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...I'd much rather see DART invest in frequent service in the city center instead. in·vest /inˈvest/ verb 1. expend money with the expectation of achieving a profit or material result by putting it into financial schemes, shares, or property, or by using it to develop a commercial venture. "th...

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Cons: - The tracks cross three of the major routes in/out of the neighborhood. The trains block the street a surprising percentage of the time. - The train drivers love to push the button to lower the crossing gates long before they leave the station. This is especially dangerous when they block the...

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Meanwhile the residents of urban Dallas are begging for more stations and transit options and these people don't even want the train up in their suburban neighborhoods. I still don't believe in this line and would rather have diverted this money to D2 and opening up more urban stations. Some people...

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Dallas-Fort Worth ranks third in the world for data centers Dallas-Fort Worth ranks as the third-largest data center market in a new international comparison. Commercial property firm Cushman & Wakefield looked at data center projects and demand around the world for its study. More than $100 bi...

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Too bad we can't START the businesses here. That's the flip side to this situation. The relocations won't last forever and if they do the competition will get stiffer to land them. https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewdepietro/2019/11/13/best-worst-states-entrepreneurs-2020/#12410f1546a6 Here are the...

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The Atlanta Financial Center in Buckhead straddles a highway and MARTA rail line. https://42floors.com/images/H8714cb7220b8e1b24fc1890364ae0bafc66b5b9aS1000x700W0seB505153O/b1d770305c281ad42e96fbc3ffcc70697539e28e https://1bht2ni6oc-flywheel.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/tunnel.jpg?w=640

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^ If DART hadn't agreed to spend the hundreds of millions to put the rail line under Central instead of using the MKT line south of Mockingbird there would be no DART rail in the corridor. Period.

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I have to admit I don't understand why people who so much want downtown to grow want to make it harder to get in and out by removing access. Here is something I posted to another thread in response to someone wanting to remove the Live Oak exit ramp, but it's relevant here: Unless you're coming from...

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...or the name of the company that occupied the buildings before them. You mean AT&T? :-) The bottom half of the building on the left is the Central Office (CO) for downtown Dallas. Except for the ground floor it's all electronics, no people. The skybridge is so the humans in the upper half can...

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Today.

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^ Parking lot is long gone.

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A certain high school intern's desk, circa 1978 -- when it was the real AT&T.

(No, I didn't get the window. But I could see it from my cubicle).

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Sure that wasn't The Stack? (God, who came up with that name???) Their crane is going up right now.

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^ Almost definitely their late night SUP renewal.

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they've been around for 70/80 years, have raised over $150,000,000 to help over 100,000 underprivileged children.... so, like, that's a long time and a whole lotta money helping not very many kids every year. Where's all that money going, really? Your character assasination of the Momentous Institu...

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DART just loves to throw money at new/experimental stuff that's incompatible with everything they've already got, then acts surprised when it's crap. Example: The Oak Cliff streetcar.

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Does he have any insight into how they were able to extract it? From the pictures that I saw of 'the event', essentially an entire vertical section of the garage was collapsed, so I'm guessing that anything above the first floor was inaccessible due to the ramps being destroyed. They brought in two...

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In other words, this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMagP52BWG8

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https://www.star-telegram.com/news/traffic/article239013403.html But even so, the number of passengers riding TEXRail is nowhere near the level that transit planners and supporters originally forecast. According to documents filed with the Federal Transit Administration in TEXRail’s applications for...

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The Good Latimer Expy exit serves the exact same purpose as Live Oak exit. Regardless of what happens with I345, this should be removed. Unless you're coming from I-35 or the DNT via Spur 366. Then you're screwed. It's stupid to have to exit at Olive, loop around to the service road and then drive ...

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They just get uglier and uglier....

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^ Bingo.

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Now, I finally have everything exactly has they want and they have told me it will go on a bond list for 2023. Our neighborhood that has no sidewalk will not get a sidewalk until 2023! You are overly optimistic. Being on the bond list is just the first hurdle. Consider it a wish list. The city coun...

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sterling wrote:Does Dallas ever have anyone in "Parks" who's not interim? Must be a terrible "going nowhere" position.

He's filling in for Willis Winters who just retired after 7 years in the position, and 20+ years with the department.

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^ Well said. One clarification, though... Because Woodall is designed to be the connection between Central and Lower/Lowest Stemmons in the first place, they are adding collector lanes to keep you from having to merge onto Stemmons to get to the Tollway and vice versa. My understanding is that you'l...

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The city is notoriously glacial when it comes to selling property it's not using. Imagine how long it would take them to sell something they do use? https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2018/11/22/city-hall-bought-valuable-north-dallas-land-for-a-library-that-won-t-be-built-now-the-city-wan...

