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- 01 Feb 2024 13:35
- Forum: The Bus + Roads/Highways/Bridges
- Topic: Downtown Dallas Greyhound Station Closing - Lost Lease
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1517
Re: Downtown Dallas Greyhound Station Closing - Lost Lease
Screenshot 2024-01-27 at 9.20.47 AM Large.jpeg It's the only Art Moderne architecture that we have downtown and it absolutely deserves protection. I've always wanted to see this building restored and redeveloped into something, but I guess I never imagined it without some type of bus terminal compo...
- 18 Jan 2024 14:39
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown Dallas: 23 Springs (~399FT | 26 ST)
- Replies: 196
- Views: 247772
Re: Uptown Dallas: 23 Springs (~399FT | 26 ST)
Deloitte must really be leaning into hot desking if their footprint is so small. I tried to find info on their current state of WFH; from what I could gather based off of reddit threads, while fully remote still exists, the majority of people are expected to be hybrid and there was a mandatory "...
- 17 Jan 2024 10:23
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown Dallas: 23 Springs (~399FT | 26 ST)
- Replies: 196
- Views: 247772
Re: Uptown Dallas: 23 Springs (~399FT | 26 ST)
DBJ says the huge lease is for four floors. Wow, that is tiny... does Deloitte have any major presense in uptown/downtown outside of their current location at (formerly) Chase Tower? If not, then this really shows a major downsizing effect from WFH. If one of the big 4 is reducing its "downtow...
- 10 Oct 2023 14:41
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: West Dallas Developments
- Replies: 185
- Views: 147597
Re: West Dallas Developments
Atlas Metal Works at Sylvan and Singleton is slowly coming down. It’s pretty much just scraps of metal heaps at this point. No more Atlas Metal Works D89CC7CD-C581-44AE-9B23-80001A326934.jpeg Does anyone know what became of the business entity for Atlas Metal Works? A quick google search makes it s...
- 02 Sep 2023 15:01
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Dallas Mockingbird Station
- Replies: 165
- Views: 131467
Re: Dallas Mockingbird Station
Have there been any updates to this project? I couldn't find any new news since the summer 2022 articles about the Trammel Crow proposales and request for city money. The parking lots around Mockingbird Station still seem like a mighty waste of space.
- 10 Aug 2023 10:11
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Demolished (and about to be) Properties 2.0
- Replies: 104
- Views: 57713
Re: Demolished (and about to be) Properties 2.0
lakewoodhobo wrote:RIP Idle Rich. I never referred to it as One Settle.
Tough month for bars that were formative to my early 20s... First Beauty Bar and now Idle Rich. RIP
- 25 May 2023 13:07
- Forum: The Bus + Roads/Highways/Bridges
- Topic: I-345
- Replies: 457
- Views: 336807
Re: I-345
Any news on how this is going to interact with the I-30 canyon rebuilding? Does the I-30 project include reconstruction of the I-30/I-345 interchange? One of the most frustrating roadway strethces I've seen in the metro is I-35 from 635 north towards PGBT. That stretch of highway seems to have been ...
- 08 Feb 2023 09:55
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Development
- Topic: Richardson: Main Street Improvements
- Replies: 47
- Views: 35063
Re: Richardson: Main Street Improvements
I drive past this on my way to work and have been wondering what's going on. Finally bothered to look it up (while bored at work ;)) Looks like construction is supposed to re-commence... https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2023/01/18/developer-promises-restart-at-richardson-apartment-and...
- 03 Jan 2023 16:03
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Deep Ellum: The Stack - 2700 Commerce
- Replies: 173
- Views: 132245
Re: Deep Ellum: The Stack - 2700 Commerce
Ha, it's funny that the Richards Group will be a tenant here - from one building where half of the height was above ground parking, to another that's the same
- 03 Jan 2023 15:51
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Development
- Topic: Las Colinas/North Irving Development
- Replies: 1520
- Views: 1408963
Re: Las Colinas/North Irving Development
TXGunLover wrote:
We're lucky to have the Whole Foods, they nearly canceled the project right before opening and it remains their lowest revenue store in DFW.
That's surprising to hear. I'd have guessed the Lakewood Whole Foods is the lowest performing store. That place is dead.
- 10 Dec 2022 23:42
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Turtle Creek: Kalita Humphreys Theater
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10186
Re: Turtle Creek: Kalita Humphreys Theater
How did this place fall into such rapid disrepair? It was a completely fine and funcitoning theater through the mid 2010s. Even after the Wyly opened, Dallas Theater Center would still host perfermances that I attended. While the theater was showing its age it was still fully functional and a nice p...
