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I walked by this on Thursday, there was someone standing there, singular person, at the front entrance doing some kind of work, the glass on the front entrance has been entirely taken out and was open, and there was a large roll-off dumpster in the parking lot.

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LOL So you have no idea. Thanks for playing. The problem with generally accepted truths for which nobody can offer evidence is that they are often nothing more than hopes and dreams, especially in dallasmetropolis-land. Here is some actual information: https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estat...

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Newpark is such a long way from happening that I'm not sure the current situation is even relevant. The city is already in partnership with the developer providing subsidies, so why actually can't the TIF money be used to help build the school if DISD doesn't have the money? Seems like economic stim...

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Newpark is a pipe dream. I suspect it will take something out of the ordinary to happen for this development to ever get off the ground. It doesn't look like there's a college in the wings that would take space in a high rise tower on the Southside of Downtown Dallas. Baylor Medical has their own c...

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Residential occupancy downtown is still high. Source? It's called stating something which was generally accepted to be true in order to make a point or to develop an argument. It's obviously changing by the minute and might not be true tomorrow also depending on what the accepted definition of high...

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Residential occupancy downtown is still high. If some forward thinking developers are able to get some steep discounts on some distressed properties and just not competing with high priced office space in general many more residential projects could pencil. Plenty of new office construction in the a...

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Article from 2021 said they had lost 43% of memberships due to the pandemic and having fewer office workers downtown. Tim Rogers thinks it could be Headington who bought it. https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2023/09/how-long-before-the-t-boone-ymca-becomes-a-parking-lot/ Last valued at 12 millio...

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Jersey City site will be rentals with 50% 1 bedroom, 30% studio, 20% 2 bedroom with exactly 2 units of 3 bedroom units.

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This is a sincere question— if a premier tenant like GS wants to be in mid-rise campus like buildings, what type of tenants does Hunt think will go into the high rise officer towers? Going back a year to the quote posted above reminded me of Goldman Sachs occupying a beast of a tower in Jersey City...

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So the Morning News says Downtown is in a Doom Loop. Interesting observation due to 25% unoccupancy rate and much of the office inventory cannot be converted to residential. Link to article? So they found out urban doom loop was the buzz word of the day and managed to find the one negative lining t...

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I hope they build a 3rd tower. They're planning to build a 3rd tower according to this report Q2 2023 report. It's listed at #109 Urby Dallas III - 153 units (Page 1). It also has projects that I thought were dead, including the planned high-rises in Preston Center and the replacement of the Presto...

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And in places like Miami and Toronto and Vancouver and maybe it's probably true in Austin as well it's investors buying up a lot of the condos based on anticipation that prices will continue to increase leading to more condo building and we really should be striving to be the slow growth smart growt...

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... Also if people are giving up extra square footage they want walkable retail and amenities and public transit which are still developing. I disagree that this doesn't exist already. Between Whole Foods, CVS, Tom Thumb, etc... You have certainly livable retail within easy walking distance. Aside ...

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I'm seeing a staggering run up in condo prices in the two years in Central Dallas. Around 25% increase or so. When we think about two years ago when One Uptown failed to successfully convert to condos the landscape has totally changed. In Old East Dallas it makes more sense to do townhouses as they ...

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As far as East Dallas the Bryan-Peak commercial district where Bangkok City and Vietnam Restaurant are has a chance to be something, mostly intact intersection of early 20th century commercial buildings with room to grow. Also it was the intersection of two streetcar lines which is why it grew in th...

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Downtown never been in a better position in my opinion. Harwood Park will open September, office to conversions are happening at a large scale , there are fantastic developers Woods Capital and Todd Interests and others who have vision and passion for downtown, I think I see DDI at council more than...

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You know what, this doesn’t even surprise me anymore. Meanwhile Atlanta (our peer city), just broke ground on a 60 story/730 ft mixed use skyscraper. https://youtu.be/2l_nGjBDMo That’s basically the icing on the cake for all the towers going up in Midtown ATL. I’m really wondering why is it so hard...

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My bet is that they don't get built anyway. This was from the 2019 story. This render is pre-D2 being effectively cancelled with potential station integration and newly built pedestrian access with the Perot. D2 was doomed to fail just due to the distance you had to walk to get to the trains (see b...

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This isn't really Klyde Warren Park or even really on Field Street either prestigious south of Woodall Rodgers McKinney Ave address and all. In phase 3 or 4 of this neighborhood we can get something better. It's surrounded by empty lots. If we got something taller we'd just get the same design scale...

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This is happening eventually. I think the landowners/developers on lower McKinney are doing some serious brainstorming about what the future of the street is until the next cycle hits. So many closed businesses and underutilized properties contemplating what to become. I think there's a lot of area...

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This is happening eventually. I think the landowners/developers on lower McKinney are doing some serious brainstorming about what the future of the street is until the next cycle hits. So many closed businesses and underutilized properties contemplating what to become. I think there's a lot of area-...

