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- 05 Jan 2023 14:06
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown/Victory Park: NorthEnd
- Replies: 804
- Views: 366854
Re: Uptown Dallas - Field Street Development [North End Apartments Site]
Dallas's day in the sun will come for skyscrapers. Downtown LA was dormant from a skyscraper standpoint for a long time as well, and now it's seen a number of new buildings in the past 10-20 years. Dallas had it's skyscraper time, it was the 1980s. I will never understand the obsession with skyscra...
- 26 Oct 2022 09:59
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown/Victory Park: NorthEnd
- Replies: 804
- Views: 366854
Re: Uptown Dallas - Field Street Development [North End Apartments Site]
I lived at North End for 7 years when I first moved to Dallas and it was a great place. They were built before the AAC was and were adjacent to a brownfield. At the time, there's no way there was a higher and better use than 4-story apartments and they were quite pioneering then with the best pool/s...
- 09 Jul 2020 12:57
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: East Dallas: Ross Avenue Corridor
- Replies: 160
- Views: 150067
Re: East Dallas: Ross Avenue Corridor
That looks pretty nice on the inside! I wouldn't want to be launching new office space at a time like this but hopefully it works out for them. Big picture I agree, but this type of space will likely become more desirable due to COVID. Smaller footprint with fewer other tenants/people in the buildi...
- 09 Jul 2020 11:11
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: East Dallas: Ross Avenue Corridor
- Replies: 160
- Views: 150067
Re: East Dallas: Ross Avenue Corridor
Reviving an old thread with the news that work is nearing completion on the former Dallas Can Academy building on Ross. M2G Ventures transformed the building in to a 50k SF multi tenant office building that looks interesting. I am not sure what their tenant profile is going to be or how successful t...
- 12 Mar 2020 11:26
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Harwood District: Bleu Ciel (390 FT / 33 ST)
- Replies: 315
- Views: 267461
Re: Harwood Int'l District: Bleu Ciel (390 FT / 33 ST)
Oh, and about the Hyatt Regency and Union Station. Hyatt Regency does not appear to be operating the event space at Union Station. I find no mention of the Union Station event spaces on the Hyatt Regency's website, and indeed, Union Station has its own website for the event center there. Hyatt does...
- 04 Mar 2020 13:01
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: Hillwood Urban - Field Street Tower
- Replies: 449
- Views: 327910
Re: Downtown Dallas: Hillwood Urban's ~50 storey tower on former BoA motorcourt
I hate to break it to everyone here, but "super tall" buildings are a thing of the past and I wouldn't be surprised if we never see a new 30+ story office building built again in Dallas. In the 80s and 90s having an office in the tallest building in town was seen as a status symbol where e...
- 26 Dec 2019 12:41
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: Uptown Dallas: Business Openings and Closings
- Replies: 636
- Views: 645465
Re: Uptown Dallas: Business Openings and Closings
For what it's worth, that bar is owned by a father/son who both played football at Texas A&M and in the NFL for a bit. It's a horrible name and odds are it won't last long, but it's a good way to blow lots of money in a short time.
- 25 Oct 2019 15:39
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Cityplace East: ACS/Xerox redevelopment (The Central)
- Replies: 476
- Views: 1222766
Re: Cityplace East: ACS/Xerox redevelopment
Well it's better than Sam's club, I guess. Whose in charge of rallying against this one to ask for something mixed-use? It's going to be one part of a mixed use development. The master developer (De La Vega for now) is selling off this parcel to another developer who specializes in the easiest thin...
- 25 Oct 2019 14:01
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Cityplace East: ACS/Xerox redevelopment (The Central)
- Replies: 476
- Views: 1222766
Re: Cityplace East: ACS/Xerox redevelopment
I've seen the equity package for that JPI deal. It's a typical wrap apartment project starting on the northeast corner of the parcel on Carroll that was acquired from Trammel Crow and stretching south along the eastern property boundary. Initial plan is/was 430 units on 5 acres. Zero percent chance ...
- 25 Jun 2019 08:45
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: East Dallas: Ross Avenue Corridor
- Replies: 160
- Views: 150067
Re: East Dallas: Ross Avenue Corridor
Awesome news for Ross Ave! The old Dallas Can Academy is being redeveloped in to creative office with a ground floor cafe and public space. This will be a first of it's kind for the area and I really hope it succeeds. https://www.bisnow.com/dallas-ft-worth/news/construction-development/exclusive-m2-...
