Team Pushing Ahead on Mixed-Use Stadium Plan

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DALLAS-A developer and his Transwestern scouting team aren’t benching a mixed-use plan with a minor league baseball stadium as the anchor. Several cities have come forward to field the play now that Dallas City Council has sidelined a Downtown site.

Transwestern’s Urban Advisory Group, working since June 2006 to assemble the site, will be mailing letters Tuesday to Farmers Market property owners, effectively dropping options and gentlemen’s agreements to 20 acres and thanking them for their support, James Quick, Transwestern’s senior associate, tells GlobeSt.com. “We were impressed with how much owners in that area of town wanted it to happen,” says Quick, who’s teamed with Transwestern principal Sanders Thompson and senior vice president Sheryl Pickens to make the project a reality. The plan calls for a 10-acre stadium and 20 acres with roughly 1,400 apartments and retail.