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Thanks, OrangeMike. HL, to clarify, I know local buildings use limestone, I just wanted to know if they used local limestone. The closest those links come to answering this specific question (quarry query?) is that the new Old Parkland included boulders from California, Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, ...

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Let's keep the ferocious rewilded mosquitoes from spilling over the levee and flooding downtown though!

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What is H-E-B's distribution point for the open stores in Corsicana, Ennis, Waxahachie, Cleburne and Granbury?

What ever became of the Metroplex distribution center(s) Food Lion built?

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http://dfwu.dallasmetropolis.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&p=33942#p33937 I have glass fatigue at this point. I'm here too. 30+ years of glass walls dominating american architecture and I'm worn out. This particular project is among the most boring looking of the ones on the horizon. The "white roc...

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I agree it's a pernicious trend. It's not much better than in stateline metros like Louisville and Kansas City where incentive deals are just poaching firms back and forth across the line within the same metro. It's gross that anybody convinces themselves that this corporate welfare is a good idea j...

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Everytime that this debate restarts, it's learned nothing from the previous rounds. Comparing West Plano Frisco Prosper Celina to the CBD has all the merits of comparing Los Angeles and Orange County to San Francisco. All of Tarrant County, despite the dirt turned at Alliance, Westlake, Southlake, P...

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Putting spandrels between pairs of floors sure did make it look like a 20-storey building in this latest picture.

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It seems they're two years away from any dirt actually flying but this is really exciting to see nonetheless. Architecture strongly affects society so I am glad that they're taking this seriously. Still, the pipe dream is the idea that an "urban arboretum" is anything more than obsolete &...

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Reading the excellent 1970s architecture book "Dallasights," it turns out that the Dallas Market Center's World Trade Center began as a seven-storey building with full-height atrium, with foundations underneath for a twenty-storey building. As the skyscraper sites will all tell us, the Wor...

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cowboyeagle05 wrote:Its also not anywhere near finished...

Yeah, it's the same 15 or 16 panes of glass across the end that appear in the rendering. The external louvers have no structural function so they could be mounted on the outside later this year.

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If YTD national, state, and Dallas employment growth are negative, but landlords aren't interested in lowering their rates to that degree, then you would expect downward occupancy to happen before downward price pressure can result in an agreeable price.

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Neighborhood use could never get widely restarted, not for as many years as daily parking would pay more for a site downtown than residential. ...Residential which required a developer on the line -- interested people couldn't just fill out a starter neighborhood by subdividing a block and filling i...

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Cool shots! Thanks for sharing.

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I predict that after the 5 party agreement expires in 2025, WN will announce service out of TKI. The metro can easily support 3 airports. That was true when you posted it. AA is now pulling back Los Angeles service, so that customers west of the Rockies will either codeshare to fly to Asia or else ...

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That's almost always the case because the best labor statistics are updated by the feds and they do them by MSA, not by combined MSAs. San Jose is almost 50 miles from both San Francisco and Berkeley, and in a different MSA, even though some of the suburbs in the middle can commute to both.

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ATL is about to redo an even larger downtown prison, also from the mid-1990s. https://www.archpaper.com/2020/08/center-for-equity-atlanta-feature/ But here's a non-paywall photo of the 2020 sketch of ours: https://assets.archpaper.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Design-Inspiration-Sketch.jpg https://...

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...garage entrance on Fairmount, height and FAR increases requested. https://candysdirt.com/2020/06/03/trammel-crow-zooms-luxe-2401-mckinney-to-oak-lawn-committee/ Balfour Beatty Construction filed five work in progress documents with the FAA on September 1st. Link is to the last one (...each one f...

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For casual forum readers, 120 basis points is 1.2%, so their measurement of our current rental market (not the total housing market) is based on an Intown inventory of 13,500 ( = 162/0.012) apartments and an Oak Lawn / Park Cities area inventory of 18,500 ( 222/0.012)

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NY was split into Manhattan, the outer boroughs, Northern NJ, and at least two more markets that didn't rank highly enough to make the Top Markets infographic (just like DC and its VA suburbs were listed separately but its MD suburbs were below the cutoff). North Bay is usually separate from the thr...

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Great link, thanks. Will this result in a pattern that lowers the local water table farther? Pre-urban Dallas County used to have seeps and springs all over. Deep tunnel sewer underway in the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Tideway_Scheme#/media/File:Thames_Tideway_Tunnel_proposed_route_and...

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FWIW the ZIP boundaries run almost exactly along Fitzhugh: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Dallas,+TX+75205/ If a future generation of Perots gets tired of 2010s modernism and sells or donates their Hillwood HQ to the city, a half dozen houses on the creek just between Blackburn and 3822 TC Drive ...

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Mods please merge with 2401 McKinney thread

Edit: Threads merged. - CTM

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Since the articles basically read like a basic press release from HI, I wonder if this is 27 stories incl. podium-level stuff. Or is this 27 over 9 (or 10 if the ground floor is all lobby/retail/etc. except for parking ramp and a load area). I bring it up because of this clearance provided and proj...

