Hillside Village

SHOPPING CENTER

SERVING EAST DALLAS SINCE 1954

RESTAURANTS

Lakewood’s 1st & 10

Fuzzy’s Taco Shop

Pizzeria Venti

White Rock Coffee

Romano’s Bakery

APPAREL

Stein Mart

Ditto Boutique

FOOD & CONVENIENCE STORES

PK’s Fine Wine & Spirits

Mike’s Discount Liquor

Dollar Tree

7-11

PERSONAL SERVICES

Custom Cleaners

Crest Tailor

Hillside Shoe Service

GIFTS, STATIONARY, ART, HOUSEWARES

Tuesday Morning

T-Hee Greetings & Gifts

Random

Lakewood Lighting

FAMILY FITNESS

Lady of America

The Little Gym

Mockingbird Swim & Total Fitness

HEALTH & BEAUTY

EyeMasters

Sally Beauty Supply

Lakewood Salons

Model Nails

Hillside Beauty Salon

BUSINESS SERVICES

Ebby Halliday

Commonwealth Title

214.989.4151 second location at Hillside Village. Anupscaleclothingconsigner,Ditto Boutique, relocated from North Dallas.

Tuesday Morning, a longtime Hillside Villagefixture,relocatedto a corner space with 3,000 square feet of additional breathing room.

“Because of the recession, some tenants that we thought might not make it in the long run went out earlier,” Rebecca Tudor says. “It freed up more space for us to be able to make a bigger impact all at once with tenants that we felt deserved to be in the center and would really serve the neighborhood.”

Before Twinrose bought the shopping center, it had changed ownership three times in fewer than 10 years. The Tudors purchased it with the backing of mostly local investors, and “when we bought it, our investors understood that we felt that this center needed a hands-on owner that would stay with it for a while,” Jim Tudor says. Their goal is for Hillside Village to “be relevant to the neighborhood,” he says.

That’s how the shopping center started out, after all.

“It was really one of the first strip shopping centers for the post-World War II families that were building homes out in the suburbs,” Rebecca Tudor says.

These days, it’s hard to imagine our neighborhood as “the suburbs”, but when it opened in 1955, Hillside Village was intended to be for our neighborhood what a newshoppingcenteristonorthern Frisco today, she says.

Now,Hillside Village and shopping centers of its era are experiencing revitalizationasrealestateinvestorsrenovate properties and pursue desirable tenants, says Ian Pierce, director of corporate communications for The Weitzman Group, a commercial retail estate brokerage firm leasing 41 million square feet of retail properties throughout Texas.

Jane DeNike, owner of Ditto Boutique, a new store that opened recently at Hillside Village, says, “Lakewood has a different vibe than any other part of the city.” She decided that Hillside Village offered an opportunity to create a new shopping experience. “Why not create our own bubble?” she asks.

“We’re finding that properties inside the loop are seeing a lot of interest, mainly because they do offer the density, and they offer the stability,” Pierce says.

A look at the 3-mile radius around the Mockingbird-Abrams intersection shows a population of 166,452 with 72,576 households and an average household income of $91,450 — “that’s a strong income,” says Pierce, citing Pitney Bowes business insightdemographicsrunthroughThe Weitzman Group.

Those kinds of numbers benefit shops with a more boutique-y feel, Pierce says. Plus,Hillside’sVillageoriginalmakeup also tends toward mom-and-pop shops becauseinthe1950s,anchorstores weren’t nearly as large as anchors today.

“HillsideVillagedoesn’thave a true community center anchor, so it’s more of a neighborhood-type center,” Pierce says.

Theothersignificantdemographicis 80,718 — the number of people working in a 3-mile radius of the shopping center during the daytime, “which is really important for restaurants,” Pierce says.