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Location | 5465 East Mockingbird Lane, Dallas, Texas 75206 | |||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 32°50′16″N96°46′30″W / 32.837874°N 96.774922°W | |||||||||||||||||||
Owned by | Dallas Area Rapid Transit | |||||||||||||||||||
Platforms | island platform | |||||||||||||||||||
Connections | DART Routes 3, 17, 105, 209, 249, 440-Mustang Express (M-Sat), 441-Museum Express (M-Sun) Lakewood GoLink Zone (M-F) Park Cities GoLink Zone (M-Sun) Katy Trail | |||||||||||||||||||
Construction | ||||||||||||||||||||
Structure type | Trenched | |||||||||||||||||||
Parking | 708 free spaces, no overnight | |||||||||||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | 6 lockers, 9 racks | |||||||||||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||
History | ||||||||||||||||||||
Opened | January 10, 1997 [1] | |||||||||||||||||||
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SMU/Mockingbird station (originally Mockingbird station) is a DART Light Rail station in Dallas, Texas. It is located at Mockingbird Lane and North Central Expressway (US 75) in North Dallas. It opened in January 1997 and is a station on the Blue, Red, and Orange Lines, serving the Mockingbird Station mixed-use development and nearby Southern Methodist University (SMU).
SMU/Mockingbird has the highest density population within three miles of any mass transit station in Texas.[ citation needed ] It is also the northernmost DART station serving both the Red and Blue lines; from this point the lines diverge with the Red line heading north and the Blue line heading northeast. From January 10, 1997, to September 27, 1999, SMU/Mockingbird station served only the Red Line.
DART renamed the station to SMU/Mockingbird Station on August 12, 2019, [2] after SMU paid DART $463,000 for a 10-year naming rights agreement. [3]
Stairs, escalators and elevators connect the below-ground station to a ground-level outdoor mall, which was one of Texas' first modern transit-oriented developments, or TODs. The mall brought new life to the area, spurring more development around the station as years passed.
The mixed-use developments surrounding the station contain retail, restaurant, service, and entertainment options, along with office buildings and loft apartments. Events are held on a regular basis and are open to the public. DTZ manages the property and Madison Marquette manages leasing initiatives. (Cassidy Turley managed the property until it merged into the DTZ brand in January 2015.)
In a 2004 report, the Transportation Research Board called Mockingbird Station "a TOD success story," praising it for its location with "strong local demographics, and an abundance of adjacent regional attractions," and for being driven by private developers. [4]
The station also connects to the University Crossing Trail, a largely grade-separated biking and walking trail oriented toward recreational and commute cycling.
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