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- 07 Dec 2020 17:39
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: East Quarter: ~24 Building Redevelopment
- Replies: 563
- Views: 561984
Re: East Quarter: ~24 Building Redevelopment
The Salazar looks nice compared to what it used to look like before its glass facade was added.
- 05 Dec 2020 04:29
- Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
- Topic: Dallas Area Rapid Transit
- Replies: 519
- Views: 451830
Re: Dallas Area Rapid Transit
What's the chances of DART extending rail service to Cedar Hill?
- 18 Nov 2020 23:21
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown Dallas: Parkside Uptown (Miyama) (~424 FT | ~30 ST)
- Replies: 242
- Views: 115796
Re: KDC & Miyama Project - 30 ST
I have glass fatigue at this point.
- 14 Nov 2020 03:31
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Development
- Topic: Red Oak Development
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8799
Re: Red Oak Development
itsjrd1964 wrote:That seems a bit far south for a data center site.
Red Oak is much closer to Dallas than Frisco...
- 17 Feb 2020 16:58
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Families vs Singles in Apartment construction in DFW
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8342
Re: Families vs Singles in Apartment construction in DFW
The problem is actually very unique for the Western world. The Western world is experiencing a birth rate crisis. We simply are not having enough children. This is one of the big reasons why mass immigration has been encouraged in the past several years as a way to "reset" this birth rate ...
- 19 Jan 2020 00:14
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas - 505 North Ervay (owned by First Baptist)
- Replies: 95
- Views: 88447
Re: Downtown Dallas - 505 North Ervay (owned by First Baptist)
lakewoodhobo wrote:They must've gotten a massive discount on those precast concrete panels because here is project #3 with the same faux 3D brick pattern.
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Disgusting.
- 08 Jan 2020 00:49
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Deep Ellum 1.0
- Replies: 1025
- Views: 809450
Re: Deep Ellum 1.0
I really do believe that these developers need to focus less on fancy glass facades and more on industrial, brick and ornamentation architecture instead.
- 03 Jan 2020 23:52
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Oaklawn: Old Parkland
- Replies: 148
- Views: 94759
Re: Oaklawn: Old Parkland
I like it. Not sure where all the hate is coming from. Compared to the garbage going up everywhere, this is refreshing.
- 03 Jan 2020 02:33
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: Butler Brothers Building
- Replies: 106
- Views: 98477
Re: Downtown Dallas: Butler Brothers Building
Dallas is already smelly. The Trinity River carries Fort Worth's sewage, and you can smell it bad when it turns over.
- 29 Dec 2019 04:18
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: Butler Brothers Building
- Replies: 106
- Views: 98477
Re: Downtown Dallas: Butler Brothers Building
Look at how beautiful and naturally organic the city looked back then. Wow! Kinda makes me sad.
- 20 Dec 2019 14:34
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: DTD: Field Street District - Phase I (~405FT | 33 ST + 26 ST)
- Replies: 253
- Views: 99967
Re: Downtown Dallas: Field Street District
Hannibal Lecter wrote:Dragon_Lady wrote:Give me the original 100 plus story concept back in the day any day over that hot mess.
Where do people get the idea that a 100 story building could ever be built there? Zoning is irrelevant. The FAA gets the last word.
As I understand it, this side of Downtown is in the clear with the FAA.
- 20 Dec 2019 14:29
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Victory Park: The Victor (~453FT / 39ST)
- Replies: 177
- Views: 171507
Re: Victory Park: The Victor (~453FT / 39ST)
Yes, these projects are really going up at a phenomenal rate.
- 22 Nov 2019 19:05
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Deep Ellum: The Stack - 2700 Commerce
- Replies: 173
- Views: 131422
Re: Deep Ellum: The Stack - 2700 Commerce
Would be better to have a streetcar on Commerce. That aside, i love the bottom portion, but the top is like a sudden kick. Wish they'd go with a more uniformed aesthetic.
- 15 Nov 2019 18:59
- Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
- Topic: Silver Line
- Replies: 402
- Views: 458546
Re: Silver Line
Redblock wrote:I got a notification from DART. On Monday, Nov. 18 actual work will actually begin on the Silver Line.....actually.
https://www.dart.org/about/expansion/co ... on=12nov19
Mostly it will be removing the existing track and some utility relocation.
