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- 17 May 2024 19:36
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: New Census Population Estimates
- Replies: 318
- Views: 306988
Re: New Census Population Estimates
San Antonio & FW are gaining resi "units" primarily because they are still suburbanizing raw land within their city limits, of course. By the time any jurisdiction's primary resi unit growth requires vertical construction, however, the place no longer has that option of burning it down...
- 03 May 2024 19:32
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Development
- Topic: Southern Dallas County: Inland Port
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9390
Re: Southern Dallas County: Inland Port
Lancaster
May 1, 2024
Toronto-Based Waabi Opens Autonomous Trucking Terminal
https://dallasinnovates.com/toronto-bas ... of-dallas/
May 1, 2024
Toronto-Based Waabi Opens Autonomous Trucking Terminal
https://dallasinnovates.com/toronto-bas ... of-dallas/
- 13 Apr 2024 21:35
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Deep Ellum 1.0
- Replies: 1025
- Views: 812732
Re: Deep Ellum 1.0
Two different projects
- 13 Apr 2024 11:08
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Deep Ellum 1.0
- Replies: 1025
- Views: 812732
Re: Deep Ellum 1.0
Looks like Ohio
- 12 Apr 2024 00:10
- Forum: The Bus + Roads/Highways/Bridges
- Topic: I-345
- Replies: 457
- Views: 336767
Re: I-345
And yet the 6 train, which was the only game in town for train access to destinations such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the UN Headquarters, the Ford Foundation, the Frick, and the whole Upper East Side, is sort of a bygone era's legacy, because look at how much it's cost to get the Second Ave...
- 07 Apr 2024 00:41
- Forum: U.S. + World Urban Development
- Topic: How Muskegon, MI, Is Building Hundreds of Homes on Vacant Lots
- Replies: 1
- Views: 638
Re: How Muskegon, MI, Is Building Hundreds of Homes on Vacant Lots
Interesting idea. It is harder and harder to do anything other than housing for immediate resale: https://www.planetizen.com/news/2024/04 ... evelopment
- 30 Mar 2024 11:58
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown Dallas: Crescent Point Tower (415 FT | 30 ST)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1689
Re: Uptown Dallas: Crescent Point Tower (415 FT | 30 ST)
Was that deep spiral ramp constructed with footings for a skyscraper in the master plan and we just never knew it?
Or are they going to have to demolish that end of the multilevel underground garage to get enough new foundation pilings in there?
Or are they going to have to demolish that end of the multilevel underground garage to get enough new foundation pilings in there?
- 29 Mar 2024 12:28
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: Corporate Relocations/Expansions
- Replies: 767
- Views: 561729
Re: Corporate Relocations/Expansions
Chicken-centric Expressway
- 24 Mar 2024 22:33
- Forum: The Bus + Roads/Highways/Bridges
- Topic: I-345
- Replies: 457
- Views: 336767
Re: I-345
During public comment my comment to them was basically that for a grid of all origins and destinations, there is almost always already a better bypass built for travelers to travel than to take I-30 *to* Central or Schepps to your desired destination. Likewise than to take Central or Schepps to I-30...
- 23 Mar 2024 12:27
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Victory Park 3.0
- Replies: 918
- Views: 793091
Re: Victory Park 3.0
With 4000 plus people living down there I still can't understand why most of those restaurants aren't more full most of the time. How many more people living there will it take to support. One of the things that pro-automobility advocates say is that few businesses or mixed uses can survive on the ...
- 18 Mar 2024 13:51
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: New Census Population Estimates
- Replies: 318
- Views: 306988
Re: New Census Population Estimates
Maybe its land can be better managed because it's newer. It doesn't have a lot of complicated neighborhoods with poor schools and aged infrastructure on the one hand, which are risky to try to turn around, nor does it do anything but freeride on the region's legacy complicated megaprojects like DFW ...
- 17 Mar 2024 19:24
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: New Census Population Estimates
- Replies: 318
- Views: 306988
Re: New Census Population Estimates
I don't think that home rule cities are subject to any kind of mergers and acquisitions/annexations under the current Texas Constitution unless they themselves choose to disestablish. I do imagine, at this point, several things like hospital districts and floodplain management districts could be bet...
