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- 04 Jun 2020 14:10
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: 508 Young Street (old Dallas Morning News building)
- Replies: 85
- Views: 74827
Re: Downtown Dallas: 508 Young Street (old Dallas Morning News building)
Yeah, at forty stories too.....I will take it....if it happens in this current climate.
- 26 Feb 2020 15:36
- Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
- Topic: DALLAS to HOUSTON High Speed Rail
- Replies: 556
- Views: 486407
Re: DALLAS to HOUSTON High Speed Rail
Southwest and American AA sent out memos to all employees to go online and vote against. Do you have proof of that? Would love to be able to share that and show how BS the airline industry is when trying to kill this. I hope in 20 years this hurts Southwest and american hard, especially Southwest e...
- 09 Jun 2019 19:06
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: City Lights
- Replies: 135
- Views: 161890
Re: Downtown Dallas: City Lights
1 dead , 5 more critical condition.
It was a very bad storm that tore through the area but unless it was a miceoburst or a small tornado I expect lawsuits to start flying for the crane not being secure enough, or at least an attempt to from the families of the victims.
It was a very bad storm that tore through the area but unless it was a miceoburst or a small tornado I expect lawsuits to start flying for the crane not being secure enough, or at least an attempt to from the families of the victims.
- 10 May 2019 14:51
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: East Quarter: ~24 Building Redevelopment
- Replies: 563
- Views: 562271
Re: East Quarter: ~24 Building Redevelopment
What makes these NIMBYS even more idiotic is that these sorts of development you know....raises their property values....
- 07 May 2019 14:04
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: DTD: The National/Thompson Hotel (1401 Elm)
- Replies: 681
- Views: 621669
Re: Downtown Dallas: The Drever
I work in Renaissance tower on the 29th floor and look at the tower every day. Trust me, the past two weeks work has really picked up on it, especially on the lower podium where they have built what looks like another level of pavilions for what will be restaurants and eventual other amenities. And ...
- 14 Feb 2019 14:21
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Could Dallas land Amazon HQ '2'?
- Replies: 1075
- Views: 914747
Re: Could Dallas land Amazon HQ '2'?
I bet this was part of the plan but it kind of is a pointless and stupid plan. I do think there is a small chance that a runner up city like Dallas quietly gets a campus with a couple of thousand or more employees, because they did just chop their planned growth in half by basically dropping the new...
- 06 Dec 2018 10:23
- Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
- Topic: Trinity River Park
- Replies: 468
- Views: 472779
Re: Trinity River Park
this is absolutely fantastic news. I can't wait to see what it looks like. This project will absolutely be transformative for Dallas and make the city so much prettier. with this complete by 2022 if they hit their targeted date...i wonder what will happen south of the Margaret McDermott bridge in ad...
- 05 Dec 2018 13:37
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Most Exciting Project?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 21292
Re: Most Exciting Project?
1. High Speed rail project 2. Trinity River Park (any news on this thing since the toll road got killed that was holding it up) 3. Smart District (would be higher but they need to get tenants now that Amazon fell through) 4. Trinity Water gardens 5. Texas Eye Ferris wheel and development 6. Ross Per...
- 14 Nov 2018 13:09
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Could Dallas land Amazon HQ '2'?
- Replies: 1075
- Views: 914747
Re: Could Dallas land Amazon HQ '2'?
Great, the smart district is going to be another dead development site turned into parking lots while KDC sits on the land and if we are lucky we get a half assed development. If they were smart they would have banked on other companies. Of course there is nothing stopping them from you know, going ...
- 13 Nov 2018 13:53
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Development
- Topic: Frisco: China Lesso Group Mixed-Use Development
- Replies: 17
- Views: 19990
Re: Frisco: China Lesso Group Mixed-Use Development
I honestly hope this doesn't happen , it is too far north , and if it did I really don't see it being anything more than something out on it's own surrounded by suburban houses. Plus, if this is truly going to be on the corner of the tollway and 380....dear God the traffic nightmare that will be. On...
- 13 Nov 2018 11:32
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Could Dallas land Amazon HQ '2'?
