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wouldn't it be something if North Texas hit the 8,000,000 mark in 2020?!?!

Among it's peers, Dallas is unusual in the absence of a large university in/near the downtown area.

^I like driving by significant architecture! Even if I'm not particularly fond of or neutral toward the building like Chase or BOA Towers, I really like looking at them while looping around the CBD (the ability to do this is one of my secret reasons to keep I-345). There's no reason these monoliths ...

I'll be happier about a building like this when it's on the other side of the CBD.

^ Fake News, No. My post was supposition. Review the hypothesis: Chevron might be moving HQ from Bay Area to Texas, Houston probably.... ... Not to seem over anxious, but maybe all the scientists will be in Houston (area) and the shirts will be in Dallas' Smart District. "Might be" "p...

I haven't spent more than a couple hours at a time in Austin in over a decade, but I really think that weirdness is still there, just not as easily noticed since there's so much more non-weirdness.... and the proliferation of non-weirdness is thoroughly dependent on the weirdness, a marketing campai...

Dallas Graffiti Artist Mosquito died. Rest in peace.

^Ya, Austin has been under siege for decades.... Quackenbush left the drag long gone (some would say the drag left the drag), Poodle Dog closed years ago, Deep Eddie is now a brand a vodka I can buy in Georgia. Wholefoods went so corporate it got bought out. for the record, I use to shop at the orig...

calling it "fake news" is not hinting at something bad in an indirect and unpleasant way? okay, then, sorry.

I guess I just expect you to be snarky when addressing me directly, and I really am sorry about that.

Keep chanting it man. Its (and every place’s) boosters act like momentary high percentage growth is going to lead to taking over the world, but it always turns out to be the low hanging fruit that gets harder to grab in a mature metro economy — those are built not for the population trend of the mo...

When once much of the mid/highrise construction was in greater Uptown, now it's fanning out. The often mentioned slow down might not be so noticeable in Dallas; with many neighborhoods now on the radar for increased density, the appeal would be increased despite the predicted slow down.

Way to create fake news Tamtagon. The only thing the article says about moving the HQ is that they are not: "Chevron said its headquarters will remain in San Ramon." Remarkably insinuating! as per the usual :) Here's the headline from in front of the paywall to the Bay Area Business Journ...

Chevron might be moving HQ from Bay Area to Texas, Houston probably.... https://abc7news.com/archive/8928858/ By ABC7 Archive SAN RAMON, Calif. "It's not something you that you want to see, losing 800 jobs. That's a big impact in San Ramon," president and CEO of the San Ramon Chamber of Co...

Hasn't the time of exurban exploitation to build a new brand run it's course? At a glance, the mixed-use complex looks great except creating a viable cricket league requires a location in the middle of town (...town being North Texas) not on the leading edge of (remarkably consistent) growth. Same d...

What would Jesus do?

What a win for Galleria-Midtown to kick off the struggling plan to transform Valley View into a city. I'd rather see a consolidation by Dallas City Hall, but whatever.

Yawn Rip Van Winkle maybe wake up one day.

chicago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GON5VH9 ... v1zwg92Obc

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2019/03/03/keep-dfws-economic-engine-revving-american-airlines-make-call-new-terminal How to keep the momentum going? Never fall behind, said Sean Donohue, CEO of DFW Airport. “We’re a part of this region’s growth, and we always have to stay ahead of it...

Here's hoping Hines has something different in mind for Victory Park.

I like the neighborhood context created by the mid & high rises nearer the arena and plaza areas, but Victory Park really needs a skyscraper landmark.

Look at Dallas growing up!

Least luxurious parking garage in Texas?

There are good freaks and there are bad freaks. Here's another freak of the worst kind: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/dallas-city-hall/2019/03/01/former-dallas-city-council-member-carolyn-davis-pleads-guilty-taking-bribes Former Dallas City Council member Carolyn Davis pleads guilty to taking brib...

I've always wanted Throckmorton from Lemmon to Maple to be the 'big change' to the neighborhood. Complete Street is what we call today, but essentially make that street pedestrian oriented, zoned for retail as well as residential. And the elementary school needs to move! Maybe to Lucas@Maple, Maria ...

