Dallas Fort Worth Urban Forum

One of the reasons the 1920s we're called The Roaring 20s is because the world was recovering from a global flu pandemic.... It's about to happen again.

Now is the time for the Dallas gayborhood to solidify and expand.

^largest will be CA, San Diego- Los Angeles - San Francisco....

The station pretty much ensures this side of town will be in development mode for decades.

https://www.us.jll.com/en/investorcenter/land-development-site/tbp-ymca-dallas-dallas-tx-unitedstates In addition to the light rail and streetcar system, the site is just a few minute walk from the future Texas Central High Speed Rail station that will connect Dallas / Fort Worth, Houston, and Aust...

Considering the difficulty DART has planning downtown rail, I think it's time to start working out the details of upgrading the maintenance line across South Dallas to passenger. The entire swath of Dallas between the CBD and the forest will develop, rolling in waves of New Urbanist design improveme...

The next step for ERCOT is a big one, that's finding a way to become an exporter to all neighboring power grids. Federal and International regulation will be a bigger challenge than building natural gas plants with next to zero emissions. Sell electricity, not gasoline.

Winterizing is the easy part.

Maybe the fancy new batteries they're coming up with will give ERCOT enough of a buffer to ride out the next deep freeze.... I don't think, though, that those batteries are being made to get the grid through a three day defrost, just a 12 hour swing. The rolling brown outs clearly show the weakness,...

Doh! Forgot about trader joe...

When I lived on McKinney, I used to walk to Knox to buy groceries. It would be nice if that could happen again.

One of these days, the urban centre will turn out to be a really great place to be.

Has a decision been made what to do with the other buildings on the esplanade?

I have never thought about the affect of retirement population in such a way before....

There will probably be more people move to North Texas this year than last, so don't expect apartment construction to slow. This will likely continue for decades.

It does seem apparent enclosed shopping mall atrophy of legacy department stores will be allowed to to follow natural evolution. Maybe these large department stores should be seen as an anomaly at an enclosed mall; "in nature" each department inside a Dillards, Belk, Marshall Fields, Joske...

I'm okay with both. The only thing about the gas station I don't like is the continued dependence on fossil fuel for personal vehicles. We should have had cars that plug-in at home by now.... (Continued Texas economic prosperity cannot be allowed to crash through the ignorant and stubborn politico-p...

Haha. True. When our family would drive into Amarillo, we all tried to be the first to see the bank, 374 feet tall, you could see it from 20 miles away!

I know people in the Panhandle who talk about shopping trips to Dallas, Galleria is always mentioned. North Texas population is closing in on 8 million, but the trading area includes another 3+million... That probably helps The Galleria.

That station should be built at the same time as D2, but whatever... I'll be happy with MATA extension to Knox, delighted with MATA extension to SMU and Mockingbird Station.

For a couple years, back before the turn of the century, the Fairmont hotel bar was one of my gang's favorite meeting/starting point before a night out on the town. It got too popular after everybody else found out where we were getting started, so we moved the party. I'm just glad Bar of Soap seeme...

That's fantastic! The bones of every downtown is the variety of experiences and opportunities.

Dallas is really opening up if a vegan restaurant opens there.

Seems like these ailing big enclosed malls would be a great springboard for a hotel resort activity destination like Gaylord or Great Wolf.

Nice history!

https://irp-cdn.multiscreensite.com/be785d40/files/uploaded/DFW%20to%20Meridian%20Passenger%20Rail%20Study.pdf I like this one... Even though this for long train rides, at least the downtown to eastern exurbs has been studied. There have been a handful of initiatives to get DART trains into Kaufman ...

Convert to hotel, would be better.

... well, you used to be a coffee shop guy

Would also be nice to have a compact residential couple of blocks unencumbered by nonresidential entities so neighbors can get to recognize each other. With so much adjacent activity within walking distance, the quite zone is a benefit.

^I forgot about the OP.2 But with the former Mobil Oil HQ building intended to be a cornerstone of a biotech "hub" intended to grow dramatically, perhaps the huge vacant hospital will join the repurposing. It's embarrassing that in the vast North Texas economic center, $489.4 million per y...

I would love if part of this land is donated for Perot Museum expansion... having the park oriented to the museum may be the best that can realistically hoped for.

...you gotta have gas stations

^they should, and continue TRE to Fair Park, Mesquite, Forney and Terrell.

^it really is happening, Sterling!

North Texas, meaning the counties included in the MSA and adjacent counties, simply must come up with urban growth boundaries.

I love it. So pretentious, hope it finishes up looking really pretty.

thread bumped by a spambot hahahaha

So the Nordstrom concept is a day spa with personal shoppers" did it ever work?

great date comparison! Thanks Tucy

why is less space being occupied? some of the CBD is conversion to residential, but how much?

I still don't mind the physical separation that comes with an overpass.

Would be a good department store to have downtown/uptown.

I've become acquainted with many homeless and near homeless people, and quite a few would need help getting on the right bus to go a couple miles and help getting on back.... most really have no need to travel more than a mile from their bedding. I've learned there's little need for public transport...

One bonus for city living, these beauties with nice views are making the view from other buildings better.

It'll be cool when we can see taller buildings in Harwood and victory, framing and balancing the view from the north.

Just when it seems like the Downtown area might have a pause, it doesn't.

It might be painful to some car drivers for a couple years, but here's my favorite: converting part of the roadway to dedicated public transportation (light rail, BRT, streetcar whatever) coupled with complete streets pedestrian environment make over from the Addison Silver Line station along Inwood...

It'll be interesting to learn over time what unknown flaws in design come out of such huge, complicated suburban redevelopment plans like this and the Collin Creek Mall redo. Using a park as the glue of cohesiveness to the variety of mixed and single use construction of residential, retail, commerci...

I'm trying to find a picture of that building before the original façade was scrapped off and replaced with glass...

It really seems the top end retail presence in North Texas is poised to bump up the hierarchy of shopping destinations. There's a growing cluster of expensive shops congealing in Plano, Dell properties on Knox appear to have a new future in mind, all this churn between HPV and NorthPark, 45Ten didn'...

I was really hoping HPEnterprise would relocate to Dallas, bringing the remnants of EDS back to the Blackland Prairie. Good for Houston.... I mean good for Spring?!?!?!

Looks like downtown is going to become a scene.

Amazon keeps adding to the workforce they have at the Galleria, too. Maybe that'll be the one that helps Midtown gain some traction.

^because the flashflood water has no way to get downstream, it backs up. Duh

We could certainly have a world class series of elevated lush smorgasbord parks throughout the flood channel if an underground flash flood drainage and cistern-catacomb system is installed. Build a tunnel similar to the $200 million Mill Creek project to allow the rapid movement of overfill beyond t...

Is LaReunion still taking a couple of the loft apartments for Artists in Residence?

http://lareuniontx.org/about/

LRTX is currently working with Green Arc to provide residences for working artists through the Flora Lofts project in the heart of the Dallas Arts District.

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