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JohnMcKee

Museum Tower is finally doing great. Certainly could have been a better start. Doing great in what sense? That it is occupied? There was always a price that those condos would have sold for and moved fast, the measure of success of Museum Tower is not occupied condos, it is if they made money. Give...

JohnMcKee

Good riddance, couldn't have happened to a nicer person. This falls squarely on Al, he had a great neighborhood bar, one that I was formally a frequent customer at and he drove all his neighborhood business away by acting like a complete p***k. Apparently he thought his bar could survive on middle a...

JohnMcKee

The gays have started moving to Oak Cliff.

JohnMcKee

Plus penthouse aside high rise condos are incredibly difficult to comp building wide, first floor units sometimes get a premium, sometimes they take a big hit, a 2nd floor unit may take a bigger hit because a tree obstructed view, a 3rd or 4th might get a premium for a tree top view, lower floors or...

JohnMcKee

It's the Shelton and there is a good reason they are selling fairly well after an initial very rough start. They just happen to be in HPISD but pay city of Dallas taxes, not many places you can buy for $400k in HPISD, much less fully updated and livable for someone in the market for a $400k house. A...

JohnMcKee

If the tower had sold out quickly we'd all be tsk tsking about how they did a firesale at a loss just to get rid of the thing. Instead, they choose to maintain their margin and do a slow burn on the sales so we tsk tsk about the slow rate of sales. I see absolutely nothing wrong with Museum Tower c...

JohnMcKee

Lender behind $380M project in downtown Dallas says developer has 'defaulted' on loan https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2017/11/14/lender-behind-380m-project-in-downtown-dallas-says.html I can't get passed the paywall, but the headline says it all. Disable Javascript on http://www.bizjournal....

JohnMcKee

I think a lot of people here measure success by the existence of a new shiny shiny and not the impact or value of the project itself. So the tower is built, it's almost completed, is that success when it is almost certainly already unprofitable and by some rough but fair estimation losing at least $...

JohnMcKee

While the materials used were certainly high-end The Crescent was considered rather kitschy almost to the point of tacky or vulgar at the time of it's construction and for a while after. While it has a certain architectural grandness that is appreciated today that wasn't always the case and might no...

JohnMcKee

29 of those units are also going against 6 on the market by their first owners.

JohnMcKee

kingpin wrote:anyone know whats going on here?

Untitled by Around My City, on Flickr

Almost certain it is the construction office for those apartments down the street on Hall at Howell.

JohnMcKee

https://candysdirt.com/2017/09/11/exclu ... hed-month/

Pirch is closing apparently.

JohnMcKee

People always confuse hotel management companies with hotel developers. Dream hotel is a hotel management company, they have a contract to manage the hotel that developer of the hotel is trying to build using outside investors.

JohnMcKee

The owner of the Old Warsaw wasn't involved, he sold his property to the group that was planning on developing it.

JohnMcKee

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/rea ... gh-pockets

Officially dead.

JohnMcKee

I have no inside information but I think it is pretty clear what is going on here, they designed this project with no money to start construction and are shopping it for investors. The current status is the same as it was from the beginning, construction will start as soon as they have the money whi...

JohnMcKee

I'm really ambivalent about this project, it's a good flag for the neighborhood but otherwise meh except for this: and (12,500 square feet of) meeting space that will be available to the community. I really do hope they make meeting space available to the community at a very low cost/no cost basis. ...

JohnMcKee

http://dallas.culturemap.com/news/resta ... o-closing/

Shocking no one Patrizio's in Uptown is closing. It was always empty and having eaten there once the food was super disappointing, definitely went downhill in the move from HPV.

JohnMcKee

cowboyeagle05 wrote:Personally, I've never felt that our gay bars fit the world Will & Grace painted for me.

BJs, Peckers, Woody's, I think we are covered. I guess down to two now. But we lost Moby Dicks and got a Woody's so...

JohnMcKee

Every city is required to have at least one gay bar named with a double entendre and there are only so many to go around.

JohnMcKee

They're collaborating with Sam Sameni, Alon Abramov, and Shaul Sultan, who own Avenu Lounge and who also owned Next Door. We just want a chill spot on McKinney Avenue, something that's laidback and not super expensive, like some of the other bars in the area," Jovel says. ... Next Door opened ...

JohnMcKee

Looks like Uptown Urban Market at Gables Villa Rosa is struggling. The Slider spot, La Duni and Fireside Pies have closed. I believe the market has only been around since the spring. Former Sfuzzi space. I'm not surprised, I'm a prime customer, get take away all the time, live two blocks away, easy...

JohnMcKee

The Statler also had incredibly shaky financing and is under a criminal probe over their financing.

JohnMcKee

No, it also mentions that they don't have the money yet, probably hoping to use the models to drum up interest from investors.

JohnMcKee

R1070 wrote:The glass on the top is not my favorite and it's boring.

At that height with that much open terrace I'm pretty sure that is more a design necessity so you don't have to bolt down every piece of furniture so it doesn't blow onto 35 and kill people in a bad thunderstorm but I could be wrong.

