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It's an interesting dichotomy. Like so many changes in Deep Ellum it's liked by the Internet armchair quarterbacks who don't live in the neighborhood, yet almost universally detested by the people in the neighborhood it's in. The only person I know who's looking forward to this development is the ow...

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^ I meant $/SF. That stretch of Elm is one of the, if not the, priciest areas in DE.

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As existing zoning allows a new building as tall as theirs I would say their view is already screwed.

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^ https://www.dallasparks.org/AlertCenter ... ock-Lak-93

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jetnd87 wrote:Is the consensus here somehow that IH-345 isn't a monstrosity which has no business cutting through our urban core?

Nah. There are still plenty of kids who think life is all about riding a scooter to Starbucks for an $8 coffee.

They'll grow up some day.

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After the initial rush that place died. They were a joke.

I suspect the reason for the move is two-fold: lower rent and the total change in concept to more of a kid's birthday party place.

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Willyk, speaking as someone who has lived in Deep Ellum for roughly 20 years (and frequented the area for 20+ years before that), the city -- and particularly the cops -- were the primary causes of the area's decline. While I'm a firm believer in "don't attribute to malice that which is adequat...

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Seems strange to abandon the northern burbs but great for Dallas and the Galleria. Not if you know the real reason. Closing those two stores may save them hundreds of millions of dollars. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/02/apple-closes-two-dallas-stores-in-apparent-bid-to-ward-off-patent-t...

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DPatel304 wrote:I'm going on a bit of a tangent here, but that really makes me wonder if Deep Ellum's success would have been possible without the rise of ride-sharing apps.

The area still isn't as busy as it was in 2001-2003. Not even close. So it was/is definitely possible without ridesharing.

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Crap. Will definitely screw up my sunsets.

One of the existing retailers listed, Cookie Shop, has only been open 2-3 months. Vidorra is about six months old. So I would say this is very recently done.

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Address?

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^ Looking from right about https://goo.gl/maps/ef4gJPvX2F32 on Elm Street.

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Outside of the politicians, I don't know of a single person in Queens who wanted them there. I highly doubt the working class families nearby wanted anything to do with HQ2. The protests were real IMO. I don't know a single person in Queens who wanted them there, either. But then I don't know anyon...

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For those curious, per Wikipedia, the population of Leon County as of the 2010 Census was 16,801. After all the back and forth on this, I am honestly kind of amazed that our highway system even exists. The difference is that the highways benefit the rural areas, and the benefits outweigh the negati...

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From http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2019/02/08/dallas-fort-worth-houston-are-millennial-magnets.html Brookings used recently released migration data from the U.S. Census Bureau to identify major metros that attracted the most 25- to 34-year-olds for the period of 2012 through 2017. The Houst...

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Mgreen15 wrote:How many people would actually be walking around Deep Ellum in the middle of the afternoon on any weekend from late May to late September?

Hundreds. The number one complaint is the lack of parking, because it's so crowded.

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The food at Idle Rye was great, but they were rarely busy. Walking by the other night my first reaction was "generic sports bar".

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^ Great news!

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Building passenger rail service so the trip from airport to downtown office is considered walking distance should be a mandate of regional transit. Totally off target. - I think you'll find that the vast majority of business travelers go straight to and from the airport to home, not the office. - J...

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What's really bizarre is the thought of spending over a billion dollars to rebuild the freeway and not improve capacity. Hell, Lakewood's Mini-Trump Kingston wants to reduce its capacity. Imagine if in the 1980's Dallas had told TxDOT to rebuild North Central with only two lanes each way north of Mo...

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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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