Downtown Plano Apartments
Apartments around 15th Street in Plano’s historic center, with a direct DART train to downtown Dallas, the details we checked and the date we checked them. AptViva tracks their move-in specials, so you don’t have to.
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Living in Downtown Plano
Downtown Plano is the city’s historic center along 15th Street, east of US 75. Haggard Park and the Interurban Railway Museum sit in the 1908 Texas Electric Railway station, which has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 2005.
Transit Village, apartments and shops beside Downtown Plano station, was built in the early 2000s; work began in 2000, two years before the first DART trains in December 2002. Downtown restaurants serve pizza, seafood, barbecue, sushi, burgers and pub food, and the shops sell gifts, clothing and home goods.
Getting to work from Downtown Plano
- Downtown DallasDrive: 23 min
- DFW Airport, Terminal BDrive: 36 min
- UT Dallas, RichardsonDrive: 12 min
- CityLine, RichardsonDrive: 4 min
- Legacy WestDrive: 18 min
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.
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, about half a mile south, adds the Silver Line to DFW Airport and has parking. By car, US 75.
Close to home
Haggard Park and the Interurban Railway Museum are at 901 East 15th Street, with restored Texas Electric Railway car 360 on the grounds. The Heritage Farmstead Museum, an 1891 farmhouse at 1900 West 15th Street, is about 1.7 miles west of Haggard Park.
For groceries, ALDI and H Mart, a Korean supermarket, are both on K Avenue north of downtown, and Whole Foods Market at CityLine is to the south. CareNow urgent care is on West Campbell Road in Richardson, about 3.5 miles south.
- 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
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Questions about Downtown Plano
Can I park at Downtown Plano station?
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.
What is the Interurban Railway Museum?
The restored 1908 station of the Texas Electric Railway, which ran from 1908 to 1948. The city reopened it as a museum in 1990.
Can I get to DFW Airport by train?
Yes. The Silver Line runs from 12th Street station, a few blocks south of downtown, to DFW Airport, Terminal B.
What is Transit Village?
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.
What is the Heritage Farmstead Museum?
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.
Is AptViva free?
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