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Oh boy Dallas. Another glass box. Very original.... Why does Harwood even bother with their pretense of interesting renderings and images that make it seem that they could actually create something beautiful when it always turns into this crap? And that next one they are working on, 'the tallest in ...

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Harwood just can't seem to ever do it in a cool or imaginative way. Ah yes, the old 'eff-up' a wet dream. If all we can ever say is "it's better than nothing" or "at least that's one less parking lot" than I will no longer EVER let myself get excited about 90% of these rendering ...

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Socialism? WTF does that have do with this project other than in your opinion it isnot going to be successful?

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Mind-numbing.....Cheap Dallas developers could screw up a wet dream!

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Wow.. Thanks. I am in Tampa so of course I missed this.

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What bars are boarded up in Oaklawn?

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You've described the problem spot on. Dallas leaders dream of being a 'real' city but their egos and control-freak mindset always gets in the way of as you said, letting it happen.

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Agree with Kelley here. 5G guys do some great work! And as we all have painfully learned over the years, almost always the final 'product' shown in the initial renderings is not what we usually end up with. And that's pretty normal too. Great to see the further residential expansion there though.

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Kind of looks like office buildings off the Southwest Freeway in Houston (built in the 70's by Ken Schnitzer)--Greenway Plaza. Also a slight resemblance to the new Hines apartment tower in Victory.....It's good to see some additional projects in the Design District although I would have preferred a ...

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Good idea Cowboy Eagle 05!

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Gee, really?

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Well Uber HQ's are in San Francisco, a very mass transit oriented city so there's that.

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In the year 2525 the Drever opens!

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Wonderful pics! Thank you!

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My biggest concern about Harwood district is, as was mentioned above, the speedway effect of McKinnon and Harry Hines slicing through an ever denser development and the difficulty that brings in terms of any sort of ground level retail, restaurant or pedestrian activity. It's of course, understandab...

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And you probably won't be disappointed.

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Another kinda of cool little building of yesteryear that might have been something else, but hey this is Dallas.

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What the previous owner of the site had planned was strikingly modern and unique. This, is as almost always the case in Dallas, another cookie-cutter shit box. Forgive me, if like others here, I am underwhelmed.

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April 4, 2019 the hotel was given national landmark status by being added to the National Register of Historic Places.

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Well it's still on the Dream Hotel website for 2021 along with Palm Springs.

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This local CBS station 'news'report is ridiculous. I'd love to know who signed-off on this one. "Ooh lots of people on the street after dark--be very afraid." As many of you have stated, urban vibrancy is exactly what is needed. Stories like this are, I truly hope, the last vestige of 'old...

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A spokesperson @ ZOM in Miami replied to an email inquiry that I made last month that construction on the project would be underway by July . Who knows....We've all been around the block with this one for years now. I hope this moves forward soon. Did they say what year? ;-) (Just asking, because l...

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A spokesperson @ ZOM in Miami replied to an email inquiry that I made last month that construction on the project would be underway by July. Who knows....We've all been around the block with this one for years now. I hope this moves forward soon.

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Yes!!!!

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Hey guys I apologize for being so curt with my "Who gives a shit" remark. I have no real excuse for being a temporary jerk--it was just a terrible day, I saw the umpteenth comment on MT and just let fly. A lot of people do give a shit and I'm sure others probably don't but rudeness is neve...

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Who gives a shit!

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That's still not necessarily the end. We'll see what happens.

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I think some of you guys are may be writing this one off too soon. Yes it's clusterfuck so far but I don't see how Dallas let's this one crash and burn. As the largest single re-development project currently underway downtown, the bad PR from this possible foreclosure + Trump threatening to do away ...

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Crane on the way up this afternoon.

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R1070.....This is across from the Crescent on Cedar Springs, not on Maple Avenue at the site of the original Old Warsaw next to the current Coal Vines location.

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North Park IS tired and the points that hjkll makes are spot on.

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Typo--my bad. 40 would be awesome but it's announced at 30 stories. 901 Commerce, DTFW

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OK. I just stopped by the construction site and spoke with Mike, the Construction Manager (there were a number of men in and out of the construction trailer complex) and they are indeed beginning the project. He also mentioned a project in Lakewood and the 40-story apartment tower in downtown Fort W...

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Absolutely for.

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Thank you for posting. We've all waited a long time for this one. Never understood what the hold up was given that apparently the money was all in place and the city had signed off on everything months ago. I just hope it actually ends up looking like the renderings we have seen. You know how this g...

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You won't recognize the Design District in 5 years. 3 new hotels, at least one office building, and several additional 20-30 story apartment towers on the way.

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Yes. Just drove by the site and it is very much under construction.

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Well they must have some money. A July 18th DBJ article by Candace Carlisle discusses another of their local projects. At a recent Flower Mound EDC meeting the Director announced Dream Hotel's first North Texas facility, a 5-story project in the rapidly-expanding Lakeside DFW district--to operate un...

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Speaking of which, just like the Dream Hotel in Uptown, what has happened to the Oliver from Southern Development?

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Anything happening on this one? It's been months.

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Maybe John McKee knows. It's supposedly funded, permits pulled.

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The Overdog is right on this. I've seen them all over the country, including NTX with different design built new or in existing structures in adaptive re-use sites. The problem all over Dallas and many of the suburbs here is that neither city officials nor residents require anything of these develop...

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Some of you may not remember that a year or so ago the museum selected Cesar Pelli's Pelli Clarke Pelli firm to design the Shraman and the mixed-use development it will be a part of. As I understand it, IF the entire project is still a go, then the tower part is to be 40 stories. Perhaps, and it wou...

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This will take the Medical Center to the next level. Very exciting news.

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Cheap cheap cheap. Typical Lincoln Properties. A barely-glorified version of the suburban junk they built in the 80's, 90's. What a waste of an important location.

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I like it too.

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Well said.

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John McKee is IMHO correct on this. I remember well Trump's 40-50 story hotel condo project proposal 'announced' a week prior to his keynote address at the real estate conference. Nothing ever followed. Likewise in Tampa Bay (my other home) he announced a 52 story hotel condo there in downtown Tampa...

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Sad.....

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