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I45Tex

I would be so happy about that. I almost think the best thing would be to divide all remaining land into tiny Main Street lots. Have a thousand people making ten thousand risk-vs-reward decisions every year, on every block, as opposed to the current 10 people making 100 centralized decisions a year....

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The apex of decibels from 24-hour interstate travel, and the daily apex of an ingestible fog of burned fume particulates including hydrocarbons and brake pads. Wouldn't even want to walk my dog there, let alone live there, and I imagine many Texans still don't realize why the worst part of cutting a...

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Saw a good synopsis of this in a document about revitalizing Brownsville. "Reinvestment in alleys, in spaces between buildings, and in other public space brings added value to all buildings and future living units in a town center. Placemaking, like interior decorating, must create a strong, co...

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Thanks for the excerpts and for keeping tabs on this! A clarification please, if you would: it looks like they will build a single-use parking garage with a bench on the side, and the garage is tall enough to put both the canal and bench in shadow until late afternoons. Is there an active activation...

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That's good info. I just think that that decision point will change real fast if it ever looks like people buying there would end up selling at a loss. Having a normal economic base is a hedge against that. Compared to North Texas, right now Arizona still does not have a comparable small business in...

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Thing is, a growing population of people who aren't in the workforce (retirees, in the case of Florida and Arizona) is not sustainable growth. Phoenix and Miami's office markets are a fraction per capita of ours because more of the job growth is in services/tourism. Exodus from SoCal and Chicagoland...

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"...Sanford is perhaps most widely known as the founder of the New Year's Day Cotton Bowl game in Dallas, which he first staged in 1936." Neat! The tower looked to me like a flatiron Elm Place. The office building going up on the northeast corner at that time for Southwestern Life Insuranc...

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I've designed a skyscraper with the idea for most of it to be a vertical DMA wing, supported on slipform concrete shafts that don't disturb the existing building's shell. Would be exciting from KWP because the circulation patterns of galleries (and plentiful public emergency egress routes) allow for...

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I suppose nothing will [help reduce the glare of Museum Tower] unless they build a [supertall] tower on the opposite side of Nasher facing Museum Tower. If they haven't settled out of court yet, they could still strike a deal for the defendants to invest in a second taller tower rather than pay out...

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I'm a Realtor and I work with 2 different investor/developers and they want to do more of these in Dallas, but the market hasn't really shaped up for them in Dallas in a larger scale. It is something that takes most new developers to town aback when they assess the market here and see this. It is c...

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The city of Fort Worth has changed plans on their City Hall move. Instead of remodeling or building new, the city has agreed to acquire the Pier 1 building on the west side of downtown. Officials say it will be quicker to move there than build new, and the building is large enough to consolidate ma...

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Did you photograph the first and second pictures? Is the community allowed to walk right in like that? I haven't been down there but it struck me (reading an interview with the owner several years ago) as a colonial-nostalgia office park for likeminded private foundations and hedge funds to network ...

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TREE, the non-stop Trinity Railway Express Express?

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Yeah, just because of the legal history of the counties, the urban kernels of Denton and Dallas are both about 35 miles from their fellow seats in McKinney and Fort Worth.

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Has anyone here ever gotten a database from Tarrant and Dallas County Appraisal Districts, and perhaps meshed it with cities' GIS shapefiles, or the New York Times' compilation of "every building footprint in the USA" (link below but also in a 2018 thread on this forum), to produce a sheer...

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Unless we also have before and after comparisons of the average age of class A, B, and C space by submarket, we can't determine if there are multiple storylines here or one overarching economic geography one. Simple as it is, even tearing down fifty older buildings of less than 75,000 square feet ap...

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Can Apple's Cupertino spaceship office levitate and fly to the North Austin campus also?

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Tivo_Kenevil wrote:Austin taking over!

Still unexpected:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... california

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You're saying those are going to be the top of the local hierarchy, or what is the bump and what is bumping up? North Texas bumping up nationally? Houston thinks that it's about to eclipse Dallas shopping -- or that it has already.

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Thanks jrd, and Tucy. When Compass Bank was bought, BBVA kept their former headquarters office in Birmingham but added senior staff at a BBVA USA parent headquarters in The Woodlands, Texas. It later moved to the Galleria area of Houston. With PNC's pending acquisition of BBVA USA, I haven't heard o...

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Recent mixed-use block McKinney & Olive was less than half the size, less than half the height-associated structural costs, had a practically greenfield site with no permitting hurdles, and came in at exactly half this cost ($225MM v 450MM).

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Will do. Seems like elected officials need to hear publicly that any given emergency is more likely to escalate into a dangerous or life-threatening altercation if they (through budgets) made it take a longer time before any first responders can get away from addressing another priority call to get ...

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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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