Knox Street Is Turning Into Highland Park Village's Second Address

Bvlgari is scheduled to open at 44A Highland Park Village at the end of October. It will be the Italian jeweler's only North Texas location, according to People Newspapers. In the same eight weeks, Knox Street gained HART, KD Biel, Addison Bay and a Visual Comfort showroom, with roughly a dozen more retailers announced behind them.

Both openings trace back to the same ownership. The families who own Highland Park Village also manage and lease Knox Street, and a Village-affiliated partnership is helping build its largest project. Several brands now on Knox were first tested in, or moved from, the Village. For anyone who shops both, that explains why the mix on each side looks the way it does this fall.

The same names on both leases

The Washburne and Summers families took over Highland Park Village in 2009, according to the center's own history.

Knox Street's ownership traces back to 2018. That year MSD Capital, now BDT & MSD Partners, began buying buildings in the area and became the neighborhood's largest landlord, D Magazine reported. In August 2025, the Washburne family's real estate platform, Gillon Property Group, announced its operating structure. It listed both Highland Park Village and Knox Street among its properties and partnerships. Gillon handles operations, asset management, marketing and development management. The Summers Group, led by Stephen Summers, is a non-exclusive leasing agent for Knox Street. The release also stated that the two families' ownership interests were unchanged.

The tie is closer still on the big construction site across from Le Bilboquet. The Knox Street mixed-use development is a joint venture of BDT & MSD, Trammell Crow Company, Highland Park Village Associates and The Retail Connection, according to Trammell Crow's February 2026 announcement.

D Magazine credits this arrangement, along with the Weir's Plaza redevelopment and the 2023 news that Auberge would open its first Dallas hotel on Knox, with drawing the current wave of luxury tenants.

The brands that have already made the move

Shared leasing shows up most clearly in brands that have already moved between the two districts. D Magazine's September roundup lists five.

The Conservatory move is the largest of these. Brian Bolke's Knox version is planned as a two-story, 10,000-square-foot store with an outdoor deck and a bar and restaurant concept. It sits near the original Forty Five Ten location. A Village store gaining a bigger sibling a short drive away suggests the two addresses are being run as complements rather than as competitors.

What the Village is keeping for itself

The Village's own announcements this fall run in a clear direction. Besides Bvlgari at 44A, People Newspapers reports that Louis Vuitton will open at 21 Highland Park Village, in the space Hermès now occupies. That happens after Hermès moves into a new, expanded space in early 2027. Gucci is headed to 100 Highland Park Village, Suite 105, though a Village spokesperson gave no opening timeline.

Knox's announced list reads differently. Many of its arrivals are first-in-Texas stores from younger labels:

• Addison Bay, at 3212 Knox Street, Suite 104, its fourth store and first in Texas
• HART, the Charleston jewelry brand, with its fifth shop and first in Texas
• Julia Amory, the Palm Beach label's first Texas store, with interiors by Mark D. Sikes
• Staud, its first standalone location in Texas
• Dôen, making its Texas debut this winter
• Sant Ambroeus, the Milan-founded café, with its first Texas location in 2027

Taken together, the Village is adding to its global fashion houses and jewelers, and Knox is taking brands making their first entry into the state. The brands in the table above show that a label can start in one and settle in the other.

Knox right now, block by block

Here is where the street stands as of mid-October, using D Magazine's September 29 roundup.

Open since late summer

• HART, opened August 15, in a shop designed by Dallas-based Burkle Creative
• KD Biel, opened September 25, a second outpost of the Design District home decor shop
• Visual Comfort, opened in August in the former Origin Kitchen + Bar space, the Houston lighting brand's first Dallas store outside the Market Center
• Addison Bay, listed with a September 2 opening

Earlier in the year, Cafe Lucca opened in March 2026, serving Sicilian-inspired dishes, including busiate pastas.

Announced for fall or by year-end

• Alo, its third Dallas store
• Bachendorf's, a fifth location this winter, designed by Droese Raney Architecture, with a full-service bar
• ME+EM, joining its NorthPark boutique
• Toteme, the Stockholm label
• Sunlife Organics, the Malibu-based superfood café

2027

• The Main House, from the il Bracco team, in the former Mashburn space
• Théa Mediterranean Rooftop, the concept's second location after Phoenix
• Sant Ambroeus, at the base of The Lora tower overlooking the new Knox Street Park

One restaurant change is happening now. Mar Y Sol closed in mid-August, and Lombardi concepts is turning the space into Victory Tap, a sports bar. Victory Tap's own site advertised a grand-opening event for Saturday, October 10, at 4511 McKinney Avenue. No reporting has yet confirmed regular service since then, so call ahead before planning around it.

Several longtime tenants stay put, including Mister Charles, Knox Bistro, Green Point Seafood & Oyster Bar, Berkley's Market, Fox Trot, and the Lombardi pair of Taverna and Toulouse. The departures are just as telling. Chuy's left for Greenville Avenue in 2025 after 32 years, and Pottery Barn moved to NorthPark in 2026. Pottery Barn Kids is still open.

The piece still behind the fencing

The new retail matters most because of the project being built around it. The joint venture's development covers more than one million square feet. It includes 150,000 square feet of office, 100,000 square feet of retail, The Lora at 27 stories and 186 rental units, and a half-acre park with a direct connection to the Katy Trail. It also includes The Knox Hotel and Residences, with 140 hotel rooms and 47 condominiums operated by Auberge Collection. D Magazine describes the plan as linking the Katy Trail to Knox through a pedestrian passage beside that park.

The hotel's opening date depends on which source you read. When the project topped out in February, Trammell Crow said it would deliver later in 2026. The Knox Street website, updated in early October, now carries the headline "The Knox, Auberge Collection Debuting in Early 2027." The safest reading is a target of early 2027. No separate completion date has been published for the trail passage.

Once that link opens, a Katy Trail walk will lead directly onto Knox's retail block. That will change how the street works for anyone who reaches it on foot from the trail.

Dates on the fall calendar

Highland Park Village has several dated events coming up this fall.

1. October 15, 1 to 3 p.m. Alice + Olivia at Highland Park Village hosts a Shopping for a Cause event. Shoppers can donate to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation at checkout.
2. October 23 through early November. The Highland Park Village Partners Card benefits The Family Place, with 20% savings at participating retailers, including 24 Village stores. The Village's event description gives November 1 as the last day, and its details field lists November 2.
3. End of October. Bvlgari is scheduled to open at 44A Highland Park Village.

If Partners Card savings extend to Knox tenants, that would be the clearest sign yet of a shared shopping district. The Village listing names only its own participating stores, so confirm at the register on Knox before assuming.

New tenants and a hotel opening next door all show up eventually in how a neighborhood's surrounding blocks are valued and discussed. If you'd like to talk through what the Knox Street build-out means for your street in Highland Park, Richard Noon is glad to share a measured, private view. Let's Connect.