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- 26 Mar 2024 22:03
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: Newpark Dallas/Smart District
- Replies: 410
- Views: 260465
Re: Downtown Dallas: Newpark Dallas/Smart District
Nice. Thanks.
- 13 Mar 2024 07:49
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Reunion (Tower, hotel, and??)
- Replies: 75
- Views: 24681
Re: Reunion (Tower, hotel, and??)
Dallas could f'up a wet dream!
- 10 Mar 2024 20:22
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Turtle Creek: 2525 TC (2 ~257 FT | ~20-21 ST)
- Replies: 40
- Views: 11861
Re: Turtle Creek: 2525 TC (2 ~257 FT | ~20-21 ST)
Thanks for doing this OrangeMike!
- 05 Mar 2024 17:35
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: 711 N Pearl (~37 ST)
- Replies: 34
- Views: 9050
Re: Downtown Dallas: 711 N Pearl (~37 ST)
If only. Hope this one sees the light of day, ha ha.
- 02 Mar 2024 08:54
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Steve Brown Retiring
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2045
Re: Steve Brown Retiring
I agree with Kelley, Troy and Tnexster. Thank you Steve and all the best for your future endeavors. You broke a lot of great stories and we've all battled over many of them for years. Your work was appreciated and I'm sure not always easy to navigate the powers that be.
- 07 Feb 2024 15:39
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Dallas Convention Center
- Replies: 219
- Views: 96319
Re: Dallas Convention Center
So Dallas
- 06 Nov 2023 08:34
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown Dallas: The Carlisle on the Creek (~360 FT | 30 ST)
- Replies: 80
- Views: 25774
Re: Uptown Dallas: The Carlisle on the Creek (~360 FT | 30 ST)
Financing is no problem here in Tampa Bay. Mixed-use, office, apartment and condo high-rise buildings starting almost every other week.
- 11 Oct 2023 10:12
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: Dallas' two original downtowns
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1388
Re: Dallas' two original downtowns
Thank you for posting this. I too am intrigued by the possibilities of a revitalized, urban-friendly Downtown Oak Cliff.
- 07 Sep 2023 07:09
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Dallas Mockingbird Station
- Replies: 165
- Views: 131315
Re: Dallas Mockingbird Station
Excuse me, forgive me I implore you. What I meant to say was, Dallas has many slovenly, cheap-ass OWNERS. You can justify deferred maintenance all you want in the name of owner profits but this is hardly an enlightened, successful approach to creating or preserving the quality of any development pro...
- 03 Sep 2023 18:23
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Dallas Mockingbird Station
- Replies: 165
- Views: 131315
Re: Dallas Mockingbird Station
Dallas has some of the most slovenly cheap-ass property management around. This is shameful. Defer, delay......
- 20 Aug 2023 16:20
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: DTD: Field Street District - Phase I (~405FT | 33 ST + 26 ST)
- Replies: 253
- Views: 100666
Re: DTD: Field Street District - Phase I (~405FT | 33 ST + 26 ST)
DART has always been mismanaged to some degree. They never knew how to market successfully and they've never taken safety concerns of riders seriously IMO.
- 30 Jul 2023 09:14
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: DTD: Field Street District - Phase I (~405FT | 33 ST + 26 ST)
- Replies: 253
- Views: 100666
Re: DTD: Field Street District - Phase I (~405FT | 33 ST + 26 ST)
Dallas is just pathetic with this lack of imagination. Truly deplorable.
- 25 Jul 2023 09:21
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Turtle Creek: Four Seasons Hotel & Residences (3001 Turtle Creek)
- Replies: 210
- Views: 75339
Re: Turtle Creek: Four Seasons Hotel & Residences (3001 Turtle Creek)
I like this one. Hope springs eternal.
- 24 Jul 2023 11:36
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Development
- Topic: Las Colinas/North Irving Development
- Replies: 1520
- Views: 1406530
Re: Las Colinas/North Irving Development
Thank you for posting.
- 01 Jul 2023 10:49
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Harwood District: No.14 (388 FT / 26 ST)
- Replies: 198
- Views: 99794
Re: Harwood District: No.14 (388 FT / 27 ST)
We are all holdlng our breath.
- 27 Jun 2023 08:21
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown: Carlisle St. Urban Renewal Project/Block 968
- Replies: 49
- Views: 33351
- 22 Jun 2023 07:40
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: Hillwood Urban - Field Street Tower
- Replies: 449
- Views: 332909
Re: Downtown Dallas: Hillwood Urban - Field Street Tower
Amen and thank YOU cowboyeagle! Preach. Even down here in horse shit Florida we are getting some beautiful mixed use and residential towers. Everytime I see a glass box from Miami to Orlando to Tampa Bay all it screams is Dallas 1980-202?
- 06 Jun 2023 20:05
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Preston Center
- Replies: 85
- Views: 55691
Re: Preston Center
Proposal Booms. God I love that because it's so true. The bullshit capital of Texas.
