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- 29 Dec 2023 11:38
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Reunion (Tower, hotel, and??)
- Replies: 75
- Views: 24824
Re: Reunion (Tower, hotel, and??)
I noticed The Onion posted a parody story this morning on Dallas' JFK Tourism trade. Downtown has been incrementally progressing for 25 years, but still needs some game changing investments and more reasons for people to come downtown. https://www.theonion.com/new-immersive-jfk-assassination-experie...
- 22 Dec 2023 10:57
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Mavs arena-hotel by Las Vegas Sands Corp.
- Replies: 63
- Views: 12490
Re: Mavs arena-hotel by Las Vegas Sands Corp.
Eric Johnson was interviewed on CBS 11 last night, said that Cuban has promised to not take the Mavs out of Dallas, and Johnson just assumes he will be true to his word. I hope that was not just a fluffy answer to a media interviewer. He sounded like a guy who is sitting on his hands waiting for the...
- 12 Oct 2023 21:59
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown/Victory Park: NorthEnd
- Replies: 809
- Views: 382483
Re: Uptown/Victory Park: NorthEnd
Haha, they are deploying the same strategy on renderings that Harwood typically does... make it look like there's a veritable forest on the roof of the building. If there is any greenery, we won't see any of it from the street level.
- 29 Aug 2023 20:23
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: DTD: Field Street District - Phase I (~405FT | 33 ST + 26 ST)
- Replies: 253
- Views: 101037
Re: DTD: Field Street District - Phase I (~405FT | 33 ST + 26 ST)
Absolutely true. I was working with a new project for Fair Park that was nearly funded because the Cowboys were coming there. The investment funding completely evaporated as soon as they bolted for Arlington.To name names, Laura Miller, Margaret Keliher and Pete Sessions were all in the mix there. L...
- 22 Aug 2023 12:04
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: DTD: Field Street District - Phase I (~405FT | 33 ST + 26 ST)
- Replies: 253
- Views: 101037
Re: DTD: Field Street District - Phase I (~405FT | 33 ST + 26 ST)
I think your comments are right on the money, Hwulivn. We have gotten in to a development cycles that is only about adding apartments and residential density. Yeah, we need that, but we need more. There are no significant draws for downtown; all of that has been recently concentrated in the suburbs....
- 29 Jul 2023 16:34
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: DTD: Field Street District - Phase I (~405FT | 33 ST + 26 ST)
- Replies: 253
- Views: 101037
Re: DTD: Field Street District - Phase I (~405FT | 33 ST + 26 ST)
It would be nice if the towers were taller, and I get that the economics need to work out. I get that office leasing is challenging and the market is trying to find its balance post covid. What gets me is that the Dallas Arts District and KWP were supposed to spur marque real estate development for ...
- 28 Jul 2023 16:41
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: DTD: Field Street District - Phase I (~405FT | 33 ST + 26 ST)
- Replies: 253
- Views: 101037
Re: DTD: Field Street District - Phase I (~405FT | 33 ST + 26 ST)
Terrible. Our real estate developers absolutely suck.
- 23 Jun 2023 19:54
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Arts District: Flora & Olive Tower (~441 FT / ~39 ST)
- Replies: 543
- Views: 506022
Re: Arts District: Flora & Olive Tower (~441 FT / ~39 ST)
Flora Lofts promised cheap housing for Dallas artists. What went wrong?
https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta ... ent-wrong/
https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta ... ent-wrong/
- 23 Jun 2023 19:46
- Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
- Topic: Trinity River Park
- Replies: 468
- Views: 474388
- 09 Jun 2023 20:04
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: Uptown Dallas: West Village Retail
- Replies: 24
- Views: 7793
Re: Uptown Dallas: West Village
The Central Market development really would have helped here. I'm not too worried about the area though, it's definitely not where it used to be, but still has a lot going for it. Yeah, I always think about two areas that are an astonishing waste of prime space - this one, including the Quiktrip, C...
