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^ The building was designed to look like Independence Hall. Removing that would pretty much ruin that.

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Fine, you got me, that number is low. Parkland hospital exacts 0.28 cents per 100 dollars of property value - IF you're living in Dallas County. So it depends on how much your property is worth. Wrong again. Only this time you're not off by a factor of 10. You're off by a factor of 100. The hospita...

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If we didn't have Parkland, we would NOT have indigent care. Doesn't say much for your position when you have to resort to blatant falsehoods. Collin County has indigent health care without a public hospital. So does every other county around Dallas except for Tarrant. Something else to consider: O...

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I don't know what I would have done if Parkland wasn't there. Every other hospital in the county has an Emergency Room. Federal law requires them to stabilize you before transferring or releasing you. A lot of people seem to think that if we didn't have Parkland we wouldn't have indigent care. The ...

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Well, then, trigger a referendum and put it to a vote. :D Probably not possible. I know the county doesn't have the ability to petition for a referendum, and I would be shocked if the hospital district did. Of course even if you could it would fail. It's like the DISD -- so many people have their h...

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^ Yet only two counties in NE Texas have public hospitals. All the other counties seem to do just fine without them. That doesn't appear to support them being a "necessity".

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Must be nice to just stick your hand in the taxpayers' pocket every time you want a shiny new building.

Can you tell I paid property taxes yesterday?

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There are airside bridges between all terminals except E.

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They could also easily office the creative department in another part of DFW if that was imperative to attracting talent if they were also relocated to Texas. I work with a major user experience consulting and software development company based in Dallas. They are an acknowledged leader in their in...

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^ One of the pleasures of Deep Ellum has been that it is NOT dense. It's much more like a small town. There's a reason most of the people who actually live in the neighborhood very much like having I-345 where it is -- we don't want to be part of downtown. You may like living like a termite. Most of...

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I would love to see a CVS or a bank there as long as it's one or two stories tall. Unfortunately they'll probably put another 6 or 7 story monolith there. High density development is already hurting the character of the neighborhood. It's beginning to feel like living in the bottom of a crater, with...

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"Travel app users say Dallas Love Field is best airport in United States"

http://www.fox4news.com/news/travel-app ... ted-states

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"Dealing with nuisance complaints is useless."

TFIFY.

Called 311 yesterday about a parked car blocking the only access to our building. Spent 15 minutes on hold. Gave them the info. They then told me expected time for anyone to respond was four hours to two days.

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^ That's why I said "pretty much all".

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Archer Western gets pretty much all of DARTs rail construction contracts, without actually having to bid on them. https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/low-bid-to-no-bid-6373777 At present, as far as I can tell, her original $5.6 million contract is now worth $429.2 million—a 770 percent increase in t...

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https://www.dallasnews.com/arts/archite ... for-dallas

Just dumping more taxpayer dollars into a drainage ditch. Anything they do will be destroyed by the first spring flood.

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Not a lot new here, but FYI: https://www.dallasnews.com/business/rea ... ice-campus

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^ I was thinking the same thing when I wrote it.

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I get why the start and stop is downtown (city hall?), but I think Fair Park is all the way around more suitable. I've done my share of distance races, including many races at both venues, Quite frankly, City Hall Plaza is one of the greatest race venues in the country. Fair Park doesn't even come ...

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I wonder if they are building a brand new bridge, or they are just referring to this structure here: https://www.google.com/maps/@32.7988289,-96.8215747,118m/data=!3m1!1e3 It's really hard to tell what that is from Google, and I haven't seen it in person, so I could be way off here, but it almost l...

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Don't be so sure of that. Flying AA has gotten so unpleasant that I actively avoid them. The one carrot they have -- FF miles -- are close to worthless. My Lifetime Gold doesn't get me anything useful but a free checked bag -- which I could get by using their credit card. Upgrades are close to impos...

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Tucy wrote:Unfortunately, the state no longer posts the Hotel Tax information.

It's still available via an open records request.

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Appears to be 1963 or early 1964.

It looks like white cars were definitely a thing back then.

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maconahey wrote:https://kdc.com/our-active-work/baylor- ... te-health/

I forgot to thank you for the great post. Much appreciated!

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^ I just heard back from Sam Wynne. (For those who don't know him, he owns Brain Dead Brewery and Bowls and Tacos). He said he hasn't heard anything from the city, and he thought the road was dead for another decade.

Maybe Baylor is planning on the road being built as far as Elm?

