Beck Ventures Reveals Plans for Former Valley View Mall in Dallas

The final remains of a dead North Dallas mall have been demolished, making way for Beck Ventures’ mixed-use development.

The company will build a six-story structure that’s set to include 275 market-rate apartments and roughly 26,000 square feet of ground-floor retail and restaurants on Preston Road and Dilbeck Lane, the Dallas Morning News reported.

The building will be joined by at least six other projects at the site of the former Valley View Mall, which closed in 2015. Beck expects to start construction between this coming December and February 2024.

“Now that the mall is down, my hope is that as we move forward to attract the appropriate commercial uses and office users with other projects that the city will do the right thing and appropriately incentivize them to come here,” Beck’s CEO and president Scott Beck told the outlet.

The firm plans to submit building permit applications in the next three or four months. Beck previously said he doesn’t want affordable housing included in the development.

Beck acquired the property in 2012, with plans to convert the site into a mix of retail, apartments, office space and a park. The redevelopment has stalled several times amid lawsuits, and the city recently designated the site a habitual criminal property. Two firefighters were injured while putting out a fire in the vacant mall.

Habitual crime designation holds owners responsible for crime on their property. Dallas council member Jaynie Schultz, whose district includes the site, said the designation would remain in effect until June 1. The city agreed to lift it once the mall remains were torn down.

“With or without the city, our goal is to attract the best corporate users possible, who are often lured to other cities,” Beck told the outlet. “It’ll be up to Dallas whether they want to play in that competitive landscape, and I hope they will.”

—Quinn Donoghue