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Greenville Avenue was the Richardson Road until the mid-1920s, and most of the houses east of it went up in the three decades after: the appraisal district dates 390 of today's 1,385 single-family houses to the 1920s, 215 to the 1930s and 326 to the 1940s, and the Belmont Addition at the southern end had houses from as early as 1910. This guide covers the Lower Greenville Neighborhood Association's area as the association files it on the City's map: about 553 acres from the center line of Greenville Avenue east to Skillman Street, and from Ross Avenue north to Mockingbird Lane, with 6,056 residents at the 2020 census against 5,462 in 2010. The City says it does not check those lines, and the west side of the avenue belongs to other associations. The roll also counts 342 duplex properties, among them the fifteen Tudor Revival duplexes of La Vista Court, built in 1929 and 1930 and a City historic district since 1989.

On the avenue's southern blocks, staying open after midnight takes a permit. On 26 January 2011 the Council created PD 842 on both sides of Greenville Avenue from Belmont Avenue south to Bryan Street, about 50.6 acres, 11 of them inside the association's line, to discourage, in its words, an over-proliferation of regional-serving, late-night venues. Any bar, restaurant or shop serving customers between midnight and 6 a.m. needs a specific use permit, no business kept a right to those hours after 23 September 2011, and a permit is weighed against the police citations, arrests and violent crimes tied to the place. The avenue between Ross and Belmont was rebuilt from 2013 with wider sidewalks, lighting and brick pavers. North of Belmont, where the Granada stands, the frontage is community retail zoning and PD 842 does not reach it. This guide found no City list of the late-hours permits in force.

Two conservation districts, and they treat an old house differently. Both date from 2004 and both cap a house at 30 feet. In M Streets East, from Vanderbilt Avenue to McCommas Boulevard, a new house must follow one of six period styles, and a contributing house may come down only if bringing it up to code would cost more than 80% of its appraised value; 14 of its 381 houses date from 2000 or later. Belmont Addition, from Belmont Avenue to Llano Avenue, sets the style of a new house too and has allowed accessory dwelling units since 2019, but its regulations carry no cost test for demolition; 150 of its 367 houses date from 2000 or later. Across the whole area the houses built since 2000 have a median of 3,531 square feet of living space, against 1,766 for those built before 1950. Between the two districts and north of McCommas the base zoning sets no style.

Owners and renters split the occupied homes almost evenly. In 2020 owners lived in 1,545 of the 3,065 and renters in 1,520, and 16% of residents were under 18. The census survey puts median gross rent at $1,418 in the northern tract and $1,853 in the southern. No price index follows the association's line: Zillow's figure for ZIP code 75206, which holds nearly all of it and five times its ground, was $608,484 in August 2026, up 2.9% on the year, and 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 $10,053 a year and the same house without the exemption about $13,549; the arithmetic is on the Dallas page.

The flood map reaches into the side streets. The City's floodplain layer puts about 15% of the area in zones it calls 1% stormwater hazard areas, touching 448 single-family parcels, the most on Kenwood, Ellsworth and Prospect avenues, and another 22% in a Peak's Branch zone the layer does not define; it shows no AE zone inside the line. DART's Route 3 runs up Matilda Street every 15 minutes at peak and midday, and SMU/Mockingbird Station is about 480 meters west of the northwest corner. On 14 March 2026 the St. Patrick's Day Block Party closed the avenue from McCommas to Belmont for the day; the parade now runs farther north.