- 23 May 2023 20:03
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Arts District: Dallas Arts Tower (Chase Tower)
- Replies: 30
- Views: 20222
Re: Arts District: Chase Tower
Rebranded as "Dallas Arts Tower" ... :lol: how inventive is that? I'm just imagining the real estate developers patting themselves on the back for their advertising prowess. Next time hire an agency to help you. https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2023/05/23/dont-call-it-chase-...
- 23 May 2023 14:41
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Dallas Convention Center
- Replies: 219
- Views: 96600
Re: Dallas Convention Center
SMH. I don’t know what to say. Dallas was built by banking execs that saw the growth of Dallas as good for business. Now, it’s real estate developers and a weak city government where the only goal is to slap up more cookie cutter apartment buildings that increase the tax base - for now. It’s that, a...
- 01 Mar 2023 20:36
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Oak Cliff Progressing
- Replies: 263
- Views: 211301
Re: Oak Cliff Progressing
Great! Long overdue!
- 30 Jan 2023 18:54
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Harwood District: Hotel Swexan (20 ST)
- Replies: 301
- Views: 379454
Re: Harwood Int'l District: The Swexan - Harwood Hotel (20 ST)
^I never thought of Barbier-Muller as having had a spark which he could then subsequently lose. His company lied to surrounding building residents when he needed zoning changes.Walking through his hodge podge of buildings is about as soulless as it gets.
- 17 Dec 2022 13:55
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown Dallas: 2025 Cedar Springs (Pizza Hut Strip Mall)
- Replies: 42
- Views: 30150
Re: Uptown: Luxury Hotel, 2025 Cedar Springs (Pizza Hut Strip Mall)
Update, this development appears to be revived. Demo of the old Pizza Hut strip center is scheduled for 1Q23.
- 28 Aug 2022 11:52
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Two Arts Plaza
- Replies: 37
- Views: 18850
Re: Two Arts Plaza
Billingsley has proven to just be a hit and run developer. She placed an ugly giant cinder block building to bookend Flora, cutting off the old Moorland Y building from the rest of the district. Can we knock it down and start over?
- 04 Aug 2022 19:40
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Deep Ellum 1.0
- Replies: 1025
- Views: 812639
Re: Deep Ellum 1.0
^I could say that about many buildings in the core of DE. It's not the building, it's the fabric of the neighborhood, and how that neighborhood is unique, energetic and adds creativity to the whole city. Knocking down buildings in the core of Deep Ellum and progressively slapping up cookie cutter ap...
- 18 Jul 2022 19:59
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: Preservation in Dallas
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7547
Re: Preservation in Dallas
A historic building survey was recently completed for both Downtown and Deep Ellum, and the ultimate goal is to use the information gathered to explore options to better protect the historic buildings found in these districts. The link below has maps, and at the bottom, very large and comprehensive ...
- 14 Jul 2022 19:22
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Deep Ellum 1.0
- Replies: 1025
- Views: 812639
Re: Deep Ellum 1.0
I hate seeing this. Dallas needs to prevent developers from hollowing out the core of Deep Ellum (at least Elm, Main, Commerce and Canton) by knocking down old buildings and slapping up more cookie cutter apartments. Yeah, I know people would say that anything east of Hall is up for grabs... There a...
- 07 Jul 2022 18:05
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Deep Ellum 1.0
- Replies: 1025
- Views: 812639
Re: Deep Ellum 1.0
^Yeah, I’ve seen pictures of that building from the 1930s, and they just gutted it and blasted away the facade for no good reason.
- 04 Jul 2022 19:36
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Deep Ellum 1.0
- Replies: 1025
- Views: 812639
Re: Deep Ellum 1.0
"Good E" status... (please rename it!)
- 04 Jul 2022 19:30
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Demolished (and about to be) Properties 2.0
- Replies: 104
- Views: 57708
Re: Demolished (and about to be) Properties 2.0
The block of Taylor Street between Malcolm X and Crowdus has been demolished...