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So they're going to use the CBD-Fair Park Link as their front door? I have to assume they've been quietly talking to the city about resurrecting the zombie. Say goodbye to Bowls & Tacos and to half of Exposition Park. I just messaged Sam Wynne to see if he's heard anything.

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It's not going anywhere quickly, but it's not dead. In a nutshell, just about everyone in Deep Ellum now agrees it would be a bad idea and a waste of money, but it's on the thoroughfare plan, partially funded and partially constructed (Malcolm X to Hall). So it's still on the city's to do list. I th...

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The rush hour traffic around the new Baylor building is going to be interesting. Thousands of people trying to get in or out of a building at the same time with two-lane streets on just two sides. No turn lanes and no signal lights, just a single 4-way stop. Oh, and a DART rail crossing blocking one...

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Actually the limestone in this area is one of the best materials for tunnelling. Soft enough for easy boring, but hard enough to be self supporting without lots of reinforcement. That's why they considered tunnels for the I-635 express lanes -- the price of tunnelling was competitive with other opti...

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^ Dallas has substantially more tech workers than Seattle (or Austin for that matter). But they're a smaller percentage of our much larger total workforce, so they don't get the press. UT Dallas, UTA and SMU can hold their own against U of W. The DC metro area has a lot more tech workers, but most o...

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Welcome to DFW Urbanist logic - every bad thing that happens is the result of not throwing enough money at whatever hodgepodge of policy proposals they personally support :roll: :roll: Setting aside the ridiculousness of a random power outage as a compelling reason to spend $1.2 billion on a subway...

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Say what you will about streetcars; but Dallas' MATA street car ridership is actually quite decent. The Oak Cliff Street Car ridership is actually not that bad considering it's not connected to anything. Once the Downtown Lines connect MATA and Oak Cliff; ridership should bump up for these lines. L...

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I would say spending that money on a rail corridor is 1.2 billion times more efficient than spending it on single occupant car lanes. And I would say you need to learn the difference between theoretical and actual. That one mile highway handles as many people each day as the entire DART system -- t...

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^ And if someone said we needed to spend $1.2 billion dollars to widen I-345 for the extra State Fair Traffic three weekends a year you would say?

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Surely that merry go round is just a cut and past place holder until they figure out what to do there. It looks ridiculous. I heard the sky bridge connecting the Perot all the way to the Arts District would be a phase 3 project at a later date. Separated from the main park by two busy streets I jus...

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Great news! Let us know when you put it up for sale and/or the city of Dallas condemns it for being unlivable. Want to make sure I can get 1st shot at it! :D Another unit in the building, currently for sale. Except for all the (staged) furniture it's not as nice as mine. It's under contract, but go...

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I'd love for the city to condemn it. There's an old saying in real estate: The highest and best use of any property is eminent domain. The funny thing is that if the city were to ever daylight Mill Creek -- which will never happen -- they would pretty much have to acquire this building. The existing...

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Does anyone actually visit a city visitor center? I mean this as an honest question. I can't recall any time that I ever have.

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In this era of TSA goons, airside amenities and private lounges in every terminal no experienced traveler is going to leave an airport in this country unless they've got an overnight layover. The only time I've ever left an airport between flights was in the Middle East. It took a 16 hour layover an...

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Converting neighborhood infrastructure to the benefit of neighborhood residents rather than non-residents improves cost/benefit of city living. Tam, sometimes I wonder if you're just trolling to get attention. I think you'll find very few thoroughfares in Dallas that are more dedicated to residents...

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Don't worry, this is just a formality. The decision is already made to screw up the street. They'll take out two lanes and replace them with bike lanes. The 99% will once again get hosed to placate the 1%.

(I say this as someone who uses these streets to bike to White Rock Lake).

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^ They could have scraped it at any time. There's no requirement the keep any part of the old building.

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So much for "no tax dollars".

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^ Hotel. The new building that the city is giving them millions in historic preservation dollars to build.

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Matt777 wrote:Please get off your soapboax and be realistic.

Pot, meet Kettle.

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Second crane, not second building. There was another crane on the other side of the office building, removed in August. Was mainly used for the parking garage.

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Second office building crane is gone. Hotel crane is up.

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Thanks. It's good to know that I have until 5/11/2020 to sell my place on Commerce Street and move, before they render it unlivable.

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^ May I suggest you propose rezoning that property MF to the folks who live in that neighborhood. Then come back and tell us their thoughts on the matter.

After you get out of the hospital.

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^ Sounds just like Vickery in 1986.

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