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I45Tex

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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Thank you, ron.

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Is this an old development concept for the Northend apartments that I missed? I saw it on Facebook as the cover photo for a DMN article. It’s called “The Interweave.” Fitting name as it would weave together Uptown, Harwood, and Victory Park. I don’t want to speculate but it almost looks like indoor...

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You're right about that beauty, but look at the big picture (returning to the Census growth topic). Texas has a claim to be strong economically if any state in the union does. But most counties are losing population while the ones that are growing are more socially fragile than ever, from reorganizi...

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But can a young person magically be "about income" just because they are someone promising who happens to get a few scholarships, out of a family and corralled community that have never had the choice of being "about income"? Should they want to be about it, honestly, seeing what...

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I'm not sure why you disagree, Scott; that is precisely an example of the last thing that Warrior said. Insiders or outsiders alike are interested in that land because it was artificially depressed in value through racist redlining policy. The Dallas residents who have been deprived of asset-buildin...

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dukemeredith wrote:I was most surprised to see German Chocolate Cake on that list. That’s definitely something Dallas could take ownership of and be “known” for around the country — like Key West is “known” for Key Lime Pie (among other things).

Same here!

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They'll move the manufacturing to Austin and the HQ. I think the superior access to water, power, freight transportation, housing, and experienced heavy manufacturing management, scientific, and shop floor talent bases are all in Tulsa over Austin (a lot of technical equipment and instruments for i...

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If that were true, would Texas Instruments have settled for owning only a cross-licensing agreement about the intellectual property?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inventi ... ed_circuit

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Nice to be listed. Also embarrassing to have had that much opportunity, be in that kind of company, and yet the city's lasting original contributions to global civilization are the Texas donut apartment block, graphing calculators, Mary Kay marketing mantras, and the inspiration for Outkast's "...

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Lincoln Property Co's 6 X Guadalupe (pronounced "Sixth and Guadalupe"), this Ryan Cos BBVA tower, and current Austin tallest The Independent all have flat boxy tops. Unless their architects change that, they will all just be backdrops to the Railyard proposal (assuming it goes ahead) -- ht...

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Thanks TNWE, and also dfwcre8tive!

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No idea on Tucy's question, but since Terminal F is pretty poorly located for TEXRail, Orange Line and TRE passengers, is it intended mostly for flight capacity for new transfer connecting passengers? It seems like ORD plans to compete hard for more of this next generation of continental east-west h...

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Better spot for 270 condominiums than Azure/Blue Ciel's, The House's or Museum Tower's. Now we'll have to see if the unsold existing inventory becomes any cheaper to compete with this, or whether the potential buyers are very picky among submarkets, meaning there's not a great extent of audience ove...

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Does anyone know why Dallas isn't much of a high rise condo city? Also what building would you live in, all things considered? Texas' high property taxes, low road tolls, short commute times and lack of >100-year-old rich urban neighborhoods definitely don't increase the size of the market for cond...

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There will not be a July 1 estimate for 2020 and we won't get the April 1 headcount until the Census results finish processing. However, tomorrow was scheduled to be the public release for July 1, 2019 estimates at the county and MSA level. Hope they finished everything in the release well ahead of ...

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There are many blocks of Noel just inside LBJ that are a separate street with no real connection to the Galleria one. Likely the Noel we know between the Galleria and Verde Valley, which I would like to rename Quorum or Midtown, etc, could've been named Inwood (it's directly north of Inwood's right ...

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Would love to see this entire area from Spring Valley from the tollway to Preston to 635 become a new urban area of Dallas. It is well positioned to do so. I think that larger vision of yours could one day tie together Midtown and Addison Circle (with Cotton Belt rail coming soon to its bus transit...

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Beyond station TOD partnerships or ground leases of CapMetro’s own land, is there a scope of TIF / TIRZ in Texas that can appropriately allow public investment to share in the property valuation that it increases around transit lines?

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That feeling when downtown H-Town already grabbed the Discovery Green name for its convention-adjacent programmed district... http://www.discoverygreen.com In other words, even this big a revamp --and it is big! -- is only just keeping up with the Joneses, these days, more than setting North Texas a...

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All right, then! We just need to flood Fair Park 11 months of the year so that the Deep Ellum and Exposition Park pedestrian magnet is finally combined with a Town Lake-like limited supply of primo shoreline sites with shoreline views

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"If a site is so small it demands a high rise then there isn't room for parking and if a site has room for parking it's too big to require a high rise." That isn't stopping much taller buildings in Houston and Austin, even though they have much lower barriers to entry, and much smaller poo...

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The obvious counterargument is that the nearest major markets Houston and Austin are both going gangbusters in downtowns that are also very far from the centers of their metro regions' employment growth and residential rooftops growth. Dallas was traditionally more of a real estate town than they ar...

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Baylor Scott & White is moving thousands of workers to Deep Ellum The health care company is consolidating office operations at its new campus. Nice article, thanks. But unfortunately (for Dallas), tamtagon's A&M deep dive on Deep Ellum dream is coming true for Houston: https://www.houston....

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The West Plano submarket (which Transwestern calls "Upper Tollway/Legacy") has 30.2 million square feet of office space (plus 1.4 more underway). On the face of it, it seems off to predict that they are about to house more folks within 31.6 than DT/UT/TC can in 46.3 million existing office...

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^ TL;DR version: Guy who builds high rise residential buildings likes high rise residential buildings. Much of the article is implying that if citizens don't want taxes to increase and services to plateau, then citizens can't provide services to an area without splitting that ongoing cost among mor...

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I don't think the cost-benefit analysis would support adding a northbound 45 to eastbound 175 ramp in the future. There are very few origin-destination pairs being traveled that are significantly improved by it, compared to other uses of that amount of public investment. Most pairs originating outsi...

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What's funny is google matches the image when you do a google image match search but when you click the image which is says is much bigger it takes you to Dallas News Retail section where the article no longer appears to be. My best guess is the article was posted in Dallas News Retail then updated...

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The signature tower on the new website -- good find Kelley! -- is 31 floors by my count. That's still a complicated project to finance, but not as complicated as the giant Smart District buildings, and even if it's across 75, this does have closer valuation comps by being on the north side of DTD.

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https://www.atlantamagazine.com/news-culture-articles/its-the-best-time-to-be-an-atlantan-it-might-also-be-the-worst/ For a peer city comparison, in Atlanta the people who have held neighborhoods together for decades are not sharing in the tardy public improvements to these neighborhoods. If we're g...

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Starting the thread with this article about the suburban families who steal magnet educations from local families:

https://www.dallasweekly.com/articles/t ... -students/

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...the street level from one side of the interstate boulevard to the other would be in section like an overpass. The only regrading of entrance levels would take place on the one or two blocks to either side of it, and many of them are going to receive major new buildings in the next wave of constru...

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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.

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Thanks for the news, thanks also for the additional picture. If it is 22 floors can mods put it in the thread title, too, please?

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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?

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