The Downtown Arlington Doggie Depot
Following community feedback from the 2022 Downtown Arlington Resident Survey, Downtown Arlington received a competitive grant of $75,000 from Project for Public Spaces and General Motors to help construct a new off-leash dog park in the heart of Arlington.
The Downtown Arlington Doggie Depot is Downtown's first off-leash dog park, funded through a private-public partnership. In March 2024, the Arlington Tomorrow Foundation approved a generous donation of $100,000 towards the project. The Doggie Depot includes ADA access, running water, lighting, dog waste stations, and separate play areas for both small and large dogs, all enclosed by a fence with mesh openings and an anti-climb design. In addition to the dog-centric infrastructure, there are also seating areas for people to relax and connect. The Doggie Depot officially opened for public use in March 2025.
Rotary Dream Park
Located on Front Street, the Rotary Dream Park is part of an overarching effort to better connect the thriving developments in Downtown’s Urban Union with the rest of the increasingly vibrant downtown district.
The park opened to the public in January 2025, and it includes two iconic art pieces. The Rotary Club of Arlington donated “Boundless,” a new interactive public art installation by Jen Lewin Studio, celebrating the club’s 100 years of service. In addition to “Boundless,” the park also features the relocated DREAM sculpture. After residing on Abram Street for almost a decade, Downtown Arlington donated the sculpture to the City of Arlington, anchoring this gorgeous new park with another iconic and beloved public art installation.
The park offers seating and greenery for the community to enjoy. If you are downtown after dark, be sure to check out the "Boundless" sculpture, which lights up in a stunning display.
Downtown Fire Station
The new more modern, more efficient Fire Station No. 1 in Downtown Arlington officially opened in late 2023, with the official opening ceremony taking place on December 8, 2023. The two-story, 17,667-square-foot station replaces the old Fire Station No. 1, which originally opened in 1954. The new facility is designed to provide a better work and living space for Arlington’s firefighters. Features include five larger, drive-thru apparatus bays to hold more equipment, training areas and indoor and outdoor kennels for the Fire Department’s K9 Unit, a full kitchen and a dining room, and various offices. The station will also include a public space for community events and meetings as well as a museum area about the Arlington Fire Department’s history and accomplishments, and for visitors to see historical items up close, such as an antique fire engine.
Mineral Well Public Plaza
Established in the 1890s, the historic mineral well was a major landmark in the center of Arlington. Mineral water flowed through lions’ head sculptures mounted on four-sides of the fountain, serving as a focal point until the early 1950s when the well was torn down due to the City’s growth. In 2022, the creation of a new cultural landmark began in commemoration of this time in Arlington’s early history -- the Mineral Well Public Plaza. The plaza opened for public use in September 2023. Designed by Jim Richards, a national award-winning landscape architect and designer, the art installation includes outdoor seating and a 40-foot-tall clock tower featuring four lion sculptures by local artist Janice Hart Melito. Funded by a $1,000,000 grant from the Arlington Tomorrow Foundation, the tower is located in the plaza between the George W. Hawkes Downtown Library and City Hall.
Main 7
Downtown Arlington’s first luxury townhome villa development, Main 7, has entered its second phase, adding 16 villas to the project. Modeled after the luxury urban villas of Dallas's Highland Park, the Main 7 development offers two- and three-bedroom housing opportunities with two-car garages, with prices starting at $415,000.
The white finishes and painted brick provide a beautiful end cap to Downtown’s Abram and Cooper intersection. The development includes public art and a central sculpture garden for residents to enjoy.
Zetta
Zetta is a new residential community that serves working professionals. The community consists of 65 two and three-bedroom homes, each with a rear-entry attached two-car garage. Residences have access to a shared open space to promote a sense of community while also providing individually fenced front yards.
Urban Union
Urban Union expands further west and includes five new multi-story, mixed-use buildings that bring new restaurants, stores, offices, and loft-style rentals to Downtown's Front Street. In addition to these new businesses, the headquarters for the acclaimed Sutton Frost Cary LLP have relocated to the 11,000-square-foot second floor of the new office building on the corner of Mesquite and Front Streets, serving as a key feature for this phase of Urban Union's development. These new headquarters are the first professional office building of its scale to be built in Downtown Arlington in decades. The 50,000 square foot expansion includes amazing tenants such as Breakfast Bros., Goldilink's Jewelry & Hat Bar, Donna's Gift Closet, Lacquer Box Nail Studio, The Rambler Inn, and more.
The Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology Development (CETD)
With support from the State of Texas, University of Texas at Arlington has established the Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology Development (CETD) to foster a vibrant and collaborative atmosphere for students, faculty, entrepreneurs, and community members to create new opportunities, commercialize new technologies, and pioneer new companies. The 4,000 square foot center is used for classes, events, collaborative work, and one-on-one meetings with mentors and service providers. Located at the highly visible intersection of Center Street and UTA Boulevard, the CETD is the venue of choice for several flagship programs at UTA, including the EpICMavs discussion series, Blackstone LaunchPad, and the MavPitch business plan competition.