Uptown is a trophy-tier Class A submarket of Dallas with average asking rent around $58/sqft/yr.
Dallas's deepest trophy concentration. · Tier: trophy · Avg rent: $58/sqft/yr
Uptown — anchored by McKinney Avenue, Cedar Springs, and Klyde Warren Park — is Dallas's deepest trophy concentration. Park District, The Crescent, and Harwood lead the rent stack.
Investment management, law, consulting, corporate HQs, healthcare.
15–40,000 sqft floor plates available across newer Class A stock; 9'+ slab-to-slab and modern MEP common.
M-Line streetcar, DART Pearl/Arts District (Red/Blue/Orange/Green).
Multi-modal transit captures the metro's principal professional catchment.
Klyde Warren Park, Harwood District retail, Crescent shops.
Uptown is one of 6 Class A submarkets we cover in Dallas, classified as trophy tier with an average asking rent around $58/sqft/yr. Compared with the broader Dallas Class A stock, Uptown typically attracts Investment management, law, consulting, corporate HQs, healthcare and competes most directly with the city's other trophy submarkets on building specification, transit access, and amenitisation.
Adjacent submarkets to study alongside Uptown: Arts District / Downtown East, Victory Park, Legacy West (Plano), Las Colinas (Irving). The full Dallas submarket atlas is at /cities/dallas.
For an institutional Class A occupier evaluating Uptown, the highest-leverage analyses to commission next are the rent benchmark, the concession-package comparable, and the ESG performance baseline. Class A Atlas covers each as a dedicated topic page for this submarket:
Terminology specific to Dallas Class A leasing and to the trophy tier: Class A, Trophy asset, Effective rent, Concession package, TI allowance, Submarket tier.
Reviewed by Miriam Hollander — Lead market analyst. Last updated 2026-04-15. See our methodology and editorial standards.