Two and three storey brick warehouses under the elevated Central Expressway, and the cold storage warehouse Bottle Rocket used for its closing heist.
What Deep Ellum looks like
Elm, Main and Commerce Streets run parallel through the neighborhood, lined with one and two storey brick storefronts. Painted signs from earlier businesses remain on several facades, including a corner building still lettered Long Machine Tool Company above its street-level windows. Murals cover side walls between storefronts, and cars park along the curbs.
The elevated Central Expressway, built in 1969, runs along the neighborhood's west edge. Its concrete support columns are painted with murals. A vintage-style neon sign reading Deep Ellum Texas stands under the overpass. The sits nearby, its platform covered by angled steel canopies beside the light rail tracks.
, a live music venue at 2709 Elm Street, holds about 700 people behind a plain brick front. occupies a storefront on Main Street. The , a three storey brick building at 2551 Elm Street built in 1916, now operates as the Pittman hotel.
The on Elm Street is a two storey red brick warehouse with tall steel-framed windows, built in 1888 and converted to office space. A four storey brick building on Canton Street, , carries a rooftop water tower painted Adam Hats.
Shot in Deep Ellum
For Bottle Rocket, the production filmed the closing heist at a warehouse on Commerce Street then known as Hinckley Cold Storage, now called the Texas Ice House. The building still stands at the neighborhood's eastern edge, near the rail line.
Bottle Rocket, 1996
The heist that closes the film takes place at this cold storage warehouse at 4008 Commerce Street. The building still operates today as the Texas Ice House.
What Deep Ellum can double for
Bricktown in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Bricktown's red brick warehouse strip, most of it built from the early 1900s through the 1920s, gives it the same low rise industrial scale as Deep Ellum. Both were redeveloped the same way into bars and restaurants, and the blocks near the Bricktown Canal keep exposed brick fronts with the same tall factory windows. The canal running through the middle of Bricktown is not something Deep Ellum has, so keep it out of wide shots. Try searching red brick warehouse strip now.
Wynwood in Miami, Florida
Wynwood is a low rise garment warehouse district covered in murals at the same building scale as the ones on Deep Ellum's storefronts and freeway columns. Both districts turned old industrial blocks into bars and galleries without raising the roofline. Palm trees and brighter light give Florida away in a wide shot, so keep street level frames tight on the brick and the murals. Try searching warehouse block covered in murals now.
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