Somewhere in Calatrava's drawings that I saw at the Meadows Museum is a sketch of Elwood and Jake soaring between the gates of a bascule Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge.
Probably some on this forum have seen the area around Sears Tower where the city streets are all overpasses above ground level, with the buildings' underground service levels actually built in the open air at ground level. The development of Illinois Center, Lakeshore East and Millennium Park over f...
Not to mention, Dallas' southern burbs are now blooming. Waxahachie has the largest planned development south of the Metroplex under construction right now. The growth in Waxahachie has become so astronomical that the new Baylor hospital is working on plans to build a new facility next to the one t...
Although if we want to be straightforward, maybe there are either 1,250,000 Dallas citizens outside DT/UT who don't "live out in the burbs", detached from DT/UT, or else the entire working pattern of the city *is* still very close to the postwar level of car orientation of the suburbs. I c...
With the Music Factory developer saying that the soil quality is mush, would high rises have to get several dollars higher rents (that compare today to the initial 1980s optimism?) to justify an extra expense on foundations?
Is that a lot? :lol: How many SFHs/duplexes, on average, can one cram into 337 acres? “A lot” can be 0.04 acre, or 25 townhomes per acre, but even when two or three floors of habitable space are on top of every garage, Sunbelt cities still use a significant percentage of their residential land on p...
It will be a few months before annual metro population estimates for 7/1/2019 come out, but the state and national ones were released today. https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2019/popest-nation.html Texas gained an estimated 367,000 in the twelve month period, for a total of 3,850,000 s...
TNWE, I think that that's all well-spoken and well thought-out. I mostly haven't participated in this debate, but isn't it also correct to say this? The level of pent-up pre-leasing demand to finance Plaza-of-the-Americas-scale monsterpieces, like Spire wants to build, is not the same as -- to the p...
So it does. That doesn't answer my question of how did the other reporter come up with a different floor count. That other article specifically said plans filed with the city showed a 40-story building. So, perhaps whatever has been filed with the city shows something different (and perhaps more ac...
Speaking of First National Bank, I found a date on an index card in an undated UTA photograph from their Squire Haskins Photography collection archives: https://library.uta.edu/digitalgallery-beta/img/20004442 Using the Drever's renovation renderings and cross-sections that Towers.net linked last ye...
A Dallas S&L-era businessman used to (during the 1980s) own the two 19-story valet-only decks at Marina City in Chicago. Cylindrical. Harwood's super likely to use blue glass to wrap the new one. Are these North Texas' tallest decks? (15) https://www.emporis.com/buildings/170700/carter-burgess-p...
A garage podium spanning both leftmost city blocks on the site shown would be almost 40Ksf per floor. An office tower on only the middle block would be almost 20Ksf per floor. Let's say 15x39 + 25x19, gets them 1.06MM.
FAA Height approved 620' last year, see page 2 of this thread.
Duda Paine was the design architect on the new Pioneer building in Irving, but HKS was the administrative architect-of-record on that project whose aesthetics are not assthetic
Then from here I would just dream of MATA continued right down Griffin to Founders Square. Wouldn't be so hard to meet the Oak Cliff/Union Station Dallas Streetcar then, like DART's desired "Central Link" wanted the two to do (but which made them both map-spaghetti routes, hard to remember...
I know that KWP or another public-private partnership would have to do what I'm suggesting -- it's not in the scope of the site owners' pro forma -- but I think this site, however jumbled or too low or too high, is a far cry from how memorable it will be if the McKinney Avenue Trolley could continue...
You may be comparing 2017 nominal dollars to 2018 current nominal dollars. The way to get growth rates is to choose the BEA's chained constant-2012-dollar real GDP table.
Part of what throws readers is that the list of Combined Statistical Areas is not simply the most general national ranking of metro economies, because MSAs like Tampa and Austin are large enough to rank but don't form part of any CSA.
https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2019/05/20/uptown-dallas-block-sells-new-high-rise-project "It's effectively the last piece of undeveloped land in that area where you could do something of substance," he said. But architect HKS' global headquarters right across the street,...
