Plano neighborhoods / Downtown Plano
Downtown Plano Apartments
In short
Downtown Plano is the city’s historic center along 15th Street, east of US 75. Downtown Plano station, beside Haggard Park, has had DART trains to downtown Dallas since December 2002, and since October 2025 the Silver Line to DFW Airport has stopped at 12th Street station, to the south.
Updated October 2026 · Source: Wikipedia (Downtown Plano and 12th Street stations)
Historic 15th Street, Haggard Park and a direct train to Dallas.
Downtown Plano in three stops
01 Where it is
Plano’s historic downtown along 15th Street, east of US 75, around Haggard Park. Its ZIP code is 75074.
02 What is here
Haggard Park and the Interurban Railway Museum, in the 1908 Texas Electric Railway station (on the National Register of Historic Places since 2005). Transit Village, apartments and shops built beside the station in the early 2000s. Downtown restaurants serve pizza, seafood, barbecue, sushi, burgers and pub food, and downtown shops sell gifts, clothing and home goods.
03 Getting around
Downtown Plano station, on the east side of Haggard Park, has direct DART trains to downtown Dallas on the Red Line, plus the Orange Line at rush hour; it has no parking lot. 12th Street station, at 12th Street and K Avenue, adds the Silver Line to DFW Airport, about half a mile south of Downtown Plano station. By car: US 75.
Apartments in Downtown Plano right now
Listed rents among the 2 communities we track in Downtown Plano, checked October 9, 2026. Most homes fall inside the range shown.
- Studio: most listed rents $1,335–$1,395 · typical size 570 sq ft
- 1 bedroom: most listed rents $1,462–$1,719 · typical size 789 sq ft
- 2 bedrooms: most listed rents $2,240–$2,537 · typical size 1,173 sq ft
Current specials
- Ferro: 2 months free on a 13-month lease + a same-day offer (listed October 9, 2026)
- Belleview: 1 month free on a 13-month lease (listed October 9, 2026)
Apartment complexes in Downtown Plano
Rents and specials change often. These figures come down 30 days after the date shown. If that date is more than 30 days old, contact us for today’s price and special.
Getting to work from Downtown Plano
Drive times without traffic, checked October 2026; rush hour adds time. Your own address changes these; we time it from each place on your list.
| To | Drive | Train or transit |
|---|---|---|
| Downtown Dallas | 23 min | DART, no transfer |
| DFW Airport, Terminal B | 36 min | Silver Line from 12th Street, no transfer |
| UT Dallas, Richardson | 12 min | Silver Line from 12th Street, no transfer |
| CityLine, Richardson | 4 min | DART, no transfer |
| Legacy West | 18 min | Maps |
Daily life in Downtown Plano
Haggard Park and the Interurban Railway Museum, at 901 East 15th Street, with restored Texas Electric Railway car 360 on its grounds
Heritage Farmstead Museum, an 1891 farmhouse at 1900 West 15th Street, about 1.7 miles west of Haggard Park
Groceries: ALDI and H Mart, a Korean supermarket, both on K Avenue north of downtown; Whole Foods Market at CityLine, to the south
Urgent care: CareNow on West Campbell Road in Richardson, about 3.5 miles south
Applying in Downtown Plano
Across the 2 communities we track here (checked October 9, 2026): most ask for household income of about 3 times the rent; 2 accept co-signers. Rules for an ITIN, no SSN or a guarantor service vary, so ask us before you pay an application fee.
Your move or cash
Lease through us at a participating community, on a lease of 12 months or more, and choose 3 hours of moving with 2 movers and a truck, or cash: $400 if you found the place and registered it with us first, $200 if we search for you. Under $1,200 rent: $200 cash.
- Participating communities only.
- Rewards apply only at participating communities.
- Check with us first.
- Before you visit, call or apply, ask us. We confirm in writing whether your community participates and what your reward is.
- We pay when the community pays us.
- Cash is sent after the community pays our fee, usually 30 to 90 days after you move in.
Moving to Downtown Plano? Our partner company, Polaris Moving Company, has movers in Plano.
Questions about Downtown Plano
No. The station has bike lockers and a bike rack but no parking lot, so most riders walk or bike to it. 12th Street station, to the south, has parking and serves the Red Line and the Silver Line. There, the Red Line platform is elevated and the Silver Line platform sits at street level two blocks east, joined by a 500-foot sidewalk.
The restored 1908 station of the Texas Electric Railway, which ran from 1908 to 1948. The city reopened it as a museum in 1990.
Yes. The Silver Line runs from 12th Street station, a few blocks south of downtown, to DFW Airport, Terminal B.
A $16 million development of apartments and shops built right beside Downtown Plano station. Work on it started in 2000, two years before the first DART trains arrived.
A late-Victorian farmhouse built in 1891 at 1900 West 15th Street, on the National Register of Historic Places since 1978. It opened as a museum in 1986 and keeps the last 4.5 acres of what was a 365-acre farm.
How much is a one-bedroom in Downtown Plano?
Among the communities we track in Downtown Plano, most listed one-bedroom rents ran $1,462–$1,719 a month on October 9, 2026, with a typical size of 789 sq ft. Specials can lower the average; we confirm today’s price before a place goes on your list.
Yes. The community pays us after you move in, and nothing is added to your rent.
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