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- 17 May 2021 16:37
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: Newpark Dallas/Smart District
- Replies: 410
- Views: 259636
Re: Downtown Dallas: Newpark Dallas/Smart District
^could you imagine what could come from HQ relocation of ERCOT to Smart District? The state control of that non-profit entity is genetic, but putting the Texas electric grid operator in a business center is promising and exciting, at least to me. Separating the grid operator from the oil patch boun...
- 13 Sep 2020 12:46
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Dallas Arts District: Hall Arts Hotel & Residences
- Replies: 318
- Views: 303912
Re: Arts District: Hall Arts Hotel & Residences
Tucy, can you refresh my memory which site (or sites) you use to compile data like this? I'd like to look up some other places. Also, does it go back in history or not so much? Dallas County Clerk. https://dallas.tx.publicsearch.us/ It goes back quite a ways in history... it purports to go back to ...
- 17 Dec 2019 10:44
- Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
- Topic: DART D2 Subway
- Replies: 508
- Views: 427761
Re: DART D2 Subway
Only 3 underground stations?? What's even the point
- 13 Dec 2019 15:56
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: DTD: Field Street District - Phase I (~405FT | 33 ST + 26 ST)
- Replies: 253
- Views: 100180
DTD: Field Street District - Phase I (~405FT | 33 ST + 26 ST)
Field St District: $1 billion project planned for the north side of downtown Dallas Developers have taken the wraps off a major new high-rise project planned on the northern edge of downtown Dallas. Called the Field St. District, the massive mixed-use development is planned for a two-block, 6-acre ...
- 15 Jun 2019 13:00
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas - 505 North Ervay (owned by First Baptist)
- Replies: 95
- Views: 88536
Re: Downtown Dallas - 505 North Ervay (owned by First Baptist)
An exact use for the 11-story office building has not been determined, a spokeswoman said. But in general, it will be used to accommodate the explosive growth of a church that now has a membership of 13,000. I can't believe the city is letting them demo a historic building without a plan to replace...
- 18 Mar 2019 16:22
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: Corporate Relocations/Expansions
- Replies: 767
- Views: 559859
Re: Corporate Relocations/Expansions
^ Fake News, No. My post was supposition. Review the hypothesis: Chevron might be moving HQ from Bay Area to Texas, Houston probably.... ... Not to seem over anxious, but maybe all the scientists will be in Houston (area) and the shirts will be in Dallas' Smart District. "Might be" "...
- 18 Mar 2019 16:09
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Deep Ellum: Epic ~ Knights of Pythias Temple
- Replies: 670
- Views: 609741
Re: Deep Ellum: Epic ~ Knights of Pythias Temple
Looks fantastic.
- 17 May 2018 20:09
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: Thanks-Giving Square
- Replies: 143
- Views: 132771
Re: Downtown Dallas: Thanks-Giving Square
They need to level this park and remove the walls if anyone is going to visit. It's horrible the way it is.
- 17 May 2018 19:49
- Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
- Topic: DART D2 Subway
- Replies: 508
- Views: 427761
Re: DART D2 Subway
tamtagon wrote:Hopefully the Pacific Corridor will be replaced by a subway, eventually.
Amen, this NEEDS to happen eventually
- 14 May 2018 21:42
- Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
- Topic: DART D2 Subway
- Replies: 508
- Views: 427761
Re: DART D2 Subway
I think you people will eventually realize the CB and D2 are both equally important transit services. We need *both*.
- 07 May 2018 22:41
- Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
- Topic: DART D2 Subway
- Replies: 508
- Views: 427761
Re: DART D2 Subway
Matt777 wrote:Any news on D2? Is construction starting soon?
They got full funding for both the D2 and Cotton Belt, so i'm guessing they are going to be built at the same time
- 27 Feb 2018 21:00
- Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
- Topic: DART: Expansion
- Replies: 109
- Views: 124908
Re: DART: Expansion
I'm confused...I was under the impression DART wanted to do both D2 and Cotton Belt simultaneously, but Dallas put its foot down and said "NO, D2 is the priority" and won the vote in the DART board inasmuch, then the suburbs got pissy and threatened to leave DART. So now why are we talking...
