Mixed-use developments are definitely trendy right now. You can work, play, and live all in the same place, cutting down on traffic and commute times. Most mixed-use developments are in urban areas, but now Irving is getting its own.

The development called Hidden Ridge is a venture between Verizon and KDC. It will be located on a 100-acre site west of State Highway 114 in the Las Colinas planned community and will include retail, corporate offices, apartments, and hotel rooms.

A new DART rail station will connect the development to both the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and Downtown Dallas.

Rendering courtesy of Gensler

Pioneer Natural Resources, an energy company with offices already located in Irving, will be the anchor business tenant. Pioneer plans to move almost 1,100 workers into a new 750,000-square-foot office.

Verizon has owned the land for the site for many years. The land is across from their corporate campus on Hidden Ridge Drive, which has more than 8,100 employees. Verizon is fronting the money to fund the project and the city of Irving-Las Colinas will pay them back over a 10- to 15-year period with increased tax revenue.

The project is expected to cost more than $1.5 billion. Plans for the development include more than 3.5 million square feet of office space, 85,000 square feet dedicated to retail, restaurants, and apartments, and 150 hotel rooms.

This project is similar to other local developments, such as CityLine in Richardson and the $3 million Legacy West project in Plano. Corporations increasingly want to be situated in such mixed-use developments to attract the most talented workers who prefer these environments. 

The Dallas architecture firm Gensler designed the Hidden Ridge mixed-use development.