. Let’s not ruin it."

Lee is no stranger to Dallas, after having spent a week in Dallas-Fort Worth in February 2024. He visited local restaurants like Brunchaholics, Thunderbird Pies, Halal Fuzionz, and more.

He also made a special visit to Taste Project in Fort Worth to donate $4,000 to support the nonprofit's mission to fight food insecurity.

In June, Lee swing back through Dallas to partner with Microsoft in a project called "The Reheat," to show how the tech company's AI products can help three Black-owned restaurants deal with business surges.

Most recently, Lee returned to Dallas to review the classic and buzzy food offerings at the Texas State Fair, such as a steak kabob, cotton candied bacon, turkey leg tacos, and much more. Maybe the State Fair is what cinched the win over Houston, which he visited in November 2023.

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