- Replies: 1075
- Views: 914747
Re: Could Dallas land Amazon HQ '2'?
Anyway...the selection of two east coast sites make no sense , and this was just a farce from the beginning to leverage tax incentives. My thing now is this...we have to look at the development sites and press f kr information , cause hopefully those development sites were not all banking on Amazon....
- 06 Nov 2018 13:27
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Could Dallas land Amazon HQ '2'?
- Replies: 1075
- Views: 914747
Re: Could Dallas land Amazon HQ '2'?
I have been very flat about this process from the beginning and now that it is over am pleased they did not come here. We are better off gathering a multitude of smaller deals with smaller numbers than one gigantic gorilla that can then tell the city what to do. Too many good things are happening h...
- 16 Oct 2018 14:47
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Shraman South Asian Museum
- Replies: 144
- Views: 120347
Re: Shraman South Asian Museum
Got to be honest, there is a better use for the land than a museum that lets be honest, most people wont go to and is a little too niche of a market. I just want to see this built as originally proposed for the site in the 80's....lol https://dallasnews.imgix.net/Field-Plaza-130x300.jpg?q=30&w=2...
- 16 Oct 2018 13:46
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Could Dallas land Amazon HQ '2'?
- Replies: 1075
- Views: 914747
Re: Could Dallas land Amazon HQ '2'?
Top 10 Dallas-Fort Worth locations primed for Amazon HQ2 https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2018/10/16/top-10-dallas-fort-worth-locations-amazon-hq2.html How is Las Colinas not on this list? That is surprising. It would seem Las Colinas meets as much of Amazon's criteria as many of these sites...
- 08 Oct 2018 15:23
- Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
- Topic: DALLAS to HOUSTON High Speed Rail
- Replies: 556
- Views: 486407
Re: DALLAS to HOUSTON High Speed Rail
If even half of that got built, with the deck park and the surrounding plans, plus the apparant developments at the Texas Odyssey Sit, and should the Dallas Smart District actually get built, that would utterly transform Dallas. Imagine this and the Trinity River Park actually getting off of the gro...
- 14 Sep 2018 11:26
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: DTD: The National/Thompson Hotel (1401 Elm)
- Replies: 681
- Views: 621669
Re: Downtown Dallas: The Drever
Why am I not surprised....and why does Dallas seem to attract such asshat developers compared to other other cities I wonder. Anyway, I bet that is what Drever has been aiming for all along, to finish up the demo work on this, squeeze some bullshit money out of the city, and then flip it to a develo...
- 14 Sep 2018 10:05
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: North Dallas: Midtown
- Replies: 385
- Views: 841617
Re: North Dallas: Midtown
Good, took the City Damn long enough, like seriously I get government moves slow but it seems like Dallas is always a year or so behind when action should be taken. Hopefully the city beats the shit out of Beck for this in court and is able to simply take the property away from them and sell to owne...
- 13 Sep 2018 09:11
- Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
- Topic: DALLAS to HOUSTON High Speed Rail
- Replies: 556
- Views: 486407
Re: DALLAS to HOUSTON High Speed Rail
Ugh dont even joke about any expansion of that ugly and money sucking behemoth of a convention center that has killed about a quarter of downtown. The original portions of that thing next to city Hall absolutely should be torn down and developed into something else. It just kills the potential of th...
- 12 Sep 2018 10:52
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: De La Vega Development: Haskell & US 75
- Replies: 22
- Views: 27974
De La Vega Development: Haskell & US 75
Since the Xerox Campus proposal from Trammel Crow is so much different than the dense urban project of De La Vega and are two projects right next to each other yet on the same thread, I created a new thread to discuss this development and not the utter POS suburban garbage TC wants to build next to ...
- 12 Sep 2018 10:48
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Cityplace East: ACS/Xerox redevelopment (The Central)
- Replies: 478
- Views: 1287578
Re: Cityplace East: ACS/Xerox redevelopment
What a shit show and I hope this POS dies in a fire. I will make a separate thread for the De-La Vega development as we will get the two confused all the time and it is so different that I think it warrants its own thread.
- 12 Sep 2018 10:40
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Could Dallas land Amazon HQ '2'?
