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Richardson Edition VOLUME 7, ISSUE 11 JULY 26AUG. 26, 2025

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The missing middle Richardson eyes diverse housing options to aid growth, talent retention

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5 The Wash The business offers self-serve laundry and wash and fold services. In addition, there are plans to introduce delivery, a company spokesperson said. • Opened July 11 • 400 N. Coit Road, Ste. 1902, Richardson • www.thewash-texas.com 6 Uncle Louie G’s The shop offers various flavors of ice cream and Italian ice, including classic flavors such as cookies and cream and chocolate chip cookie dough as well as dairy-free options. This is the first Uncle Louie G’s location in Texas. • Opened June 29 • 7522 Campbell Road, Ste. 115, Dallas • www.unclelouiegee.com

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7 Ayat The city planning commission voted to recommend approval on two requests during its July 1 meeting for Ayat, a fast-casual restaurant which will be located at 200 W. Spring Valley Road, if approved by City Council. Ayat Restaurant is a New York City-based restaurant serving Middle Eastern cuisine with locations in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, according to city documents. • Opening TBD • 200 W. Spring Valley Road, Richardson • www.ayatnyc.com 8 Chérie Lane Company founder and owner Abby Lane started the company as a college sorority project in March 2022, according to a Chérie Lane Facebook post. The new location will be the fashion brand’s first brick and mortar location. • Opening Fall 2025 • 2701 Custer Parkway, Richardson • www.cherielane.com

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1 Las Lomas Mexican Cuisine The restaurant offers dishes such as tacos, enchiladas and more. It also serves a number of cocktails and mocktails. • Opened July 15 • 520 Lockwood Drive, Richardson • Instagram: laslomasmex520 2 Mori Teriyaki Wok Sushi Rolls The restaurant serves Asian dishes such as stir-fry, fried rice, teriyaki and more. It also offers Hawaiian food, such as garlic shrimp or chicken and a number of sushi rolls. • Opened in June

3 Nay Restaurant & Coffee The restaurant serves Iraqi cuisine, such as chicken kabab, shawarma, falafel and more. It also serves appetizers, including hummus and has a breakfast menu. • Opened in April • 2100 Alamo Road, Richardson • www.instagram.com/naycaferestaurant 4 ShareTea The business offers a number of fruit, milk and brewed teas. It also has ice blends, matcha tea and non- caffeinated drinks.

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9 Fujiya The restaurant’s menu features Asian and Japanese cuisine including sushi, noodles and ramen, the company website states. • Opening in July • 3421 E. Renner Road, Ste. 102, Plano • www.fujiyaramenredoak.com

City Planning Commission voted to recommend approval to construct an additional four-duplex buildings with a total of eight units for independent senior living and on-site nursing staff. An outdoor recreation center was also in the proposal. • 1230 W. Spring Valley Road • www.theleaves.org 12 King’s Pizza & Draft The Richardson New York Pizza & Pints location is rebranding to King’s Pizza & Draft. The menu will largely be the same, a company spokesperson said, but new items, such as margaritas, will be added. The restaurant serves pizza, salad, pasta, breadsticks and a number of beers on tap. • 901 N Jupiter Rd, Richardson • www.newyorkpizzapints-richardson.com

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10 Farje Perfumes The store will be located at the Richardson Heights Village shopping center, according to a filing with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. Commercial real estate company JAH Realty lists Farje Perfumes as the tenant for the 1,604-square-foot space. An opening date is unknown but renovations to the space are expected to begin in late July and finish in August, per the filing. • Opening TBD • 100 S. Central Expressway, Ste. 46, Richardson

14 Pearl Cafe The restaurant serves boba tea, waffles, crepes, pancakes and more. It also serves ice cream, lemonade and cake. This is the second North Texas location for the restaurant, with the first located in Mesquite. • Opened May 9 • 121 N. Central Expressway, Richardson • Facebook: Pearl Cafe

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13 Creeks Wine and Cigar The business offered a variety of wine and tobacco products. It also offered items such as sodas, chips and other snacks. Creeks first opened in May 2023. • Closed June 4

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City sta outlines upcoming parks and rec priorities Upcoming priorities for Richardson’s Parks and Recreation Department could include replacing segments of concrete walking trails and median ren- ovations, according to a presentation from Assistant Director of Parks and Recreation Shohn Rodgers. Rodgers presented project updates from scal year 2024-25, along with potential priorities for FY 2025- 26, during the July 14 City Council meeting.