- 17 Mar 2024 18:20
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: New Census Population Estimates
- Replies: 318
- Views: 306988
Re: New Census Population Estimates
Me too but I think that that's the very last merger they would agree to. Irving would probably prefer to keep its name and merge with some less-well-known fish, not be swallowed by the big fish. Irving + Coppell + Carrollton would (est. 431K in July 2022) be more populous than Arlington is. Irving +...
- 16 Mar 2024 18:20
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: New Census Population Estimates
- Replies: 318
- Views: 306988
Re: New Census Population Estimates
It is (unfortunately or not) totally normal in the labor market for cities that are valuable/expensive relative to the surrounding region to serve as "finishing schools." These locations import recent graduates or recent immigrants and export "fleeing" established midcareer profe...
- 15 Mar 2024 13:04
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: City-county consolidations redux
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1136
City-county consolidations redux
Jacksonville[, Florida]'s population is slightly larger than FTW's, but FTW's growth rate is faster. The issue with Jacksonville though its city limits are twice the size of Fort Worth's, which makes the comparison goofy on the face of it and is why comparing metro areas is far more informative. I ...
- 10 Mar 2024 14:10
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Reunion (Tower, hotel, and??)
- Replies: 75
- Views: 24832
Re: Reunion (Tower, hotel, and??)
Or an eventual new rail viaduct could cross the scraped convention center acreage. We could bury the new convention center underground just like we issued a referendum bond to actually do, right? Really not sure why a windowless series of halls ever needs to pop back up over street level like a vint...
- 04 Mar 2024 11:12
- Forum: The Airports
- Topic: DFW Airport
- Replies: 420
- Views: 362012
Re: DFW Airport
With Spirit and JetBlue's merger now canceled, and Spirit and Frontier's merger canceled, if Alaska and Hawaiian's merger gets canceled there won't be too many remaining combinations that are possible for those airlines to scale up to try to compete against the Big Four. JetBlue/Alaska, Allegiant/Al...
- 27 Feb 2024 12:57
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Dallas Arts District: Dallas Gateway | Portman Holdings
- Replies: 177
- Views: 60971
Re: Dallas Arts District: Dallas Gateway | Portman Holdings
Probably good that they were willing to tell the public about their eyeing the adjacent 8 acres.
- 27 Feb 2024 10:47
- Forum: The Airports
- Topic: DFW Airport Fantasy Redesign
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2042
Re: DFW Airport Fantasy Redesign
Terminal attached hotels are probably the cheapest part and, in any scenario, easiest to rebuild nearby.
- 24 Feb 2024 13:33
- Forum: The Airports
- Topic: DFW Airport Fantasy Redesign
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2042
Re: DFW Airport Fantasy Redesign
I have to admit, your design doesn't look workable to me. The first thing that came to my mind is how are they going to get those big airplanes in between those finger-like terminals. I think you are thinking too hard on this one. IMG_2715.jpeg https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eKQSsDCVoKM/XwhfM1axhjI/AAA...
- 08 Feb 2024 23:38
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Victory Park: AIRE residential (276 FT / 23 ST)
- Replies: 34
- Views: 6965
Re: Victory Park: AIRE residential (23ST)
The initial post in this thread showed that there is a tower and a separate midrise both included towards that figure of 480 units. As you can see the site is larger than the Victor's.
- 08 Feb 2024 13:20
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Dallas: Medical District
- Replies: 179
- Views: 152236
Re: Dallas: Medical District
a few more details and renderings https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2024/feb-new-pediatric-campus.html Yes, good site plan on this page. It won't actually be on Mockingbird at all, but on the huge city block between Harry Hines, Treadway St., Forest Park Road, and Paul M Bass Way.
- 03 Feb 2024 21:11
- Forum: The Airports
- Topic: DFW Airport
- Replies: 420
- Views: 362012
Re: DFW Airport
Large airports like Atlanta and Denver were designed to have midfield terminals that relatively few fliers will use to deplane to the city itself. They are for efficiently re-sorting different bundles of airside transfer passengers. If this is what F is for, then it might have been wiser not to occu...
- 02 Feb 2024 01:20
- Forum: The Airports
- Topic: DFW Airport
- Replies: 420
- Views: 362012
Re: DFW Airport
Those two numbers I used were ones I read on the crankyflier's post about the new terminal last May; may not be up to date now, I realized too late.
