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itsjrd1964

I see anything happening with NW Hwy. getting a *lot* of pushback from the Park Cities/Preston Hollow crowd, if the past reactions about new Preston Center-area buildings is any indication.

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Ch.5's TX Today lifestyle show looks at the Thompson, including the lobby, spa, penthouse, pool, and the Catbird restaurant.

https://www.nbcdfw.com/texas-today/a-ne ... l/2600588/

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More than 2 months after the City Council's unanimous passage for the change, a ceremony Saturday at Lamar/Belleview south of downtown unveiled a street sign showing the renaming of South Lamar to Botham Jean Boulevard. https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/botham-jean-boulevard-officially-unveiled-in-d...

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PaperCity reviews top-of-the-National restaurants Monarch and Kessaku.

https://www.papercitymag.com/restaurant ... nt/#334289

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Addison Airport growing, expanding to accommodate increased regional demand A new terminal and hangars for Galaxy FBO are under construction along the southeast side of the airport. All are supposed to be ready and open by this fall. https://partners.bizjournals.com/greater-dallas-fort-worth/addiso...

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Another new housing development, this time off US 287 near Eagle Mountain Lake in NW Fort Worth, will be dubbed Cibolo Hills.

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/rea ... ort-worth/

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Ch.5 talks to the head of The Bridge about the level of homelessness for blacks and what the organization sees as solutions, even with the presence of the coronavirus.

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/black-histo ... y/2539470/

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Re-Posting in the most popular forum because I realize not everyone reads the General Discussion board. I'm hoping to close this down and transfer funds to Troy by the end of the week. https://dallasmetropolis.com/dfwu/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=963 So if I'm understanding your post correctly, this s...

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Yesterday, the bell in the new clocktower was tried out for the first time. A video of the event is at the bottom of the linked article. The bell actually has a name: "Horatio".

https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2 ... irst-time/

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Cbdallas wrote:At least we won't have to look at a tattered fence for 5 years.

...or a Wade Park-style pool

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A Dallas city council committee will be briefed as to latest homeless data, which will presented broken down by race. The report will convey how certain racial groups are more affected by homelessness than others. It will be presented Monday morning. https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/dallas-committe...

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CitySquare, a local non-profit social service organization, is in the works to start its second housing project. The Lomax housing project will be located across from CitySquare's Opportunity Center at Malcolm X/Louise. It will be on a site that was previously an almost-century-old Magnolia gas stat...

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I just saw a train yesterday downtown that is still doing
RED LINE
LBJ/CENTRAL
on its new LED display, even though it's supposed to be an Orange Line train.

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Some members of the Dallas City Council would like to see a name change for Lamar St. between I-30 and S.M. Wright, to honor the late Botham Jean. The matter has been brought to the City Manager, as the next step in the process. https://krld.radio.com/articles/news/dallas-council-members-seek-to-re...

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Just a follow-up. The Peabody Hotel project still hasn't started. Article from late last September: https://communityimpact.com/dallas-fort-worth/keller-roanoke-northeast-fort-worth/development/2020/09/28/pandemic-delays-roanokes-peabody-hotel-project/ I wondered. I've always thought this project w...

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Since groups of phone numbers aren't assigned in such big groups as were done in the past (1000 numbers at a time now -vs- 10,000 numbers at a time before), new area codes aren't needed as often.

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One part of Marriott's site says the hotel is supposed to open this month, while the hotel's site says next month. Kingpin's great pics make it look pretty much ready now.

https://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/ ... as-uptown/

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The 945 area code is due to roll out this week. It will overlay the existing area served by the 214/469/972 area codes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_codes_214,_469,_972,_and_945 https://communityimpact.com/dallas-fort-worth/frisco/technology/2021/01/08/945-area-code-launches-jan-15-in-north-te...

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February 2019 ridership: 32,998 March 2019: 39,093 April 2019: 33,589 May 2019: 35,878 June 2019: 39,154 July 2019: 41,818 August 2019: 42,637 September 2019: 43,757 October 2019: 41,943 November 2019: 44,741 (1,491 per day; about 21 people per train) December 2019: 51,217 January 2020: 43,795 Febr...

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Cartwright Ranch (and no, not the one on Bonanza ), a ranch in Crandall with 1350 acres, has recently sold to Centurion American (the Statler and Collin Creek developer) for a 4000 home development. The area has already been annexed by Crandall. Construction is planned to start soon. https://www.dal...

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According to Ch.5's website, the show is doing a poolside party at the Omni to watch the fireworks. They must have changed it, as the last 2 years, the show did a watch party from Texas Live!, which I thought was a bit off since the party wasn't even close to the fireworks. In the promo for this yea...

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f4shionablecha0s wrote:Lol I think Unnamed Megatel Lagoon Development will be the name of my next band.

One of the biggest laughs I'd have every week was looking through the nightclub ads in the Observer to see how wacky the band names were.

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When I was in a shelter, there were some who had a day DART pass (not always easy to get; some places like the case management office at CitySquare didn't always have them), a few who would give a sob story to a bus driver (including various excuses) to get on, some were trying to get just far enoug...

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I zoomed the sign part of the picture, and very little is listed.

I looked on the asbuiltusa.com website, this project isn't listed, but 2 others nearby in the Cedars are.