Commission OKs new warehouse space in Richardson A section of the current building located at 2801 Telecom Parkway could be demolished to construct a new warehouse building following action taken by the Richardson Community Planning Commission. The details The property owner intends to demolish the existing 90,481-square-foot, three-story oce building on the south side of the property and construct a single-story, 343,624-square-foot warehouse building. The new building is to expand logistic operations on the campus, according to city documents. The campus is currently zoned for industrial uses, and a warehouse is allowed within the zoning, however, modied development standards are required because the proposed building will have a height of 45 feet, Senior Planner Derica Peters said. The current zoning only allows one-story buildings to be 25 feet.

In total, Rodgers said the department consists of 49 employees that tend to 42 parks, 510 acres of median and right of way for city utilities, 93 miles of trails and more. The overview Priority projects for FY 25-26 including applying roll coat, a binder that reduced wear and tear on concrete surfaces, at the Ann Eisemann Inclusive Playground at Cottonwood Park and replacing the outdated restroom at Yale Park with a prefabricated restroom building, according to a sta presentation. Rodgers said the pre-fabricated buildings, which are ordered and delivered as a unit, have a more modern look and are easy to install. Other projects include upgrading the median on Yale Boulevard between Centennial Boulevard and Collins Boulevard and upgrading medians on Waterview between Spring Valley Road and Belt Line Road. Improvements include removing concrete and replacing it with river rock bands that will give the medians a modern appearance, Rodgers said. “This is something we’ve been doing a lot of lately,” Rodgers said. “It improves the look of our city so much.” The projects would be funded through the city’s parks maintenance fund. Some projects, such as adding a bridge to the trail

Several parks and recreation projects, including replacing segments of concrete at Campbell Ridge Park Trail, were presented to Richardson City Council.

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at Breckinridge Park, do not fall under the scope of the maintenance fund and will require a bond proposition, City Manager Don Magner said. Diving in deeper Along with projects paid for by the parks mainte- nance fund, Rodgers also outlined several priority items for consideration in the Parks and Mainte- nance general fund, including the following: • Tennis court resurfacing • Installing pre-fabricated restroom facilities • Replacing the sauna at Heights Recreation Center Trail, waynding and interpretive signage • Cloud-based ball eld light conversions • Americans with Disabilities Act chair lifts at pools • Replacing the Huines Recreation Center stage curtains

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North Texas Municipal Water District to invest $1B in infrastructure projects The North Texas Municipal Water District is investing over $1 billion to improve water infra- structure projects in 2026, according to a presenta- tion given to Richardson City Council. NTMWD General Manger Jenna Covington, in two new pipelines transporting additional water from Lake Texoma to the Leonard and Wylie water treatment plants. Once complete, it will add about 90 million gallons per day of pipeline capacity from the lake by 2030, George said.

Also of note In an eort to better conserve water, George said the district is partnering with Tarrant Regional Water District to hire outside consultants focusing on conservation, sustainable land use, zoning and development strategy recommendations. “The biggest expensive [in the water fund] by far is the expense we pay for raw water and waste water treatment,” City Manager Don Magner said.

The project also makes use of existing supply by blending more salty water from Lake Texoma with water from Lavon Lake and Bois d’Arc Lake. It will also help the district meet peak summer demands, George said.

Assistant General Manager Billy George and Chief Financial Ocer Jeane Chippereld presented the information during the June 23 council meeting. The details The projects include a $525 million investment

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Transportation

Education

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2 local roads to close lanes for utility work Multiple lanes on Buckingham and Spring Valley Roads in Richardson will close over the summer while construction crews complete utility renovations, according to a news release from the city. In a nutshell The right lane of westbound Bucking- ham Road and the left lane of eastbound Buckingham Road, 400-feet west of Audelia Road, may be closed from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

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UT Dallas to oer new degree program To help meet market demands, the University of Texas at Dallas will oer a bachelor’s degree of science in cybersecurity and risk management beginning in the fall 2025 semester, program director and associate professor Steven Haynes said. Two-minute impact The increasing occurrence of cybersecurity threats and the widening gap between techni- cal specialists and business leaders led to the program’s creation, Haynes said. “The expectation is not just walking away with a degree but you’re walking away with the real skills to do the job in today’s business environ- ment,” Haynes said. The curriculum is designed to provide gradu- ates with a balanced and interdisciplinary skill set, Haynes said.

