Dallas Metropolis

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From Downtown to East Dallas takes a college degree and a day of planning and a fairly extensive study of a crowded bus map depending on if you aren't already a graduate of the system. Just FYI there's this nifty "application" in the "application store" of your "smart cellu...

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DART Technical and Stakeholder Committees give a thumbs down to Pacific alignment, though still technically under consideration by the DART board.

http://www.dart.org/ShareRoot/about/exp ... un2017.pdf

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5 stories is preferable in almost every possible way to a skyscraper, especially if one cares about street presence. 5 story (more or less) buildings frame the street in a beautiful way, are human-scaled, and provide a sense of enclosure. This is a design concept that has been understood for genera...

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I wonder if it would make sense to eventually add a few stations sometime down the line. Keep the stationless concept, but maybe add a station in very high traffic areas like Klyde Warren or West Village where people just know they are guaranteed to find a bike. This has been done in other cities. ...

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I don't think the comments on here about state agencies not having to abide by historic district zoning is accurate. While a state agency may have an argument they should be allowed to make alterations, etc., I don't think they can just ignore municipal ordinances at their discretion. If A&M ne...

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Well this is certainly good news: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/business/dealbook/municipal-pensions-dallas-houston-bankruptcy.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share I especially like the part where if the first round of fixes doesn't actually fix it, then further action is ta...

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willyk wrote:I don't see the old ACS building in there. I would have expected them to renovate that building rather than take it down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlyBrvWeDc0

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^thanks Is there a solid reason why D2 wasn't proposed to spout from Union Station? why has it always started at Victory Park? It's really difficult to tunnel there (expensive, risky), you'd need super curves (expensive, slows trains, wear and tear), all the historical people were freaking out abou...

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I knew Seattle was dense (and thus, expensive) since moving here, but I didn't know the difference was so extreme. It's now the fastest-growing big city in the country. I'm super jealous of Seattle. Walking around town is so incredible with its seemingly never-ending supply of new buildings. We thi...

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Also, Dallas holds about 18% of the metro area population, but during the last boom, it only got 12% of the permits. This boom, on the other hand, it's gotten over 20%.

While it's not significantly outperforming the metro as a whole, it at least is no longer lagging.

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I've said before- 10-20 years ago and until 2008 I think - only about 5-15% of the new development in DFW was multifamily at all - 85% was single family. That multi-family is now about 50%, and much of that in established areas, is a new trend for Dallas. And McKinney & Frisco (two outperformer...

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Here's the full list for DFW:

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tamtagon wrote:gotta be Commerce. I'm still a little confused why none of the routes studied in depth have simply been trashed.

What do you mean? They've all been trashed except for the three finalists.

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You live in low income housing? That's fine, I've lived in low income housing before. Those townhomes are actually quite beautiful. Those Zillow pictures don't do them justice at all. Before the first phase sold out, they had real photographs on Zillow, not CG and Google Earth style images. No, I s...

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LPA is due to be chosen June 7! Looks like that includes streetcar link as well.

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New D2 presentation is up: http://www.dart.org/ShareRoot/about/expansion/d2/D2JointStakeholderTechnical17may17.pdf Includes more detailed assessments of pros/cons of the three alternatives, some conceptual potential stations designs, and a bonus presentation of four central streetcar link alternativ...

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That midrise is subsidized low-income housing, by the way. It's what happens when the city demands design.

Though tbh the lack of design review is a godsend for TX, and I wouldn't recommend the tradeoff.

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My point was that the aesthetic appeal of the development has nothing to do with townhouses vs midrise. You can (and do) have bland townhomes just as often as you have bland midrises. I think it's perfectly legitimate to say "this is a central part of town and an important location, we should p...

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*Pssst* You guys. Most DFW townhouse developments are just as bland and blah as your typical midrise. They just hold fewer people.

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Yeah, Palo Alto is Palo Alto because of Stanford and a giant bay that makes it difficult to relocate to new hot areas while maintaining similar commutes for most workers. Why would Frisco have much staying power once its buildings start to get old? Is there some reason why it wouldn't? People have ...

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Have you ever asked why Texas Central preferred the Dallas to Houston route first? May one of the reasons it was favored be the lack of direct Amtrak services along that route? It was favored because those are the two of the biggest economic engines in the country, the distance between them is idea...

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The I-35 corridor already has a once a day Amtrak train with poor ridership. Maybe it will perform better with much higher speeds, maybe not? But the existing subsidized Amtrak train service will be competition to a new privately ran high speed rail service. Few private companies like to compete ag...

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Jay9398 wrote:stucco.jpg

Huh. Just looks boring to me, as is all housing that wasn't built for rich people. I don't get the hate.

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Honestly, I don't even know what this stucco style that you guys are talking about is, anyway. Pictures?

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tamtagon wrote:Maybe they're simply planning for the future, angling at the aesthetic update of whatever is popular in 20 years.

Well, try 80. In 2047, people will think it's even more horrendous than they do now. But it'll come around!

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I feel like these developers just don't give a shit about architecture anymore and all they want is some cheap and quick design so they can build as fast as possible. I doubt many of these are being built with quality material and construction as well. Fancy design costs money, so you're just not g...

