Dallas Fort Worth Urban Forum

I45Tex

Hey, how about we're getting yet another 40-story tower. Thanks, Harwood!!! Oh c'mon man. An investment is not special just because it is successful for an investor, any more than investment is good for urban life just because it is unusually intensive. The only meaningful critique of Harwood Distr...

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Uptown and especially Victory have no track record to indicate that that is their appeal, tamtagon. The kind of urban Deep Ellum / Discovery District office product is not there. VP is as sterile as Austin's Domain. But without the lower cost higher choice home options for relocations that then come...

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It would face public and private and homeless hurdles, Tivo, but we could eventually get that blend -- which we cannot have if the place is not civic and social -- with mixed-use blocks along a wide tree-lined hill avenue that arches McKinney from the Union over the highway and through the Shraman p...

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My idea would be observing that Woodbine just bought the neighboring tower at 1845 Woodall Rodgers, which was an early local example of the parking podium tower (floors 9-17 are office, but below that its windows mask a garage). So make the first three or four floors of this site along McKinney some...

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I suggest moderators move the US & World Urban Development thread on this over here. According to the census bureau, Durant is one of seven micropolitan areas that are part of DFW's combined statistical area. If "exurban" is equivalent to the census bureau's 15% threshold of commute in...

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All eight spot elevations requested 300' AGL

https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external/se ... 1224&row=0
and so on

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It's getting less and less premature to think of a headquarters relocation from Northern California when a company's executive leadership is giving quotes about it being "the right time to further lean out our organization," questing for net cost reduction, and has just acquired Anadarko's...

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It was #14 or 15 when completed, nothing to sneeze at. Houstonians claim to have played the role of "the Dubai of the time" (investment magnet, infinite growth, willingness to spend to be set apart from the pack)

http://offcite.org/citemagazine/

...but our buildings were no slouches.

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willyk, rent rate is not proxy for desirability because most businesses and citizens are not in the market for new office space. You're only discussing desirability to a relatively small subsegment of firms and folks, who ARE, by virtue of membership in such a subsegment, very image-sensitive. They'...

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... I suppose Austin can only look to Atlanta as a guide of the future; neither of these A-towns have a really good museum or symphony and both have world class traffic problems. If you mean "cultural museums" as opposed to aquariums and zoos and science and history and such, Georgians ma...

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Yes, labels like Little Mexico had a much longer tenure than Uptown Dallas, which it's nice to be reminded no one used when The Crescent opened in 1985: https://books.google.com/books?id=uk-MDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA343&dq=dallas+philip+johnson+crescent+grand+opening&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi...

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Usually one looks to Steve Brown for the ultra super excited descriptions, but this time D Magazine outdid him: Nice building, but "pushed the envelope"?? This is a real head-scratcher: "It will boast unobstructed, protected views overlooking the Dallas North Tollway to the north and...

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Nice looking property from above with lots of potential, maybe they could leave the three restaurants alone and build on the parking lots? Lots of room for something tall and mixed-use, maybe something in the 40-45 floor range. Seems to be a popular number these days. Where did the name (The Triton...

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Maybe they can get the same leasable floor count by digging a sunken plaza below ground level, like our 939' tower downtown that is 921' AGL... of course that seldom helps the street level interaction.

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Link to what blest saw:

https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external/se ... 9156&row=4

Click through at top to the determination pdf.

Spoiler: Determined no hazard but at a lower height (620') than applied for (654').

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For the effectively historic district there to be kept intact for its contributing aesthetic quality (aka getting to play by a special set of rules designed to save it for cultural inheritance)... If the public gets to levy a sliding tax rate in Deep Ellum that moves upward to absorb all ownership v...

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Sad that they won't bury any of the parking then. If they buried even half of the parking the project wouldn't seem so incompatible with the neighborhood but this tower seems just too tall. The cost and build time schedule will change drastically if they do so. A building that takes longer to open ...

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Article about a Philadelphia team's new arena

https://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/n ... na-in.html

I45Tex

Re: weirdness, if anyone likes thoughtful power-pop and has not heard the 1997 album Kontiki by Austin group Cotton Mather, it's certainly not poser-pop:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W5H5mbNL7FI

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Among it's peers, Dallas is unusual in the absence of a large university in/near the downtown area. Seattle doesn't have one. They're doing just fine. Dallas will be okay. Good point, although Seattle University feels very nearby when you're there. But since You-Dub's enrollment is 46,000 and SMU's...

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DFW is only 3x when we were 5x Austin’s size, but the actual gross GDP growth in DFW since 2001 was still 100 billion dollars a year more than Austin’s (+173 billion/yr compared to +73 billion/yr).

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Keep chanting it man. Its (and every place’s) boosters act like momentary high percentage growth is going to lead to taking over the world, but it always turns out to be the low hanging fruit that gets harder to grab in a mature metro economy — those are built not for the population trend of the mom...

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That is nutso delightful lively, that they are moving the existing historic bungalow (now commercial) to the second floor of this new tower's lobby. The unheralded scoop about WeWork planning a nearly million square foot office tower at nearby Waller Park Place is something too. Still it's 6th+Guada...

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It often works better for the scientists that way, but please, don't shirts already think they're smart enough as it is? Save them the daily undeserved pat on the back from our real estate development name, or they'll be in the red before you know it.

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My ideal in this age of mega mixed use would be for someone to collaborate with TRE and with the Pollock family who own the 1960s buildings to the south. Between the DART property, this property, and the Pollock property, that's about 25 acres for TOD. Even cooler would be to coordinate that "s...