- 26 Jan 2018 17:03
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: Hillwood Urban - Field Street Tower
- Replies: 449
- Views: 332499
Re: Downtown Dallas: Hillwood Urban's ~50 storey tower on former BoA motorcourt
Any new info on this or are we just rehashing old speculation due to a recently unearthed render which is probably from a year ago?
- 26 Jan 2018 12:27
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: East Quarter: ~24 Building Redevelopment
- Replies: 563
- Views: 562290
Re: East Downtown Dallas Redevelopment ~24 buildings
I hope they are building things in addition to renovating what is existing....there are a lot of big ugly empty parking lots there
- 30 Dec 2017 19:39
- Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
- Topic: Silver Line
- Replies: 402
- Views: 459097
Re: the Cotton Belt line
It doesn't matter if Addison gets better bus service. The whole reason people want to take trains is because they're not busses. It doesn't matter if they are diesel powered or electric as long as they are rail and they can get from what place to another without ever setting foot on a bus. Cotton Be...
- 20 Dec 2017 18:36
- Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
- Topic: DALLAS to HOUSTON High Speed Rail
- Replies: 556
- Views: 486418
Re: DALLAS to HOUSTON High Speed Rail
Should have chosen Union Station for the Dallas terminal. Obvious, obvious, obvious.
- 27 Nov 2017 13:29
- Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
- Topic: New Oak Cliff Streetcar
- Replies: 92
- Views: 96344
Re: New Oak Cliff Streetcar
joshua.dodd wrote:Crime and homeless people are synonymous to Oak Cliff. Let's get real. The concern is about the Bishops Arts District, which is a distinct island from the true horrors that is Oak Cliff.
Sadly, this is the truth. That and kessler park are bubbles of vitality surrounded by decay and blight.
- 18 Oct 2017 08:52
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: Newpark Dallas/Smart District
- Replies: 410
- Views: 259636
Dallas Smart District | ~20 skyscraper development downtown
https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2017/10/18/bold-skyscraper-campus-energize-downtown-dallas-south-side Developers who built Plano's $3 billion Legacy West project are eyeing a vacant corner of downtown Dallas for a major mixed-use project. Builder KDC has teamed up with landowner Hoqu...
- 08 Oct 2017 05:10
- Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
- Topic: Silver Line
- Replies: 402
- Views: 459097
Re: the Cotton Belt line
What do yu mean? There's nothing redundant about the Cotton Belt. It's an entirely new line. D2 adds capacity, frequency of trains to all lines.. That's the type of redundancy DART needs. You're wrong. Right now, if that downtown line going down Pacific is cut, the whole DART train system comes to ...
- 07 Oct 2017 12:06
- Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
- Topic: Silver Line
- Replies: 402
- Views: 459097
Re: the Cotton Belt line
Both proposals, cotton belt and D2, both accomplish the same goals- redundancy in the rail network. That is what we need most. It doesn't matter if it's downtown or in north Dallas as long as we get that redundancy. What do yu mean? There's nothing redundant about the Cotton Belt. It's an entirely ...
- 21 Aug 2017 02:26
- Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
- Topic: DART D2 Subway
- Replies: 508
- Views: 427761
Re: DART D2 Subway
this alignment offers no additional coverage. Hopefully it will at least be a subway from Victory Park to Deep Ellum. It was probably the worst of the original subway proposals. ? It provides the most additional coverage, and the whole point of the exercise was to design a subway between Victory an...
- 20 Aug 2017 04:41
- Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
- Topic: DART D2 Subway
- Replies: 508
- Views: 427761
Re: DART D2 Subway
this alignment offers no additional coverage. Hopefully it will at least be a subway from Victory Park to Deep Ellum. It was probably the worst of the original subway proposals.
- 02 Aug 2017 13:51
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: The Canyon In Oak Cliff
- Replies: 62
- Views: 60122
Re: The Canyon In Oak Cliff
Hey, it's Las Colinas in Oak Cliff.
Looks like all those parking lots in 'the concourse' are a huge waste.
Looks like all those parking lots in 'the concourse' are a huge waste.
- 01 Jul 2017 12:33
- Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
- Topic: Silver Line
- Replies: 402
- Views: 459097
Re: the Cotton Belt line
One thing about the D2 versus Cotton Belt discussion that's been absent so far, but is very relevant concerns the Orange Line to DFW Airport. Five or so years ago, DART was faced with a very similar dilemma, the agency could only afford to run the Orange Line into the airport OR build the second do...
