Sports, Shopping, Working And Living Mix At Glorypark
New development features retail, multifamily, hotel space and other uses adjacent to Rangers Ballpark.
Randall Shearin

Steiner + Associates and Hicks Holdings are developing Glorypark, the first phase of which will be 1 million square feet, in Arlington, Texas.

In April 2006, Shopping Center Business reported on a significant town center being developed by Columbus, Ohio-based Steiner + Associates and Dallas-based Hicks Holdings in Arlington, Texas, in our cover story “A Big Retail Deal for Baseball.” Glorypark, which has stronger demographics than Steiner’s successful Easton Town Center in Columbus, is located along Interstate 30 in the center of the greater Dallas-Ft. Worth metroplex.

The 1 million-square-foot first phase of the project will comprise retail, restaurant, entertainment, office, hospitality and residential uses. SCB recently spoke with Steiner + Associates’ President Barry Rosenberg who gave us an update on the project.

“We knew that this strong regional site offered an opportunity to create something really special in Arlington,” says Rosenberg. “All of the ingredients are here. A large piece of property located in the center of the Dallas/Fort Worth market. It will be the only significant retail and mixed-use hub along I-30. The Texas Rangers on one side of the site and soon, the Dallas Cowboys on the other. Add the Six Flags theme park, great highway access, significant population growth and an under retailed market, and you have one of the best sites in the country.”

One of the project’s most unique components will be Rangers Alley, which Rosenberg describes as a Times Square-type feel with a collection of retail, restaurant and an entertainment “row” lining one side of Rangers Ballpark. “Whether you are a baseball fan visiting before or after a game or a destination visitor to Glorypark, your senses will be engaged by this energy-filled environment,” he says. 

The largest component of the first phase of this project will be a trademark “Steiner” town center, with a strong mix of retail, restaurant and entertainment uses combined with 150,000 square feet of office space and 250 apartment units. “Our town center, like all of our projects, will feature dense, vertical construction, significant attention to the pedestrian and an emphasis on public spaces,” says Rosenberg.

The third component is a two-level enclosed retail street district anchored by a department store. “We are talking to several department stores right now,” said Rosenberg. “We will be making an announcement very soon.” Joining the anchor in this indoor shopping district will be additional specialty retail, restaurants and entertainment.

Rounding out the project will be a 350-room full service hotel, along with a 100-room boutique hotel.

Rosenberg says that even though the first phase of Glorypark will have three distinct components, it will be naturally connected and highly integrated. “We have gone to great lengths to make sure that the transitions in this project are seamless. From design and architecture, to walkways and public space.”

Phase I groundbreaking is scheduled for summer 2007, with completion in spring 2009. Construction on the Dallas Cowboys’ new stadium, which is expected to open in August 2009, is well underway, as are $850 million in state and federal road improvements that will transform the access to the project into a truly regional site.

Leasing for Glorypark is on schedule, Rosenberg said. “The enthusiastic response we’ve gotten from tenants reflects this project’s incredible location and opportunity.”


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