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https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-11-06/dallas-move-by-fred-s-drugs-and-payless-has-hedge-fund-behind-it Not sure how many forumers read the link tamtagon posted above, informing us that Spire Realty's Smith family ownership (father Randall, son Caleb, et al.) were going to be able to ...

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tamtagon wrote:Least luxurious parking garage in Texas?

No I believe we're still gonna be runners-up on that front, sir:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_C ... stonTX.JPG

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FWIW I agree with jbarn; I had a West Coast friend visit Dallas for the first time on a Sunday and they were shocked how automobile-oriented and empty the Arts District is. For what it's (fort) worth, the "consumer cultural vibe" Apple Store is already in space north of TCU toward the Kimb...

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Good find, thank you. The bottom RH corner of the PDF last page had an 11-2-2015, if that was really the date. If built as pictured it would be better visually than most of the buildings in the similar West Loop / Fulton Market construction boom (an older CBD-adjacent warehouse district) in Chicago ...

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#county To start off, anybody who would like to may download this PDF of the Galleria’s owner advertising to prospective investors that the asset is privately appraised at $606,000,000 in value. The DallasCAD value is less than $182 million (70% off) and if UBS’ flagship property fund, Trumbull Dive...

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After the Medical District Urban Development thread grew fat with debate about having taxing powers for hospital districts, I noticed that the new forum’s City Issues subforum doesn’t cover this topic now. With the state’s property-tax-centric revenue model coming up for the Texas Legislature’s reco...

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https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2019/02/06/downtown-dallas-first-arts-district-hotel-will-open-fall So Hall is flying his own flag? No access to a national reservation system... I think it's going to be a "Latitudes: Lifestyles by Crescent" Hotel? The Aliz, one of the exis...

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Didn't even bother rendering its relationship to anything south of it. Dallas Mentality Monument we'll call it.

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Twenty years ago, the big Japanese automakers had their US subsidiaries headquartered near the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles. Nissan, the most cost-sensitive, left Torrance for Franklin, TN, and then Toyota from Torrance to Plano. Before Alliance or Las Colinas succumb to the temptation to fil...

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With AT&T doubling down on their slice of DTD is there potential for a new naming rights deal where KBH moves over for Dallas Discovery District Events Hall? ("Convention Center" is becoming very 1989 while "Food Hall" is 2019, if too much so. But it's just an example of the ...

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Think there are a whole raft of articles being written today about laughter-free real estate investors and developers in Queens who have already signed on the dotted line for new deals there since the autumn announcement?

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Spectra is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Comcast's sports division.

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DFW was fifth nationally in under-construction square footage in the industrial CRE (commercial real estate) market this year: https://www.copaken-brooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/national-industrial-market-report-q4-2018.pdf and according to numbers further on down is ranked an equally comfort...

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Just like transit must not be a thing, the head of Amazon's Austin operations has crowed, "We're not big on sterile environments here," and yet today's brand new Amazon lease is for half of this extremely sterile fortress: https://www.endeavor-re.com/properties/domain-10/ (quote source: ht...

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Corpus is the next Beaumont-Port Arthur! Actually, I've always wondered what was keeping Corpus from really taking off; now with liquid natural gas poised to activate the port, maybe it'll stick. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CORP548PCPI Their per capita personal income is above El Paso and Ab...

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I'll say what I always said pick the best of both worlds. . . here you have total access to the much much larger talent pool, corporate satisfaction, logistics hub, transit that despite its hiccups is still better than Austin, a very valuable international airport and a city that could sadly be pus...

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Whatever the real situation is, I hope it rebounds and redounds to the benefit of Texas communities. I will say that while "there's always more talent to access" is persuasive, companies have cultures just like communities do, and both do rely on continuity for things that even the best an...

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They're staying put. They'll probably not take the incentives due to the public criticism. However, that just makes the deal even sweeter for NYC. The residents will despise them but I don't think the politicians truly care about the people. I understand that you're dead certain about what they're ...

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Note to self: don't buy AMZN if the brass thought they could look to New Yorkers, Long Island ones no less, for "being wanted."

Punchline is that after all this shakes out it'll go to UTD by the art museums. Or... Cypress Waters.

I45Tex

I guess a three quarters of a million square foot prelease is always a surprise, but it shouldn't be a surprise that they got it over DFW. When Oracle opened a 560-Ksf campus there less than a year ago, only to announce permits for another 420-Ksf addition, Austin Business Journal noted, "Even ...

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My sense is that at the margin between very wealthy and scandalously wealthy, Texans and Oklahomans have almost always opted to spend more time on properties devoted to skiing, ranching, or fishing, as opposed to additional toes on the ground in their city. And that when they downsize and sell the h...

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That would be a high spend for not a lot of useful visibility, but then again, tech still loves that kind of meteoric signaling. We will have to see if the new 700,000 square foot tower breaking ground on the riverfront in Austin really is pre-leased by Salesforce, as some rumors have it -- that wou...

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Northwest Highway is Dallas' equivalent of Houston's West Loop South (if only in distance from the core -- LBJ is much farther than 610) -- and while the first JW Marriott in Texas went there, eventually a second one did find central Houston too. There it and the Lancaster and the ICON are the most ...

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Delightfully detailed feedback, thanks! I'm glad the regulations exist, too, but it's frustrating if or when digging a hole for a bunch of concrete underneath the Trinity floodplain becomes the best shot we have.

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As urbanist Johnny Sanphillippo says, history teaches that prosperous institutions rarely reform themselves; they fracture either due to outside change of heart or pocketbook, or to their internal contradictions of both. Most likely the IoT / smart everything business model will disrupt regional tra...

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