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There's something to be said about how high you can have a massive block of mostly undifferentiated apartments with zero stepbacks before it becomes imposing. A narrow treelined street with a continuous wall of residences, porches, and balconies can actually be quite pleasing like you're being envel...

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This seems like great news to me. The project is zooming ahead, this will liven up the dead zone that is the loading dock, parking garage side of Houston St and connect Victory Park to Uptown. And that's 5,000 workers that weren't there before that will be patronizing the businesses of Victory Park ...

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They're doing street reconstruction on Hall that's currently listed to go until 9/19/2023 as part of the 2017 Bond Program. Maybe that's delayed it?

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There's only so many lots to build on within the downtown loop which is why I think they have to think tall. Once the other Spire lot and the Hall lot are filled all you have left in this corner is the Dunlap-Swain with Dart land behind it and then a few odd shaped lots abutting the highway.

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As someone who lives in the downtown are and walks/bikes around here frequently (with my family of 4), I have to disagree with the highways being the problem. There are tons of cities that have highways that run between their urban areas and don't stop foot traffic. In fact, I'm in Milwaukee right ...

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It's the placemaking iteration of the windswept Modernist and postmodernist concrete plaza with water feature or sculpture that used to front the office tower. After department stores began to decline and indoor malls turned back into big box anchored outdoor town centers, the city block developers...

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Portman Holdings is a very shrewd and successful real estate development firm, with holdings across the country. They wouldn't enter into this market with an aggressive plan unless they thought there was potential for it. The first tower, which appears to be close to 50-stories, will make a stateme...

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^correct, but it helps draw traffic from Arts District to Deep Ellum and back and forth cause Maple/Routh goes from Love Field all the way through the gaybourhood, Turtle Creek/Uptown, then on to Arts District large blank space and then finally Deep Ellum. This feels like the seed development to ma...

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There were some new more detailed renders in their updated brochure. https://www.portman.app/s/Dallas-Retail ... educed.pdf

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I can personally vouch for Brooklinen sheets and pillows. Is that Tribal All Day Cafe opening a second location? And it'll be nice for West Village to have a movie theatre again when Violet Crown opens up.

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They need to go full-blown mid-century modern down to the interior décor. The commercial style is what they tore down with abandon back in the day. If this is halfway between the two, then they should just quit trying to pursue that style. The Crescent was old when it was new.

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The land across the street (on Cedar Springs) from this site was just bought by a local investor. https://therealdeal.com/texas/2022/07/29/plano-family-trust-quietly-buys-up-uptown-dallas-block/ Yeah they're buying up the entire block, but I don't think they own the connecting property next door to...

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Audio/Visual context for that Cadillac Fairview story: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1245948/m1/ They now own a 50% stake in KDC and have set up a $800 million dollar development venture with them along with investing in Lincoln Property back in 2019. They sold their Dallas holdings ...

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Agree! Most of our local developers (TC, Lincoln, Hillwood, Hall, Harwood, etc.) don’t seem interested in doing a world class development- even when they have the premium location for it… As for the ugly parking garages, I blame the city. Stricter and more expensive treatment requirements should ha...

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I contacted Preservation Dallas, for guidance, here's what they had to say... (I added the historic building survey that is mentioned below to the Historic Preservation Thread in city issues of this forum): The Historic Resources Surveys are genuinely great. A large issue seems to be that a lot of ...

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Construction Journal is now expecting this project to start August 2022. This was just updated today. They just had the dates they pulled from TDLR before. CBRE did just release a very positive quarterly earning report today. We shall see. "A 27-story office building is being planned here. It w...

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It is absolutely mind blowing to me that a QT is being built brand new on that corner across the street from the West Village. What a waste of a prime lot. It's surrounded on both sides by the Lemmon Avenue expressway so for a spot that a corporate gas station giant would be focusing in on, it's go...

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OLC & the city worry about "traffic", but then allows a QT to be built right up the street which will attract a ton of cars. Doesn't make any sense to me at all. Such backward thinking. It is absolutely mind blowing to me that a QT is being built brand new on that corner across the st...

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They're required to spend $390 million on this office by the end of 2027. Not sure how a 20 story building can cost that much.

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I was thinking when this was first announced that none of the towers were going to be visible over One Arts Plaza when viewed from the north. Jon Anderson over Candy's Dirt once wrote about how not enough thought was put into the skyline impact of One Arts Plaza.

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Would love to see a streetcar line on this corridor. But I don't think there's enough room since it's so narrow. First justify that a streetcar is viable ridership wise by putting a high frequency bus along the route. Make the bus visually identical to a street car. Increase transparency into the b...

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The Federales in Chicago is kind of a party bar. So it's going to be interesting to watch and see if them opening in this particular part of Deep Ellum...will lead to other bars opening around it. Yea, I’d be curious to see if somewhere like Happy Camper, Big Star or Parlor look at Deep Ellum. Give...

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