- 03 Jun 2023 17:33
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Cityplace East: 2711 N. Haskell
- Replies: 87
- Views: 54435
Re: Cityplace East: 2711 N. Haskell
Wow. Just wow.
- 26 May 2023 15:14
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Design District: Cabana Hotel
- Replies: 76
- Views: 68815
Re: Design District: Cabana Hotel
Inch deep and a mile wide.....Dallas commitment to most of the remaining cool older gems that are left. Look at the Belmont, once so 'not Dallas awesome' and now left to rot. I just wish someone could have picked up this little jewel and kept it a boutique hotel focusing on the Market Center neighbo...
- 23 May 2023 09:55
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Dallas Convention Center
- Replies: 219
- Views: 96319
Re: Dallas Convention Center
The same old Dallas bullshit. Living Large are we?
- 12 May 2023 07:14
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Re: DTD: Republic Center/Towers (I, 36 st., 602 ft.; II, 50 st., 508 ft.; III, 8 st.)
- Replies: 29
- Views: 24385
Re: Re: DTD: Republic Center/Towers (I, 36 st., 602 ft.; II, 50 st., 508 ft.; III, 8 st.)
This is one area where Dallas is really doing great--leading almost! We are way ahead of most cities in the conversion of these older, major office towers. It's also happening over in Fort Worth too which is way cool and exactly what needs to happen there to bring about more downtown living.
- 19 Apr 2023 12:26
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Development
- Topic: Mountain Creek
- Replies: 24
- Views: 26332
Re: Mountain Creek
Arguably, one of the prettiest parts of Dallas will hills and trees-- it must be destroyed! Alas, Dallas' drop-dead dumb and cheap developers strike again. A friend once said to me, "Dallas could f'up a wet dream!" Hmm. Can't comment on that but these guys sure as hell can't or won't build...
- 20 Mar 2023 22:56
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: DTD: Field Street District - Phase I (~405FT | 33 ST + 26 ST)
- Replies: 253
- Views: 100666
Re: Downtown Dallas: Field Street District
And finally, never get built, lol! An old Dallas tradition--bait, switch, disappoint, disappear......
- 01 Mar 2023 07:07
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown: AC & Moxy Hotel Project / Oak Grove & Hall
- Replies: 87
- Views: 55022
Re: Uptown: AC & Moxy Hotel Project / Oak Grove & Hall
Cheap and ugly. Oh excuse me, utilitarian. Dallas does beige and bland again. Dallas almost always does beige and bland. Yuk!
- 13 Jan 2023 10:59
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown Dallas: The Carlisle on the Creek (~360 FT | 30 ST)
- Replies: 80
- Views: 25774
Re: The Carlisle on the Creek
I am sick and tired of the OLC. Yes, they have done some things right over the years but as is noted above, these people are living in a city but they don't get what that actually means past their own selfish, self-interest--their's and a handful of other people's. Believe me, Oak Lawn was a hell of...
- 27 Dec 2022 15:46
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown Dallas: The Carlisle on the Creek (~360 FT | 30 ST)
- Replies: 80
- Views: 25774
Re: The Carlisle on the Creek
OLC is simply more of Dallas' old school control of everything. Yes, these are the people who 'know' what's best for Oak Lawn's future--especially now that almost everything historic, architecturally-significant or a critical part of the fabric of the neighborhood they profess to be saving has been ...
- 08 Dec 2022 11:01
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: 2000 Ross Project
- Replies: 654
- Views: 561109
Re: Downtown Dallas: 2000 Ross Project
This is a really cheap and 'suites hotel' looking 'tower.' My God, a JW Marriott and this is the best you can do? The one here in Water Street in DT Tampa is bigger and nicer looking.
- 29 Aug 2022 10:06
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown Dallas: 2500 Cedar Springs (3 Towers)
- Replies: 109
- Views: 52351
Re: Uptown Dallas: 2500 Cedar Springs (3 Towers)
Thanks dallaz!
- 26 Aug 2022 22:14
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown/Victory Park: NorthEnd
- Replies: 809
- Views: 381493
Re: Uptown Dallas - Field Street Development [North End Apartments Site]
What was the last major project Hunt developed in Dallas?
- 26 Aug 2022 17:20
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown/Victory Park: NorthEnd
- Replies: 809
- Views: 381493
Re: Uptown Dallas - Field Street Development [North End Apartments Site]
Typical Dallas developer bait and switch it seems. Very disappointing but not altogether too surprising.
- 09 Aug 2022 13:13
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Deep Ellum 1.0
- Replies: 1025
- Views: 811727
Re: Deep Ellum 1.0
Why can't Dallas ever get it with projects like this? Thanks for posting. Sorry to hear of it's demise.
- 08 Aug 2022 15:02
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: North Dallas: Midtown
- Replies: 385
- Views: 842237
- 06 Aug 2022 14:05
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Design District: Urby Dallas I + II (~308 FT | 27 ST)
- Replies: 281
- Views: 177480
Re: Design District: Urby Dallas I + II (~308 FT | 27 ST)
Oh yeah. Forgot about Olympia and York. Jesus that's a long time ago.