- 25 Jun 2019 08:42
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: Uptown Dallas: Business Openings and Closings
- Replies: 636
- Views: 645465
- 05 Apr 2019 14:09
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: 1700 Pacific
- Replies: 38
- Views: 30391
Re: 1700 Pacific
Downtown Dallas "for sale" signs are spreading with another tower up for grabs https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2019/04/04/downtown-dallas-sale-signs-spreading-another-tower-grabs Wow...40% occupied, this one is an opportunity for someone. Seems like a great time to try to ...
- 02 Apr 2019 16:59
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: El Fenix site
- Replies: 31
- Views: 53290
Re: El Fenix site
I would think they could get approval here to build some fairly tall buildings and then maybe this would get the Perot site across Woodall to finally get their supertall out of the ground. Would love to finally see some real skyline changers as it has been a while for Dallas. You don't encourage so...
- 02 Apr 2019 13:48
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: El Fenix site
- Replies: 31
- Views: 53290
Re: El Fenix site
Kelley USA wrote:If I'm seeing this right, it appears that Hunt Realty owns North End...
http://www.huntrealty.com/north-end-apartments.aspx
We have a winner
- 02 Apr 2019 08:48
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: El Fenix site
- Replies: 31
- Views: 53290
Re: El Fenix site
The whole enchilada: El Fenix's landmark Uptown Dallas property is for sale https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2019/04/02/whole-enchilada-el-fenixsuptown-dallas-property-sale That would be pretty huge if this site gets redeveloped into something mixed use a la The Union. It wouldn't be...
- 25 Feb 2019 17:29
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Cityplace East: 2711 N. Haskell
- Replies: 87
- Views: 53026
Re: Cityplace East: 2711 N. Haskell
It's nice to hear something is happening, but don't expect to see much if anything on the outside based on a $9MM building permit for a 30 year old 1.3MM SF office building.
- 29 Jan 2019 17:31
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Knox District / Knox Park
- Replies: 814
- Views: 599689
Re: Knox / Henderson - Knox Street Side
Micro units are very hard to borderline impossible to make work with the city's minimum parking requirements. Cities that have successful micro unit developments generally have either no minimum parking requirement or in some cases actually have a maximum parking allowance. Any area that could suppo...
- 27 Dec 2018 16:00
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Overall Construction Levels
- Replies: 35
- Views: 32777
Re: Overall Construction Levels
In my opinion, any slowdown is because of pricing, not demand. More of a pricing correction than a slowdown in demand. People are still moving here in droves and will need housing. The problem is, supply has finally caught up with demand and will bring the market into a more reasonable/healthy supp...
- 30 Nov 2018 12:01
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Design District 1.0
- Replies: 115
- Views: 83869
Re: Design District 1.0
Dunhill is keeping too tight a reign on the DD. I find it very telling that while new projects are being floated in almost every other neighborhood, very little is even on the drawing board here. They risk missing the market, at which point they become another Spire/Midtown. For as long as they hav...
- 15 Nov 2018 14:49
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown Dallas: The Terminal (Fitzhugh @ Katy Trail)
- Replies: 51
- Views: 46257
Re: The Terminal- Fitzhugh @ Katy Trail (Condos + Retail/Office)
That looks cool, but I'll be interested to see how the expensive condos right next to the high voltage transmission line sell.
- 13 Nov 2018 17:08
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Could Dallas land Amazon HQ '2'?
- Replies: 1075
- Views: 897858
Re: Could Dallas land Amazon HQ '2'?
Just to play devil's advocate, lets look at some grossly oversimplified numbers to get a ballpark of what this may actually look like. 25,000 jobs Assume an average of $150k/yr for each employee with 80% of that ($120k) of taxable AGI At that income level the combined NY state and city average tax r...
- 13 Nov 2018 08:14
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Could Dallas land Amazon HQ '2'?
- Replies: 1075
- Views: 897858
Re: Could Dallas land Amazon HQ '2'?
It drives me insane that every article talking about the lack of tech talent/higher education in Dallas ignores UT, A&M, and OU grads. I understand they aren't in the metro, but all three schools are huge, high quality, feeders to the Dallas job pool in addition to SMU, TCU, UTD, and UTA. I wou...
- 12 Nov 2018 08:38
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Could Dallas land Amazon HQ '2'?
- Replies: 1075
- Views: 897858
Re: Could Dallas land Amazon HQ '2'?
It drives me insane that every article talking about the lack of tech talent/higher education in Dallas ignores UT, A&M, and OU grads. I understand they aren't in the metro, but all three schools are huge, high quality, feeders to the Dallas job pool in addition to SMU, TCU, UTD, and UTA. I woul...
- 20 Aug 2018 20:32
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Henderson Avenue Corridor
- Replies: 361
- Views: 291474
Re: Henderson Avenue Corridor
That sucks, but I'm not sure I buy that they closed just because of a rent increase after all the recent litigation between Mico Rodriguez and the ownership group.
