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^ Since they're developing a SoGood to the south, it's pretty obvious this area should be NoGood.

After all, many of their patrons are up to NoGood.

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Some pieces were kept. For instance, the robot at Good-Latimer and Gaston is leaning against a piece: https://goo.gl/maps/SfkYQrG5ewjzhsWK6 I understand that the concrete "1930" from the tunnel entrance was gifted to Preservation Dallas. DART filled in the tunnel because it was cheaper tha...

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Includes a great slideshow, with many historical pictures I've never seen before.

https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news ... uture.html

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The Deep Ellum community fought HARD to keep the Good-Latimer grade separation, especially the Gaston tunnel. The murals lining the tunnel were a beloved gateway to the area. Similarly, the vast majority of current residents are strongly opposed to replacing I-345 at grade. That effort, like so many...

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From a city government perspective, residential uses generally have a much lower revenue to expense ratio. Single family residential (which isn't proposed here) generally doesn't generate enough tax revenue to even cover costs. If you want low tax rates as a way to attract businesses you want as lit...

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Rather than claiming things will "just work out" - let's have a public referendum where all the stakeholders who vote "yes" on removal get put on a list, and should the referendum pass, they'll be assessed a special "transportation impact fee" in the ballpark of $5-10k...

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1) You might not agree with the solution, but they've shown many examples of how many comparable highway tearouts have been done elsewhere . OK, so provide an example of "comparable highway tearouts" -- because nothing at that link is comparable. One thing I learned a long time ago is tha...

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Matthews Southwest has a long track record of sticking their hands in the taxpayers' pocket. https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2019/02/26/new-downtown-dallas-apartment-high-rise-includes-affordable-units/ Part of the new apartment project will be funded with low-income housing tax cred...

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^ The ultimate irony being that there are probably more construction cranes right now within three blocks of I-345 -- where Kennedy said no one would build -- than any similar sized area in Dallas County.

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Tucy wrote:It will not provide any meaningful transportation service.

So nothing has changed?

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Downtown Dallas block sells for new garage and retail project

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/rea ... l-project/

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^ Have you seen how they've reduced the footprint of I-30 through the canyon in the redesign?

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https://www.papercitymag.com/culture/da ... ntibodies/

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Developers reboot plans for huge project north of downtown Dallas

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/rea ... wn-dallas/

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^ It's not comeback, it's a hostile takeover from Uptown. The "renovated" Serious Pizza has all the ambience of a Denny's. The other restaurants/bars owned by the same company serve up canned music and cardboard food to plastic people. The ultimate insult is The Stack. As another poster sa...

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SoGood project would transform Dallas’ near south side

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/rea ... outh-side/

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The question is whether it's worthwhile to spend $50-100 billion to be ready for a once per 40-100 year event.

It's like the concept of the 100-year flood plain. Society picks the balance between cost and safety that it's willing to live with.

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Dallas County’s talent problem: Collin, Denton and others are poaching workers Collin and Denton counties are some of the best places in the U.S. to attract and develop talent, a trait crucial to growing businesses and strengthening the economy. Both counties score high on net migration, education,...

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I can understand why local businesses like on-street parking, but if I lived within walking distance to a place, I don't quite get why I would prefer on-street parking over a bike lane? Three part answer: 1) Visitors: Friends, family, deliveries, clients (lots of residents work at home). 2) Some of...

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By the way, if anyone here ever goes to the 7-Eleven at Elm & Good Latimer in the evenings, please give my young-old daughter a warm DFWU Forum hello. She's been there for over a year and loves it. If she's who I think she is, she has sold the good doctor more than a few lottery tickets. I'll s...

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CTroyMathis wrote:Does Mark Cuban (or associated) own the next building over (with the Mavericks logo on the roof and other Mavs stuff on the exterior walls) and the parking lot? Just curious. Seems like he/"they" do.

Team HQ: https://www.facebook.com/MavsGG/

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It's sad how many people here are out of touch with the reality of urban living. This isn't Sim City. Real people in a real neighborhood need real the same real businesses and services that everyone else does. Not another dozen Thai-Inspired Ice Cream Shops and Surf Board Fitness Studios. The new 7-...

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From my earlier post at the top of this page:

Trinity River at Flood stage: 30-50+ feet deep, 1+ miles wide.

Mill Creek Tunnel: 30 foot diameter

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And this popped up on the DMN website within the last hour:

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/ent ... eep-ellum/

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They've been working out of that building for awhile, but keeping a very low profile. I didn't really pay attention to it at the time, but driving by the building today there was a new construction trailer-type building on the parking lot across the street. Looks like they're getting started. https:...

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MC_ScattCat wrote:I don't fully understand why such a huge flood plain was built, but seems like an area ripe for a re-do.

