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The city needs to put its foot down and say "Hell No" to closing all those streets around the Good Latimer station. It's bad enough that DART already replaced two grade-separated intersections with traffic signals, blocked off multiple streets including Swiss Avenue and Race Street, regula...

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That LED light band on it is too bright. Screws up the twilight and night shots of downtown from this angle.

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Ah.... Thanks.

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Google Earth has updated imagery for the dallas area again. The new imagery is from 9/7/19 according to the timestamps on the imagery. Nowhere near that recent in Deep Ellum. Images are from before the Case Building opened and before the previous buildings on the Novel Building site were demolished.

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Prior to the Texas OU fiasco I posted the numbers here. Unfortunately that post was lost in the site crash. But the bottom line was that if you dedicated every piece of rolling stock that DART owned at the time to serving that one event, filled every car to theoretical capacity, and ran them through...

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They finally got my friend's car out of the garage. Of course he already had to purchase a replacement.

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Lots of fun. Dynamite location. Hard to go wrong. The DMN critic gave it their first and only zero star review. I would comment about the food, except I never got any. I tried brunch there with my kid. They were out of iced tea for me and they tried substituting something else for my son's Dr Peppe...

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Is it too soon to propose a plan that would close Elm, Main and Commerce to most vehicular traffic in the evenings and get a French Quarter situation happening? Strategic parking, service vehicle access and improved pedestrian infrastructure could make the party atmosphere something that draws peop...

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exelone31 wrote:My question is, have we as a city now become "Bowling Central"?

No, that's Arlington.

https://www.bowlingmuseum.com/Visit/Hou ... Directions

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This line will surely make attending one of these events far more appealing. Getting into and out of Addison on event nights is dreadful. lol I take you didn't learn from the Texas-OU debacle. Big events are the things that rail transit are the absolute worst at. They just don't scale. Prepare to s...

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^ The Lizard Lounge owners have already purchased the It'll Do Club for their backup plan.

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Demand side is only half the equation. Look at the supply side. Developers are getting gun shy in the NY and CA markets because of the expansion of rent control. No one wants to get stuck owning a building where rents can't keep up with inflation. Historically rent control regulation has exempted ne...

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Yes, it's a strange place to find it but here's the plan: https://media.nbcnewyork.com/documents/ ... -PM-01.pdf

Interesting tidbit: The exit sign from eastbound 30 will say "North 345 / South 45"

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Re: Rainbow crosswalks

https://www.wired.com/story/pedestrian- ... rosswalks/

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^ The city has agreed to let the Salvation Army put a 20 acre homeless shelter on 35E at Regal Row. Redevelopment of the area just got pushed back by a generation.

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^Thanks for the insight. In your opinion, what is it that Deep Ellum lacks at this point? Based on your post, I really just think the only thing we need is more residential in and adjacent to Deep Ellum so it can become more of a self-sustaining neighborhood, rather than relying on commuter traffic...

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I don't want to be a downer (especially considering how happy I am that they actually even built retail for this project), but I am very curious as to how long it's going to take them to lease out the retail space. Their Bishop Arts location has just had empty retail sitting for months now. I think...

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How about some neighborhood services—dry cleaners, nails, salons, fitness club, bodega, sub shop, urgent care—DE has nearly none of the above. Dry cleaners: There's not much demand. Not many people in this neighborhood wear suits. Glo had a location on Commerce by Exposition Park, but it closed due...

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The development will also have 10,585 square feet of ground-floor retail, which is being leased up by Venture Commercial. No retail leases have yet been announced.

That retail is going to be be hard to lease. Miniscule pedestrian traffic.

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But who would want to pay Turtle Creek prices to live on Irving Avenue?

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^ It's funny how for years I was berated here for saying it was stupid to waste tens of millions of dollars on a park in a drainage ditch.

Just call me Cassandra.

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Q: What's the one thing Fort Worth has that Dallas doesn't?

A: A major city 30 miles away.

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Thanks for sharing. I'm also glad to see more condos become available in the area, even if they are 10 years away. Hopefully they will be more reasonably priced than the high-end condos we've seen being built lately. I would think that their parking variance being allowed in part due to the buildin...

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And regarding Black's, how many people do you think are planning to eat BBQ in Deep Ellum every day? Enough for two very high volume BBQ shops (I doubt it)? There's plenty of demand. Baker's Rib did very well competing against Pecan Lodge for years, and they were in the building next to where Black...

