The Local Oak restaurant was recently demolished, but developer Alamo Manhattan preserved this oak tree.
The former sites of the Local Oak restaurant and Ten Bells Tavern were demolished recently to make way for the second phase of Alamo Manhattan’s Bishop Arts development.
The Dallas-based developer built phase one of Victor Prosper, on the northwest and southwest corners of Zang at West Davis, in 2018 after receiving $11.5 million in TIF funding from the City of Dallas. The company also received $1.5 million to build the streetcar plaza.
Phase two takes up two city blocks. The four-story project includes 210 apartments and 9,700 square feet of ground-floor retail built over an underground parking garage, according to Alamo Manhattan’s website.
Screen grab from alamomanhattan.com
The developer will also build a second plaza facing Zang and has preserved an old oak tree on the site.
Ten Bells Tavern closed its original location earlier this year but is building Ten Bells 2.0 on 8th Street, right behind the old location. The Local Oak closed at the end of 2021.
Since Alamo Manhattan announced its plans for our neighborhood in 2015, the four corners of Zang at West Davis have changed dramatically. Where there used to be a Sonic Drive-In, a Dallas school bus barn, a Mexican restaurant and one-story buildings, there are now a CVS, a 7-Eleven and multistory apartment buildings.
The former site of the Local Oak, as seen from the patio of Krio.