It's a leap forward.
- 14 Nov 2019 15:11
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: East Quarter: ~24 Building Redevelopment
- Replies: 563
- Views: 561984
Re: East Quarter: ~24 Building Redevelopment
To be fair, I like the glass skin of the Salazar building. It is very Dallas and very Texas, in a strange way.
- 10 Nov 2019 21:15
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Dallas Arts District: Hall Arts Hotel & Residences
- Replies: 318
- Views: 303574
Re: Arts District: Hall Arts Hotel & Residences
Hall has nothing up his sleeve. What a total disappointment this development is downtown. So he builds an 18-story tower that would look better out on the LBJ freeway. Wow 18 stories. Better stand back, that's approaching the 22-story new Dallas height limit. Too bad Dallas has been taken over by p...
- 08 Nov 2019 03:48
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: Sheraton Hotel
- Replies: 46
- Views: 39111
Re: Downtown Dallas: Sheraton Hotel
^ Finally, the Sheraton Dallas installed two four-sided, LED video columns at the hotel’s entrance that feature works of art as a way of showcasing the hotel’s connection to the arts district. :roll: Something like these? https://images.ctfassets.net/sahy2rpqbnsp/4yu7PDpKgoGoMKuaqO84WG/f1a75ba74d42...
- 05 Oct 2019 20:01
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: 2000 Ross Project
- Replies: 654
- Views: 559774
Re: Downtown Dallas: 2000 Ross Project
This should be called the Dallas Space Cube.
- 26 Jul 2019 21:19
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Issues/News
- Topic: What is a suburb today?
- Replies: 75
- Views: 98180
Re: What is a suburb today?
Frisco and Plano have become major cities in my opinion. What they now need is mass transit.
- 26 Jul 2019 19:46
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown Dallas: The Quadrangle
- Replies: 76
- Views: 54646
Re: Uptown Dallas: The Quadrangle
I see what you did there lol
- 24 Jul 2019 18:49
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Shraman South Asian Museum
- Replies: 144
- Views: 120287
Re: Shraman South Asian Museum
Hopefully, the architecture will be less stucco and less hip/modern garbage for this site. The West End deserves old, traditional industrial-style architecture.
- 24 Jul 2019 18:46
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: AT&T Discovery District
- Replies: 451
- Views: 395372
Re: AT&T Discovery District
eburress wrote:^^ What is wrong with this city that this BS is allowed to happen??
An extremely corrupt city council and people who have absolutely no attachment to this city's past.
- 23 Jul 2019 19:47
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Arts District: Flora & Olive Tower (~441 FT / ~39 ST)
- Replies: 543
- Views: 504383
Re: Arts District: Flora & Olive Tower (~441 FT / ~39 ST)
lakewoodhobo wrote:On the plus side, Museum Tower residents will no longer have to deal with that annoying glare from Chase Tower.
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Funny because it is the glare from Museum Tower that everyone complains about.
- 13 Jul 2019 19:41
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: Statler Hotel & Residences + Future DMN Offices (Old Statler Hilton + Old Library)
- Replies: 441
- Views: 385609
Re: Downtown Dallas: Statler Hotel & Residences + Future DMN Offices (Old Statler Hilton + Old Library)
willyk wrote:Labor shortage maybe.
Or possibly a sign of a slowdown in the market, which seems most likely.
- 04 Jul 2019 20:52
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: AT&T Discovery District
- Replies: 451
- Views: 395372
Re: AT&T Discovery District
^hahahaha I was going to say The Sundance Square of Dallas!!! It'll be nice if "Discovery" District turns into a memorable place people seek out, like Rockefeller Center, or Sundance Square. Since ATT's Spirit of Communication is naked, does anyone think the righteous folks of Dallas will...
- 21 Jun 2019 14:13
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: West Dallas Developments
- Replies: 185
- Views: 147003
Re: West Dallas Developments
I'm dreaming of the day when we start to see skyscrapers rising over here.
- 21 Jun 2019 14:13
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Knox District / Knox Park
- Replies: 814
- Views: 614061
Re: Knox / Henderson - Knox Street Side
4802 Mckinney Avenue has a demo fence around it...rumor is 6 stories Actually, it's more than one address and I believe is all or almost all of the entire stretch from Hester to Chelsea Corner I remember this. The original proposal was about 15 stories with maybe 6 stories of garage all above groun...