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I feel like these developers just don't give a shit about architecture anymore and all they want is some cheap and quick design so they can build as fast as possible. I doubt many of these are being built with quality material and construction as well. Fancy design costs money, so you're just not g...

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Wow. Very true. Perhaps more true than you thought. The Legacy/Frisco area I guess would be the Upper Toll/West Plano and Frisco/The Colony submarkets. -- Dallas downtown (CBD) has 33,249,879 square feet of office space (including the little bit that is under construction). -- Upper Toll/West Plano...

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Yeah, Palo Alto is Palo Alto because of Stanford and a giant bay that makes it difficult to relocate to new hot areas while maintaining similar commutes for most workers. Why would Frisco have much staying power once its buildings start to get old?

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Yes something like that, but preferably not from the 1980s styling department. I only specified rubber tire because they are so much cheaper and easier to build than fixed rail. I don't think that a trolleybus has the same cachet as rail, though, if that's what we're trying to capture. Most of the ...

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a rubber tire street car (not a bus, the route has to be fixed and permanent to truly spur development) run from Greenville Ave down to the arts district or even the west end. If you could combine that with functional sidewalks there would be tons of opportunities for quality development that would...

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Well since everything new they have been building along Ross looks about as inviting as a trip to the dentist for a root canal I don't expect to be surprised. Sounds like we will get some of the same bland toast apartments. While this isn't the most inspiring streetscape I've ever seen, Dallas can ...

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Can we stop with this, though.. "market-rate apartments full of transient tenants"

Like, I'm not a delinquent for not owning residential real estate.

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tamtagon wrote:^Sweet^

Will a buffered lanes connect through Victory Park to Katy Trail?

It already does, no? It's via Houston St and even better than a buffered lane: a cycle track!

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But keeping on-topic, the light beige area that is West Dallas would look very nice a darker shade of orange/brown!

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I recently moved to Dallas from Atlanta and in a lot of ways, Dallas reminds me of Atlanta 10 years ago from an urban perspective. It's remarkable... as much transition and repair happening to Downtown Dallas, with an entire new section of "downtown" sprouted and growing strong (VP/Uptown...

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Very nice view. Can you imagine if Little Mexico was a park from that first pic? It would be our small version of Central Park surrounded with towers of unobstructed parkland. There is already lots of parkland nearby and we have Kylde Warren for mini Central Park. You even have a easily connected p...

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I don't understand everyone's fixation on in-building mixed use. What is it that you see to be so valuable with having office AND residential AND hotel all in one tower? People like mixed use because there is an opportunity to add more vibrancy to Downtown after 5 o'clock. (and on weekends). The ad...

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I'm honestly shocked at the amount of development going on here. I know, eventually, this will be some pretty prime real estate, but, as of now, it just feels so isolated. I'm pretty surprised, too. But I guess it does offer an easy-to-develop area with super easy access to downtown, uptown, and th...

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I don't understand everyone's fixation on in-building mixed use. What is it that you see to be so valuable with having office AND residential AND hotel all in one tower?

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joshua.dodd wrote:I like it. Feels like there is a trend to go back to older styles without the postmodern cheese.

The only cheese here is from the faux Ye Olde Times aesthetic, fully equipped with neo-neo-classical statues just in case you were unsure.

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Lol what..

This is just silly.

Gotta love some circa 2017 "Jeffersonian style" buildings.

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You have the excessive wait times associated with mass transit, but once you get on your ride your stuck in the same traffic as everybody who is driving. Just to make it worse, your isolated into one lane, stop every two hundred feet , and if you have a connection to make, it seems DART is determin...

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I saw the demo, it is interesting technology and I applaud them for trying something new but it won't fix much. They will be a nice attraction, that is true. Sure, there's nothing inherently wrong with it. But it's just so ridiculous to see them promoting it as a solution right after being so adama...

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They better incorporate landing pads for those self flying, personal mobility Uber dealios, because there is no way I'm dealing with that traffic mess. The last two times I went to events (pre-season Cowboy's, and mid week Rangers game) it was complete hell and I vowed never to do it again. Best lu...

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joshua.dodd wrote: but they should relocate it within proximity of this location because of the inevitable increase in foot traffic.

There's nowhere to put a relocated station

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dollaztx wrote:If 2016's tends continue, Dallas will become the fastest growing metro this decade:

I think it's totally possible, considering that the start of the DFW building boom just started seeing completions in the past year (and the data is as of July 1, 2016).

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so... no Deep Ellum Station or yes Deep Ellum Staion? I haven't looked at the current D2 options enough to know which one it'll. Hard to believe DART, the city or any entity would just get rid of a station on this side of Deep Ellum. Certainly The Epic development would want the station. Maybe the ...

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Hmmmmm...maybe you're looking at something different, but this graph has Houston in the #1 spot: https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2016/comm/cb16-43_popest_texas.html The graph in your link states that the data is for July 2014- July 2015. I would imagine the data referred to in the ori...

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The DART station is going away when they build D2. Two things, depending on which final route they decide on this may or may not be true. Not every D2 route eliminates the Deep Ellum station. Plus based on recent news out of the White House D2 may not get funding from the feds which would significa...

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