A mixed-use project has broken ground at the former Shamburger home improvement store site at Greenville and SMU Boulevard; the DMN reports that the developer, Prescott Realty Group, expects to announce specific plans sometime soon. The DMN reports that the development is being called The Boulevard and will include retail and apartments on 3.6 acres near the Mockingbird rail station. The new project is just down the street from another Prescott development that houses apartments and Twisted Root Burgers.
Meanwhile at Mockingbird at Central, you’ve probably noticed that the former Mrs. Baird’s bakery site has been demolished. SMU owns the triangle-shaped land, which has been rumored to be all kinds of things over the years — SMU dorms, the Bush Library, a huge mixed-use development. Well, according to SMU, the property now will house tennis courts and a “throwing field” for athletics, as well as a data center and “partially below grade electrical substation” on the property’s southern tip near Downtown.
