LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
DEEP ELLUM DALLAS SERVICE CENTER Overview, Stakeholder Feedback, and Considerations
Deep Ellum¹ and its nearby neighborhood are currently home to almost 5800 residents in about 2800 households. Of those households, approximately 2400 people rent their homes, while 400 own. In 2017, the average household income was $70,800, and the median age was 34.² The residents include a mix of tattoo artists, service industry staff, attorneys, painters and more. Deep Ellum sees itself as a place where “nobody fits, but everybody belongs³.” The community wants to extend the heart and “feel” of Deep Ellum by repurposing the 20+ acre City Service Center to the east. This heart of Deep Ellum is a history of Dallas housed in a bricolage of intimately scaled, load-bearing masonry merchant shops and former factories. The City Services center houses city departments such as sanitation services, Dallas Fire Marshal, and Dallas Fire Department headquarters. The Urban Land Institute (ULI) is assisting the neighborhood by advising the local tax increment financing district, the Deep Ellum Foundation (DEF), to canvas neighborhood input, business owner input, and other affected jurisdictions.
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Urban Land Institute Dallas/Fort Worth
