Bishop Arts Dallas Apartment Locator: Walkable Blocks, Fourplexes and a Streetcar

Downtown is a short drive north over the Houston Street viaduct. For trips across the metro, I-30 is close at Sylvan or Hampton.

The Dallas Streetcar starts at Bishop Arts station, on Davis Street, and runs to Union Station, where you can change to DART trains. It runs on a timetable (not every few minutes), so check it first. The closest DART rail stations, such as Tyler/Vernon and Dallas Zoo, are a mile or more away, farther than most people want to walk.

Kessler Park's hills are real, and most errands there take a car. In the shopping blocks, weekend visitors fill the curb, so ask whether your block uses permits and where guests can park.

Each kind of building here comes with its own questions. The newer midrise buildings along Zang, Bishop and Davis sit closest to the shops and use standard screening. Their free rent offers tend to be small, so when you're choosing between two of them, the fees usually decide it.

The Winnetka Heights fourplexes often cool with window units and have no parking on site. That can wipe out their lower rent once you add power bills and street parking. The garden complexes south of Davis toward Beckley are the most flexible on screening and usually have the most openings.

Kessler Park is houses, garage apartments and duplexes that rarely come open and often go through real estate agents or word of mouth. On its hills, look out the actual window before you pay more for a skyline view.