The Chalk Hill Mixed-Use two tower project consists of a 22-story, Class AA office adjacent to a 29-story hotel and residential tower featuring Texas’ first EDITION by Marriott 5-star luxury brand. Both towers share a parking podium that contains a vibrant and active ground plane serving the mixed-use destination in Uptown Dallas, on the former KERA property at the edge of the Katy Trail and Reverchon Park. Developed through a partnership between KERA and Kaizen Development Partners, the project brings together hospitality, residences, workplace, and community investment in a single urban composition. The distinctively different but compatible towers create a development that is both prominent in the skyline and closely tied to the neighborhood's daily life. Programmatically, the project is substantial: 214 hotel keys, 60 branded condominiums, 400,000 square feet of office space, and approximately 20,000 square feet of restaurant and retail uses. Location plays an equally important role in the story. Chalk Hill sits within walking distance of restaurants and neighborhood amenities, with direct proximity to the Katy Trail and the kind of urban connectivity that supports a full workday, an evening out, all interwoven for a comprehensive lifestyle. Rather than treating hotel, residential, office, and civic uses as separate objects sharing an address, the project organizes them as parts of a single destination with a clear relationship to Uptown and the trail corridor. Seen more clearly, The EDITION is less about stacking uses on a site and more about organizing them into a coherent place where hospitality, office life, residential living, and a new public media headquarters reinforce one another. It is all based on a design driven approach that is both intentional and inspiring.
BOKA Powell’s architectural response is shaped by that overlap. The office component is defined by a robust amenity offering, pairing workspace with conference and training rooms, executive board and dining spaces, indoor and outdoor fitness areas, locker and wellness rooms, terraces, and ground-floor food and retail. The hotel and residential program extends the same logic, adding restaurant and bar space, meeting rooms, a ballroom, pool deck, spa, hydrotherapy, and wellness-centered services that position the development as more than a single-purpose address. Materially and experientially, the project draws on the Chalk Hill name and its connection to the site’s Austin Chalk formation, using landscape, terraces, and elevated outdoor spaces to keep nature present within a dense urban setting. Proximity to the Katy Trail strengthens that idea by linking the towers to a broader public realm rather than isolating them from it. Walkability, access to neighborhood amenities, and a layered indoor-outdoor experience all help define the development’s character, which is increasingly important in projects that ask people to work, stay, gather, and live in the same place.
The result reflects how mixed-use development in Dallas is evolving, placing wellness, flexibility, and urban connection alongside the practical demands of office, hospitality, residential, and retail uses. Inspired by nature and reflecting it in subtle ways without being overt allows this phenomenal trailside and parkside project to become the new gateway to Uptown and the Dallas CBD.