- 09 Oct 2022 22:23
- Forum: The Airports
- Topic: Dallas Love Field Airport
- Replies: 98
- Views: 108618
Re: Dallas Love Field Airport
Was looking at satellite imagery of Love Field's runway construction. Almost had a bit of hope that what I was seeing was some preemtpive cut and cover tunneling through the runway to maybe one day support a people mover between the Burbank Station and the terminal. Alas, just looks like regular con...
- 28 Oct 2021 09:38
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Victory Park 3.0
- Replies: 918
- Views: 793151
Re: Victory Park 3.0
I figured there would be a consolidation. With all the cost-cutting and anchor/reporter revolving door movements at stations Tegna owns or has acquired, I'm surprised they let Ch.8 have 2 facilities this long without moving out of one of them. Dallas/Ft. Worth is the fourth largest TV market in the...
- 28 Oct 2021 09:35
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: East Dallas: Kroger
- Replies: 73
- Views: 53373
Re: East Dallas: Kroger
All of the articles are still neglecting the Kroger that is like 2 blocks away from this. I wish they would acknowledge that and say one way or another if this is a replacement for the cityplace one or not.
- 28 Sep 2021 16:38
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Deep Ellum: Epic ~ Knights of Pythias Temple
- Replies: 670
- Views: 612018
Re: Deep Ellum: Epic ~ Knights of Pythias Temple
The Epic really has a strong presence in the skyline. Really happy with how this one came out. Now we just need to find a new tenant for it .
- 21 Sep 2021 14:26
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Deep Ellum 1.0
- Replies: 1025
- Views: 812807
Re: Deep Ellum 1.0
Not sure it would work here, but they could maybe try something like Beale Street in Memphis. They were having similar issues and started charging a nominal ($5ish) cover to enter the area through security checkpoints. Seems like that would cut down on the loitering crowd / minors who seem to be ca...
- 14 Sep 2021 20:05
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: City Lights
- Replies: 135
- Views: 162217
Re: Downtown Dallas: City Lights
More than two years after a construction crane collapsed into an Old East Dallas apartment complex, the owners of the building say they have begun rebuilding the property. One resident, 29-year-old Kiersten Smith, died in the June 9, 2019, collapse, and five other people were injured. Hundreds of r...
- 03 Sep 2021 13:43
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: 2000 Ross Project
- Replies: 654
- Views: 561783
Re: Downtown Dallas: 2000 Ross Project
Wow, that looks pretty good. I wonder how they're taking care of ventilation - it's rare to see a garage so thoroughly wrapped in cladding like that. I guess they did put serious forethought into the garage's design to support this!
- 29 Jun 2021 10:41
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: Corporate Relocations/Expansions
- Replies: 767
- Views: 561766
Re: Corporate Relocations/Expansions
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-29/goldman-plans-new-dallas-campus-doubling-down-on-hub-in-texas?srnd=premium Goldman Plans New Dallas Campus, Extending Bet on Hub in Texas Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is on the hunt for a new office campus in Dallas that could become the Wall Street ban...
- 26 Jun 2021 14:48
- Forum: The Airports
- Topic: DFW Airport
- Replies: 420
- Views: 362066
Re: DFW Airport
This is great, Turkish airlines has great connections out of their Istanbul hub so this will be almost like getting a new ME3 airline in in terms of route connections to EMEA
- 01 Jun 2021 15:56
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Museum Tower
- Replies: 229
- Views: 231571
Re: Museum Tower
Definitely appreciate the updates through the years Tucy, thank you for being a great source of info on this.
- 03 May 2021 13:15
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: Jackson at Market Parking Garage
- Replies: 75
- Views: 34296
Re: Downtown: Jackson at Market Parking Garage
I think a modern parking structure and some retail could be a little shot in the arm for the undeveloped lots around there. Agreed, the fact that this has ground floor retail is a win, considering that at the moment this is essentially an unimproved lot. If this makes redeveloping another surface l...
- 14 Feb 2021 13:12
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: West Dallas: Trinity Groves
- Replies: 137
- Views: 108845
Re: West Dallas: Trinity Groves
Any word on what is happening to the company, Atlas Metal Works? They did some waterjet cutting work for me back in 2015 and were very helpful considering my project was quite small relative to their normal scale. Hope the business is doing OK and that they're maybe able to move into more modern fac...
