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Anyone know what is going on along the White Rock Lake Shore in front of the Arboretum? I have noticed quite a lot of construction but don't see any information about it.

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The Byron Nelson should be moved to Frisco. Hotel, infrastructure and amenities await. The promise of economic development in South Dallas from the Trinity Forest Golf Course will no longer happen. The idea of a hotel for instance, is now very much dead. Frisco has the hotel now. I attended the Byr...

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I went to the BN this year and felt like they did a great job. no doubt it was a different vibe from the one in Irving but they did a great job of creating shaded spaces around the course to watch from. The course itself was very cool-- i was disappointed it did not play and tough as I expected but ...

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It's such a small park, that I was hoping this would be one of the first they finish. Maybe this news does indicate things might start moving sooner rather than later. Dallas sure does love over-doing it when it comes to their parks. I do like Klyde Warren and Main Street Garden, but it'd be nice t...

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When all of the trains are full all day then that is when we start thinking about express trains. Until then lets focus on dense train station development and ridership first and one mile radius station pathway improvements. I would agree that DART and the City could do much more around stations to...

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You know all they need to do is put a mirrored glass facade on the buildings and they will look like any other office building. I think the bigger problem with that cite is that it is cut off from the rest of Downtown. You are close to downtown but divided by a huge freeway.

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I think this project has a great potential to help this end of the DMA too. the big open space at this end of the building is not as dramatic due to how open the area is... with a building across the street i think it will really help.

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One must be a member of Trinity Forest CC or an invited guest of member to play there. It is a private club. This is the way it was always intended. It is not a public course. The only "public" part of it is the enormous sum of money Dallas citizens paid to build it. Actually there is a b...

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Someone posted in the comments on one of the stories about taking the Robert E Lee Statue down that they should give the statue to this museum... I thought it sounded like a really good idea... really turning lemons into lemonade.

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Perhaps it is just because i go down there a lot or know the city better than someone from Plano would but I rarely have an issue parking. I was a bit worried about it last Saturday night when we were there but a spot on the street near Local opened up before we were even really looking for a space....

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Went to Harlowe this past Saturday night... Food is very interesting just had some appetizers french fries were amazing. The build out of the space is really amazing... first class design and materials. Would love to see this done with more of Deep Ellum it could really ground the neighborhood for t...

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For anyone confused why a split line is worse than having one two-way line going in between it, let me explain with this sloppy diagram. https://preview.ibb.co/iTJYPF/IMG_2788.jpg The solid vertical brown line is a two-way transit line, and the solid vertical red lines are a split transit line 1-mi...

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Has anyone been to the new hippo exhibit? Would love to see some pics and hear more about how it fits in with the rest of the zoo.

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Hopefully these new projects will bring enough people to drive down the crime in this area. My friend works in a building near by and they have had huge problems. A big appartment complex might be a great thing for this area... residents could perhaps get the city to spend more resources to keep the...

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I just don't get it-- do these people know they live in a city? if they want to live in the suburbs with a quite culdesac there are plenty of them around. I bet they are not upset that all that traffic has significantly raised their home values or reduced their crime. back in the early 2000 I think ...

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In fact why not take the road between the DMA and the Nasher and turn that into a park? We could create more green space with the same or less money. As much as we'd love to see Harwood closed and reprogrammed as an expansion of KWP, the DMA will never give up access to its garage or the bus lanes ...

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/\ I would agree it would be ideal if the station/termination were inside the freeway loop. I hope that they consider the old DMN Site -- I think they should also look at going underground... if they want to eventually go north to OK then going underground to get out of downtown seems like the best ...

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I actually really like the uniqueness of the Dallas World Aquarium. It's pretty different from any other major aquarium I've ever been to, which all have a 'sameness' about them. That one in New Orleans for example I've been to in the past 15 years and can't recall a thing about it. Also agree the ...

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The Trinity Golf course was billed as a private Golf Course like the Dallas Country Club its rare for a private club like that to have a resort attached... unless it is actually simi-private meaning you can be a member to play or you can pay a green fee and stay at the attached hotel and play. The c...

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I would agree young street could be a great choice... it could also potentially connect in Deep Ellum and the Farmers Market -- but it is going to need a North/south line to cross it so people can get to KW park and all the stuff on the north side of town. years ago Angela Hunt suggested a street ca...

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@Matt777 - Interesting Ideas - I have always loved the idea of a whiteWater Rafting course near Downtown -- I had no idea that one existed up in OKC -- if they can support it i can't see why we would not be able to. Regarding the electrical wires -- Frisco got theirs buried considering the money bei...

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I agree the parking just is not logical... Between the Myerson, DMA and others there should be plenty of parking everyone just needs to get together and create an agreement that is in everyone's best interest. I fully support them expanding the children's play ground in the new plans and even the sp...

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I don't really feel like this deck park is a good use of money. If we took this same money and put it into Lake Cliff Park then at the end of the day we would have a much better outcome. Woodall Rodgers Deck park made economic sense because the price of land and the location. The price of land in Oa...

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I am really excited about the new Mockingbird Bridge. Even though the connector across Central is currently very bad it would not be too hard to improve it. The problem is until this bridge is finished there is just not much of a constituency to get it done. Considering the issues that the Katy Trai...

