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PonyUp13

For the folks who go SE to the north the diagonal boulevards we have Peak/Haskell Fitzhugh/Bennett are all under capacity. If some more of the discontinuous streets were enhanced along with an at-grade boulevard people would change their commutes quickly and it would be net-net very similar. I belie...

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I dont mean to rain down on anyone's parade here, it definitely is good news. But are there any numbers on the expected jobs? It all looks like blatant public political positioning. They moved their HQ for tax purposes while majority of the jobs are staying in SF. I mean we'll take what we can get....

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I think if any bar in the area can make it as a low-key locals bar it’s the Loon. That was the spot for all of my buddies to hang the last few years just to watch a game or hang out, and it was for sure a chill place a world away from the Lower McKinney bars. I do always find it odd when bars mentio...

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Looks like Plano could score some JPM folks from New York. Hopefully we can get some real investment bankers here again as I believe the last desk of the major banks left a few years ago. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-28/jpmorgan-weighs-shifting-thousands-of-jobs-out-of-new-york-area

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The lack of any progress in the last five years really blows my mind. I showed up at SMU a ten years ago and I feel like between 09-14 we had measurable changes (MHH Bridge, Continental bridge, overlook, Skyline Trail) but other than killing the highway there hasn’t been hardly anything in the 15-19...

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Indian hotel chain Oyo launches in U.S with $300 million investment, Dallas home base https://www.dallasnews.com/business/hotels/2019/07/01/indian-hotel-chain-oyo-launches-us-300-million-investment-dallas-home-base It's an interesting business, taking bottom-of-the-barrel motels and rebranding them...

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This space has so much opportunity and a fresh coat of paint and a little love can help it get there. Nice to see the city actually maintaining a park and proactively addressing issues!

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Maybe my expectations are too low, but it hurts less to me to lose to New York than it would most places. Losing to Austin, Atlanta, Denver, etc would have stung... DC was a lock and New York is New York. I think we come out of this with an Amazon 'retail center of excellence' or something like tha...

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Maybe my expectations are too low, but it hurts less to me to lose to New York than it would most places. Losing to Austin, Atlanta, Denver, etc would have stung... DC was a lock and New York is New York. I think we come out of this with an Amazon 'retail center of excellence' or something like that

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Beautiful building for people zooming in off the tollway to look at! I bet the street level will be as engaging as Rolex

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As an Uptown resident of 5+ years I'm fine if the nightlife element evolves and we're left with low-key bars, restaurants, and neighborhood services. The element of people who Ubered in from the suburbs to have a Vegas-esque experience on Friday and Saturday nights were really annoying to most local...

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I wish Love had a priority pass lounge. The crowds are miserable, and it’s hot and loud

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When/if they go public again they’ll be F500

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In addition to being massively expensive the “Love is growing we need more road capacity” argument is short sighted. While, yes, following the WA revision in 2014 Southwest completely reengineered the network from Love, and over the following 18 months traffic boomed. However, that trend will not co...

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We paid them $4.8M to move across city borders which I believe is a dangerous precedent. Corporate Welfare has been alive and kicking for some time now. Luring companies out of Dallas to the burbs has always existed. See 7-11 , Exxon etc. This is just the name of game. 7-11 moved to the same develo...

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You do understand that there isn’t a net change in jobs right?

We paid them $4.8M to move across city borders which I believe is a dangerous precedent.

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I’m being sarcastic. I understand that it’s literally in Dallas but in all practical senses this is not Dallas. Other than the lake itself and some immediate acreage around it this is an island apart from the rest of the city. These people will be in Dallas while at their desk or walking the trail a...

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I struggle to get excited about incentives to move from Irving and Plano to “Dallas” aka Coppell. As the DMN headline put it “Dallas awards Nokia 4.8 million to move office 3 miles”

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That rendering shows exactly what’s wrong with that plan. Their “green space” is across from another plot of small “green space” which surrounds that massive hole the crescent had right there. Why doesn’t Crescent Court’s retail do well? No question it’s because Cedar Springs from lower Mac to the t...

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Saying half is open space seems pretty misleading to me. While they’re not literally building on half much of that is garage exit, garage entrance, parking lot, and valet stand. This thing is almost as bad as Trulucks!

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Wow - what a shame we threw that away.

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Word is Hines is shopping for a lead tenant very aggressively. They’re no longer involved in One Victory but obviously have relationships with the people there and they just need somebody large like HaynesBoone or PCB to move to jump-start Victory Place or whatever they’re calling it now. I walked t...

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I trust the people who run WV to do a good job with a new tenant. That’s a high visibility spot (honestly that corner is somewhat underutilized) and they could probably subdivide that space. I think something they do well is picking a good mix of restaurants/shops at different price points as well a...

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Legit - love the fantasy map. I played around with something like this but nowhere as detailed. I like the crosstown you did from Fair Park to Cityplace/Oak Lawn and the connections to DART stations. Almost missed the Village Spur! It would be pretty incredible with MATA and OCS then you’ve got a st...

