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This is surprising. There are great breaks in traffic that allows safe crossing even without the cross walk signs but if it means wider sidewalks then I have no complaints here

It is odd that they're spending the money to resurface parts of it if they're just going to slim it down...

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"What's with the Name Change South Victory at Victory Park?"

https://www.wfaa.com/video/news/local/w ... b5e7ce12ba

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Lark wasn't on the park, but Savor makes a killing inside the park and it is across the street from where Lark was. They will fill that place with fundraisers and events just simply by throwing out words like "unparalleled views" and offering valet parking for the people coming in from Pla...

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Not to sound like a NIMBY, but the traffic flow with 75 exit and frontage road right there makes it kinda nuts, especially at rush hour. People dive bomb to the far right lanes to turn right at Mockingbird while people on the frontage road are dive bombing left to get over to turn left onto Mockingb...

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Looks like Rainey is about to become as soulless as South Lamar and West 6th.

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

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Not only that, but the writer called U.S. Route 75 Interstate 75 instead. I-75 goes from Florida to Michigan...

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Looks to me like it is not a stick build but concrete for every floor? That may be causing it to take a bit longer too.

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The airport and flight path directly over Maple and Lemmon will always be detrimental to turning them into more dense, urban neighborhoods. Those planes just fly too low and are too loud. Went through the Starbucks drive through once and the plane landing above was too loud for her to hear my order....

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I don't think Southwest would mind buying that lot once it becomes available. They already own the lots north and east of that lot.

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Probably realized having a large open lobby was easier to maintain and cheaper to build than a massive 8+ story atrium while still being able to provide the same amenities. Plus it allows them to enter smaller markets that wouldn't justify a massive hotel.

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I never travel through there anymore and wish they had a website that showed progress photos like Midtown Express and DFW Connector did.

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I have heard for awhile that one of the runways (13R/31L I believe) will be basically completely repaved in the near future. This will make things VERY painful for all 3 of the airlines. Last fall 13L/31R was closed for construction and there were decent delays and metering.

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Starting Aug 27, 2019, Alaska is expanding their flights out of DAL again. Per airliners.net: PDX 3x daily (+1) SAN 2x daily (+1) SEA 4x daily (+2) SFO 4x daily (+1) SJC 3x daily (+1) LAX 3x daily 19 AS, 5 DL, and SWA is expanding to 195 flights a day in January. Going to be one busy airport, both i...

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Jet Blue is probably the best of all the US Airlines when it comes to "walkability" and HQ being well thought out in Long Island City. Of course, Amazon may force them to move to Orlando (long rumored due to cost of living). Yes, United is at Willis Tower but I have only heard how much of ...

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That's one sweet looking car. Looks like a freaking tank too. How big is it compared to Matilda?

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I tried to go there once but accidentally ended up at Savor thinking it was Lark. Between Savor and the food trucks, it's no surprise Lark was the one to go down.

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Doubt it. Delta has a hell of a PR team. At the end of the day it's just a smaller plane on routes dominated by AA that uses much bigger planes much more frequently. It's like if AA went into ATL claiming they can win Delta frequent fliers over because they bought a new plane. The only mini victory ...

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I would almost guarantee that it will only be open for race weekends. The location is too obscure to get anything but race weekend traffic.

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Oops you're right, my bad. Forgot that it was closer to Turtle Creek over there.

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Body Mountain is the place.

http://bodymountain.com/

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Great! Will be interesting to see how much the HP side of the Trail complains about another "high rise" on the Dallas side. There's no official entrance there for the trail either so this would be a great add.

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If you're willing to live in a flood plain, you better have good flood insurance...Houston does not have strong flood mitigation, mostly due to the urbanized flat terrain and low elevation. A lot of neighborhoods have the houses higher than the roads, so that the roads flood first. I'm sure these ne...

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https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Signa ... 11811.html

The Bridge to Nowhere continues

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Not only that, but it's only open 3 hours!