- Replies: 1075
- Views: 914747
Re: Could Dallas land Amazon HQ '2'?
Yeah, the only East coast city that I ever thought was a threat to Dallas was Atlanta...maybe Philly but Dallas and Atlanta both had it beat in many of Amazon's important factors. If it is DC, it is only because Bezos wants to be there, and this was a farce. From a business standpoint having a prese...
- 28 Aug 2018 08:59
- Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
- Topic: Trinity River Park
- Replies: 468
- Views: 472779
Re: Trinity River Park
Really the natural meandering river with maybe a park extended from one of the banks but still raised to avoid flooding will probably be what happens, with likely a return of the multiple urban lakes ideas in conjunction which really wouldnt be bad, so long as they also planted the necessary trees. ...
- 24 Aug 2018 12:04
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Could Dallas land Amazon HQ '2'?
- Replies: 1075
- Views: 914747
Re: Could Dallas land Amazon HQ '2'?
Well it can be a bad sign, it might be unrelated. Never under-estimate simple politics, or the desire to move to the private sector.
- 24 Aug 2018 10:55
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: 1700 Pacific
- Replies: 38
- Views: 30811
Re: 1700 Pacific
That is actually impressive to accomplish given this hot market, and that building is actually pretty nice from what I remember.
Though if you arent doing any renovation, there is your problem. This building needs a new owner or we will have ourselves another Drever, just without asbestos.
Though if you arent doing any renovation, there is your problem. This building needs a new owner or we will have ourselves another Drever, just without asbestos.
- 24 Aug 2018 09:08
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Could Dallas land Amazon HQ '2'?
- Replies: 1075
- Views: 914747
Re: Could Dallas land Amazon HQ '2'?
Not to mention, it may even make the city consider tearing down parts of our uselessly oversized convention center that are not needed and taking up prime real estate. This is truly the strangest hobbyhorse of the Dallas urbanism crowd- There's plenty of "prime real estate" in the form of...
- 23 Aug 2018 09:39
- Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
- Topic: Trinity River Park
- Replies: 468
- Views: 472779
Re: Trinity River Park
I think the focus should be on supporting a reWILDing effort between the levees. I've never understood why we would try anything other than this. It floods and leaves a ton of mud and debris behind which then has to be cleaned up. All of that costs money and once its cleaned up it could happen agai...
- 23 Aug 2018 09:28
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Arts District: The Spire Mixed Use Project
- Replies: 82
- Views: 73780
Re: Arts District: The Spire Mixed Use Project
Here is how extra stupid this gets....they could just simply sell the damn land and still make a profit. They arent going to be attracting anyone to develop as clearly no one trusts them and they cant manage it in the first place. Hell they could hold on to part of the land if they really want to ge...
- 22 Aug 2018 14:25
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Arts District: The Spire Mixed Use Project
- Replies: 82
- Views: 73780
Re: Arts District: The Spire Mixed Use Project
Of fucking course they are. Seriously is there a mechanism other than simple eminent domain that the city can just take this land from these Asshats? There isnt even need for a parking lot on this land and they are in one of the hottest markets in the US and cant even get condominiums built....I mea...
- 22 Aug 2018 13:48
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Could Dallas land Amazon HQ '2'?
- Replies: 1075
- Views: 914747
Re: Could Dallas land Amazon HQ '2'?
I want the Smart City location right next to City Hall. It redefines the CBD, is close to the up and coming Cedars, close to the high speed rail location, and would likely create the momentum to put a deck over the Canyon portion of I-30 to fully connect downtown with the Cedars. That would truly tr...
- 18 Jun 2018 10:20
- Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
- Topic: Trinity River Park
- Replies: 468
- Views: 472779
Re: Trinity River Park
Is there any real update on this ? I mean the standing wave is being removed, and the Toll road was killed last year. The core of engineers already approved the design for the park that doesn't have the toll road in it years ago, so everything should be ready to go. Then on top of that 6 months ago ...