PISD to add 2 more bereavement days Plano ISD employees will get an additional two days of bereavement leave for the 2025- 26 through 2027-28 school years following unanimous approval from the school board at a June 10 school board meeting. In a nutshell Currently, PISD employees can take up to ve days o following the death of a loved one, Chief of Employee Services Dr. Duana Kindle said during the meeting. The proposal came from Dr. Kindle and Deputy Superintendent Johnny Hill following employee feedback. PISD expects the added bereavement leave to cost $225,000. “This kept coming up in feedback from our sta,” Hill said during the meeting. “This is obviously an added way that we can give back to our sta.”

Pavement rehabilitation on Main Street is progressing well, Richardson City Manager Don Magner said. The details Work on Phase 2 of the project began in Febru- ary and consists of constructing a dedicated left turn lane onto Abrams Road from Main Street, paving improvements and water, sewer, storm drain pipe and inlet replacements and installing barrier-free ramps at intersections to improve pedestrian access. Other improvements include new streetlights and other hardscape xtures and overhead power lines and poles will be replaced with underground conduits. What else? Travel lanes have been reduced to one lane going each way to accommodate construction crews; however, Magner said the trac plan sta created has worked well.

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“In peak hours it takes a little bit of time to get through there,” Magner said. “I think what we did a good job of this time is really informing residents and businesses that utilize that everyday and encouraging them to take other routes.” Construction is on track to be completed in early fourth quarter, Magner said. Funding for the project came from Dallas County grants and a tax increment nancing reinvestment zone.

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Events

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August

GenXiles Rock out with music of the 80s, 90s and 2000s performed by Metroplex-based cover band GenXiles at Gillespie’s Tavern. GenXiles plays hits from several bands, including The Cars, Blink-182 and Men at Work. • Aug. 2, 7:30-9:30 p.m. • Free • 3600 Shire Blvd., Richardson • tinyurl.com/GenXilesRichardson Something Rotten! Follow Nigel and Nick Bottom on their journey to run a successful theater troupe in 1595 in competition with William Shakespeare in this musical by Karey and Wayne Kirkpatrick. • Aug. 1-2, 7:30 p.m.; Aug. 3, 2 p.m. • $20-$36 • 770 N Coit Road, Richardson • tinyurl.com/RottenRich River Driver at Gillespie’s Tavern Grab a drink and enjoy a show from Texas folk band River Driver at Gillespie’s Tavern. • Aug. 9, 7:30-10:30 p.m. • Free Karaoke at the Mad Hatter Belt out your favorite tunes every Wednesday at the Mad Hatter Neighborhood pub. The pub has three locations in the Metroplex and offers $1 wings and $5 whiskey on Wednesdays. • Aug. 13, 9-11:45 p.m. (every Wednesday) • Free • 120 West City Line Drive, Richardson • tinyurl.com/AugustHatter Mean Girls Dive-in Movie Jump in the lap pool or lazy river at the Heights Aquatic Center for a pool-bound screening of 2004’s “Mean Girls” starring Lindsay Lohan. • Aug. 15, 8:30 p.m. • 3600 Shire Blvd., Richardson • tinyurl.com/RichRiverDriver

City Line Night Market Peruse local hand-crafted goods and enjoy live music at City Line Plaza the second Friday of each month through December. City Line also boasts more than 25 dining options.

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the music of Billy Joel and Elton John in the Bank of America Theater at the Eisemann Center. • Aug. 16, 8 p.m. • $47-$67 • 2351 Performance Drive, Richardson • tinyurl.com/PMGRichardson

Benise at the Eisemann Center Emmy-winning Spanish guitarist and artist Benise will play at the Eisemann Center for the Performing Arts. • Aug. 16, 7:30 p.m. • $40-$69 • 2351 Performance Drive, Richardson • tinyurl.com/BeniseRich Piano Men: Generations at the Eisemann Center Enjoy a performance from father and son piano-playing duo Piano Men: Generations. The musicians will perform

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Real estate

BY JACOB VAUGHN

Home edition

2025

Readers, welcome to your annual Community Impact Home Edition. This guide features news ranging from key real estate trends and new developments unique to your neighborhood to tips on navigating the current real estate market. All of the stories are written by our team of local journalists who are invested in keeping you informed in your community, and all of the advertisements are from nearby businesses who support our mission. Make sure to dig into our front page story, which looks at Richardson’s initiative to diversify its housing stock and add more middle housing. This edition also features a roundup of ongoing apartment projects across the city, along with the latest real estate data in every ZIP code in Richardson. We’re unwavering in our commitment to provide free, useful news to the community, because we believe everyone deserves to receive high-quality information about where they live.