- 26 Jul 2018 12:19
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Lower Greenville Development
- Replies: 179
- Views: 163463
Re: Lower Greenville Development
Trammell Crow Company (Park District, Cityplace Sams Club) is not the same thing as Trammell Crow Residential (Lower Greenville, Alexan anything).
TCC is owned by CBRE and has nothing to do with Crow Holdings or the Crow family. TCC offices in 2100 McKinney and TCR is in Old Parkland.
TCC is owned by CBRE and has nothing to do with Crow Holdings or the Crow family. TCC offices in 2100 McKinney and TCR is in Old Parkland.
- 19 Jun 2018 15:28
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: Santander Tower
- Replies: 59
- Views: 54368
Re: Downtown Dallas: Thanksgiving Tower
The Beck Group's relocating to downtown Dallas' Thanksgiving Tower https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2018/06/18/beck-groups-relocating-downtown-dallas-thanksgiving-tower I always assumed Beck occupied all of 1807 Ross Ave, but 200 employees probably take up less than two floors of tha...
- 14 Jun 2018 12:46
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Lower Greenville Development
- Replies: 179
- Views: 163463
Re: Lower Greenville Development
It's also about how Walmart is approaching the project. According to some they are secretly meeting with "neighborhood" leaders and I assume Philip Kingston is not being included or flat out ignored. Walmart isn't stupid they know plenty of people don't like them and would rather see the ...
- 14 Jun 2018 12:25
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Lower Greenville Development
- Replies: 179
- Views: 163463
Re: Lower Greenville Development
https://www.dallasnews.com/business/retail/2018/06/14/walmart-plans-lower-greenville-return-store-wouldnt-expect Walmart is looking to re-open their store as a new smaller format Sam's Club. I saw a tweet from Phillip Kingston yesterday urging people to sign a change.org petition to stop this from h...
- 11 May 2018 17:05
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Victory Park 3.0
- Replies: 918
- Views: 774502
Re: Victory Park 3.0
You have to remember, North End was built before Victory Park existed and at the time there was a very undesirable industrial/power plant use on the other side of Houston St that you wanted to be as isolated from as possible. Given what was built in 1998 it would be very hard to re-orient and engage...
- 10 May 2018 16:44
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Victory Park 3.0
- Replies: 918
- Views: 774502
Re: Victory Park 3.0
IMO North End is the biggest barrier to connectivity between VP and Uptown. Would love to see that redeveloped. Simply removing the fence around North End would be a good start. I understand managing vehicular traffic, but pedestrian flow should not be restricted through this area. You could easily...
- 17 Apr 2018 12:38
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Lower Greenville Development
- Replies: 179
- Views: 163463
Re: Lower Greenville Development
That's not how leases work. When you sign a lease, the tenant and/or guarantor of the lease is on the hook for the full rent amount over the full term. Leases are contracts. Every contract is negotiable. I agree with that in theory, but in order to negotiate each party has to get something and give...
- 16 Apr 2018 11:18
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Lower Greenville Development
- Replies: 179
- Views: 163463
Re: Lower Greenville Development
That business plan has totally changed and today they wouldn't pay $19.50 PSF for a store in the heart of Dallas for a Neighborhood Market. By your own logic, they are (still) paying that. You say they are paying $19.50 for a 35k sq ft place which is $682,500 in rent. I doubt they are paying that m...
- 12 Apr 2018 17:11
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Victory Park 3.0
- Replies: 918
- Views: 774502
Re: Victory Park 3.0
IMO it's going to be incredibly tough to make Victory Park be successful in the way that we would all like. The architecture and street layout is so disjointed and disconnected from one street to the next with large parcels and buildings preventing any kind of natural pedestrian flow. I'm afraid it'...
- 11 Apr 2018 17:21
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Lower Greenville Development
- Replies: 179
- Views: 163463
Re: Lower Greenville Development
This board cracks me up sometimes. Unlike some other tenants who vacate spaces with term left on their lease, Walmart can easily absorb the $683k per year in rent without batting an eye. Someone who doesn't compete with Walmart in any way would have to come to them with a sublease offer that would b...
- 25 Mar 2018 17:08
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Inwood & Forest development
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6031
Re: Inwood & Forest development
New for rent townhomes and an age restricted active adult community.
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- 25 Jan 2018 11:11
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: Hillwood Urban - Field Street Tower
- Replies: 449
- Views: 327910
Re: Downtown Dallas: Hillwood Urban's ~50 storey tower on former BoA motorcourt
I understand that site's limitations due to it's shape and size, and its unique ability to build as high as you want, but no matter how the building is designed it's going to be an eyesore in my mind because there is nothing even remotely close to that scale in that portion of downtown. It will look...
