Trammell Crow eyes Uptown restaurant site for 20-story apartment and retail tower

A familiar Uptown property is being eyed for a new high-rise project.

Trammell Crow Co. is seeking zoning permits to build a vertical mixed-use development on the Cafe Express site at McKinney Avenue and Bowen Street.

The single-floor Dallas restaurant occupies a tract of more than an acre thats zoned for high-rise office and retail construction.

Crow Co. says the planned project at 3230 McKinney Ave. will have 271 apartments in a 20-story tower.

There will be 13,000 square feet of ground-floor retail, including a spot for Cafe Express.

Crow will also build an expanded facility for the McKinney Avenue Transit Authority. The streetcar line would get new trolley barn space, offices and an exhibit area in the building on Bowen Street.

The developer has been quietly working on the project for more than a year.

Its taken a lot of time to put together, Crow senior vice president Joel Behrens said. The cafe has a great restaurant, and they like that spot.

The restaurant has operated on the busy corner since 1996.

Cafe Express would move in the new retail to a space that faces McKinney. The apartment tower will be moved to the back of the lot on Oak Grove Avenue.

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