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I went once -- was really excited to have a good sports bar -- the food was not that good. ordered chips and Salsa got Pace -- that was probably the best thing we ordered.

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I actually kind of like the look of the building but that big green space in the front is not helping anybody out... It has almost no engagement with pedestrians.

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Any word on this project? I thought it was supposed to start early 2017.

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I don't agree that it is a forgone conclusion that it would have become a parking lot. This project only happened because the city gave them a significant amount of money to restore the building and make it useful. If they had shown the building as it is today I don't believe the city would have giv...

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/\ I love historic buildings but frankly at the point it was deemed too damaging to the building to restore it to the original i would rather have seen it demolished. What we have now is just as ugly as it was before and will do little for the street life.

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I would agree the KBH is a bit of a money pit in its current pattern of use. It just seems like such a wasted facility... If it's not being used for a convention why not roll out some fake grass and let it be an indoor park? seems like so many things could be done if the right incentives were in pla...

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I agree - this will do a lot to connect Downtown/Uptown to Victory. I would so love to see a little spur off the existing trolley line down Olive Street to the AAC - it's only 1/2 mile... seems to me it could have a huge impact - including lots of riders.

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Great Frontage roads- Just what we need more of. If they are going to build frontage roads they should not allow businesses to open onto them... Businesses should have to open onto side roads... otherwise they will just slow down the traffic and we get no benefit from the road. along with a lot of o...

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^I would say instead that people in Dallas are not going to be walkers within our suburban ways.... correct the environment to be pedestrian friendly and the sidewalks will be crowded with walkers. A cactus wont grow in a swamp and a fern wont grow in a desert. Agreed, the more pedestrian-friendly ...

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It seems to me that DART should integrate the line more into it's overall transit scheme... meaning that some busses that go to the transit mall should now drop people off to take the trolley into downtown. Busses could do a better job of feeding the Trolley at a better price then extending the trol...

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Anyone know what the proper pronunciation of "Drever" is? is that first e long or short?

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I hope they put some money aside for programing for the plaza-- It looks great and had great potential... but too many of these things get built and never used because no one ever puts any money toward programing.

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/\ Yeah i understand the objections but this seems to be a quality development and getting a better tax base south of the river will only be good for South Dallas in the long run.

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Las Colinas is knocking... Corner of O'conner & Las Colinas blvd pls. But, I also like the idea of Dallas CBD. That parking lot where the BofA plaza twin was supposed to go would be sweet. Sweet, indeed! Especially with Belo Garden Park right there. That area of downtown needs a catalyst, and m...

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And from a retail point of view i would rather pay to park once in a parking garage then park for free at one store and have to move my car to shop at the next store down the street.

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/\ Actually i would say that the straight line river that is there now is more against the rivers nature than adding the meanders back in. Most rivers like the Trinity naturally meander just look at the old banks of the Trinity (now in the Design District). I am sure doing this project will come wit...

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I was by this the other day and looks like they have poured the piers -- i would expect the rest of the bridge to go much faster.

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As for the DART rail, pretty much the only folks who use that to visit Deep Ellum are a handful of families with kids during the day on weekends and the "bad guys" at night. Almost every crime report in the area ends with "The suspects were last seen headed towards the DART rail stat...

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It doesn't have to be dead. (Under the El in CHI.) http://cpplunkett.photos/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/looking-down-street-under-el-train-tracks-092014.jpg I agree it would not take a lot to make the underpass workable -- They could place some restaurant incubators under the freeway using Cargo Con...

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That's a great piece of property for them. I certainly hope they build a garage with some retail space, though, to contribute to that corner of the park. I know things can change but my understanding was that it would include retail. In fact i think they were targeting a grocery store... but if the...

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I would still love to see Dallas build a Minor league size stadium downtown. It could be used for DISD games as well as a minor league like the one in Grand Prairie not affiliated with Pro Baseball. I went to an Stars game last night (Tuesday) and it's a pain during the week - no way i am driving ou...

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now that DMN is moving to the Statler i would love to see them redevelop the DMN Site as the downtown train station. It would be simple to then connect it to the DART Rail lines. But, I see a lot of real estate up side for a station in the Cedars. How many times do I to point out that the DMN build...

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now that DMN is moving to the Statler i would love to see them redevelop the DMN Site as the downtown train station. It would be simple to then connect it to the DART Rail lines. But, I see a lot of real estate up side for a station in the Cedars. How many times do I to point out that the DMN build...

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now that DMN is moving to the Statler i would love to see them redevelop the DMN Site as the downtown train station. It would be simple to then connect it to the DART Rail lines. But, I see a lot of real estate up side for a station in the Cedars.

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Was in Deep Ellum this past weekend- Man things are really rolling - tons of people lots of new businesses. Somehow the city has got to build a Parking Garage for this area. Seems like between the increased property value on the current parking lots and the parking revenue this could be justified. I...

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I don't know there is something about shopping that can't really be replicated online... Personally i find online shopping very tiring -- but sometimes the convenience of it just can't be matched. It will be interesting to see how this all changes over time. I would not be surprised to see tesla/app...

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