- 29 Jun 2022 12:03
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown Dallas: 23 Springs (~399FT | 26 ST)
- Replies: 196
- Views: 247676
Re: Uptown Dallas: 23 Springs (~399FT | 26 ST)
The site demolition is still in progress
- 17 Jun 2022 20:11
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Dallas Mockingbird Station
- Replies: 165
- Views: 131450
Re: Dallas Mockingbird Station
The Londoner pub to open in former Trinity Hall at Mockingbird Station
https://lakewood.advocatemag.com/the-lo ... d-station/
https://lakewood.advocatemag.com/the-lo ... d-station/
- 31 May 2022 14:16
- Forum: The Bus + Roads/Highways/Bridges
- Topic: I-345
- Replies: 457
- Views: 336686
Re: I-345
I also thought about converging Elm, Main and Commerce to an efficient triple overpass over 345 (get it? Contrasting the triple underpass on the other side of DT)... It would create more deck park space over 345, but such a plan could result in the destruction of historic buildings between Good Lati...
- 30 May 2022 10:57
- Forum: The Bus + Roads/Highways/Bridges
- Topic: I-345
- Replies: 457
- Views: 336686
Re: I-345
There's no need for so many cross town connectors... for example, why not eliminate Main over 345 and let Elm and Commerce feed to and from Deep Ellum? When Harwood was severed over Woodall Rodgers by KWP, the DMA freaked out, but now, no one even notices it. This is presuming that we want to largel...
- 25 May 2022 13:24
- Forum: The Bus + Roads/Highways/Bridges
- Topic: I-345
- Replies: 457
- Views: 336686
Re: I-345
I thought the point was to balance "reconnecting Deep Ellum & downtown" with mobility. I cannot spot one single urban amenity that achieves the goal
- 15 May 2022 20:48
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: Hillwood Urban - Field Street Tower
- Replies: 449
- Views: 333229
Re: Downtown Dallas: Hillwood Urban's ~50 storey tower on former BoA motorcourt
I hope it means that god-awful design is dead. I'd rather wait for a good design to come along.
- 30 Jan 2022 10:56
- Forum: Art + Sol
- Topic: Dallas Museum of Art
- Replies: 34
- Views: 23330
Re: Dallas Museum of Art
My opinion, FWIW, which I admit isn't much... I'd demolish the whole building and start over. We have an art museum that looks like a mausoleum, walled off on all sides from the city and the usually-dead arts district that it should be a centerpiece for, and also separated from a signature public pa...
- 24 Jan 2022 10:07
- Forum: Art + Sol
- Topic: Dallas Museum of Art
- Replies: 34
- Views: 23330
- 07 Dec 2021 12:55
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Deep Ellum: Epic ~ Knights of Pythias Temple
- Replies: 670
- Views: 611878
Re: Deep Ellum: Epic ~ Knights of Pythias Temple
^Once Hillwood builds their Field Street tower, we can easily fall out of the top 20!
- 27 Nov 2021 10:30
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Deep Ellum 1.0
- Replies: 1025
- Views: 812639
Re: Deep Ellum 1.0
Braindead Brewing closing tomorrow, Nov 28. Bummer.
https://dallas.culturemap.com/news/rest ... m-closing/
https://dallas.culturemap.com/news/rest ... m-closing/
- 12 Jul 2021 19:11
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: Jackson at Market Parking Garage
- Replies: 75
- Views: 34267
Re: Downtown: Jackson at Market Parking Garage
I wonder if they will pitch the WFAA radio antenna decoration in a dumpster
- 02 Jun 2021 12:18
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Deep Ellum 1.0
- Replies: 1025
- Views: 812639
Re: Deep Ellum 1.0
^Ah crap, you're right. I went back in my photo archive to look at a picture of the old Gypsy Tea Room (GTR) frontage on Main (before it was painted black). What we are seeing in those renderings above is the now demolished building facade of the old GTR, the building flourishes match the rendering ...
