Park Cities refers to two communities in Dallas County: the Town of Highland Park and the City of University Park. Both are separately incorporated municipalities, neither is part of the City of Dallas, and together they share a border and form an enclave surrounded by Dallas. Highland Park is bordered by Dallas on the south, east and west and by University Park on the north; University Park is bordered by Dallas on the north, east and west and by Highland Park on the south. Highland Park runs its own parks, library, public safety, utilities and municipal court.
Between 1886 and 1889 Colonel Henry Exall and a group of Philadelphia investors acquired roughly 1,300 acres of the Cole property. John S. Armstrong bought the land in 1906 and, with his sons-in-law Hugh Prather and Edgar Flippen, set out to develop it as Highland Park, a name drawn from ground that overlooked downtown Dallas. Wilbur David Cook, who later planned Beverly Hills, was hired in 1907 to lay out the town with George E. Kessler assisting, and twenty percent of the original land was set aside for parks. Residents voted to incorporate in 1913.
University Park grew as a cluster of homes around Southern Methodist University, chartered in 1911 with classes beginning in 1915. Voters approved incorporation in April 1924, when the city covered 515 acres with 380 homes and 1,200 residents.
Highland Park Village, built in 1931, was listed on the National Register in 1997 and designated a National Historic Landmark in 2000. The Meadows Museum and the George W. Bush Presidential Center, opened in 2013, both stand on the SMU campus.
5 apartment buildings in Park Cities, holding 1,173 units between them. This part of the directory takes in Park Cities. Buildings range from 159 to 330 units. The oldest listed here is Renaissance at Preston Hollow, completed in 2001; the newest is Hanover Preston Hollow, from 2025. Every listing carries the same fields — units, year built, floors, and five amenities you can filter on — and every fact traces to a real source.