A few of you have asked about what’s going on with the former Mrs. Baird’s bakery land on the southwest corner of Mockingbird and Central Expressway: The DMN has a roundup story with the answer to that question and plenty of others associated with the southeast corner of SMU’s campus.
A tennis complex is planned for most of the former Mrs. Baird’s land, while a “pocket park” will be constructed at Airline & Mockingbird, across the street from the Park Cities Plaza strip shopping center that runs on the north side of Mockingbird between Central and Airline. Construction is expected to begin this summer.
And surely you’ve seen the new sophomore dormitories towering over the shopping center and being built between Mockingbird and the new George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum on SMU (formerly Yale) Boulevard. In case you’re interested, here’s a webcam view of the library construction.
SMU expects that much of the new traffic onsite will be routed away from Mockingbird and onto SMU Boulevard, which should result in additional traffic moving onto Greenville where SMU Boulevard dead-ends into it.