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Base Power looks to power North Texas with home batteries

Texas-based Base Power, a provider of backup bat- teries for homes, is looking to expand its statewide reach through an expansion into the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The company announced a $200 million Lone Star State expansion to include a new factory in Travis County in April, and has plans to go national. Base Power offers backup power options and can lower customers’ monthly energy bills, according to its website. The backup options are powered by batteries. When the system isn’t in use, the battery fills up in preparation for an outage. These batteries are different from generators in that they’re not gas-powered and they automatically switch on when outages occur, said Cole Jones, the company’s head of growth. “It switches on automatically in less than half a second,” Jones said. “It … can keep you going for days at a time.”

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The missing middle From the cover

The approach

The gist

Several projects are underway to help diver- sify housing types in Richardson, including a development at Belt Line Road and Jupiter Road called Duck Creek Villas, one at Belt Line Road and Grove Street called Valencia Villas, one at 3600 Shiloh Road and a development called Park Hollow that recently broke ground near the intersection of Buckingham Road and Audelia Road. The development at 3600 Shiloh Road will have 89 townhome units with a starting price of about $500,000, Matt Duenwald, civil engineer with Kimley-Horn, said. Duck Creek Villas is expected to bring 36 townhome units on a 3-acre lot that is currently undeveloped, Senior Planner Derica Peters said at a Jan. 13 City Council meeting. Valencia Villas was originally planned for 38 townhomes, but after resident feedback, the number of units was reduced to 34, Jim Dewey, president of JDJR Engineering, said. Park Hollow, a 6.5-acre development adding 88 townhome units, is expected to open in sum- mer 2026, according to a news release issued by development company Bridge Tower Homes. Currently, middle housing makes up 19.3% of the housing stock in Richardson.

projects—developments using remnant pieces of property—and redeveloping underused property, such as outdated oce buildings. Inll projects can be dicult, he said, because developers are often trying to t housing in oddly-shaped properties. He added that redevelopment has its own challenges. “It’s very costly to assemble land,” Manger said. “The residual land value in Richardson tends to be higher than in a lot of places, making it dicult for developers to pencil out those deals nancially.” Oering diverse housing types opens the market to more people looking for homes beyond traditional single-family houses, Lynch said. As a result, missing-middle housing can oer more competitively priced products. “It could serve as a good alternative for people, particularly renters looking to buy ... especially since Richardson has a very good school system, which is paramount for young families,” Lynch said.

Richardson ocials are making an eort to diversify the city’s housing stock as undeveloped land becomes scarce. Julie Lynch, associate professor and director of the Weitzman Institute for Real Estate at the University of Texas at Dallas, said the city is not currently equipped to meet housing demand from young families or recent college graduates moving into Richardson. Growth is also tied to the city’s institutional partnerships such as UT Dallas and the Dallas Area Rapid Transit and its business partners, City Manager Don Magner said. Magner said missing middle housing in Richardson is dened as diverse housing types that bridge the gap between single-family homes and large apartment buildings, and is meant to accommodate the city’s growing young and senior populations. Richardson is 98% built out, leaving few opportunities to build new housing, Magner said. Most new developments consist of inll

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1 3600 Shiloh Road 2 Valencia Villas 3 Duck Creek Villas 4 Park Hollow

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Middle housing: 19.3% Single family: 58.1% Multi-family: 22.4%

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Park Hollow is one of multiple townhome developments underway in Richardson.

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SOURCE: ENVISION RICHARDSON COMPREHENSIVE PLAN/COMMUNITY IMPACT NOTE: BECAUSE OF ROUNDING, THE FIGURES DO NOT ADD UP TO 100%.

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What the experts say

What’s next

Beyond land constraints and financial viabil- ity, Lynch said city staff must ensure adequate infrastructure is in place to support higher-density housing. This includes services such as police and fire, road networks and sufficient school system capacity.