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Great that they're doing this (and wow, that candlewood suites really is in a terrible location for visibility.) The main negative that I see here is that neither of these locations appear to be close to any sort of rail transit. I don't remember the bus availability along Fort Worth Ave., but the ...

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The city of Dallas has acquired 2 hotels to house those needing to quarantine from the coronavirus, but will covert them later into homeless housing. One location is a Candlewood Suites at Preston/Bush Turnpike (a historically poor hotel location (it's been at least 2-3 other brands previously) with...

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The city of Fort Worth has changed plans on their City Hall move. Instead of remodeling or building new, the city has agreed to acquire the Pier 1 building on the west side of downtown. Officials say it will be quicker to move there than build new, and the building is large enough to consolidate man...

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It's really tough to consider the Whole Foods strip section as even part of the "CityLine" TOD, since it is separated by a fairly large street in Plano Rd. There's ton of residential in that immediate area, and seemingly more on the way all the time. I think if some of the restaurants/ret...

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Some of it is very likely the utilities and associated infrastructure. The buildings like the National, LTV Tower, and One Main (Place) were all built originally with the mindset of them being banks and office towers--not hotels and/or apartments. Replacing them with (or adding) hotel/residential ch...

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Michelin-starred chef plans to open 2 high-profile restaurants in Dallas next year Two more restaurants, Kessaku and Monarch, will open at The National next year. https://www.dallasnews.com/food/restaurant-news/2020/12/01/michelin-chef-danny-grant-to-open-restaurants-monarch-and-kessaku-in-dallas-i...

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PNC Bank buys naming rights to plaza outside Dallas' American Airlines Center On the heels of buying the US operations of BBVA (locally, the former Compass Bank), PNC has snagged the naming rights to the plaza south of the AAC from AT&T. https://www.dallasnews.com/business/banking/2020/12/01/pn...

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Something new today: the train I was on this evening had LED destination signs in place of the old-fashioned scrolling ones. I'd seen references in DART budgets in the last year or two to starting on replacing the signs, but didn't know if it'd been deferred due to COVID. It was an Orange line trai...

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rono3849 wrote:preston.center.buildings.jpg

Is this in Dallas or University Park?

I think it's Dallas, but not by much.

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7-Eleven had a grand opening at an existing, re-done store location this past week. The Walnut Hill/Audelia location now shows off 7-Eleven's "evolution" concept, with new features and an all-new look. It really looks nice, I saw it Thursday. In the front right corner, there is fresh-groun...

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The team that will play locally for the NLL will be called Panther City Lacrosse Club. They will begin play in November 2021.

https://www.nll.com/news/panthercitylacrosseclub/
http://panthercitylax.com/

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Hope they can somehow keep the pigeons off those 2nd floor exterior ledges. They really left marks-on-the-world down there in the past.

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IDK if anyone has heard, but in the past couple of weeks, I ran across development plans for a new replacement for the Austin Street Center homeless shelter. I had no idea they were wanting to do this. The new complex will be much bigger, housing 100 more than before who need shelter. Those who head...

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New 1,225-home development on tap for Fort Worth Vista West will be located in west Fort Worth, between Chapel Creek Blvd. and Walsh Ranch. Homes will be ready beginning late next year-early part of 2022. https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2020/11/02/new-fort-worth-community-will-inclu...

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A few months ago, the Plano City Council rejected a proposal by the Plano Housing Authority to sale/leaseback the land east of the Parker Road Dart Station to build low-income and market-rate housing. They did put the land up for sale, and Plano Housing Authority has decided to purchase it instead ...

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The Dallas Historical Society posted a video to their Facebook page showing the restoration work being done to the Tejas Warrior statue in the Hall of State entry. New layers of gold leaf make the Warrior shine like he hasn't in a while. https://www.facebook.com/DallasHistoricalSociety/videos/132935...

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A SpringHill Suites down the service road from the hotel where I work, has been closed the whole time of the virus. Recently, after some online searching, I saw where that SpringHill is no longer on the local list of SpringHills on Marriott's website. The hotel's phone number that was listed, was ca...

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The development plan at the entrance to the Urban Center (114, O'Connor, Las Colinas Blvd) has changed. They are coming before P&Z and removing the 4 hotel concept and instead asking to build a 15 story office tower. The developers are still keeping the original office component, which is a 4 s...

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Former mall site in Tarrant County will soon be a 52-acre mixed-use development After many years without any redevelopment, the former site of North Hills Mall will finally see construction of homes and some office and restaurant space. Centurion American (yes, that company) is heading up the proje...

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Uber puts up most of its office space in Deep Ellum building for rent

https://dallas.culturemap.com/news/real ... llum-epic/

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New downtown Fort Worth hotel debuts near Sundance Square An AC hotel has opened on 5th Street between Houston and Main, with 16 stories and 252 rooms. Unlike other DFW-area AC properties, this hotel is not a combo with a Residence Inn, or any other Marriott brand. https://www.dallasnews.com/busine...

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DCTA to Update A-train Schedule and Increase Peak Frequency on Monday

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/dcta- ... y/2447324/

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. . . JRD, hey a random bird told me Thompson Hotel at 1401 Elm has a pretty extensive pre-opening job listing, for well, not even being opened/finished yet. Might be a different brand, but, hey. Passing it along. Wow, thanks for thinking of me. I am amazingly still employed, and my hotel remains o...

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DFW Airport to vote on demolishing, rebuilding Terminal C gates

https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news ... nal-c.html

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