- 06 Aug 2022 09:11
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Design District: Urby Dallas I + II (~308 FT | 27 ST)
- Replies: 281
- Views: 177480
Re: Design District: Urby Dallas I + II (~308 FT | 27 ST)
Most all of the large skyscrapers of the 80's in Dallas were the result of Canadian (mostly Toronto) developers. Campeau, Bramalea,Cadillac-Fairview and others as I recall were fearless (or foolish, as the case may be)......Anyway, I could not agree more with your comment R1070. The big local boys t...
- 05 Aug 2022 06:27
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: North Dallas: Midtown
- Replies: 385
- Views: 842237
Re: North Dallas: Midtown
I'm in Tampa.....Thank God I can't see it, lol!
- 04 Aug 2022 17:55
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: North Dallas: Midtown
- Replies: 385
- Views: 842237
Re: North Dallas: Midtown
OMG. This is so tacky.
- 03 Aug 2022 09:34
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown Dallas: Central Market at McKinney and Lemmon
- Replies: 426
- Views: 444094
Re: Uptown Dallas: Central Market at McKinney and Lemmon
Have looked forward to this one for a long time. The new data, as outlined above for the August start is very encouraging.
- 03 Aug 2022 09:16
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown Dallas: Central Market at McKinney and Lemmon
- Replies: 426
- Views: 444094
Re: Uptown Dallas: Central Market at McKinney and Lemmon
Hi jetnd87......Of course proposed projects are not' fantasies' in the truest sense of the word, but as all of us on this forum over the years have learned to accept is that some of the coolest-looking, most ambitious projects with the greatest, most imaginative of design never see the light of day....
- 03 Aug 2022 08:24
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown Dallas: 2500 Cedar Springs (3 Towers)
- Replies: 109
- Views: 52351
Re: Uptown Dallas: 2500 Cedar Springs (3 Towers)
This is great news and I love the architecture. So maybe we're not 'fading to black' just yet, after all, lol.
- 02 Aug 2022 09:27
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown Dallas: Central Market at McKinney and Lemmon
- Replies: 426
- Views: 444094
Re: Uptown Dallas: Central Market at McKinney and Lemmon
I think what we may be seeing on this and a number of other announced 'fantasies' is the usual 'end of boom', Dallas fade-to-black.
- 23 Jun 2022 12:10
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: East Quarter: ~24 Building Redevelopment
- Replies: 563
- Views: 563056
Re: East Quarter: ~24 Building Redevelopment
Thanks Kelley USA!
- 03 May 2022 11:41
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: Newpark Dallas/Smart District
- Replies: 410
- Views: 260465
Re: Downtown Dallas: Newpark Dallas/Smart District
Dallas 'leadership' has never been able to get over the dream of Fortune 500 companies, as if that's all that mattered. Well actually it is to most of these folks. The other decades old trick that began with Lincoln Properties, Trammel Crow and Vantage was to constantly move tenants from the current...
- 02 May 2022 09:58
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Comprehensive Dallas Development Map / List
- Replies: 69
- Views: 89512
Re: Comprehensive Dallas Development Map / List
This is great. Thanks for all your work on this. I just love all us city nerds, lol!
- 25 Apr 2022 12:52
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Henderson Avenue Corridor
- Replies: 361
- Views: 300277
Re: Henderson Avenue Corridor
OK. Time to start dreaming again of a development coupled with the Knox/Henderson DART subway stop.
- 08 Apr 2022 19:49
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: 2000 Ross Project
- Replies: 654
- Views: 561109
Re: Downtown Dallas: 2000 Ross Project
I like the way you think rono....Sure hope you're right. Here in St. Pete we have 6 going up at the same time with another 7 or 8 announced or soon to go. All residential, mostly for purchase. Two 46 story towers leading the list at the moment. Three or four hotels too.
- 08 Apr 2022 06:46
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: 2000 Ross Project
- Replies: 654
- Views: 561109
Re: Downtown Dallas: 2000 Ross Project
If these guys would just go for it and spend more money and get some decent architects who have their eye on what developers in other cities everywhere else are designing and building (hint: not blue curtain glass wall boxes) everything would look and be better here in Dallas. That said, I agree wit...
- 21 Sep 2021 07:46
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Houseman Building; 400 N. Akard
- Replies: 20
- Views: 12845
Re: Houseman Building; 400 N. Akard
Had no idea what the original structure's purpose or style was. What a loss. So typical of Dallas' indifference and contempt for it's architectural heritage.
- 31 Aug 2021 09:39
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Harwood District: No.14 (388 FT / 26 ST)
- Replies: 198
- Views: 99794
Re: Harwood District: No.14 (388 FT / 27 ST)
R1070 wrote:It should start to go up faster once that first floor is completed.
Especially after the first 20 floors of parking is up in place!
- 17 Aug 2021 07:03
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Design District: Urby Dallas I + II (~308 FT | 27 ST)
- Replies: 281
- Views: 177480
Re: Design District: Urby Dallas I + II (~308 FT | 27 ST)
These Urby guys are fast!