New East Side Driver Is $30M Int'l Mixed-Use

ARLINGTON, TX-After two years of working the plan, a local developer has penciled a mid-May groundbreaking for a 41-acre development to transition an infill neighborhood into an upscale international mixed-use market. The $30-million plan is just part of the buzz for the East Arlington pocket.

Kelvin Hoang, president of Equity Co. will build 113,000 sf of retail, 30,000 sf of office and 82 townhouses on a large block of land with frontage along Pioneer Parkway, Arkansas Lane and Sherry and Carter drives. Hoang’s vision–Uptown Market–will be anchored by a 32,000-sf international specialty grocer, a mix of ethnic retailers and restaurateurs for inline space and 16 pad sites as well as townhouses starting at $135,000.

Hoang will roll out Uptown Market at 2445 Carter Dr. as work proceeds on a nearby 57,741-sf dark Tom Thumb grocery store, which was subleased last fall to Fiesta Super Mercado. The mercado has yet to open at 2430 E. Pioneer Pkwy., but word from the inside is the work has at last begun. The mercado operator from Dallas initiated the deal with Lincoln National Group of Fort Wayne, IN, which was represented Taylor Le Master with the John Bowles Co., also in Dallas.