Mixed-Use Project Gets More Love With Planned Office

The multi-story office building is planned for 150,000 square feet of space with views of downtown.

DALLAS—In the fast-growing Love Field district, West Love is the $200 million mixed-use project located on 37 acres on Mockingbird Lane between Maple Avenue and Forest Park Road. A proposed office building is a key element in the mixed-use plan for the project. KDC has plans to develop the multi-story office building located at 2345 W. Mockingbird Ln. KDC’s new 150,000-square-foot office building will include structured parking along with views of Love Field and downtown Dallas. Bill Guthrey , KDC senior vice president, tells GlobeSt.com: “It is exciting to have a Mockingbird Lane address right by Dallas Love Field in this key area of Dallas. Companies want the best location, along with access to amenities such as the dual-branded Westin hotel, retail and multifamily. This is the perfect backdrop for our office building and a great addition to the West Love project.” In addition to the office building, West Love’s initial phase includes two Starwood hotels, 368 luxury apartment homes, and 65,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space. A later phase will include an additional 750 apartments.  West Love’s “Main Street” lined with retail and restaurants will stretch along Mockingbird Lane. “West Love will be a vibrant and walkable mixed-use development near two of the biggest economic engines in North Texas–Dallas Love Field and the Medical District,” says Guthrey. Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide with Atlantic Hotels Group and Civitas Capital Group are developing the 224-room, dual-branded Aloft and Element hotel project, now under construction and slated for completion in December 2016.  The hotel is expected to receive the US Green Building Council’s LEED certification. Highridge Partners and affiliates will develop the apartments and retail spaces expected to be completed in mid-2017. West Love will be a pedestrian-friendly community with extensive landscape and hardscape treatments within its public spaces and common grounds. “We are immensely pleased to have one of the premier office developers in Dallas join our project,” said Jorge Ramirez , partner of Highridge Partners, developer of West Love. “In the coming year, West Love will be an inviting gathering place for the surrounding neighborhoods, our residents, tenants and hotel guests, and an attractive destination for the thousands of people who work at Love Field and the Medical District .”