- 01 Jun 2021 19:55
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Deep Ellum 1.0
- Replies: 1025
- Views: 812639
Re: Deep Ellum 1.0
^The Main Street frontage is shown on the rendering posted by quixomniac (top of this page, at least on my computer)
- 31 May 2021 20:04
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Harwood District: Hotel Swexan (20 ST)
- Replies: 301
- Views: 379454
Re: Harwood Int'l District: No.12 Harwood Hotel (20 ST)
rono3849 wrote:The finished hotel looks nothing like the pre-development renderings. It's just a bland box with nothing remarkable to make it stand out at all.
Par for the course with Harwood. I don't like anything that they build.
- 31 May 2021 19:53
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Deep Ellum 1.0
- Replies: 1025
- Views: 812639
Re: Deep Ellum 1.0
Westdale demolished 2513 Main today... the backside of the Good E Development.
- 02 May 2021 11:34
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: Jackson at Market Parking Garage
- Replies: 75
- Views: 34267
Re: Downtown: Jackson at Market Parking Garage
This is the site of an abject failure for historic preservation, when 20 years ago this month, Belo speculatively demolished the Renaissance Place tower for a convention center development that never materialized. The WFAA Plaza park was worse than lipstick on the pig, their transparently pathetic e...
- 29 Jul 2020 21:00
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Deep Ellum: Epic ~ Knights of Pythias Temple
- Replies: 670
- Views: 611878
Re: Deep Ellum: Epic ~ Knights of Pythias Temple
I took a tour of the building more than 10 years ago, for a project that didn't get off the ground. The building was completely gutted back to the studs, no walls, rooms, etc - just big open floor plates. The only recognizable remnant of the original interior was the staircase between floors, which ...
- 27 Jul 2020 19:50
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Deep Ellum: Epic ~ Knights of Pythias Temple
- Replies: 670
- Views: 611878
Re: Deep Ellum: Epic ~ Knights of Pythias Temple
A peek inside the Knights of Pythias through the front window...
- 29 Jun 2020 14:57
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Deep Ellum: Epic ~ Knights of Pythias Temple
- Replies: 670
- Views: 611878
Re: Deep Ellum: Epic ~ Knights of Pythias Temple
Installation of the new crown is complete...
- 27 Apr 2020 14:17
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Deep Ellum: Epic ~ Knights of Pythias Temple
- Replies: 670
- Views: 611878
Re: Deep Ellum: Epic ~ Knights of Pythias Temple
An inside source told me that the Good E project is now on hold...
- 21 Mar 2020 20:30
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: AT&T Discovery District
- Replies: 451
- Views: 396639
Re: AT&T Discovery District
In case you didn't know, Golden Boy (Genius of Telegraphy, then Spirit of Communication) used to be featured on the cover of phone books across the country, he was an iconic figure. Was thinking that downtown Dallas is accumulating more outdoor art; pegasus 1 & 2, pioneer plaza, the eyeball, the...
- 21 Mar 2020 18:59
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: AT&T Discovery District
- Replies: 451
- Views: 396639
- 15 Mar 2020 17:08
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: AT&T Discovery District
- Replies: 451
- Views: 396639
Re: AT&T Discovery District
I'm glad they're putting him outdoors, but not the best location IMO, on the backside of the development across from a parking lot. When he's been placed outdoors in the past, he's been on a bit of a pedestal (see pics in Basking Ridge NJ). In the age of the selfie, people will be climbing on him so...
- 13 Jan 2020 19:49
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: The Cedars Developments
- Replies: 252
- Views: 221599
Re: The Cedars Developments
^I fantasize about the jail being moved off of the river front. Yes, fantasy I know...
- 15 Dec 2019 18:52
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Lower Greenville Development
- Replies: 179
- Views: 166370
Re: Lower Greenville Development
I heard that the Sam's Club Now has been struggling with lower-than-expected sales... does anyone know if that's true or not?
- 09 Dec 2019 20:13
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: The Cedars Developments
- Replies: 252
- Views: 221599
- 06 Dec 2019 20:28
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Energy Square
- Replies: 12
- Views: 15890
Re: Energy Square
A couple of weeks ago...
- 12 Nov 2019 20:19
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Turtle Creek : 2999 Turtle Creek Blvd
- Replies: 76
- Views: 59321