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Yes, Grange Hall is getting moved into the new complex on Fitzhugh where Beverley's is. Big if true, but also, I'm not surprised by the Travis Street densification. Everything in that area feels shabby and temporary, as though developers were just waiting for some Ts and Is to get crossed/dotted bef...

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Village Bakery is already open; I went today and it was jumping. This area will be really great once the construction is over.

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It's happening because the Cochran Heights Neighborhood Association complained that the bumpouts were too extreme and were causing minor accidents. The good news is that while they now have to re-angle several of the bumpouts, we also argued for an illuminated crosswalk and extra signage at one of t...

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When I'm out walking, I hew to a route closer to Dalat Thai and go straight down the southern end of Manett so I can safely avoid the Laundromat/S&S Food Shop. However, when we first moved here 2 years ago, I was told that Manett was the street you avoided going down even while in a car, lol. No...

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yaaaaaaaaay! This might be a Top 3 project for me. Very happy to see it's alive!

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...and right in that same area, immediately behind the strip mall with the La Michoacana grocery store (which I love and hope never leaves) and the S&S food shop, a vacant lot is being scraped for condos. It's interesting. That corner S&S Food Shop is the only place in the city where I've be...

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I like it too, and I think it looks very different in photographs than it does up (very close). I remember being wowed by the facade last time I walked past a few weeks ago.

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I know this is getting repetitive lol, but another one chiming in to say that this project is SO good and will be so much fun to visit once the world fixes itself. Coaxed a longtime Dallas resident friend to come downtown with me and she was blown away that this even existed.

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It's tough. In my opinion, there's SO much construction chaos in such a small area that even if the streets were closed to traffic (which I'm all for), walking around Knox is pretty unpleasant right now. At this point, I'm just hoping the end of COVID dovetails with the completion of some of these p...

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YOU'RE ALL MANIFESTING THIS INTO EXISTENCE. HAVEN'T YOU READ THE SECRET?! Don't invoke powers you don't understand! (Obviously I'm joking. But we already have one terrible CVS in the neighborhood and NO DOUBT somebody is going to knock down the Mexican grocery store with the dank af taco bar and bui...

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That's exactly what I find myself saying on a near-daily basis when I take the dogs to the park. "You guys know this is a neighborhood smack in the middle of one of the biggest and fastest-growing cities in the country, and technically any single-family zoning this close in is inappropriate and...

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Regarding the empty parcels, I've heard unsubstantiated neighborhood rumors that Vickery Place is still vigorously fighting the development, and consequently, the plans were only recently (as in, late 2019) finalized and approved. But also that, yes, there are still plans and intentions to develop.

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Yes. There's been quite a bit of tree planting, thank goodness. I don't know if I'd call it "thick," but they're certainly a welcome addition to what was a depressingly flat and dusty landscape.

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I assume because it absorbs significantly less heat, thereby making the pedestrian experience more enjoyable?

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They've been spending a lot of time on landscaping and building drainage, and there's near-daily activity on my end of Henderson--mostly ripping up the road over and over to run electricity to each of the new lightposts. I was told that the actual road pavement will be the very last thing they do.

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Or maybe it's easy to keep the sites fully staffed (or working overtime) now that unemployment is so high? I know less than nothing about construction staffing.

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Yeah, contractors just leave supplies strewn on sidewalks for months on end in this town. There were bricks (and piles of wires, and trash, and plastic wrapping on the ADA-compliant curbs, and even entire street signs which could be an interesting projectile in a storm...) alongside Henderson Ave fo...

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I saw quite a lot of active home construction while out on my walk with the dogs today. I do hope those workers are staying safe, but I was also scared about the pandemic's impact on infrastructure (especially Henderson Ave., which is half-done and looks terrible right now). I hope the city commits ...

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Another tidbit because I enjoy making fun of 77 Degrees: We recently observed workers diligently stripping off the many custom wood...um...sticks decorating the exterior and replacing them with metal, which was amusing, but then this article today in D Magazine cited that 77 Degrees isn't closed bec...

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We've tried a few times to make a sorta short term reservation at The Henry and there was no hope. It's always full.

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Uno Mas opens the 28th, Barcelona "sometime next week," and Enrique Tomas opened yesterday.

Also, today, these rather large decorative lightpoles are beginning to be installed. I like them. I especially like that they'll make walking down Henderson feel much safer.

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Parking at the Cityplace Kroger is always, always, always a crowded nightmare. I feel like East Dallas is overwhelmed by grocery stores, and yet. Apparently there's demand for a lackluster grocery experience. Also, there always seem to be at least two firetrucks parked there with their lights flashi...

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I echo what CowboyEagle05 pointed out. For instance, Texas is importing a LOT of physicians to respond to our growing population, many of them finishing training on the comparatively expensive coasts. It's not recommended for an attending to purchase a home right away after a move to a new location....

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yeah, we should make it an unofficial forum rule that you can't post direct links to articles behind a paywall. It's so frustrating.

(I pay for access to DMN, even though they're incredibly annoying to their subscribers. But I don't subscribe to biznow or bizjournal or whatever it is.)

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We had to choose between Salt Lake City and Dallas because spouse was getting recruited for a very specific job that only exists in a few random cities. SLC had nothing going for it except outdoorsy activities, and even then, you have to deal with terrible air pollution. There's nothing to do there ...