- 01 Feb 2024 13:26
- Forum: The Airports
- Topic: DFW Airport
- Replies: 420
- Views: 362012
Re: DFW Airport
And this may end up being the most expensive terminal per square foot ever built in the USA. Just wow. Even though $2,720,000,000 of the project cost has nothing to do with Terminal F, I still don't see what will make a 15 gate concourse rack up $1,600,000,000+ in project costs. Might as well build...
- 01 Feb 2024 10:20
- Forum: The Airports
- Topic: DFW Airport
- Replies: 420
- Views: 362012
- 28 Jan 2024 14:26
- Forum: The Bus + Roads/Highways/Bridges
- Topic: Downtown Dallas Greyhound Station Closing - Lost Lease
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1515
Re: Downtown Dallas Greyhound Station Closing - Lost Lease
Add Houston and Richmond to the list of Dallas, Philadelphia and Cincinnati. Alden Global Capital has apparently run out of American newspapers to demolish, and turned its practiced mitts elsewhere. Founder Randall Smith is the same founder who did Spire Realty. Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wi...
- 26 Jan 2024 19:27
- Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
- Topic: Dallas - Fort Worth high-speed rail project
- Replies: 45
- Views: 10096
Re: Dallas - Fort Worth high-speed rail project
What about a Houston-style signal-protected at-grade median transit line along Ft. Worth Ave. / West Davis / Irving's East Main / Arlington's Randol Mill Rd.? Any higher-speed like would have to be elevated or grade-separated a la the Red Line north, of course.
- 26 Jan 2024 00:24
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: DFW Economy
- Replies: 462
- Views: 445291
Re: DFW Economy
Does taxable value per acre include sales tax or not?
- 19 Jan 2024 13:31
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Fort Worth: misc. developments
- Replies: 107
- Views: 72331
- 17 Jan 2024 12:53
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Arts District: Dallas Arts Tower (Chase Tower)
- Replies: 30
- Views: 20222
Re: Arts District: Dallas Arts Tower (Chase Tower)
Uptown has deleted most of its original street grid while downtown still has one. That's a long-term DTD advantage when the Uptown towers of 2010 all become obsolete in their turn and the neighborhood is too boring and stringy to try to convert to a real neighborhood after the fact.
- 17 Jan 2024 11:05
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown Dallas: 23 Springs (~399FT | 26 ST)
- Replies: 196
- Views: 247741
Re: Uptown Dallas: 23 Springs (~399FT | 26 ST)
Their website lists another current location at 717 N. Harwood Street
Suite 1800
https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/footerl ... cator.html
Suite 1800
https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/footerl ... cator.html
- 17 Jan 2024 11:00
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Cityplace East: ACS/Xerox redevelopment (The Central)
- Replies: 478
- Views: 1288769
- 16 Jan 2024 16:49
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown Dallas: 23 Springs (~399FT | 26 ST)
- Replies: 196
- Views: 247741
Re: Uptown Dallas: 23 Springs (~399FT | 26 ST)
DBJ says the huge lease is for four floors.
- 05 Jan 2024 13:21
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Mavs arena-hotel by Las Vegas Sands Corp.
- Replies: 63
- Views: 12501
Re: Mavs arena-hotel by Las Vegas Sands Corp.
Even people who view megaspending on rail as a need and not merely a "want" acknowledge that it's worse at handling major stadium crowds than "lake-sized parking lots" are. The numbers of people who can arrive and depart within an hour of the beginning and end of the game (unless...
- 04 Jan 2024 22:45
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: Statler Hotel & Residences + Future DMN Offices (Old Statler Hilton + Old Library)
- Replies: 441
- Views: 387365
Re: Downtown Dallas: Statler Hotel & Residences + Future DMN Offices (Old Statler Hilton + Old Library)
Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street?