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I don't think this postcard has been posted before.

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^ Not likely to happen. Congress changed the law a few years ago so it's not impossible, but the FHWA isn't fond of tolls on Interstates they already paid for. One thing that the D Magazine crowd doesn't like to discuss is that if TXDOT were to just remove the highway apparently we'd have to pay the...

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TXDOT has not built a single tunnel ever! All tunnels within the state have been built as Toll Roads. The best TXDOT has ever done is an open ditch that's been covered by a park mostly funded by somebody else. Why should I-345 be the first TXDOT funded tunnel? http://www.mywisewife.com/texas-big-be...

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Dragon_Lady wrote:Give me the original 100 plus story concept back in the day any day over that hot mess.

Where do people get the idea that a 100 story building could ever be built there? Zoning is irrelevant. The FAA gets the last word.

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I think the dichotomy comes from developers remembering the 1980s, and the most of the people on this site not.

It's a lot easier to dream big when it's not your dollars on the line.

Keep in mind that the Hall building that just opened is built on a foundation poured 35 years ago.

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^ A short comparison of farebox recovery ratios: https://metro.fandom.com/wiki/Farebox_recovery_ratio DART is an outlier on the low end at 13%. Keep in mind that is operating expenses only, not capital expenses. I've heard it said that the money DART gets from fares doesn't do much more than cover t...

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The Embarcadero Freeway was pretty much a glorified off ramp. It's traffic count was about 1/3 that of I-345. Removing it just meant dumping local traffic onto city streets a few blocks earlier. The local equivalent would be the Good-Latimer exit off of US-75 southbound.

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Take those kinds of surveys with a very large grain of salt. They tend to only look at larger employers and miss the smaller companies. A lot of the data comes from state agencies, which means there's a lack of standardization. There's not even a clear definition of what a tech job is. Some of these...

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I think that was an erroneously published schedule... or something. It seems they are back to 3x weekly. https://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/287851/american-modifies-planned-dallasft-worth-tel-aviv-frequency-in-w20/?highlight=tel%20aviv Yup. I just popped in to post that and found you...

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Burying or depressing the freeway creates another obstacle to running a D2 subway through downtown.... Which would be a good thing. Spending $1.3 billion to add capacity -- but no new riders -- to a system with continually decreasing ridership is about as stupid as it gets. Tear it down and re-stit...

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Apparently the Tel Aviv route is starting off strong. It was originally scheduled for 3 flights/week. They haven't even started service yet and AA has already doubled it to 6 flights/week.

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https://news.gallup.com/poll/245249/ame ... untry.aspx

31% of people want to live in the 'burbs. 27% want to go rural.

Probably the folks who grew up watching Green Acres.

Big cities? It's up from just 8% in 2001, but still only 12% of people want to live the big city life.

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Deep Ellum is already in-filling with residential density and corporate campuses. The notion that I-345 is hampering in-fill of development has been turned on it's head the last couple of years. Very important connector highway for so many people. Getting rid of it would cripple Dallas and reduce q...

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The property is now closed and fenced/barricaded off.

The existing restaurants between this site and Crowdus are going to be hurting during construction. Some have been there 20-30 years. I doubt all of them will survive.

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One of the primary reasons Dallas has grown like it has over the past 150 years is its role as a transportation hub. First it was the railroads, then the highways and now the airports. The DFW area is a immense distribution hub and logistics center. Trade, both domestic and international, is what ma...

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muncien wrote:Plus, the odds on having a pile of human poo on your doorstep in the morning drop considerably...

Unless you live in Deep Ellum....

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Thymant wrote:So maybe they just sold it for the quick cash.

Bingo.

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Interesting that they're moving from urban-style HQ to Westlake. You think they'd save enough dollars by going from SF and could afford / want to move into Dallas urban core. I guess they already had a facility out in Westlake though... If you were escaping from the absolute hellhole that San Franc...

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^ Very well said, I45Tex. What a number of people on this forum forget is that Deep Ellum is a living, breathing neighborhood with hundreds of residents and small businesses. This isn't a game of Sim City, where if you screw something up you can hit DELETE and start over. We have to live with the co...

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^ Not if you live or work on Commerce. It's bad enough we've got put up with the DART rail.

Besides, the last I checked railed vehicles aren't good at getting around double-parked delivery trucks, Uber and Grubhub pick-ups, or beer bikes moving at 2 MPH.

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Might be time to review the myth of induced demand. TFIFY. Try to explain "induced demand" to an economist and watch them laugh in your face. It's just existing demand that gets satisfied. If you build a new hospital and people use it do you say the hospital induced people to get sick?

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Yea. Another 200,000 cars a day on those city streets would be SO much better.

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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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