- 18 Jun 2019 16:40
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Knox District / Knox Park
- Replies: 814
- Views: 614061
Re: Knox / Henderson - Knox Street Side
Stucco on wood sheathing (especially OSB) is risky business in climates with an annual rainfall of 20 inches or more. The best design/construction practice these days is to install a drainage mat between the stucco and the sheathing to relieve hydrostatic pressure on the sheathing and accommodate v...
- 17 Jun 2019 03:58
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Development
- Topic: Midlothian Development
- Replies: 37
- Views: 30136
Re: Midlothian Development
I mean I don't know what the incentives we provided are but I am happy to have those 40 paying jobs in South Dallas. It doesn't mean those 40 jobs families will live in South Dallas though. This does continue the trend of DFW loading up with lots of new data centers though. It's a long way from Sou...
- 12 Jun 2019 16:01
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Victory Park 3.0
- Replies: 918
- Views: 790111
Re: Victory Park 3.0
No business? Too high rent costs? Why are they closing?
- 10 Jun 2019 23:48
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: City Lights
- Replies: 135
- Views: 161792
Re: Downtown Dallas: City Lights
How is anything I stated "horrible"? It's stating the obvious. But to answer your question, good quality buildings that are strong. It's a known fact that developers notoriously cut corners to maximize profit.
- 10 Jun 2019 22:03
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: City Lights
- Replies: 135
- Views: 161792
Re: Downtown Dallas: City Lights
Considering the poor construction value of these new apartments being built around town, I don't understand why anyone would waste so much money renting a room in these badly built units. Too bad for the residents.
- 09 Jun 2019 20:40
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: City Lights
- Replies: 135
- Views: 161792
Re: Downtown Dallas: City Lights
My goodness. That is some serious damage. On another note, this also brings to light just how cheaply constructed these things are.
- 30 May 2019 14:05
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: The Cedars Developments
- Replies: 252
- Views: 220738
Re: The Cedars Developments
Something just seems off about this...
- 30 May 2019 14:04
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: 2000 Ross Project
- Replies: 654
- Views: 559774
Re: Downtown Dallas: 2000 Ross Project
I wouldn't worry about it. Economic indicators are indicating that the housing market in DFW is losing steam. I would say we are around the same stages as Dallas was back around the 87 crash--except this time it is residential. I’m curious as to what you see as being the parallels between 1987 and ...
- 26 May 2019 00:14
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: The Christopher @The Union (31 ST) + The Union office tower (22 ST)
- Replies: 217
- Views: 236106
Re: The Christopher @The Union (31 ST) + The Union office tower (22 ST)
Aren't several companies relocating offices from Downtown to Uptown?
- 26 May 2019 00:12
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: 2000 Ross Project
- Replies: 654
- Views: 559774
Re: Downtown Dallas: 2000 Ross Project
I am involved with the McKinney Avenue Streetcar. We were told before the construction began on the parking garage that they would need us to relocate some of our poles along Olive Street that hold up the wire. This would accommodate access to the apartment tower. Well, now they say it will be at l...
- 30 Mar 2019 11:30
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Harwood Int'l District: Harwood No. 11 (The Forum)
- Replies: 188
- Views: 176794
Re: Harwood Int'l District: Harwood No. 11 (The Forum)
Tivo_Kenevil wrote:41 stories... 25 of which will be above grade parking prolly
Haha!
- 30 Mar 2019 11:27
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Harwood Int'l District: Harwood No. 11 (The Forum)
- Replies: 188
- Views: 176794
Re: Harwood Int'l District: Harwood No. 11 (The Forum)
Harwood doesn't excite me at all as a developer. The designs are great but the final product is always underwhelming.. alot of it has to do with the height of their towers and their lack of pedestrian infrastructure. Call me when they start working with an urban planning firm that'll actually make ...
- 27 Mar 2019 20:39
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Deep Ellum: The Stack - 2700 Commerce
- Replies: 173
- Views: 131422
Re: Deep Ellum: Hines Project - 2700 Commerce
I just don't like the box on top. It's odd looking to me I agree. The box on top is not harmonious with the bottom portion of the structure. The bottom half looks fantastic. Great architecture. Could use a little more classical ornamentation, but it works. The top half looks alien. Modern trashitec...