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Black's BBQ literally tried to destroy local institution Dallas Comedy Club by buying their building and then trying not to honor the existing lease, calling the fire department on them many times and creating fake fire violations to try to force them to give up their lease or go out of business. T...

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Unfortunately, probably I. M. Pei's least distinguished work.

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lakewoodhobo wrote:Since the Texas Refrigeration Butcher Supply store closed, I can't think of another retail store in Deep Ellum that's managed to hold on as long as Leather Masters

Rudolph's Meat Market is a youthful 124 years old.

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lakewoodhobo wrote:..while DART consolidates to a smaller and less visible space inside the building.

A bureaucracy downsizing and becoming less visible?

You aren't from this reality, are you?

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^ I believe it's in the Deep Vellum bookstore.

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DFW has more tech workers. A lot more. But it's a smaller percentage of a much larger population, so they don't stand out.

Austin, on the other hand, has a lot better PR.

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My girlfriend spoke with a guy who had moved out of one of the penthouse units. He said he had learned not to tell people in Deep Ellum he lived in that building because of the hatred he encountered.

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After they rebuild Commerce Street. They've already done Elm. Next few years. I'm thinking about selling before the construction starts.

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D2 puts many more train stations in the CBD/Victory and will increase the entire system ridership potential. Why spend over a billion dollars to increase "potential" in a system that's losing ridership every year? Even DART's own numbers project D2 only adding a few dozen new riders to th...

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Fortunately I think it's going to be pretty well impossible to put a streetcar line down Elm, Main or Commerce. When all three are converted to two-way streets with one lane each way they will be in total gridlock much of the day. Streetcars aren't good at going around band equipment vans, beer deli...

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Now that's an idea we can all get behind!

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lakewoodhobo wrote:LOL you must really hate walking. How sad to get so triggered at the idea of using your own two legs.

In Pokemon Go I've recorded over 4,100 km -- that's 4.1 million steps -- over the past three years.

You were saying?

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Can't read the article because it's locked, but found this headline interesting from the San Francisco Business Journal: https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2019/08/20/bay-area-exodus-uber-mckesson-dallas-texas-mck.html Hit CTRL+U to view source and scroll down near the bottom to read it.

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lakewoodhobo wrote:Still if all he can think of is more parking then thanks, but no thanks. What Deep Ellum needs is better pedestrian access to Downtown.

Said no one who lives or works in Deep Ellum.

Ever.

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We hit Dreamscape on Friday afternoon. VERY impressive. The kid can't wait to go again.

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What’s next in the development of booming Uptown Dallas

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/rea ... ing-uptown

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Another fight and shooting in Deep Ellum this past weekend. Seems to be some sort of incident down there every weekend now according to the local news. Unfortunately, for most folks, perception is reality, and if it is perceived as a dangerous place, folks will stop going. They better get a handle ...

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'Intersections of Dallas' Highlights Absurd Traffic Patterns"

https://www.nbcdfw.com/traffic/stories/ ... 22691.html

https://www.instagram.com/p/B0yI9Gqhqyk/

I knew what six of them would be without even looking.

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https://www.dallasnews.com/business/tec ... -francisco

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Spent five minutes sitting at the light at Gaston and Good-Latimer today because the asshole train driver hit the button to give him the green through the intersection, then just sat there at the station. They do that all the time at the Baylor station blocking Hall or Malcolm X (and the fire engine...

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I don't know if you guys are wearing rose-colored glasses, or just don't know the history of this area and the city. The city's solution has always been the same when Deep Ellum starts making the news: drive off the folks making the complaints. I remember back circa 2003 when the police announced th...

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I wonder how many millions of $ it will cost to move it that 100 yards.

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LongonBigD wrote:I think we knew this news was coming, but it’s still kinda sad to see the original OTB shuttered.

It's not actually the original. The original was a couple blocks west.

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One of the best deterrents of crime is getting more places for the common folk to gather and make their presence known in their community. "Common folk" won't gather where they're harassed for money every 20 feet. Common folk won't sit and relax in a seat soaked in urine because the last ...

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Personally I'm indifferent to this, but there is a lot of local opposition. When it was tried before it quickly became a homeless campground. Radiator Alley is getting pretty bad, and it's private property property with security. A public area where you can't just run people off will be far worse. O...

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Our million-dollar bus doesn't add up. We did the math

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/edit ... t-add-math

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