- 30 Jun 2017 10:56
- Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
- Topic: Silver Line
- Replies: 402
- Views: 459097
Re: the Cotton Belt line
Looks like the Dallas Board Members for DARt killed borrowing money for the Cotton Belt, which needs 2/3rd vote. I guess that means the Suburb Board Members will retaliate and kill borrowing money for D2, which also needs a 2/3rds vote. Now DART should have even more money to fix and improve its bu...
- 14 Jun 2017 13:39
- Forum: The Airports
- Topic: DFW Airport
- Replies: 420
- Views: 359994
Re: DFW Airport
I'm surprised it's taken so long. When I've flown Lufthansa or one of the ME3 it seems like half the plane is on their way to India or Pakistan. Of course the downside to Air India serving DFW is that Lufthansa will probably leave. Why would Lufthansa leave if Air India comes? Why are the two mutua...
- 29 May 2017 12:08
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Deep Ellum: Texas A&M expansion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 50880
Re: Deep Ellum: Texas A&M expansion
It looks like this is where Elbow Room was
- 25 May 2017 14:31
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: AMLI Fountain Place (562 FT / 46 ST)
- Replies: 789
- Views: 829792
Re: Downtown Dallas: AMLI Fountain Place (562 FT / 46 ST)
We still don't know which rendering is the correct one...one of them is kind of underwhelming. don't celebrate yet.
- 22 May 2017 20:03
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Harwood Int'l District: Harwood No. 8 (New Rolex Building)
- Replies: 76
- Views: 77743
Re: Harwood Int'l District: Harwood No. 8 (New Rolex Building)
This building is like something you'd see in Europe.
- 08 May 2017 20:38
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Main Street: Saint Jude Chapel
- Replies: 12
- Views: 14683
Re: Main Street: Saint Jude Chapel
They really should move this chapel. It's a huge waste of space for what is there. And the big church is just a few blocks away.
- 03 May 2017 21:45
- Forum: The Airports
- Topic: DFW Airport
- Replies: 420
- Views: 359994
DFW getting seasonal flights to Rome and Amsterdam
Looks like Dallas is getting it's seasonal flight back to Amsterdam back plus a new seasonal flight to Rome between may and september starting this month courtesy of American! It's a nice victory after we lost the Air Berlin flight to Dusseldorf https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2016/09/08/ame...
- 28 Apr 2017 21:01
- Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
- Topic: Silver Line
- Replies: 402
- Views: 459097
Silver Line
Just starting the convo...
- 13 Apr 2017 08:58
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Oak Cliff: Bishop Arts
- Replies: 525
- Views: 542026
Re: Oak Cliff: Bishop Arts
tamtagon wrote:Most of my piers, those drawn to a life of creating art or music, maintain the desire of at least amateur enthusiasts
Piers? Do you own a marina or something?
- 10 Apr 2017 04:17
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: DFW Economy
- Replies: 462
- Views: 444106
Re: DFW Economy
Tivo_Kenevil wrote:From the report ..
Downtown Dallas isn't even downtown Dallas
- 22 Mar 2017 10:27
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: Scion Hotel
- Replies: 95
- Views: 85185
Re: Downtown Dallas: Scion Hotel
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/22/business/trump-organization-scion-hotel-deal.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share Oh my Lord...i'm not a Trump fan, but the NYT's lame attempt to tie Trump to Turkey, Russia, Azerbaijan and Iran via Turkish Mike is ridiculous. Everybody in Dall...
- 10 Mar 2017 14:06
- Forum: The Airports
- Topic: DFW Airport
- Replies: 420
- Views: 359994
Re: DFW Airport
So it looks like the planned AirBerlin(?) route from DFW to Dusseldorf, Germany was canceled. What a bummer.
- 09 Mar 2017 05:42
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: 2000 Ross Project
- Replies: 654
- Views: 560240
Re: Downtown Dallas: 2000 Ross Project
Tucy wrote:Do we have renderings of what is being built?
No recent ones.
