Economic Development

Spring Avenue Redevelopment – Mill City Town Center Rendering

The Spring Avenue Revitalization Project envisioned by ICDC is a mixed-use development designed to be a center of commerce, business, education, and recreation for the local community that is also a new Dallas destination – a venue for the greater community.

A primary planning goal is to create the feel of an open pedestrian market place that interacts with the surrounding community by massing buildings and orienting spaces in ways that encourage neighborly interaction and outdoor assembly.

This will be balanced with the need to create intimate scales for particular uses. This mixed-use development will include areas for single-family housing, commercial retail, technical training, business development, and community events.

Phase I Mill City Town Center and Theater

Mill City Town Center is a planned 14,000 square foot two-building multiplex designed to provide flexible venues for neighborhood entertainment, retail, and community gatherings. The site will be designed to accommodate small outdoor events. The building will be formed with multiple axes to correspond with its surroundings while   lines through the property.

 Phase II Village Square Townhomes (proposed mixed use) with homes and retail development

Across from the proposed Mixed-use Complex along Spring Avenue, eleven new two-story single-family homes will be developed by ICDC as the final phase of the 51-unit Frazier Courtyard Homes residential development. 

Grand Plaza Shopping Center   

Grand Plaza Shopping Center is a 26,222 square foot retail center, located at Grand Avenue in the heart of the South Dallas/Fair Park community. ICDC’s first major economic development initiative, the acquisition of the Grand Plaza Shopping Center in 1987 represented a direct means of addressing the negative impact many alcohol-related businesses and pawnshops were having on the surrounding neighborhoods.

Thanks in part to a grant from the Meadows Foundation, ICDC was able to move quickly to address significant deferred maintenance issues and make necessary improvements. The planned for, beneficial results to the surrounding community have been steadily realized. And when the first Subway franchise to open in South Dallas moved in, Grand Plaza Shopping Center was 100% leased, with 3 national tenants and 5 community based, community friendly businesses.

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