JohnMcKee

R1070 wrote:They could just be doing a remodel like 6th Street (which is looking way better).

6th Street has been on the TABC delinquency list (i.e. unable to legally buy alcohol) since their decision to abruptly close for "remodeling".

JohnMcKee

The Next Door property is already started a significant remodel, I never noticed a lockout, they never appeared on the TABC delinquency list and there hasn't been a for lease sign so either the owner of the property is doing a very through make ready for re-lease which seems unlikely or Next Door ei...

JohnMcKee

The TABC delinquency list has Christies listed as under bankruptcy protection. They appear to still be operating and can under bankruptcy protection but it probably isn't a good sign. Not surprised about Next Door, they seemed to run a good operation but the atmosphere wasn't great and the drinks we...

JohnMcKee

Sorry, not the best photo but they lit up the windows the last two nights with a giant red, white and blue 4. Seems rather odd to put that much effort into something rather trivial when this project is so troubled.

JohnMcKee

We are talking about multiple plots, 2934 is where that Italian restaurant that burned down around a decade ago was at Nobel and Hall. The property at the corner of Oak Grove and Hall is owned by some entity named "Oak Grove Hotel Group" which is what the hotel speculation is about.

JohnMcKee

As I felt with the Richard's Group I don't have the biggest problem with this much parking in buildings right now as long is it is attractive as it is in both buildings. Hopefully what we will see happening is in the coming years is that as parking needs decrease inside these buildings they will ope...

JohnMcKee

Looks like those glass bottom/sided cantilevered pools for the penthouses actually happened. I know they were floated on the original design but I'm pretty sure they said they might not happen if the penthouse buyers didn't want to pay the significant costs to make them a reality.

JohnMcKee

Tailored crosswalks are great, especially if they lead to new sidewalks. Oak Lawn Avenue should be one of the city's Premier, World-Class, New Millenial, NewUrbanistMixedUse, Starcitect, Complete Streeted.... pedestrian-resident oriented thoroughfare, from the fountain at Preston Road to the Trinit...

JohnMcKee

Steve Brown is such a hack it drives me crazy, is he paid by the DMN or the developers that pitch him stories?

The deck renders are OK I guess, but they are just renders and hardly extraordinary.

JohnMcKee

What's going on with 6th street is they are on the TABC delinquency list so not being able to buy alcohol to sell anymore is probably one among a number of problems they are having related to not having money.

JohnMcKee

After what seems like an eternity the structure is finally under construction. Two story tall I-beams are in place now, no idea if they are just going for exceptionally high ceilings, two stories of dining or if they are doing something like kitchen up, dining below. If they were doing two stories o...

JohnMcKee

I'm going with the simple answer, he knew that making a Trump announcement would get him lots of publicity and it did.

JohnMcKee

If that were the case they would probably tear the building down pretty quickly so they aren't paying property taxes on the improved value.

JohnMcKee

I probably shouldn't say anything but according to a very reliable source and I mean there is literally no one that could be more reliable on this project it might not go through at all. Sorry to be so cryptic, not trying to be a jerk but given the source and the context it came out I don't even kno...

JohnMcKee

Is it just me or is this rising at a glacial pace?

JohnMcKee

Are they not giving you a discount on rent because of the pool? A pool is a key amenity and with warm weather right around the corner I would be pretty upset if I was paying for a pool I couldn't use. The leases include a "construction addendum" which I believe bar you from seeking damage...

JohnMcKee

Are they not giving you a discount on rent because of the pool? A pool is a key amenity and with warm weather right around the corner I would be pretty upset if I was paying for a pool I couldn't use.

JohnMcKee

edit: Oops, wrong page.

JohnMcKee

I assume they charge tenants for parking like many office buildings.

JohnMcKee

Looks like this has either topped out or they are going to finish pouring the last floor in the next day or so.

JohnMcKee

Nope, unobstructable from the Oak Grove side, protected by Greenwood Cemetery and the State Thomas zoning.

JohnMcKee

I was walking by today and actually paid attention to the work now that they have started framing in the exterior and WTF? This site has basically the best skyline and open views anywhere in Dallas and you aren't putting in a wall of glass on that side? The windows at La Tour aren't nearly tall enou...

JohnMcKee

Nobody cares what you think about Trump. Let's stick to urban development. Save the political drivel for Facebook and Twitter. Is there anything more political than urban development? Not to mention concerning ties between Trump and Turkey, questions over location and federal funds for the high spe...

JohnMcKee

Yeah, f the constitution as long as we turn a parking lot into a hotel. There is a lot to process here between general conflicts of interest in general not to mention specific ones dealing with Turkey, but ask yourself, why would this mediocre hotel proposal claiming to be targeting mid-range busine...

JohnMcKee

Not only that, Trump's business relationship with Turkey as I pointed out are extremely concerning, we should not be celebrating a development even if it happens that raises grave concerns about Trump's entanglements with personal enrichment with US policy.

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