09/05/2025
Dallas earned the title of “America’s most dog-obsessed city” in 2024 from Zillow and Bark, a subscription box company geared toward pets. The move to Dallas was only natural when Yardstick Dog Hotel expanded, opening its first locations outside of Nashville, where it originated in 2022.
At the Medallion Center location, dogs enjoy room service, private suites and light grooming services — much like a spa. As pet owners arrive at Yardstick facilities, they enter a lobby stocked with comfortable furniture, a coffee maker and merchandise. “It feels kind of more like a hotel lobby or a beautiful, sort of retail environment, as opposed to kind of what you typically see in the industry,” Atkins says. A lounge area for dogs featuring plush couches comes next. Behind that, six to seven individual suite rooms create a compartmentalized and sound-conscious environment.
So far, Co-CEO and founder Dave Atkins says this new location has booked more stays through four months than any other location. “Medallion Center, obviously, is great for Lakewood, Lake Highlands, all of East Dallas, but it’s such a central location, just at Northwest Highway and US-75 that it’s really accessible for a lot of the Metroplex, and so it’s just an awesome central location.”
https://lakehighlands.advocatemag.com/2025/08/28/yardstick-dog-hotel-three-bark/
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There’s a new name in luxury dog care in Dallas. In 2024, Zillow and Bark, a subscription box company geared toward pets, named Dallas “America’s most dog-obsessed city,” based on apartment rentals and customer data. So, it was only