Is the consensus here somehow that IH-345 isn't a monstrosity which has no business cutting through our urban core? Some of the hyperbole and sarcasm from one side is in response to hyperbole and sarcasm from the other side, round and round and round and round (this fun 'exchange' is more than a de...

I've always like the idea that the fire station moves, and the building becomes a discotheque or something.

When the Arts District is regarded as park with great museums and performance venues, then it'll be a place to walk around instead of drive thru. I'm surprise this has not already happened; that deck park is totally popular, bringing tons of people to the area. The obvious next step IS NOT expanding...

So what's different with this resurgence of Deep Ellum? The residential? Prior iterations were collections of mostly low budget music venues and bars with the RE held by disparate uncooperative owners who did not invest. There was a sprinkling of well run, cool destinations. But people mostly came ...

... I realize that sometimes it may feel that 'change' takes forever, but reality is much different. I really wish that Deep Ellum will not cater to today's automobile demands. Ten years from now, we will be scratching our heads at the thought of all the garages we built ten years earlier. The resp...

They're probably pretty easy to tear down and replace whatever is the next style of development.... it's the slow-roll mobile home.

There's nothing wrong with public parking garages as long as they're placed appropriately. Suburban visitors to Deep Ellum are now and will become even more important so pay parking garages between highway exit and entrance ramps make the most sense. Renovating I-30 and I-345 will remove the ludicro...

I like to think DFW's current train station scheme is an intentionally temporary start up design; passenger trains will transect the airport to Centerport and then Arlington Stadiums/UTA.

...so, this will be the fancy-swankiest hotel in town?

Neighbors with one of the biggest companies in the world, ATT, Smart District is hardly a Class C location.

A downtrend from smoking hot to glowing red is still a market full of enthusiasm.... Uptown is among the most expensive in South Central US, but compared to similar submarkets of pier cities across the country, Uptown is a bargain. At some point, the location will have to be accepted as one that com...

Well, if it's gotta be, then I set the minimum tallest in Dallas at 1,200.

Wow, um, two things -- 1) those are awful names: Bandits, Rattlers, Sprawl, Assassins, Gunslingers, Wranglers, Armadillos, Y'all, Giddy Ups, Desperados 2) the Fort Worth Star Telegram poll is asking about the name for Dallas' XFL franchise that'll play in Arlington at the abandoned baseball stadium:...

I would love to see ATT as the founding sponsor for a vintage streetcar and pedestrian corridor running from Union Station to proposed Harwood Park to Old City Park and Griffin St under ConvCtr back to Union Station. There's a handful of other billion dollar entities/developers along this route to p...

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Pioneer Park should have been expanded years ago, turned into a beer garden and picnic area. This is where Dallas needs one of those big public fountains, casual dining seating for as many as 1,000(?) people at a time.... Years ago when Phillip Jones was still fresh, data collection analysis reveale...

Farmers Market, Fair Park and Convention Center -- all three have not approached potential under municipal management. I would guess this is not unusual in cities across the country, that when the gatekeepers of regulation manage those entities being regulated or monitored for compliance.... the bus...

Probably a good thing.

hard shell

When I was in high school, I took pictures for the yearbook at the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame in Hereford! hahahaha

Corpus is the next Beaumont-Port Arthur! Actually, I've always wondered what was keeping Corpus from really taking off; now with liquid natural gas poised to activate the port, maybe it'll stick. Camping at the natural seashore during a full moon was one of my absolute favorite times. Hopefully the ...

Isn't Oak Cliff the next Austin? Denton is Denton, Dynamic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxgUFcYGKYk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8awJ5T3I364

The GDP thing is interesting... consider that Dallas GDP in five years ('12-'17) increased almost as much at the total for Austin in 2014.

The Epic office space in Deep Ellum is nice new office space (not as fancy as Victory/Uptown), but different because of the neighborhood; it's important to watch how Epic does because it could be an office space ice-breaker for this side of town - Deep Ellum, Farmers Market, Cedars. It's the cool so...

That's a long way to go, North Texas is 5, Austin is 1.5

If Austin blossoms into new The Bay Area, Dallas is the new Los Angeles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U ... eas_by_GDP

To be world class, they'll need some signatures bridges

hahaha

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