- 09 Feb 2021 11:18
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: OT: Fund the Forum
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7206
Re: OT: Fund the Forum
Thanks for bumping this into the busy forum. Just donated. CTroy, thanks for all that you do!
- 12 Jan 2021 23:52
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Victory Park 3.0
- Replies: 918
- Views: 793151
Re: Victory Park 3.0
Ya, good god, what a waste. This brewery building is quite imposing on Woodall when you're going WB - the highway bumps right up against it. Having a cool, urban, brick façade would have looked so nice on this thing but no... now' we just get what looks like a Plano tilt wall flex warehouse sticking...
- 12 Jan 2021 23:50
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: Statler Hotel & Residences + Future DMN Offices (Old Statler Hilton + Old Library)
- Replies: 441
- Views: 387387
Re: Downtown Dallas: Statler Hotel & Residences + Future DMN Offices (Old Statler Hilton + Old Library)
This is great, glad this is finally moving.
Haha this definitely made me laugh. Can't deny that it's not progress though
exelone31 wrote:^ WE HAVE REBAR!
Haha this definitely made me laugh. Can't deny that it's not progress though
- 24 Dec 2020 13:32
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: Restaurants: general news/development
- Replies: 173
- Views: 199566
Re: Restaurants: general news/development
After 25 years, Flying Saucer in Addison is closing Owner-operator Shannon Wynne says the lease was up and he’s decided not to renew it. https://www.dallasnews.com/food/restaurant-news/2020/12/22/after-25-years-flying-saucer-in-addison-is-closing-new-years-eve-2020/ Sad to see this one go after so ...
- 15 Dec 2020 23:49
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: Homelessness
- Replies: 81
- Views: 72053
Re: Homelessness
Great that they're doing this (and wow, that candlewood suites really is in a terrible location for visibility.)
The main negative that I see here is that neither of these locations appear to be close to any sort of rail transit.
The main negative that I see here is that neither of these locations appear to be close to any sort of rail transit.
- 02 Dec 2020 21:25
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: DTD: The National/Thompson Hotel (1401 Elm)
- Replies: 681
- Views: 623569
Re: DTD: The National/Thompson Hotel (1401 Elm)
It really is a fantastic turn around for the building, but I still can't figure out how this ended up costing ~$450 million bucks. Isn't that the cost of a brand new, very tall skyscraper?
- 23 Nov 2020 18:32
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Preston Center
- Replies: 85
- Views: 55829
Re: Preston Center
That's a 630,000 sq ft tower? Looks much smaller.
- 15 Oct 2020 22:47
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: Downtown Progress
- Replies: 359
- Views: 251590
Re: Downtown Progress
Two relatively large buildings between Meadow and Royal, right off of 75, were demolished over the last few months. They had been heavily damaged by the tornado from last October. I'm not at all sure how the lease cancellation works when you're building is destroyed.
- 14 Oct 2020 17:20
- Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
- Topic: Downtown: Klyde Warren Park
- Replies: 228
- Views: 188795
Re: Downtown: Klyde Warren Park
That's awesome! Thank you to Jacbos for the philanthropy. I am curious as to how the ice rink will work.
- 14 Oct 2020 17:03
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: Downtown Progress
- Replies: 359
- Views: 251590
Re: Downtown Progress
I wonder if the demolition of some of those offices around 75 and walnut contributed to the massive reduction.
- 12 Oct 2020 11:57
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Development
- Topic: Las Colinas/North Irving Development
- Replies: 1520
- Views: 1408963
Re: Las Colinas/North Irving Development
Nice Kelly, great sleuthing - congrats and thanks!
The article is behind a paywall, any chance we could at least get some of the renderings posted here?
The article is behind a paywall, any chance we could at least get some of the renderings posted here?
- 06 Oct 2020 09:50
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: Dallas High School
- Replies: 165
- Views: 120003
Re: Downtown Dallas: Dallas High School
What a great spot for a tower, at least from a Downtown perspective. It'll partially cover up the dull-looking Sheraton and make use of a relatively undesirable lot. Win win. Definitely a win win. Lol except for the ad revenue that the Sheraton was making off of the full building Apple ads that hav...
- 04 Oct 2020 12:31
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Deep Ellum 1.0
- Replies: 1025
- Views: 812807
Re: Deep Ellum 1.0
And yet bishop arts is now more lively, occupied, and visited than it has ever been
- 22 Sep 2020 23:20
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: DFW Economy
- Replies: 462
- Views: 445328
Re: DFW Economy
People aren't rubes because they have a different POV or priorities than you, or they support a different candidate than yours. I really wish people would stop denigrating others based on their political affiliation. You're correct, having a different POV than me or anyone else doesn't make someone...