- 27 Mar 2019 20:36
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Deep Ellum: The Stack - 2700 Commerce
- Replies: 173
- Views: 131422
Re: Deep Ellum: Hines Project - 2700 Commerce
I really don't understand the obsession with limiting height in the urban core of the city. We still need tons and tons of more density in the core and the only way to get it there is height. This is not just a Deep Ellum issue. What we really need is a viable public transit system--not DART--that ...
- 25 Mar 2019 13:10
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: The Christopher @The Union (31 ST) + The Union office tower (22 ST)
- Replies: 217
- Views: 236106
Re: The Christopher @The Union (31 ST) + The Union office tower (22 ST)
Another Starbucks? Why?
- 22 Mar 2019 14:29
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Dallas Arts District: Hall Arts Hotel & Residences
- Replies: 318
- Views: 303574
Re: Arts District: Hall Arts Hotel & Residences
j_d_p wrote:Maybe need to see this in full sunlight but I work nearby and this building is hideous. The glass or whatever design you'd call what they have on the Ross side is really not pleasant to look at.
To be fair, this is true for almost every building going up now.
- 20 Mar 2019 15:20
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Deep Ellum: Epic ~ Knights of Pythias Temple
- Replies: 670
- Views: 609204
Re: Deep Ellum: Epic ~ Knights of Pythias Temple
I can totally see how the current dynamic is a bummer to longtime residents, but clearly this iteration of Deep Ellum is more sustainable than what came before. Keyword is sustainable. This is debatable. So what was sustainable in the past that isn't now? Aren't some bars closing because they don't...
- 19 Mar 2019 18:39
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Deep Ellum: Epic ~ Knights of Pythias Temple
- Replies: 670
- Views: 609204
Re: Deep Ellum: Epic ~ Knights of Pythias Temple
As someone who used to live in Deep Ellum, I have to concur. The sentiment for the original Deep Ellum crowd is negative. While the development has brought tremendous revenue to the bars and businesses, t has also killed the atmosphere that Deep Ellum was once known for. It really isn't as fantasti...
- 19 Mar 2019 18:36
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Deep Ellum: Epic ~ Knights of Pythias Temple
- Replies: 670
- Views: 609204
Re: Deep Ellum: Epic ~ Knights of Pythias Temple
Isn't the change in Deep Ellum just more of a sign of the changing times, more than anything? The whole grunge/metal/punk rock thing isn't as popular as it was back in the 90s, so Deep Ellum today is just a reflection on how society has changed. This has nothing to do with it at all. It's the menta...
- 19 Mar 2019 13:25
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Deep Ellum: Epic ~ Knights of Pythias Temple
- Replies: 670
- Views: 609204
Re: Deep Ellum: Epic ~ Knights of Pythias Temple
As someone who used to live in Deep Ellum, I have to concur. The sentiment for the original Deep Ellum crowd is negative. While the development has brought tremendous revenue to the bars and businesses, t has also killed the atmosphere that Deep Ellum was once known for. It really isn't as fantastic...
- 09 Mar 2019 23:34
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Harwood Int'l District: Harwood No. 11 (The Forum)
- Replies: 188
- Views: 176794
Re: Harwood Int'l District: Harwood No. 11 (The Forum)
Does anyone have any renders of this massive project?
- 05 Mar 2019 20:26
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: City Lights
- Replies: 135
- Views: 161792
Re: Downtown Dallas: City Lights
The "stick builds", as you call them, make me feel very uncomfortable. They look like they will just fall over. And being that this is Texas and we have tornadoes, that makes them that much more uncomfortable to me.
- 05 Mar 2019 00:09
- Forum: The Bus + Roads/Highways/Bridges
- Topic: Margaret McDermott Bridge by Santiago Calatrava
- Replies: 149
- Views: 128774
Re: Margaret McDermott Bridge by Santiago Calatrava
They should have never built these arches in the first place. They look awkward and out of place. They perfectly epitomize vanity and waste. Now, if the freeway bridge had been built as one structure supported by said arches, then the arches would be fine.