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I’m going to ignore the Ferris Wheel for a moment and focus on the WTer Garden project.... Wow this thing looks completely different than anything else we’ve got going on around here, and could be the biggest step yet towards getting people to regularly interact with our river. Very interested to se...

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Fort Worth is just Dallas’ is largest suburb. Brand Dallas as Dallas and let the rest of the Metroplex call themselves the “Dallas area”

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Their food was not good. It’s the only one star review I’ve ever left on Yelp and everybody I talked to in the neighborhood felt the same. We have so many better options in Dallas that I think this just got walloped. The only way that would have survived in BA could be due to the relative lack of op...

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Tangential question, but, are there plans to extend DCTA into a single train into downtown Dallas? Or, will a transfer to LRT always be required?

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From another forum -

American is paying to renovate the E Satelite and will move flights out there. That’ll make for a long connection out there but cool to see that those gates will stay utilized.

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Riverfront is so wide I think you could get some easy BRT going for minimal cost. Go from Medical District Station south on Market Center, then along Riverfront with dedicated lanes and a few “stations” in the median, looping back to another DART station... either Union Station or Cedars.

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I believe that of the finalist cities DFW and Austin are the only ones without a Top 50 University in the US News and World Report ranking. Not stellar for us but Seattle is in the same boat with UW at #56 and clearly Amazon was able to grow there.

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Cool map of the 2040 corridors considered by DART as part of their long range planning.

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I’ve wondered the same and perused the City Council briefings recently to no avail. The new LGC doesn’t have to report a whole lot right? The lakes/puddles I assume are on hold since the excavation of dirt was to create the bench for toll lanes. Maybe Broadnax wanted to review everything before thin...

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Lots of different ideas they’re throwing around on there. Love their embrace of BRT for Riverfront and Cedars. I’ve long thought and submitted comments to DART about greater use of BRT or BRT-lite. This seems far more economical than the strange idea of a stub DART line from the airport. The “Core E...

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Completely anecdotally, but my friends that live in along the Cedar Springs corridor (Villa Rosa, Trianon, etc) don’t walk hardly anywhere compared to friends along the McKinney corrido. So it doesn’t surprise me the Villa Rosa restaurants struggle.

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So these don't connect to the Trinity Skyline Trail at all?

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Not sure if others saw this DMN piece from earlier this week, but the DART board is considering cutting Far North Dallas stations to improve the overall travel time on Cotton Belt. https://www.dallasnews.com/news/dart/2017/11/28/far-north-dallas-poised-lose-least-one-cotton-belt-rail-station-dart-we...

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Looks like Nazca closed. There were locks on the doors two weeks ago and the other day I saw what looked like an info center for the new Canopy

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Live in WV and go to VP reasonably often. If an Uber is 7 min and $5.50 why would I take 30 min to save $2.50 with DART?

I wish DART was something else, but it's for commuters to downtown and not much else.

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I believe a key part of Patrick's kennedy's original plan for removal (in addition to street-level boulevards) was the upgrades/completion of the Peak/Haskell, Hall, and Fitzhugh corridors to connect neighborhoods to the East to 75.

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If Dallas lands this (if Cedars, DE, or VP) the streetcar extensions the D360 plan envisioned stretching outwards from the core would probably get accelerated to the winning neighborhood. A DE loop tying in with the Main St DTD route approved a week or two ago could hit up Expo Park nicely if that w...

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Hunts and Perots teaming up... wow. That is an incredible group that will have no trouble marshaling resources and getting incentives.

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That seems high to be on that side of the highway. My girlfriends unit in Wrst Village is about 850 and 1400/mo and had nice finish outs. The problem is that Guy is on a summer-to-summer lease which is always a couple hundred more a month than an off peak to off peak.

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I think Headington and DTD gets the win here if our region gets the nod. The ability to sell that your site is at the crossroads of future D2 and for lack of a better term "D1" would be huge. Central downtown location, spinning a "revitalization" story (all those parking lots), d...

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As much as people think of Amazon as a tech company (and it totally is don't get me wrong) it would not surprise me if they made HQ2 basically their retail segment's HQ. This is an area where Dallas excels moreso than almost any other metro because we have such a strong retail/consumer products base...

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The talk of a PHX or IAH style terminal redo on airliners isn't based on anything at all. I wouldn't even say it's from particularly knowledgeable posters that are saying it. It makes sense AA wants to strategically evaluate since you have major decisions to make about the best spot of the legacy te...

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I hate to lose food in Victory but Naga was totally inedible.

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I live by this intersection at the Monterey and used to belong to Larry north and then LA Fitness across the highway. Although they're very close I hated crossing that freeway for some intangible reason. I think part of it is just that you feel very exposed and there's just a lot of lanes to cross. ...

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Am I naive to think any of these three options look fine? I feel like most of the ideas I disliked have been weeded out.

Do others have thoughts in which is best? Perhaps Commerce simple because it has a larger cachement?

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Try out their paninis - pretty dang good

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