- 22 Sep 2020 13:51
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: DFW Economy
- Replies: 462
- Views: 445328
Re: DFW Economy
Lol there is no way TikTok is going to employ 25K people. That is an utter pipe dream. To put this all in context: Twitter has, in total, 5k employees. TikTok is a more challenging software problem to solve, but that work is already done in China. At this point, the current TikTok deal also maintain...
- 21 Sep 2020 17:03
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Red Bird Mall
- Replies: 109
- Views: 88003
Re: Red Bird Mall
That's great news, glad they're having success.
- 16 Sep 2020 13:03
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: The Link at Uptown
- Replies: 215
- Views: 172547
Re: The Link at Uptown
R1070 wrote:Wait until the 20 story garage is built next to the Ascent.
Not familiar with this project - what exactly is it? Additional parking for AAC? Is the city doing it?
- 13 Sep 2020 00:02
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Knox District / Knox Park
- Replies: 814
- Views: 617772
Re: Knox / Henderson - Knox Street Side
jegchachi wrote:Some additional update pics.
Great pics, thanks for posting. My main take away from these is how great 75 is here. I wish all highways around the urban core were trenched in such a manner. From this vantage point you truly would not know it was there if you didn't already know what to look for.
- 31 Aug 2020 23:11
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: The Link at Uptown
- Replies: 215
- Views: 172547
Re: The Link at Uptown
DallasMan wrote:Ha, gosh, that is a ton of parking
Seriously, imagine having to traverse that, back and forth, to get to a top floor parking spot each day. Could easily eat up 5 minutes if you're doing it during a congested time.
- 30 Jul 2020 13:58
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: DFW Economy
- Replies: 462
- Views: 445328
Re: DFW Economy
I've heard CRE people contend that companies will be seeking more real estate moving forward and not less, to accommodate employee spacing/distancing and such, but I'm still not buying it. At some point, employers will pull their employees back into the office. The idea that white-collar managerial...
- 21 Jun 2020 15:23
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown Dallas: 2500 Cedar Springs (3 Towers)
- Replies: 109
- Views: 52497
Re: Uptown Dallas: Routh and Cedar Springs
Any updates on this one? Have the bars located on this plot closed up shop yet?
- 21 Jun 2020 15:21
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Oaklawn: Old Parkland
- Replies: 148
- Views: 95059
Re: Oaklawn: Old Parkland
Didn't realize this either, this will be an exciting random architectural addition
- 15 Jun 2020 11:25
- Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
- Topic: DALLAS to HOUSTON High Speed Rail
- Replies: 556
- Views: 488419
Re: DALLAS to HOUSTON High Speed Rail
This thing is such a joke. Spend a billion dollars on creating a 'shuttle' like aircraft service between Love and Hobby (hell, spend an extra billion to build a special terminal at each airport to handle the unique traffic and low security needs) and then spend the left over $28 billion on solar pan...
- 15 Jun 2020 11:20
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown Dallas: 23 Springs (~399FT | 26 ST)
- Replies: 196
- Views: 247772
Re: Uptown Dallas: Cedar Maple Plaza I,II & III (2301 Cedar Springs Rd.)
Have the 'french style' low rise offices that are on this site been vacated yet?
- 01 Jun 2020 13:24
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: East Dallas: Kroger
- Replies: 73
- Views: 53373
Re: East Dallas: Kroger
This is 3500 feet from the city place Krogers, and just 1500 feet from the neighborhood wal-mart - why are they bothering to build one so close? I feel like grocery stores in uptown are actually being overbuilt at the moment. new tom thumbs at the union, the gables mckinney, the planned central mark...
- 22 May 2020 15:20
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Dallas Covid-19 Business Casualties
- Replies: 60
- Views: 42673
Re: Dallas Covid-19 Business Casualties
Ross and hall also goes down. https://lakewood.advocatemag.com/2020/05/20/permanent-restaurant-closures/ This place never had enough traffic from what I saw. The building and layout is nice but for some reason the decor felt sterile/fake. Tough to compete with eastbound and down is just a few stree...
- 19 May 2020 15:45
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: City Lights
- Replies: 135
- Views: 162217
Re: Downtown Dallas: City Lights
Never though I'd see the day... This one has been in the makings for such a long time. Glad it's finally almost there. Shame that we're losing the density from the Elan dev next door. Any news on what is to come of that building? I'm really hoping they only knock down a portion of it so that they ca...