1. In LA's Inland Empire you couldn't rival the Lakers-Clippers' local support and wouldn't want to 2. Montreal has hockey! 3. Tampa-St. Petersburg have NFL, MLB, and NHL already, which nearby Orlando doesn't 4. Fort Worth Besides those three sport-saturated metros, the Fort Worth metropolitan divis...
"Fair" enough tamtagon, and not to stray off-topic, but if that second line from Union Station would hypothetically be like the current Streetcar line -- with no fee, and running 5:30am-12:00am daily -- then an investment instead in a second line with that same length of track but from Uni...
My perception is that disagreements here are disagreements about strategy-- that since most of central Dallas' century-old urban streetscapes are gone now, and are not already newly springing up everywhere like we'd fantasize, H.L. doesn't believe that reinventing/adulterating the main remaining pro...
But don't stop there. Go on to Jevons' paradox. People (policymakers included) tend to assume that we should invest in, or maintain, more efficient infrastructure/technology/regulation because it will let people start to consume less of a valuable resource, and then the increase in efficiencies lead...
Um I will take this entire project at this height any day over the dead zone that existed in the heart of our Arts District for years and years. I am hopeful we can attain an urban demand for some supertalls in our future. We are fighting headwinds from companies that would rather be in campus form...
Ignoring Wilshire Grand, Perot or any other new "west of the Mississippi" would still have to be taller than the 1,070-foot Salesforce crown: https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/salesforce-tower/290 However, if an architect padded the height with a crown and/or spires, so that it wa...
I don't like using LEHD for O-Ds. The biggest issue is that LEHD data is from employers, and particularly for firms with multiple locations, the mailing address that the business provides for its location isn't necessarily the same as the workplace addresses for most of their employees. The sample ...
Depends on your comps. Going by Cushman & Wakefield Marketbeat I'm seeing Central London (270MM, 12MM available Q2, newest one not posted yet), DFW (237MM, 43MM vacant), Chicagoland (233MM, 40MM vacant), Paris city and La Défense (221MM, 6MM available Q2), and Boston (184MM, 28MM available). Hou...
Occidental bought out Woodlands-based Anadarko and now has a 1,600,000+ square foot campus there in addition to 960,000 square feet it leases in Greenway Plaza and 1,400,000 in West Houston's Energy Corridor. It has had 750,000 of the Greenway space up for sublease for a year, pending plans to move ...
Having looked at the Sonder job vacancies recruitment descriptions for cities like Atlanta my impression in the recent past was that their employees are not paid any better than hotel workers but are encouraged to have an ownership mentality, without the upside of earning ownership. While de-risking...
Thank you for that good discussion. Do you know whether the OMB delineations of core-based statistical areas (for other readers: this includes both micropolitan and metropolitan statistical areas) are being based on ACS, LEHD, or some other dataset updating? I ask because, in 2017 LEHD, one of the h...
The ACS may not be the best tool to use to skin this cat: https://onthemap.ces.census.gov Someone can select Fort Worth and then map what counties the city's workers are employed in, and see the top 100 counties in 2017. Then they can change the search and map what other Places (Cities and Census De...
But Hoque has the cheaper Pilgrims Pride land, which has less visibility and less office potential, for the kind of multifamily midrises being suggested here.
That is the journalist who filed an article this week about how real estate investors are concerned about the DFW market's shrinking margins, alongside an article describing Houston's market as "underrated." I suppose if you don't count as negative margins any of the holding costs of fifty...
More parts of the Metro that I could care less about visiting and seeing the same things found in every suburban mixed-use development. My Dallitude is showing... Standard trite internet city chat reaction #1 (just edging out TL;DR by a nose) is well how dare you criticize if you simultaneously hav...
https://catalog.utexas.edu/general-information/appendices/statistical-summaries/ Okay in 2017-2018, UT graduated 330 Baccalaureates in CS, 64 MS in Tech Commercialization, 48 MS in CS, 3 BS in Computational Eng., 346 BS in EE and 0 MS in EE. Across those six programs (Ph.D.'s are not broken out by s...