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I remember driving through West Texas in the 1980's and the radio station was running a big contest for a weekend in Dallas.

Q: Why do so many New Mexico high school football players got to Texas Tech?

A: They want to see live in the big city!

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^ Are you sure they weren't talking about flanges?

https://www.reliance-foundry.com/blog/s ... rence#gref

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Mark Hamill orders takeout from this neighborhood eatery in Uber Eats commercial

https://lakewood.advocatemag.com/2021/0 ... lvet-taco/

"In Knox"????

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Tucy wrote:I think you meant to type 151K per year, not 15.

Typo corrected -- Thanks. The daily ridership figures were correct.

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My dude. How often do you minimize or dismiss others due to what part of town they live in? Unless you’re a Cliffie, then congratulations on the new place! Huh? How did my comment in anyway "minimize or dismiss others due to what part of town they live in"? The only thing I "dismisse...

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Remind me again, how many people use the streetcar on a daily basis? NOTE: Typo corrected. 151k, not 15k. The most recent figure I see is 151k/year trips from 2008. Source: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2018/04/25/get-your-wallets-out-bishop-arts-streetcar-will-no-longer-be-free/ At 365 days per ...

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^ Certainly can't have profitable, taxpaying businesses that service the people who actually live there, can we?

Ask yourself this: How many people a day use that boondoggle streetcar, and how many use that CVS and gas station?

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But energy is being exerted by the buses already regardless if people right them or not. More people riding buses that already exist and are already circulating would mean energy savings, right? I understand that buses only start to make sense after a certain number of people are riding it, but wha...

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A car expends 5,465 Btu per vehicle-mile. Four cars expend 21,860 Btu. A bus expends 16,509 Btu. Does that mean that a bus expends less energy than four cars? Am I understanding the data correctly? Using the table above, on a per vehicle mile basis a bus uses about as much energy as seven cars (39,...

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I really would like to see DART emphasize how much 'greener' and environmentally friendlier it is to take the bus. Except they're not. In the real world, unless a bus is packed (rare around here) private cars use less energy per passenger mile. BTU per passenger mile, from U.S. DOT: https://i.stack...

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rono3849 wrote:I still don't understand why an entire side of the tower is all concrete.

I'm not familiar with the parcel. Is that side built up against a property line, as opposed to a street? If so it's likely a fire code issue.

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That really surprises me. I wonder what Dallas is lacking that other markets or not? Do you have any insight as to how they determine this? As far as I can tell, nobody has really attempted to build a new condo development in Dallas in quite sometime (at least not the type we are referring to). I r...

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So you want to route traffic going from Woodall Rodgers to East Dallas and Deep Ellum along a winding path of downtown streets through downtown and the Arts District? You really want to dump all that thru traffic onto downtown streets? Actually, I've taken that route more than a few times. And it su...

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This will be the last year I get to see the tower fireworks from home. Next week the new East Quarter tower will block the dome.

The walls of the fishbowl are closing in.

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Plano receives 16,000 feet of additional rail for DART Silver Line construction Sixteen thousand feet of rail — 200 sections, each one 80 feet long — recently arrived in Plano for DART’s Silver. The rails were delivered Dec. 18 on a special train from Steel Dynamics of Indiana to an area east of Sh...

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What solutions have the tear down proponents offered other than "everything will just work out"?

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Two injured in DART derailment in downtown Dallas "According to a DART spokesman, a northbound Orange line train made contact with a southbound Green line train around 1:15 p.m. at St. Paul Station." https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2020/12/19/two-injured-in-dart-derailment-in-downtown-dal...

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^ Amen.

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^ $3.3 billion and ten years to complete.

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Tucy wrote:Nov 2020

Zero sold.

112 sold in 8 years. (1.17 per month) 1 remaining

It's time to put that one unit up for auction and be done with it.

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Austin55 wrote:Surprising they'd choose Houston over Dallas or Austin.

The Houston area is already their largest employment center, even ahead of Palo Alto. I suspect this dates back to their purchase of Compaq around 20 years ago.

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I agree that keeping the budget in the black is crucial. But watch the politicians yell and scream how the sky is falling and they need more money when so far things aren't that bad. From https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2020/11/sales-tax-revenue-in-dallas-has-dropped-less-than-a-percentage-poi...

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Build a tunnel similar to the $200 million Mill Creek project to allow the rapid movement of overfill beyond the levee zone, a nice string of wetland cells from Joppa to Wilmer to Ennis and beyond equivalent to an medium reservoir like Grapevine lake or even larger. Sequester the vernal flood in th...

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https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2018/11/26/dallas-landmark-masonic-temple-is-the-newest-downtown-office-address/ https://dallascityhall.com/departments/sustainabledevelopment/historicpreservation/Pages/federal_reserve_bank.aspx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_Petroleum_Building h...

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