Live in Bishop Arts

Bishop Arts began as part of the Hillside Addition, platted in 1890. The trolley reached Seventh Street in 1904 and shops gathered around the stop; in 1928 E.B. Burll took out a permit for the two-story block of stores and apartments at 408 West Eighth Street, a City landmark since 1999, whose tenants rode the No. 4 Bishop car 20 minutes to downtown. This guide covers the Bishop Arts Neighborhood Association's area as it is filed on the City's map: about 102 acres between Davis Street, Zang Boulevard, Ninth Street and Tyler Street, lines the City says it does not check. The appraisal roll dates 19 of the 69 commercial buildings inside it to before 1940 and 17 more to the 1940s, nine of them houses it lists as converted.

Two sets of rules cover every lot. Conservation District No. 7, created in February 1992 over the blocks around Bishop Avenue and Eighth Street, takes about 23 acres, and since 2010 one set of standards has applied across it: 36 feet and three stories at most, with no limit on the number of homes. The other 79 acres are the Davis Street Special Purpose District, PD 830, created in August 2010 over about 290 acres and last amended in June 2026. Its subdistricts set the height: three stories plus an attic on the Bishop Avenue blocks, four in the East Garden District, and five on lots there that face Bishop Avenue or Zang Boulevard. A storefront on its legacy building list, built on Bishop Avenue before 1945 or on Davis Street before 1957, needs no off-street parking for a shop or an office. The core's National Register listing is dated 17 June 1994 by the Texas Historical Commission and 1992 by the City's 1999 landmark nomination.

The census and the appraisal roll describe two different places. On the blocks inside the line the 2020 census counted 1,247 residents in 527 homes, against 1,894 in 561 in 2010, and 909 Hispanic residents where there had been 1,732. Renters held 332 of the 465 occupied homes. Over the same years the roll dates nine apartment buildings inside the line to 2017 or later, with 1,166 units between them, 706 of them finished after the census. The block at 321 West Ninth Street counted 202 people in 2010 and none in 2020; a 246-unit building dated 2019 stands there now. Whether the people counted in 2010 were priced out is the displacement argument, and no public count settles it: a census records who lives on a block, not where the people who left went. Two of the newest buildings carry the City's own terms. The Dallas Public Facility Corporation owns Bishop 8th on West Eighth Street, exempt from property tax under a 75-year lease, in return for 94 units for households under 80% of the area median income and 24 under 60%. The Council approved 232 units in September 2023; the appraisal district records 342 on the same two lots, and this guide cannot say which is right.

No price index follows the association's line. Zillow's figure for ZIP code 75208, about 38 times the area, was $409,987 in August 2026, down 0.3% on the year, against $127,892 in August 2010, and its rent index for the ZIP was $1,543 a month. The citywide MLS median single-family sale was $469,900, down 6.0%. On the 2025 rates a homestead at Zillow's figure owes the five taxing units about $6,319 a year, and the same house without the exemption about $9,129; the arithmetic is on the Dallas page. The 168 single-family houses inside the line sit on a median lot of 5,812 square feet. No public improvement district reaches the area, and neither does the flood map: the nearest zone the City draws is about 660 meters away.

The streetcar ends on the corner. Bishop Arts Station, at Zang Boulevard and Davis Street, is the terminal of the Dallas Streetcar: 2.45 miles over the Houston Street Viaduct to Union Station, every 20 minutes on the weekday timetable and 11 minutes end to end, from 5:30 a.m. to midnight. Wikipedia calls the ride free and DART's fares page lists the streetcar with its local fares, so check before relying on either. The nearest light rail is Zoo Station on the Red Line, about 1.3 km from the line. Fiesta Mart on Jefferson Boulevard is about 350 meters south of Ninth Street, and the Texas Theatre on Jefferson and the Kessler Theater on Davis Street, 450 meters west of the line, are the nearest stages.