Image courtesy of Davidson Bogel Real Estate

Actually, Davidson Bogel Real Estate already did that for us.

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The firm listed the Atlas Metal Works complex for sale last month. Included in the sales pitch is this image, for marketing purposes only, of the landmark metal buildings reused as a Central Market.

Atlas Metal Works, on Singleton at Sylvan, was built about 92 years ago in West Dallas, then a working-class neighborhood. As gentrification takes hold in the form of three-story townhomes and massive apartment complexes, Atlas is a prominent reminder of the neighborhood’s industrial roots.

The Atlas complex, which also includes an art-deco style office building, was listed in The Advocate’s architecture at-risk list in 2018 and in Preservation Dallas’ most-endangered historic places list in 2020.

Preservation Dallas called it “one of the few remaining examples of industrial architecture from the 1920s.”

The real estate listing describes it as “in the heart of one of the most rapidly changing & fastest growing urban infill markets in the entire DFW Metroplex.”

The offering includes the office building and the peak-roofed metal buildings as well as a vacant tract on Sylvan that’s ripe for  more apartments.

In case you’re wondering: Yes, there is a Central Market coming to Oak Cliff, but that is still a few years off.

Atlas Metal Works is zoned IR, industrial research, so building retail or multifamily there would require a zoning change, but tearing it down would require only a permit from the city.