PeekaCity Dallas - Uptown (includes Turtle Creek and Oaklawn)

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Uptown is a neighborhood in the Oak Lawn area of Dallas. Uptown is adjacent-to and north-of downtown Dallas, and is bordered by US 75 (Central Expressway) on the east, Blackburn Street on the northeast, Turtle Creek Boulevard on the northwest, Harry Hines Boulevard (and its derivatives) on the west, and SH Spur 366 (Woodall Rodgers Freeway) on the south.

Uptown, http://www.dallasuptownguide.com is one-of, if not the-most, pedestrian friendly areas in the city of Dallas. It is largely new urbanist in scope, the majority of facilities considered "Uptown institutions" are relatively new and were created during the late 20th and early 21st Centuries' new urbanist urban planning movement.

The district is one of the densest in Dallas and is home to a wide variety of establishments, including office buildings, residential towers and apartment complexes, retail centers, nightlife strips, and hotels. This mixed-use development practice lends to what many people identify as a very urban lifestyle, unlike the compartmentalized social structures of bedroom communities and office parks. The majority of Dallas and its surroundings are compartmentalized due to the style of mid-20th Century American urban planning and thus Uptown stands out in its surroundings as an alternative to the norm.

Neighboohoods within Uptown and Oak Lawn:

Cityplace is a neighborhood near the intersection of U.S. Route 75 (Central Expressway) and Haskell Avenue/Blackburn Street. East of Central Expressway, Haskell is a tree-lined boulevard and travels past the 42-story Cityplace Tower. At 42-stories, it is the tallest building in Dallas outside of downtown. On the west side of Central along Blackburn is the new-urbanist West Village, a driving range, and a residential tower, The Mondrian. A handful of residential towers are planned to take the place of the driving range in an expansion of the West Village.

West Village http://www.westvil.com, is a development/neighborhood in the Cityplace neighborhood. The West Village is located on and around McKinney Avenue, the "main street" of Uptown Dallas. It is north of the LoMac district and east of the Turtle Creek neighborhood.

Some people call it "the bubble" because practically everything one needs (restaurants, clothing, grocery, bars, movies) can be found within walking distance of this mixed retail residential development which is part of the larger Uptown section of Dallas. This is a "pet friendly" neighborhood.

The West Village has many apartment buildings and many row/town houses in its immediate area. It also has many retail shops. Besides the usual "life support" establishments such as laundry/cleaners, a large 24 hour drugstore, personal grooming establishments, and several other small retail outlets, it has shopping, restaurants and cafes that draw people from other areas of the city.

LoMac (From Lower Mckinney Avenue) is a name invented on one internet forum for the two-way stretch of McKinney Avenue south of Oak Grove and north of Woodall Rodgers. It lies south of the Cityplace neighborhood and along the north and west sides of the State Thomas neighborhood.

State Thomas is an historic district. It borders downtown to the south at Woodall Rodgers Freeway, Bryan Place to the east at US 75 (Central Expressway), and LoMac to the north and west.

The State Thomas neighborhood contains the largest collection of Victorian-era homes remaining in Dallas. The establishment of the region as a Special Purpose District in 1986 helped make it one of the first new urbanist regions in the city.

Turtle Creek is a neighborhood running along Turtle Creek and adjacent Turtle Creek Boulevard. Turtle Creek has also become an adopted nickname for the Oak Lawn neighborhood, though never an official one. The nickname also sometimes applies to a spillover of the Uptown area, which has become the official monicker for the area between downtown Dallas and Oak Lawn beginning in the 1980s.

The name Turtle Creek also graces a number of business and real estate properties in the area, many of which have addresses away from Turtle Creek Boulevard. There is even a Turtle Creek News (http://www.turtlecreeknews.net) which is published twice weekly and circulated in Uptown, Oak Lawn and Highland Park.

Major retail in the West Village includes a large chain bookstore, a large supermarket, an "art house" movie theater with 5 screens, clothing shops for men and women, and shops for home accessories.

It has several restaurants, most with outdoor seating available. Types of cuisine include pizza, Italian ice cream, a wine bar, Mexico City Mexican, Tex-Mex, Asian Cuisine, and many other restaurants in the immediate area.