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Some of you guys overrate houston so much on here its laughable.. i guess its a grass is always greener type deal, I work there every other week, its very bland, most high rises are no different than here. I am there frequently too. I think the future is brighter for Dallas than Houston, but I find...

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Agreed on boring. Hines' simultaneous "The Preston" underway in Houston is far more worthwhile.
Scroll down for rendering:
https://www.hines.com/news/hines-announ ... -community

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They have FAA permission for 626', which is not the rendering above, because that one was head and shoulders lower than AMLI across the street, and AMLI is 562' --

https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external/se ... 9937&row=9

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This rendering has five floors in the top grid row and a bit of a cornice projecting, so maybe there's a little more cornice material still in store.

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It does look cheap to me too but if budget was the chief concern then I wouldn't want the likely alternatives either (a cheap looking brick or stick-on stone veneer). I wish the top row of the facade grid had increased to 6 storeys from 5, instead of decreasing to 4. A decrease to 4 makes it visuall...

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Yes. Interesting!

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Thanks. The submarket area that they have to measure to encircle 30MMsf for "West Plano" reminds me of the old days when Dallas' boomgrowthstats would get compared to Boston or St. Louis'... which only have (checking) 48 and 61 square miles of land for comparison growth to occur in. If Dal...

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Does that total include Design District and Old Parkland? Will it include Baylor’s 300Ksf in Deep Ellum when it opens later this year?

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A new updated video of One NewPark. Looks like another building was added to their plans. Hope this happens. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2pjaTzcK-hE They've got to fix that script at 1:15 where they say the 90-minute-connected Hou+DFW economy will be a connected region second in size only to Tri-...

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There are a lot of other good views of RGNL in this collection of dozens of First National construction photos. Just search description containing "first national bank": https://library.uta.edu/digitalgallery/items/show/72179 Some also show the buildings on the other corner of Akard and Pa...

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Won't you have to cross two frontage roads and a loud underpass to reach the transit for this TOD?

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They're a tiny, tiny subset of the Metroplex's Millennials. Many Millennials haven't even reached the point they can afford homeownership yet, nevermind in coastal cities or the desirable relatively high-tax areas of flyover ones. We're not talking about a representative sample of The Generation obv...

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Interesting, thanks!

A dream project of mine, if I had a TBM lying around, could be to use the vacant K-H cavern and build a D2.5 subway from there down to Market Center with an intermediate stop around Oak Lawn @ Cedar Springs...

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Smart just sounds blandly corporate. Though the new park in the video is pretty blandly corporate too.

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Did you also have a similar diagram for the deferred Knox-Henderson subway station, northsouth?

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The four-star hotel stacked between the office and multifamily chunks would be nice if it happens. Could it help convince Hillwood to try something more multi-functional, if it worked here? Architecturally I think it fails to look like anyplace at all except what investors think is safe to look like...

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Is this the same thing as the 30 story tower or is that next door on the same site plan? That's 2401 McKinney (Trammell Crow with Pickard Chilton designing). But GFF is also the designer of 2500 Cedar Springs upcoming for the Ryan Companies. And behind that is the planned Quadrangle redevelopment.

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And Journal Squared is a take-off of Fort Worth's tallest:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnett_Plaza

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Is there a good chance that the adjacent developers Prescott Realty Group will seize the opportunity to have additional phases to the 2727 project by buying this site?

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After years of subsidies, the light rail-served Midtown part of Houston has finally gentrified, and Rice is also investing in making it their innovation district. Midtown is much less adjacent to their Museum District campus or to downtown Houston activity than the areas around 2200 Pacific are to a...

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I like both Troy and TNWE's ideas. I realize DART really wants to get the Final EIS decision handed down for their preferred design to reroute Green and Orange through a new downtown tunnel project (two weeks are left on the public comment period for the supplemental draft EIS, or SDEIS, by the way!...

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1st "Needs An Update" Anniversary Post, just because I clicked on this without reading the year first

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The bigger benefit would be the ability for someone leaving downtown to wait inside the building until the "Airport Express" arrives, then board and wait in air-conditioned comfort without having to worry about missing the train, rather than having to walk to West End and wait in the elem...

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What is that super reflective glass going to melt on the ricochet?

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Cool. Thanks cre8tive.

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Yeah, places like SoCal with no appearance on that list/graphic have a much more robust business ecosystem than others like XNA/NWA. Wonder how many more decades until Walmart and Amazon's annual topline revenue (the thing that F500 measures) will go the way of Montgomery Ward and Kmart.

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Of local HQs, both JCPenney and Dean Foods will conceivably disappear completely this year. AT&T and ETE were flat while Jacobs Engineering gained 2 spots in the ranking. Not only airlines but Fluor, Tenet, Pioneer Natural Resources, HollyFrontier, and Gamestop are also dropping in the rankings ...

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