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by I45Tex
18 Mar 2024 13:51
Forum: City Issues/News
Topic: New Census Population Estimates
Replies: 307
Views: 284385

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 ...
by I45Tex
17 Mar 2024 19:24
Forum: City Issues/News
Topic: New Census Population Estimates
Replies: 307
Views: 284385

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...
by I45Tex
17 Mar 2024 18:20
Forum: City Issues/News
Topic: New Census Population Estimates
Replies: 307
Views: 284385

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 +...
by I45Tex
16 Mar 2024 18:20
Forum: City Issues/News
Topic: New Census Population Estimates
Replies: 307
Views: 284385

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...
by I45Tex
15 Mar 2024 13:04
Forum: City Issues/News
Topic: City-county consolidations redux
Replies: 0
Views: 51

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 ...
by I45Tex
10 Mar 2024 14:10
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Reunion (Tower, hotel, and??)
Replies: 71
Views: 20341

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...
by I45Tex
04 Mar 2024 11:12
Forum: The Airports
Topic: DFW Airport
Replies: 420
Views: 328417

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...
by I45Tex
27 Feb 2024 12:57
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Dallas Arts District: Dallas Gateway | Portman Holdings
Replies: 176
Views: 53213

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.
by I45Tex
27 Feb 2024 10:47
Forum: The Airports
Topic: DFW Airport Fantasy Redesign
Replies: 7
Views: 561

Re: DFW Airport Fantasy Redesign

Terminal attached hotels are probably the cheapest part and, in any scenario, easiest to rebuild nearby.
by I45Tex
24 Feb 2024 13:33
Forum: The Airports
Topic: DFW Airport Fantasy Redesign
Replies: 7
Views: 561

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...
by I45Tex
08 Feb 2024 23:38
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Victory Park: AIRE residential (23ST)
Replies: 31
Views: 4716

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.
by I45Tex
08 Feb 2024 13:20
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Dallas: Medical District
Replies: 179
Views: 145897

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.
by I45Tex
03 Feb 2024 21:11
Forum: The Airports
Topic: DFW Airport
Replies: 420
Views: 328417

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...
by I45Tex
02 Feb 2024 01:20
Forum: The Airports
Topic: DFW Airport
Replies: 420
Views: 328417

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.
by I45Tex
01 Feb 2024 13:26
Forum: The Airports
Topic: DFW Airport
Replies: 420
Views: 328417

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...
by I45Tex
28 Jan 2024 14:26
Forum: The Bus + Roads/Highways/Bridges
Topic: Downtown Dallas Greyhound Station Closing - Lost Lease
Replies: 5
Views: 731

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...
by I45Tex
26 Jan 2024 19:27
Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
Topic: Dallas - Fort Worth high-speed rail project
Replies: 44
Views: 7045

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.
by I45Tex
26 Jan 2024 00:24
Forum: City Issues/News
Topic: DFW Economy
Replies: 462
Views: 425493

Re: DFW Economy

Does taxable value per acre include sales tax or not?
by I45Tex
19 Jan 2024 13:31
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Fort Worth: misc. developments
Replies: 107
Views: 67666

Re: Fort Worth: misc. developments

59,000 square foot plant opened by LG

https://www.lgnewsroom.com/2024/01/lg-o ... -chargers/
by I45Tex
17 Jan 2024 12:53
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Arts District: Dallas Arts Tower (Chase Tower)
Replies: 30
Views: 19209

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.
by I45Tex
17 Jan 2024 11:05
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Uptown Dallas: 23 Springs (~399FT | 26 ST)
Replies: 180
Views: 226207

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
by I45Tex
16 Jan 2024 16:49
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Uptown Dallas: 23 Springs (~399FT | 26 ST)
Replies: 180
Views: 226207

Re: Uptown Dallas: 23 Springs (~399FT | 26 ST)

DBJ says the huge lease is for four floors.
by I45Tex
05 Jan 2024 13:21
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Mavs arena-hotel by Las Vegas Sands Corp.
Replies: 63
Views: 9899

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...
by I45Tex
31 Dec 2023 14:58
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Knox District: MSD Capital - Knox/Travis - 28/27/9 stories
Replies: 69
Views: 17546

Re: Knox District: MSD Capital - Knox/Travis - 28/27/9 stories

Balfour Beatty and Andres Construction
by I45Tex
31 Dec 2023 01:50
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Downtown Dallas: Newpark Dallas/Smart District
Replies: 401
Views: 243014

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
by I45Tex
30 Dec 2023 14:04
Forum: City Issues/News
Topic: H-E-B Has Finally Arrived in DFW!!!
Replies: 111
Views: 40918

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.
by I45Tex
29 Dec 2023 15:08
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Uptown/Victory Park: NorthEnd
Replies: 800
Views: 345979

Re: Uptown/Victory Park: NorthEnd

FYI the paywalled article also reports that the 1980s Hole On Cole in uptown was 90 feet deep.
by I45Tex
28 Dec 2023 18:08
Forum: City Issues/News
Topic: DFW Economy
Replies: 462
Views: 425493

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...
by I45Tex
22 Dec 2023 22:05
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Mavs arena-hotel by Las Vegas Sands Corp.
Replies: 63
Views: 9899

Re: Mavs arena-hotel by Las Vegas Sands Corp.