- 09 Mar 2017 05:41
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: 2000 Ross Project
- Replies: 654
- Views: 560240
Re: Downtown Dallas: 2000 Ross Project
Groundbreaking ceremony on Wednesday http://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2017/03/06/trammell-crow-center-redo-will-kick-week-big-tenant-news Why do people keep citing the Trammel Crow center re-do, when this is about a totally different project? The article mentions nothing about the new...
- 11 Feb 2017 18:16
- Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
- Topic: DART D2 Subway
- Replies: 508
- Views: 427761
Re: DART D2 Subway
joshua.dodd wrote:Who in the hell thought that the Pacific and Elm alignments were good ideas? Those are the most idiotic alignments. I was hoping for something that more integrally connects the southern section of downtown.
Agree 1000%. What. The. Hell. Were. They. Thinking
- 09 Feb 2017 19:45
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: Butler Brothers Building
- Replies: 106
- Views: 98524
Re: Downtown Dallas: Butler Brothers Building
ContriveDallasite wrote:xen0blue wrote:Ugly as the day it was renovated in the 60s
Looks the same as half the shit in uptown, except made with concrete.
Not even close, buddy. But I see your point.
- 09 Feb 2017 13:26
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: Downtown Dallas Residential Count
- Replies: 29
- Views: 33099
Re: Downtown Dallas Residential Count
Density trumps numbers. Dallas has seen that for the past decade, Fort Worth hasn't yet got the message.
- 09 Feb 2017 13:06
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: Butler Brothers Building
- Replies: 106
- Views: 98524
Re: Downtown Dallas: Butler Brothers Building
Ugly as the day it was renovated in the 60s
- 23 Jan 2017 15:49
- Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
- Topic: DART D2 Subway
- Replies: 508
- Views: 427761
Re: DART D2 Subway
Having an alignment that is under 3-4 blocks away from the current alignment is just pointless and wasteful. The only alignments that make any sort of sense or Young and Wood. lol classic DART thinking. Instead of serving any one area extremely well we always choose to provide mediocre service to t...
- 22 Jan 2017 19:45
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: DFW in the Media
- Replies: 83
- Views: 77534
Re: DFW in the Media
Ha, $50 says the trinity river will never be anymore more than a glorified drainage ditch. It will never be anything near a glamorous as they make it out to be.
- 22 Jan 2017 19:36
- Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
- Topic: DART D2 Subway
- Replies: 508
- Views: 427761
Re: DART D2 Subway
Having an alignment that is under 3-4 blocks away from the current alignment is just pointless and wasteful. The only alignments that make any sort of sense or Young and Wood.
- 18 Jan 2017 17:43
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: AT&T Discovery District
- Replies: 451
- Views: 395735
Re: AT&T Discovery District
Tnexster wrote:Maybe we will see the development of a new residential tower nearby.
Really, I think this is what we really needed
- 10 Jan 2017 22:52
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: Thanks-Giving Square
- Replies: 143
- Views: 132771
Re: Downtown Dallas: Thanks-Giving Square
Whatever they do will be pointless if they don't level the park (literally and figuratively) and remove the the walls and shrubbery which act as a fence
- 07 Jan 2017 15:19
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: Statler Hotel & Residences + Future DMN Offices (Old Statler Hilton + Old Library)
- Replies: 441
- Views: 385958
Re: Downtown Dallas: Statler Hotel & Residences + Future DMN Offices (Old Statler Hilton + Old Library)
Damn, DMN is only going to occupy two floors of the (tiny) old library? They must be going through some really hard times
- 15 Dec 2016 21:00
- Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
- Topic: MATA: M-Line Trolley
- Replies: 98
- Views: 109654
Re: MATA: M-Line Trolley
MATA's had a bit of a rough go lately with cars and personnel. But they are getting back on their feet. Right now there are two cars down and in the barn. The first is the Australian car 369 for a restoration/rebuild. The second is the Brussels car, 7169. Some electronic parts that were dated to th...
- 15 Dec 2016 20:58
- Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
- Topic: DALLAS to HOUSTON High Speed Rail
- Replies: 556
- Views: 486418
Re: DALLAS to HOUSTON High Speed Rail
I've always had the assumption that regardless of HSR location, DART would build an adjacent light rail access point.... NCTCOG has money to help with that, too, so if HSR happens, I think it's pretty safe to assume all DART light rail routes will be within a five minute climate controlled walk. If...