- 04 Dec 2017 10:33
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Credit Union on Ross Ave
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4813
Re: Credit Union on Ross Ave
The demo is starting right now and the credit union along with some old apartments behind it are being torn down for a +/- 300 unit multifamily development being done by Cypress Real Estate Advisers out of Austin. There's another thread that includes discussion of this site as well as other Ross Ave...
- 19 Oct 2017 14:26
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Could Dallas land Amazon HQ '2'?
- Replies: 1075
- Views: 897858
Re: Could Dallas land Amazon HQ '2'?
I have no inside information other than a brief discussion with a former high ranking person from Amazon's real estate department, but based on his insight I'm calling my shot right now that Atlanta ends up winning HQ2. The next tier cities would be Philly, Boston, or DC. I think they want to be in ...
- 29 Aug 2017 07:27
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Henderson Avenue Corridor
- Replies: 361
- Views: 291474
Re: Henderson Avenue Corridor
Car trips and parking for 190k SF of restaurant and retail >>>>>>>>>>> one pizza place.
- 28 Aug 2017 09:46
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Henderson Avenue Corridor
- Replies: 361
- Views: 291474
Re: Henderson Avenue Corridor
The VPNA is against it primarily because of increased traffic on Henderson and potentially nearby neighborhood streets. I would love to see this project happen, but Henderson has become a major thoroughfare for the area despite being only a two lane road. Arguments that this kind of development help...
- 28 Aug 2017 09:40
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Knox District / Knox Park
- Replies: 814
- Views: 599689
Re: Knox / Henderson - Knox Street Side
It will have underground parking, a 15' setback from the street with sidewalks and trees, and a few first floor units that have stoops opening to the street with no fence. I wish the sidewalk was wider, but it's generally good urban design compared with lots of what is being built.
- 23 Jun 2017 12:57
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Knox District / Knox Park
- Replies: 814
- Views: 599689
- 24 May 2017 11:07
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: East Dallas: Ross Avenue Corridor
- Replies: 160
- Views: 150067
Re: East Dallas: Ross Avenue Corridor
That whole center is about to be in even more trouble. I don't see any way the specialty grass fed beef meat market and high end/organic liquor store make it either. The Woodrow's space has a very unique layout with the interior space wrapping around the patio effectively cutting off the east side f...
- 02 May 2017 09:49
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Arts District: 1900 Pearl (362 FT | 25 ST)
- Replies: 203
- Views: 191659
Re: Arts District: 1900 Pearl (362 FT | 25 ST)
I'm sure tenants will love driving in tight circles through 10 levels of parking to get in and out.
- 18 Apr 2017 14:38
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: East Dallas: Ross Avenue Corridor
- Replies: 160
- Views: 150067
Re: East Dallas: Ross Avenue Corridor
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...
- 18 Apr 2017 14:01
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: East Dallas: Ross Avenue Corridor
- Replies: 160
- Views: 150067
Re: East Dallas: Ross Avenue Corridor
As a resident who lives off of Ross, what the area needs more than anything is a comprehensive overlay district to guide future development. The section of Ross between I-345 and Greenville Ave spreads across two council districts and has varying zoning up and down the street. For example, everyone ...
- 18 Apr 2017 09:34
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: East Dallas: Ross Avenue Corridor
- Replies: 160
- Views: 150067
Re: East Dallas: Ross Avenue Corridor
It's Leon Capital Group. This is going to be another 4-5 story multifamily project with some token ground floor retail.
- 27 Mar 2017 09:32
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas - Fountain Place
- Replies: 119
- Views: 106820
Re: Downtown Dallas - Fountain Place
The EPA has been a large tenant at Fountain Place since 1985 occupying just under 273k SF in its most recent lease with almost no parking provided in the building for its employees. They are leaving and moving to Renaissance Tower so the landlord has to re-lease all of that space, and there is no wa...
- 08 Mar 2017 11:37
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: 2000 Ross Project
- Replies: 654
- Views: 547352
Re: Downtown Dallas: 2000 Ross Project
I can assure you with 100% certainty the parking garage for Ross Tower will never get torn down or have parking reduced in anyway until self driving cars have created a structural shift in office tenant's requirements for parking.
- 21 Feb 2017 12:56
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Knox District / Knox Park
- Replies: 814
- Views: 599689
Re: Knox / Henderson - Knox Street Side
Does anyone know what they are building behind Velvet Taco and Dickeys BBQ? I got a Redfin alert for these this morning with the following description... "Knox View homes is an exclusive community of 4 AIA architect designed modern residences located in the coveted Knox-Henderson neighborhood....