Walk the brick paths between Preston and Mockingbird any afternoon this month and the Village looks like itself. Valets in front of Hermès. A line at Sadelle's. Someone's Bernese Mountain Dog tied to a bench outside Market. But the tenants have shifted, the corner where you used to get iced coffee is now something else entirely, and two of the seven buildings on the block are about to physically grow.
The Village you know is in the middle of its most active reshuffle in years. Summer of Soccer is the visible edge of it. What follows the campaign is the more interesting story.
Summer of Soccer, Through July 19
The center is running a program called Summer of Soccer in partnership with participating boutiques and restaurants, tied to the World Cup matches Dallas is hosting. Highland Park Village bills itself as Dallas' premier open-air shopping destination, and the campaign runs through July 19 with exclusive offerings tied to the tournament. If you have been meaning to try something new at Bistro 31 or pick up a piece from one of the participating boutiques, this is the window with the extras attached.
Look past the banners, though, and you can see the campaign for what it also is: a soft-launch backdrop for a center that has quietly become a different place over the last eighteen months.
The Starbucks Corner Is Gone. Look at What Replaced It.
For years the Starbucks at Highland Park Village functioned as the neighborhood's living room. Dog walkers, SMU professors, Armstrong parents between drop-off and pilates. When word got out that Starbucks was leaving, the rumor mill landed on Ralph's, the Ralph Lauren coffee concept, as the replacement.
That is not what happened. The former Starbucks space was taken by Khaite, the New York ready-to-wear label that has become a fixture in every serious luxury directory in the country. Meanwhile, across the way at 58 Highland Park Village, Café Dior by Dominique Crenn opened on February 22, 2025, inside the reinvented two-level Dior boutique that debuted in December 2024 with an architectural identity referencing Dior's 30 Montaigne flagship in Paris.
Read the swap plainly. The Village traded its neighborhood chain coffee shop for a Khaite storefront on one side of the sidewalk and, on the other, a fine-dining restaurant led by the first American woman to earn three Michelin stars. Dallas joined an extremely short list of cities with a Café Dior. Paris. Tokyo. Miami. And ours, which unlike most Dior cafés is a full lunch concept rather than a pastry counter.
If you have not been in yet, a few things worth knowing:
- The dining room takes reservations and books out. Availability tends to open when there are cancellations, and the site lets you request cancellation notifications for a chosen date.
- The bar takes walk-ins for cocktails, caviar, and bread and butter service. This is the underused move.
- Afternoon tea runs $75 per person with three savory bites and three sweets. Menu items reference the archives, including a Miss Dior consommé built around the dress.
- Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.
The Dior boutique itself is worth the walk-through even if you are not shopping. LVMH treated the reopening as a return, tying it to Christian Dior's 1947 trip to Dallas to accept the Neiman Marcus Award, months after the New Look debuted in Paris. The two-level layout carries the full women's and men's ready-to-wear lines, leather goods, fine jewelry from Victoire de Castellane, and La Collection Privée Christian Dior fragrances.
Buildings C and D Are About to Get Bigger
Here is the piece most residents have not registered yet. On April 13, 2026, Highland Park Village LP filed plans with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation to add 3,500 square feet to Building C and 7,000 square feet to Building D. The estimate came in at $11 million, revised down from an initial $25 million figure in the filing. TDLR paperwork is preliminary, but the intent is on the record.
Building D houses Highland Park Village's own management offices. Building C currently includes Dior, Beretta, Oscar de la Renta, and The Honor Bar, with two spaces on the Village's own directory marked "Coming Soon." Do the math: 10,500 additional square feet of retail-adjacent space in a center already programmed at more than sixty stores and restaurants, with two mystery slots teed up in the same building.
The ownership context matters for reading what happens next. Gillon Property Group, formed in 2025, consolidated the Washburne and Hunt-Hill family portfolios under one roof. Ray Washburne, founder of Mi Cocina, and his wife Heather Hill Washburne bought Highland Park Village in 2009 for $170 million alongside her sister Elisa Hill Summers and Elisa's husband. Heather Hill Washburne is the granddaughter of Margaret Hunt Hill and great-granddaughter of Hunt Oil founder H.L. Hunt. That is the family filing the building plans, and the same group whose retail arm is leasing the new Knox Street development a mile south. When the same team that curated Dior, Chanel, and Hermès into 60,000 square feet of 1931 stucco is quietly adding room, it is worth watching what walks through the door.
Beyond the Anchors, the Local Bench Is Deeper Than You Remember
The luxury names get the press, but the roster at the Village includes a set of Dallas-founded brands that tend to disappear behind the marquee tenants. If you have been on autopilot between Hermès and Café Pacific, this is your reminder:
- Miron Crosby for bespoke Western boots designed by the Means sisters
- La Vie Style House for kaftans and kimonos, a Dallas original that now ships internationally
- Market for the curated women's boutique feel Highland Park runs on
- Madison for home interiors and gifts
- Lele Sadoughi for the accessories and headbands you keep seeing on other people
- Peeper's for sunglasses and prescription eyewear
- St. Michael's Woman's Exchange, whose sales fund charitable work across the community
On the food side beyond the headline debuts, the classics are still classics. Sadelle's for NYC-style bagels, sliced-to-order salmon, and a grab-and-go café side for the mornings you cannot sit. Mi Cocina, still the anchor. Café Pacific, the seafood room that has hosted more Parkie birthday dinners than anyone can count. Bistro 31, Honor Bar, Fachini, and Monkey Bar HPV for the different registers of a weeknight.
What This Actually Means for How You Use the Village
If you already live in 75205, three practical shifts follow from the last twelve months.
The coffee run is not the coffee run anymore. The Village is no longer a place you swing through for a fifteen-minute latte on the way somewhere else. Café Dior is a destination sit-down. Khaite is a boutique. If you want quick coffee inside the Village, Sadelle's café side is the answer, and the Bird Bakery and Juice Bar options nearby still work.
Reservations move faster. The Café Dior reservation cycle changed the weekday tempo. Long lunches book earlier. Sadelle's and Mi Cocina absorb more of the overflow at peak hours. Walk-ins at the Dior bar counter are the workaround that most people have not caught onto yet.
The center is not done. The Building C and D expansion, the two "Coming Soon" listings, and the retail momentum that the same management team is producing at Knox Street all point to more announcements before the end of the year. If a tenant reveal drops in the fall, you heard the setup here first.
Highland Park Village has always been the neighborhood's public square dressed as a shopping center. The interesting thing about this summer is not the World Cup activation or any single new storefront. It is that the block itself is being edited in real time, by an ownership group that has decided the 1931 footprint has room to grow.
Watch the fences around Buildings C and D. That is where the next chapter is being built.
If you own in Highland Park and are thinking through what the next twelve to eighteen months of neighborhood change means for your property's positioning, or you are evaluating an entry into 75205 and want a candid read on where value is holding, The Rosen Group offers private consultations and home valuations for Park Cities owners. Reach out when you are ready for a conversation that starts with your goals, not a pitch.