There is demand for young adults and seniors to live in walkable neighborhoods in Richardson. Diverse housing with access to jobs, shopping, dining and recreation would help to meet demand, according to the comprehensive plan. Most of the remaining undeveloped land in Richardson is zoned for commercial use, meaning a zoning changed would be required to build housing, Magner said. To better understand the city’s needs, staff commissioned a needs assessment and housing gap analysis and the results are expected later this year. “The information that garners from those studies will help us be more strategic and more effective at deciding where and how missing middle housing can be incorporated into our overall housing stock,” Magner said.

Estimated housing units needed through 2045

Richardson is expected to continue growing and could need as many as 14,700 additional housing units.

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Percentage change of Richardson population 2019-23

Single-family detached

154 294

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770 1,470

Townhome

6,776 12,936

Multi-family

7,700 14,700

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Age group 30-39 40-49 50-59 60-69

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Real estate

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The housing supply in Tarrant County has seen a 25.8% increase year-over-year, Realtor Newman Dalton said.

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Housing market highlights According to data collected by the Collin County Area Realtors, there were several notable year- over-year changes in various portions of the metro area during the month of April.

The number of homes sold decreased in all ZIP codes across the areas of Flower Mound, Highland Village and Argyle. Three of the four area ZIP codes in Colleyville, Southlake and Grapevine had a drop in median sales price year-over-year. The number of homes sold decreased year- over-year in ve out of six Plano ZIP codes.

Keller Williams Realtor Newman Dalton speaks on DFW housing market Throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area, changes in the housing market have contrib- uted to trends that may favor buyers, industry professionals say. In an interview with Community Impact , Realtor Newman Dalton of Keller Williams Realty in South- lake discussed some of the changes the market is seeing this summer for both buyers and sellers. Dalton posts content on his YouTube page, The Roof List, looking at the DFW housing market. What have you seen so far in the past ve to six months in the dierence in the housing market? We’re not necessarily going through a recovery in terms of ... going to go back to where things were in 2020, 2021, 2022; I think we’re actually going through more of a correction. It doesn’t look as though we’re going back to 2.5% or 3% mortgage rates. We’re probably going to be settling back into

Three of the four ZIP codes in Frisco saw a decrease in the average home sales price when compared to last year.

SOURCE: COLLIN COUNTY AREA REALTORSCOMMUNITY IMPACT

normal. If you look at the last 40 years, ... between 1981 and 1983, mortgage rates got up to 18% and that was one anomaly on one end. Then the completely other end was what we saw in [20]21 and [20]22 with the lower mortgage rates, whereas the average is 7.42%. It’s actually looking like a market correction, maybe leaning toward more of a buyer’s market. What leads to the market becoming a buyer’s market? Some homes are experiencing price drops on listings in the area. The other thing is days on market. If you have price drops, [if] you have long days on market, then you’ve got a little bit more bargaining power on the side of buyers.

If somebody wants to sell a home, what are things you kind of recommend they do, or what should they do before they list it? You want to make sure that your home is in a good state of repair. Pay attention to the details. I was at a home, showing some folks the house. The seller had done, I want to say, approximately $20,000 worth of structural repairs, but then there was a ... vent in the ceiling that was missing, so it’s a hole in the ceiling. While the seller had spent all that time and money correcting their foundation and other things, all the person in the home could see was that missing air vent. That kind of mentally negated everything else. Just making sure your home is in a good state of repair is going to make you a lot more competitive.

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On average, homes spent more time on the market in all three Richardson ZIP codes in June 2025 compared to June 2024. Residential market data

June 2024

June 2025

Number of homes sold

Average home price in the last 6 months

+25%

+12.5%

+43.75%

75080 $459,050

75081 $416,000

75082 $570,000

PGBT TOLL

75082

75080

75081

75082

75080

75081

Median home sales price

PGBT TOLL

BELT LINE RD.

June

2022

2023

$505,000

$489,750

75080

Homes sold by price point

$436,000

$425,000

75081

June

$660,063

$645,000

75082

$1 million+

$700,000-$999,999

Average days on the market

Number of new listings

$400,000-$699,999

+147.39%

+50.72%

-0.78%

-11.54%

+10.81%

+44%

$100,000-$399,999

MARKET DATA COMPILED BY COLLIN COUNTY AREA REALTORS WWW.CCAR.NET

75080

75081

75082

75080

75081

75082

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