Dallas Fort Worth Urban Forum

Matt777

Work has been underway for a good while now. It started with the demolition of all those properties, and then they dug a massive hole for the garage. Is construction at ground level now?

Matt777

A high-rise hotel or two facing KWP would have been nice, and presented a welcoming view for visitors to our city.

Maybe one could go where that little parking lot is on the corner of Harwood and Woodall Rogers.

Matt777

Keep chanting it man. Its (and every place’s) boosters act like momentary high percentage growth is going to lead to taking over the world, but it always turns out to be the low hanging fruit that gets harder to grab in a mature metro economy — those are built not for the population trend of the mo...

Matt777

According to the latest timeline of the project made public by Dallas City Council member Philip Kingston on Friday, workers should have tied up the project's loose ends, like traffic signal work and sidewalk and driveway repair, by Aug. 2, closing the book on a project that was approved for design...

Matt777

flyswatter wrote:You have to go on actual Google Earth. It will update there a little bit before maps.google.com does

I hope they wait and retake the photos. The imagery on Google Maps may be outdated, but it is green and pretty. The photo posted above is winter brown and looks depressing.

Matt777

Finally. Although, I wish they had done it in a "greener" month than November. Better than January, but Spring/Summer always makes urban areas look better from above when things are greenest. EDIT: Where did you get this imagery? When I look at Dallas on google maps, long completed project...

Matt777

I hope more complete street projects come to Dallas, but I also wish they could be completed quicker. One year seems like a lot to re-do a street and sidewalks. I know there's other utilities involved, but dang one year?

Matt777

KEEP THEM COMING! We have plenty of room in prison for all of them.

Matt777

The Stemmon's corridor needs a huge cleanup. The roads are terrible including I-35, the buildings are neglected and filled with random businesses, litter everywhere, just seedy. It's sad because most people passing through Dallas on I-35 get this area as their impression of Dallas.

Matt777

Nobody tell Trammell Crow or Sam's Club, please.

Matt777

Key point to understand about the immediate gaybourhood is a lot of land is owned by Caven Enterprises a employee owned company that runs S4, Sue Ellen's, Jr's and TMC. They own more than just the land the bars sit on. They own parking lots and strip centers in the area. If they ever want to sell e...

Matt777

Does anyone know if the rainbow crosswalks on Cedar Springs will be painted, or something more permanent like tiles? I would rather see rainbow tiles than paint which will fade and need to be repainted. I know most people fear changing Cedar Springs and the area losing its community, so a tile cross...

Matt777

jetnd87 wrote:Not to be a downer, but isn't the RH front just a one-story strip mall?

It's going to be a multi-level flagship store, with an attached midrise RH hotel. The plans looked very cool.

Matt777

"We had absolutely no seating, and with the summer coming and 100-plus degrees weather, we thought, 'How are customers going to wait and sit outside, especially with kids?'" Babar says. "So we decided to move now." Their new spot is also in Deep Ellum, just a few blocks away, in...

Matt777

For $9 million, I would think it's more repairs and nip/tuck versus a total re-do. And I'm okay with that. I like the 80s design of the building, the light fixtures, etc, but many of the light fixtures along the surrounding roads are broken and need to be repaired. I hope they don't try to "mod...

Matt777

Very good info, Tamtagon, thanks! I was a child around the last time DE was popular, so I have no real idea on how it used to be. If the crowds back then were larger than they are today on weekends, it must have been very busy. If residential does continue to go up around the outskirts of DE, I'm ho...

Matt777

Apple is closing its Plano and Frisco stores and opening a new one at Galleria Dallas https://www.dallasnews.com/business/retail/2019/02/22/apple-closing-frisco-plano-stores-opening-new-one-galleria-dallas Wow, sounds like some expensive drama involving the Eastern District Court of Texas and Apple...

Matt777

How much extra is double tracking going to add to the cost of this epic boondoggle? If they're going to be spending all this extra money to bring a 3rd rail line to DFW Airport, I would like to see a plan to integrate the 3 lines into one central station at DFW, and then buses from each terminal to ...

Matt777

I don't know if this was posted, but Tacos Mariachi seems to have added a second location in the former Crisp Salad spot on Lower Greenville. I've been to the one in West Dallas and they have solid, authentic Tex-Mex breakfast tacos and burritos. None of that Tacodeli type nonsense.

Matt777

Hannibal Lecter wrote:Address?

It's 505 N. Ervay. It's coming down for a parking garage, of course. Annoying.

Matt777

https://dallas.eater.com/2019/2/15/18226405/komodo-deep-ellum-opening-club-restaurant Following the influx of more outsider nightlife spots to Deep Ellum (think Bottled Blonde from Arizona and forthcoming Punch Bowl Social from Denver), a clubby “Asian fusion” restaurant from Miami has also set its...

Matt777

Well, sadly, it looks like Downtown Dallas won't be getting the Payless Shoes HQ after all:

Payless ShoeSource closing all 2,100 U.S. stores, starting liquidation sales Sunday

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/20 ... 885949002/

Matt777

Great. Can we get an exterior renovation now? The exterior, especially the base, is stuck in a weird mix of 1978 and 1992.

Matt777

We already have a big problem with giving companies 20 year tax abatements while our roads suffer and deteriorate. We already have a problem with roads deteriorating, though. Granted, Amazon will get out of taxes for a long time but that infusion of good paying salaries will have a net positive eff...

Matt777

The rendering says Hard Rock. Interesting. If you've ever driven by the fast food restaurants around Riverfront and Continental, it's easy to see why this would be prime development land. Those shabby restaurants have one of the most incredible skyline views in the area, even from ground level. The ...