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https://dallas.eater.com/2018/9/24/17897286/pazzo-uptown-dallas-closed-unpaid-rent Pazzo is closed. "Clubby" restaurants seem to struggle in Uptown now so it'll be interesting to see how well Circo does. Based on the description of the place and the social club it has, I'm sure the people ...

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Good. That place gets CRAZY during departure banks.

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New Central Market at NW Highway/Midway is open. Not as small and claustrophobic as the location at Preston/Royal but it is for sure more compact than Lovers Lane or any in the 'burbs. Parking was also tight, but it was a very nice Central Market with everything the other locations offer and I will ...

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HEB is known to squat on land just to keep competitors out. When I moved out of College Station they had a vacant grocery store on a main drag that they had no plans to move into at the time, but it forced out an Albertsons. They are in no rush to give up that land/build/open a store.

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People who move onto a 4 lane road in the city have no right to complain about traffic or road noise.

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The Houston and Austin CBD have always "felt" smaller than Dallas CBD, so it feels like they need to build up instead of out like they can in Dallas. In reality the loop around downtown Dallas (bounded by 35-30-366-348) is about 6 miles while the loop around downtown Houston is slightly le...

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I didn't say they would. The city just wants something to replaced an outdated strip mall. I wouldn't expect anything more than the bare minimum from a company that operates almost exclusively out of big box strip malls.

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I may be overestimating the average sizes of Total Wines but this is a pretty long and narrow lot. Wonder if they could build a long, narrow store with an underground garage. Easy foot traffic access and can still have a large store without compromising parking in a super car-centered area.

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I know some buildings will hire a off duty cop to stop traffic from blocking garage exits and let people out. Cityplace Tower does this during PM rush hour, for example.

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They must be place holders or something because those rents are atrocious. The parking is in the Centrum parking garage too with no direct access to the building and lacks a lot of amenities that buildings nearby have for the same price/less.

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Low ridership = higher fares...that'll definitely get more people on!

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SWA has two employee shuttles that run to each side of headquarters. It is a very popular shuttle since it allows employees to park for free when they travel. This doesn't include the large buses of people who fly in for new hire training there. The shuttles are well known to always be late and can ...

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I think they're mostly businesses now.

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Social house is surprising. PL8 isn't surprising, although only lasting 6 months is a little bit.

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$55 is pretty steep for only 6 sample pours...

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Ate there recently in Addison. Was weird to get a plate of french toast with no sides when it was essentially thin slices of Mrs. Baird's bread. Don't think I have ever walked out of a breakfast place wishing I ordered more food. Place was empty on a Monday morning but the bartender told me on weeke...

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It's a shame because that interchange is dying to have some ramps. It's rough to go through there even without rush hour, especially going westbound 114 to northbound PGBT.

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Concrete maintenance is way cheaper than lawn maintenance. Plus that rendering makes the fountain look like one of those fountains in plazas that kids run through like Sundance Square.

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Ofo is out and Spin is scaling back their bike numbers:

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/transpo ... ide-dallas

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lol all because you had an obnoxious cop in JAX doesn't mean it's the same everywhere. Never had a problem at any other airport, even at super aggressive MCI cops or the overcrowded DAL drop off/pick up zones. I'm actually really surprised DFW still let you loiter at an airport entrance.

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This map is a little out of date, but I think it shows what PonyUp is complaining about: https://gis.dallascityhall.com/legacyhome/documents/StaticMaps/CityLimit/CityLimit2011_A.pdf Cypress Waters is in a weird, dislocated part of NW Dallas County that is in Dallas city limits, next to Valley Ranch....

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So did it start 3 months ago?

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Here's a TxDot video of some rush hour flyovers:

https://youtu.be/KtXwJ6s-w8A

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Surely the new plans do not involve the current building? It has to cost more to have security/maintain the building than to just bulldoze it?

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Southwest may be trying to turn the heat up on Dallas/Delta and adding 15 (!) new daily flights out of Love Field. 195 daily departures. They struggle quite a bit with the current operation, especially early in the morning, so this will be very interesting to watch. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/so...

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