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ANY improvement at that intersection would be much appreciated. We would charge our EV at the Walgreens charging station on this corner (hey, it's free) and hop over to Mudsmith (RIP) to hang out, nearly dying every time we crossed the road. haha

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huh, I haven't noticed, but I'm not doing my daily walks past the place because Henderson is still a dis-as-ter. It's possible they're suffering due to all the construction, although it's not like anybody parks right on Henderson Ave to go there anyway. Also, a half-dozen other businesses on Henders...

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I go to Knox nearly every day and lately I'm always surprised by just how much pedestrian activity there is, even though all the construction and sidewalk gaps make it a bit of a nightmare. Love seeing what this area is evolving into.

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I was trying to figure that out. At one point I was keeping a rough list of interesting projects to watch in this area, but there have been so many announcements in the last few months that I abandoned it. Can't keep anything straight!

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More details on 300 Pearl here, for those of us behind the bizjournals paywall. https://www.recenter.tamu.edu/news/newstalk-texas/?Item=23716 "Located between Pearl St. and Cesar Chavez Blvd., the 20-story building will include 180,000 sf of office space, 25,000 sf of ground-floor retail, and 3...

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Here's another anecdote about Deep Ellum from last weekend. My spouse and I like to bike from our home in East Dallas all the way down to Deep Ellum via the trail network, through a part of Old East Dallas that is particularly blighted and depressed. For the first time we saw several of the same ove...

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Here's what I like about it: The residents and workers it will attract, who will get out into the street, make Deep Ellum safer and livelier, and who will spend money at Deep Ellum's businesses. That's what I like.

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I tried on maybe 5-6 different occasions to buy things from that J.Crew that I saw on their website. They never, ever had any of the items. Not just merely sold out of my size, but didn't stock their own products at all. It was so odd that it turned into a joke...we refer to it as "the J.Crew o...

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Plano-style McMansions?! NIMBY!

Some of them are definitely over 3k square feet, though, so they're called "McModerns."

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I mean, they're everywhere. Take a drive down the southern end of Manett Street--you have to walk in the road because every lot on either side is under construction. Or any of the streets between Kirby and Carroll Avenue. To illustrate, we almost bought a house on Kirby in mid-2018, but I was too le...

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Indeed! And I live north of Fitzhugh off Henderson, certainly another area with a lot of change, but it's less impactful up here overall because we also have very large apartment complexes and historic neighborhoods (I live in one of the modern monstrosities, although I'm part of Cochran Heights His...

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Yep, my list essentially covers many of the areas I try to walk in nearly every day. Another one is the truly aggressive gentrification happening in the box between Fitzhugh to the north, Central Expressway, Ross, and Cityplace to the south. (Would we technically call that Belmont Park?) The entire ...

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Context is everything. Grammatical errors on forum posts are fine, even expected.

They're also expected on family holiday cards. Incorrect singular/plural possessives run RAMPANT on holiday cards.

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That's a pretty big chunk of land. Really exciting.

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Everything about this is mediocre to bad, and the clunky name (I stared at the banner for a good 30 seconds trying to figure out where it begins and ends) is the worst. It's also grammatically incorrect. The possessive of a singular noun is formed by adding an apostrophe and s, whether the singular ...

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Mine:

1. Henderson Avenue--all of it
2. The Epic
3. East Quarter
4. Continued street activation in Victory Park
5. All the hotel construction in Uptown and what that will mean for street life
6. Weirs mixed use in Knox

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Yep, exactly. I really, really want this development underway ASAP, but there's an incredible amount going on right now on top of the complete streets project. Off the top of my head: Barcelona Wine bar Enrique Tomas Uno Mas new nail salon renovation of Emeralds to Coconuts several new condo project...

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I was just trying to describe Mendocino Farms to someone the other day, and I think I called it a "Los Angeles Flower Child but more sandwichy." I admittedly love these kinds of upscale fast-casual concepts and am glad to see the urban core embracing them. If Dallas could get a Dig Inn (oh...

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Might be time to review the concept of induced demand.

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Not trying to rile anything up but I have always wondered why Highland Park Village and Northpark are under the urban discussion tab especially since most of the discussions only involve store front changes not extra growth or new buildings and neither are in a very urban part of the metro mostly s...

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A Denver-based taco joint called Uno Mas is under construction next to Smithy in a building that's been vacant for at least a few years, on the end of Henderson I think of as the "fancy" end (considering that we have Barcelona and Enrique Tomas incoming). I'm a little amazed that this part...

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Thanks for the review! I didn't know they opened. I feel like places that can be described as "cozy" are so few and far between in this part of Dallas, so that's encouraging. I'm going to make a point of checking it out this week.

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Interesting. There's some shuffling afoot in Knox--a popup for a Nantucket shoe store opened next to Yeti in the former On the Border building, and Stag Provisions is moving from across the street into that same building as well. No idea what will replace Stag. It's news to me that the Weir's tower ...

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Saw on a Dallas instagram that they were installing the sign yesterday.

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yaaaay. I especially want to see the Trinity Strand Trail begin to pop. I live so close to the Katy Trail that I never have the urge to go down there, especially when it's as un-vibrant as it currently is. But with the KT becoming downright crowded on weekends, there's no reason why we can't start s...

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