But maybe they can buy these plans at a discount...
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by I45Tex
22 Dec 2023 16:14
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Mavs arena-hotel by Las Vegas Sands Corp.
Replies: 63
Views: 9899

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...
by I45Tex
22 Dec 2023 09:05
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Downtown Dallas: Newpark Dallas/Smart District
Replies: 401
Views: 243014

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.
by I45Tex
21 Dec 2023 23:19
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Downtown Dallas: Newpark Dallas/Smart District
Replies: 401
Views: 243014

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.

:ugeek: ::deion:: :ugeek:
by I45Tex
21 Dec 2023 06:06
Forum: Suburban + Exurban Development
Topic: Rowlett: Crystal Lagoon
Replies: 51
Views: 40646

Re: Rowlett: Crystal Lagoon

I was wrong - Terry Park is a Heath city park, not Rockwall.
by I45Tex
19 Dec 2023 10:42
Forum: Suburban + Exurban Development
Topic: Rowlett: Crystal Lagoon
Replies: 51
Views: 40646

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...
by I45Tex
17 Dec 2023 22:47
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Mavs arena-hotel by Las Vegas Sands Corp.
Replies: 63
Views: 9899

Re: Mavs arena-hotel by Las Vegas Sands Corp.

Casino site? https://www.dmagazine.com/sports/2023/12/heres-where-miriam-adelson-plans-to-build-a-casino-in-dallas/ "Las Vegas Sands ... in July acquired about 259 acres across eight properties at State Highway 114 and Loop 12, near the former Texas Stadium site in Irving, the Dallas Business ...
by I45Tex
17 Dec 2023 22:39
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Reunion (Tower, hotel, and??)
Replies: 71
Views: 20341

Re: Reunion (Tower, hotel, and??)

zaphod wrote:So there was originally supposed to be a tower attached to that parking garage between the two viaducts? I never knew that.


Good comment. I missed that - thanks.

Still could be a building there someday?
by I45Tex
07 Dec 2023 22:19
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: North Dallas: Park Central
Replies: 15
Views: 3058

Re: North Dallas: Park Central

CTroysco, IKEA Beast.

But it looks like it would make an excellent next-generation Dallas Public Library Branch with hotdogs
by I45Tex
07 Dec 2023 13:24
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: North Dallas: Park Central
Replies: 15
Views: 3058

Re: North Dallas: Park Central

Insane would be projecting ten-storey-high Costco specials on both sides in real time FOREVER
by I45Tex
07 Dec 2023 13:23
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Cityplace East: ACS/Xerox redevelopment (The Central)
Replies: 476
Views: 1199937

Re: Cityplace East: ACS/Xerox redevelopment (The Central)

Street cred would be a Tivo Kenevil boutique on the ground floor.
by I45Tex
06 Dec 2023 11:17
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: North Dallas: Park Central
Replies: 15
Views: 3058

Re: North Dallas: Park Central

It looks like their existing fuel station is on the nearest (northeast) corner of the parking lot.
by I45Tex
06 Dec 2023 11:11
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: North Dallas: Park Central
Replies: 15
Views: 3058

Re: North Dallas: Park Central

CoStar interviewed some brokers who didn't have a connection to the auction (Costco bid 14.25MM, next-highest bid was 12.5MM) and was told that the additional costs of renovation made that unlikely to be a planned backoffice location for Costco, and more like a bid for its lot value. They speculated...
by I45Tex
02 Dec 2023 22:19
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Mavs arena-hotel by Las Vegas Sands Corp.
Replies: 63
Views: 9899

Re: Mavs arena-hotel by Las Vegas Sands Corp.

I didn't see the original interview where he described the idea but it was December 2022. Off-topic but: I don't think that the year in which both LA teams and the Suns, Nugs and Dubs are all all-in on winning a championship is going to be the year that the Mavs finally put together their winning de...
by I45Tex
02 Dec 2023 18:23
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Mavs arena-hotel by Las Vegas Sands Corp.
Replies: 63
Views: 9899

Re: Mavs arena-hotel by Las Vegas Sands Corp.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say the owners in the league would not see a reason to approve the Mavs going to Vegas and leaving just because of buyer's remorse about details of the owner's dream arena proposal. The league would be able to charge a mammoth new franchise fee to people like Shaq a...
by I45Tex
02 Dec 2023 18:13
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Mavs arena-hotel by Las Vegas Sands Corp.
Replies: 63
Views: 9899

Re: Mavs arena-hotel by Las Vegas Sands Corp.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2010/04/15/leaders-neighbors-praise-mark-cuban-s-planned-development-in-east-oak-cliff-area-of-dallas/ [2010] "Time will tell how the [176-acre] project helps the area [near Kiest and Sunderland, five miles from DTD "in South Dallas, where basketball is king...