- 19 Apr 2018 11:18
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Cityplace East: ACS/Xerox redevelopment (The Central)
- Replies: 478
- Views: 1287578
Re: Cityplace East: ACS/Xerox redevelopment
Wow this is very surprising and unexpected. It sure would be great if Perot would get off of his ass and build Something on that land in downtown that is better looking than that ugly ass glass cylinder he teased us with a while back. Hopefully the FAA doesn't do the usual and try to kill it. And th...
- 01 Apr 2018 09:12
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Could Dallas land Amazon HQ '2'?
- Replies: 1075
- Views: 914747
Re: Could Dallas land Amazon HQ '2'?
What? Amazon does pay taxes, fox news (a registered entertainment network in court) and Trump aren't reliable sources of information. So, how about the Securities and Exchange Commission instead? "Additionally, in its latest annual report to the Securities and Exchange Commission, Amazon said i...
- 16 Mar 2018 08:56
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Development
- Topic: Collin Creek Mall
- Replies: 84
- Views: 83040
Re: Collin Creek Mall
This plan looks promising, if a little too hopeful, but I'll take it. That mall is fast on its way to being what happened to valley view. But please let's stop with the nonsense that this is a site for Amazon. Its not. If anyone bothered to read any of the requirements, of which Plano as a whole doe...
- 16 Mar 2018 08:44
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Development
- Topic: Frisco: The Star
- Replies: 55
- Views: 52079
Re: Frisco: The Star
Blue Star Land has filed plans with Frisco — three more office buildings at The Star, say DBJ and DMN, 7 to 12 stories tall. Believe it or not, they’re not for Amazon. https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2018/03/13/blue-star-land-plans-office-space-star-in-frisco.html Well Frisco (and Plano or ...
- 15 Mar 2018 14:58
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Could Dallas land Amazon HQ '2'?
- Replies: 1075
- Views: 914747
Re: Could Dallas land Amazon HQ '2'?
Here is something to consider.. Do we think Dallas having a high speed rail to Houston and potentially Ft. worth, Austin and San Antonio with the planned station right next to downtown is a major advantage or factor that Amazon is taking into consideration? Or is it such a unique thing to America th...
- 27 Feb 2018 11:33
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: Uptown Dallas: Business Openings and Closings
- Replies: 636
- Views: 664081
Re: Uptown Dallas: Business Openings and Closings
Ah I liked that place but yes, Al was a turd. I do want the part scene in uptown to get toned down a bit but not die altogether, nothing wrong with having multiple party districts and I do lie Deep Ellum and Uptown having completely different styles. Henderson aveneue and Greenvile Ave will continue...
- 16 Feb 2018 12:29
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Could Dallas land Amazon HQ '2'?
- Replies: 1075
- Views: 914747
Re: Could Dallas land Amazon HQ '2'?
I think you are all forgetting the huge development potential spots for an HQ2 along the Trinity owned by Matthews southwest which is right where the high speed rail terminal will be. Not only that, the NCTCOG also just announced the building of water gardens all throughout that area along with fina...
- 01 Feb 2018 09:47
- Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
- Topic: Trinity River Park
- Replies: 468
- Views: 472779
Re: Trinity River Park
Part of that vision is already moving forward actually. The Water Gardens project down in the Cedars is moving ahead with NCTCOG money already. Matthews Southwest has been pushing that forward to make their land acquisitions along Riverfront Blvd a lot more desirable for things like an Amazon. Most...
- 01 Feb 2018 08:38
- Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
- Topic: Trinity River Park
- Replies: 468
- Views: 472779
Re: Trinity River Park
Part of that vision is already moving forward actually. The Water Gardens project down in the Cedars is moving ahead with NCTCOG money already. Matthews Southwest has been pushing that forward to make their land acquisitions along Riverfront Blvd a lot more desirable for things like an Amazon. Most...
- 01 Feb 2018 08:33
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: DTD Riverfront Project
- Replies: 39
- Views: 36857
Re: DTD Riverfront Project
Isn't there a plan to decommission and remove those jails? If I had to guess, those jails will be gone before anybody has to see them out of their nextdoor windows, which may say as much about this project's prospects as it does about the jail's longevity. Seriously, this. That damn jail needs to g...