Matt777

According to an article I read, Amazon has ~500 tech workers in Dallas and around ~1000 in Austin. They could easily add thousands more to both, however no other fast growing metro in the US is set up to absorb the sheer numbers of people as Dallas is, except maybe Houston (which lags on mass transi...

Matt777

The Tom Thumb has interior fittings and finishes done, but no products yet. I drove by a few weeks ago and then again this weekend, and there was no change.

Matt777

Hopefully they're rethinking the entire design as it is a step back in urbanity. Build out the original 1980s plan and scale it taller if needed. That plan blended in with the neighborhood and was pedestrian friendly. They could probably even squeeze out more rentable office space and retail space t...

Matt777

Does anyone think that this area on the north side of Deep Ellum could become a shopping district for the urban core? I know retail is on the decline, but it's a chore for urban core residents to head north towards NorthPark/NW Highway area to shop. I think it's time for a small/midsize mixed-use ur...

Matt777

I said "new" class A space. Not vacant. Let's face it, the Amazons, Apples, Googles, and the Salesforces of the world want brand new space with the most updated technology infrastructure. I don't know about Salesforce, but the rest of them all recently announced relocations/expansions to ...

Matt777

So if a company wanted to relocate a large office to Downtown or Uptown into new Class A space this year, are they pretty much out of luck? I keep saying... we need some new office space to break ground with a good amount of spec space or we could be losing out on jobs to the suburbs or areas like ...

Matt777

So if a company wanted to relocate a large office to Downtown or Uptown into new Class A space this year, are they pretty much out of luck? I keep saying... we need some new office space to break ground with a good amount of spec space or we could be losing out on jobs to the suburbs or areas like H...

Matt777

I'm rarely downtown on Sunday mornings, so not sure if people stick around after their services. But when I visit downtown during the week I rarely see anybody around the FBC premises. I haven't kept up, but I haven't read anything that says it will definitely become a garage. I live Downtown. They...

Matt777

Disgusting. There needs to be a ban on any new above-ground parking in our core urban areas. Downtown is becoming a dark sea of garages. I don't even get it, because new buildings aren't really going up. Just new parking. And deader, darker streets with more cars aggressively driving through the cor...

Matt777

We finally see a proposal to replace the Pizza Hut strip mall on Cedar Springs, an unnamed luxury hotel. The designs look nice and address the terrible pedestrian infrastructure currently on this lot. It was presented to the Oak Lawn committee asking for 2 minor allowances, and seems to be ready for...

Matt777

Don’t get too excited - word on the street is the store will be a “Costco Business Center” which means no gas, booze, free samples, electronics, etc. Lame. I thought this Costco would at least help reinvigorate this blighted area's attractiveness to new residential development, but it's going to be...

Matt777

Exxon does a periodic real estate review, like every four or five years I think, something like that, and with train to Houston looking more and more likely, we might see Exxon-Mobile move into the Smart District. Sure would make some sense. Whatever.... Exxon just built a massive worker bee comple...

Matt777

emmasensei wrote:Isn't Cole another street that will be undergoing a re-do soon? I was under the impression it will be converted back to a two-way street and the sidewalks redone.

Ah, you could be right. Maybe that's why the streetscape they installed looks so temporary and basic.

Matt777

If not Amazon, who are the big fish that could be considering a corporate relocation right now, and would need a lot of consolidated office space for corporate staff? Maybe General Electric, FedEx, Wells Fargo, JP Morgan Chase, or a healthcare company? IBM tends to build large satellite campuses too.

Matt777

Yeah, these aren't really mid range based on the square foot price, I'd say lower high end. They do deliver a lot for the money in that range though, especially location and finishes. It's no wonder they've sold briskly. What still boggles my mind is the tiny sidewalks that are still allowed in Dall...

Matt777

Remember when Lucy Billingsley couldn't get Two Arts Plaza off the ground, even after a much smaller redesign? Since then we have seen KPMG Plaza, McKinney & Olive, 1900 Pearl, PwC Tower (Park District) and The Union break ground and fill up. Agreed, the office building developers have been ver...

Matt777

A JW Marriott would be a good fit for Northpark, but I would prefer that marque Downtown.

Matt777

That will fit in really nicely with the area, and replace a dilapidated old junk building. Very nice. I agree with the middle windows being too small, though. Using a couple of the larger 3-section windows there would improve the aesthetics a lot.

Matt777

The Dallas skyline has enough "fat," rectangular or square towers. A skinny tower would help accentuate the height of the skyline, because the thick office buildings make the buildings look shorter than they are. I like the cylinder based designs.

Matt777

It would be nice to see these tree initiatives spread into other parts of the city too. Downtown would be less hot in the summer, and overall more attractive if the streets were lined with tall, skinny at the base trees that provide a high canopy. I'm not a tree expert, but looking at Richmond VA on...

Matt777

Anybody know when the Tom Thumb at the Union in Victory Park will open? Originally, they said Fall 2018, then early 2019, so I would think it should be opening soon.

Matt777

There are airside bridges between all terminals except E. What about landside between the two rail stations? I guess my question is how easy is it to transfer between the two rail lines if needed. I know that would be rare. If someone wanted to go from Las Colinas to DTFW by rail, how easy is it to...

Matt777

Used that yesterday to get all the way from dallas downtown to fw downtown (via orange line). Quite surprised how many people went to experience new train - there were no places to sit. Didn't found any walkways between airport terminals, it seems only way to get between terminals is using airport ...

Matt777

What an absolute shame if the destroy a 1916 building for parking. A step backwards for Dallas in all possible ways. The building is a landmark. So, it’s not going anywhere. I know there’s a pretty big parking garage attached to the building. Maybe that’s what they’re interested in. Hopefully, they...

Matt777

I'm hoping that Perot goes with a skinny tower design in the lot next door so it doesn't overwhelmingly block the view of this beautiful tower in the skyline.

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