- 04 Jan 2024 22:44
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: Statler Hotel & Residences + Future DMN Offices (Old Statler Hilton + Old Library)
- Replies: 441
- Views: 387365
Re: Downtown Dallas: Statler Hotel & Residences + Future DMN Offices (Old Statler Hilton + Old Library)
Won it at poker, have to lose it back
- 01 Jan 2024 21:43
- Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
- Topic: Farmers Branch: Joya at Oran Good Park
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4674
- 31 Dec 2023 14:58
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Knox District: MSD Capital - Knox/Travis - 28/27/9 stories
- Replies: 78
- Views: 23656
Re: Knox District: MSD Capital - Knox/Travis - 28/27/9 stories
Balfour Beatty and Andres Construction
- 31 Dec 2023 01:50
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: Newpark Dallas/Smart District
- Replies: 410
- Views: 260979
Re: Downtown Dallas: Newpark Dallas/Smart District
Hoque is billed as the master developer if third party developers Corsair Ventures have broken ground at SoGood (have they?)
https://www.dmagazine.com/commercial-re ... he-cedars/
https://www.corsairventures.com/the-chloe-at-sogood
https://www.dmagazine.com/commercial-re ... he-cedars/
https://www.corsairventures.com/the-chloe-at-sogood
- 30 Dec 2023 14:04
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: H-E-B Has Finally Arrived in DFW!!!
- Replies: 124
- Views: 49835
Re: H-E-B Has Finally Arrived in DFW!!!
Note that if you're ever traveling across the Deep South, their Taco Casa chain is an unrelated restaurant that also started in the early 1970s. Their founder was from Kansas.
- 29 Dec 2023 15:08
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown/Victory Park: NorthEnd
- Replies: 809
- Views: 382550
Re: Uptown/Victory Park: NorthEnd
FYI the paywalled article also reports that the 1980s Hole On Cole in uptown was 90 feet deep.
- 28 Dec 2023 18:08
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: DFW Economy
- Replies: 462
- Views: 445291
Re: DFW Economy
Odd that they mentioned Atlanta in the article but never Charlotte. This was a shift though: "Dallas finance executives say the region is chock full of engineering and technology workers, which is part of the reason they’ve located so many back-office operations there. Over the coming years, th...
- 22 Dec 2023 22:05
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Mavs arena-hotel by Las Vegas Sands Corp.
- Replies: 63
- Views: 12501
Re: Mavs arena-hotel by Las Vegas Sands Corp.
But maybe they can buy these plans at a discount...
- 22 Dec 2023 16:14
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Mavs arena-hotel by Las Vegas Sands Corp.
- Replies: 63
- Views: 12501
Re: Mavs arena-hotel by Las Vegas Sands Corp.
Where the Mavs go is not going to affect the long-term viability of our city compared to a hundred other "hows" that he and the council clearly are tasked with being awake at the wheel for. Please don't go conspiratorial. It's not helpful to cite the lack of evidence of his involvement *as...
- 22 Dec 2023 09:05
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: Newpark Dallas/Smart District
- Replies: 410
- Views: 260979
Re: Downtown Dallas: Newpark Dallas/Smart District
[quote="I45Tex"]HQ2 has yet to transform Northern Virginia... which did pull it off... but the Kool Aid jobs promise sounded strong enough that one remembers.
- 21 Dec 2023 23:19
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: Newpark Dallas/Smart District
- Replies: 410
- Views: 260979
Re: Downtown Dallas: Newpark Dallas/Smart District
HQ2 has yet to transform Northern Virginia... which did pull it off... but the Kool Aid jobs promise sounded strong enough that one didn't have to drink it to believe in the power of primacy.
::deion::
::deion::
- 21 Dec 2023 22:38
- Forum: U.S. + World Urban Development
- Topic: Oklahoma City, Norman Area Urban Development
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6884
- 21 Dec 2023 06:06
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Development
- Topic: Rowlett: Crystal Lagoon
- Replies: 51
- Views: 43075
Re: Rowlett: Crystal Lagoon
I was wrong - Terry Park is a Heath city park, not Rockwall.
- 19 Dec 2023 10:42
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Development
- Topic: Rowlett: Crystal Lagoon
- Replies: 51
- Views: 43075
Re: Rowlett: Crystal Lagoon
Lots of schadenfreude about this online, like on Reddit. It's unfortunate but it seems like a lot of people were unhappy to lose a lakefront park for a private development like this. Now there is approximately 0 public access points to Lake Ray Hubbard, since Garland closed Windsurf Bay park becaus...