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- 17 Apr 2023 15:27
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Henderson Avenue Corridor
- Replies: 361
- Views: 300621
Re: Henderson Avenue Corridor
Yes. They've been hauling stuff out of that weird Warby Parker building and the one next to it all week--kind of stripping it for parts. Those buildings aren't long for the world.
- 28 Mar 2023 10:04
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Henderson Avenue Corridor
- Replies: 361
- Views: 300621
Re: Henderson Avenue Corridor
also, that's me in the first reply to the Twitter post, so if any of you are on Twitter, let me know or shoot a message! I tweet about urbanism quite a bit.
- 28 Mar 2023 10:03
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Henderson Avenue Corridor
- Replies: 361
- Views: 300621
Re: Henderson Avenue Corridor
Sweet new retail on Henderson.
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Everybody in Cochran Heights is thrilled about it.
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Everybody in Cochran Heights is thrilled about it.
- 15 Feb 2023 09:37
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown Dallas: Central Market at McKinney and Lemmon
- Replies: 426
- Views: 444496
Re: Uptown Dallas: Central Market at McKinney and Lemmon
Small update: This project is nowhere near dead. I'm still working with HEB on the design/layout of the interior of this store (we have another discussion tomorrow, actually). Likely to be quite different from other CMs. These people are extremely methodical and determined to get the store exactly r...
- 25 Jan 2023 08:49
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Henderson Avenue Corridor
- Replies: 361
- Views: 300621
Re: Henderson Avenue Corridor
eburress wrote:dzh wrote:I think they're kicking out all the retail in that building. I know Henderson Taphouse is closing too.
Nooooo! I don't want them kicked out! Just fix the sidewalks
- 24 Jan 2023 19:14
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Henderson Avenue Corridor
- Replies: 361
- Views: 300621
Re: Henderson Avenue Corridor
Very excited for development here, since this is my neighborhood, but the "rejuvination" of the strip center has pushed out my favorite wine bar, Veritas. Apparently they just bought it and immediately doubled the rent. Not cool. Gentrification is truly a double-edged sword. I only moved ...
- 24 Jan 2023 15:56
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Henderson Avenue Corridor
- Replies: 361
- Views: 300621
Re: Henderson Avenue Corridor
Did you all catch the allusion to a "refresh" of the existing properties they own? That's pretty exciting IF true. I hate the layout of that Gemma/Veritas/Muse strip mall. Treeless expanse of empty parking lot. It's always looked cheap.
- 24 Jan 2023 15:13
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Henderson Avenue Corridor
- Replies: 361
- Views: 300621
Re: Henderson Avenue Corridor
Hey, kids. What time is it? Time for the annual DMN story about the new development coming soon to Henderson! https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2023/01/24/new-retail-construction-in-the-works-for-east-dallas-henderson-avenue/ This story says the new owners, Acadia Realty Trust, plan t...
- 29 Dec 2022 12:14
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown Dallas: The Carlisle on the Creek (~360 FT | 30 ST)
- Replies: 80
- Views: 25868
Re: The Carlisle on the Creek
Frankly, I feel "citizens" are some of the last people who should have a say in the development process. "Citizens" generally don't know what they're talking about and tend to only care about their own interests, giving little to no consideration to bigger pictures, the overall ...
- 19 Nov 2022 09:47
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown Dallas: Central Market at McKinney and Lemmon
- Replies: 426
- Views: 444496
Re: Uptown Dallas: Central Market at McKinney and Lemmon
I can't say much because I agreed to not reveal details, but I just participated in a rather intense paid focus group hosted by HEB about this exact project. In fact, we were told that we were the first of 9 focus groups dedicated to figuring out, essentially, how to lay out the interior of this sto...
- 31 Oct 2022 16:47
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Knox District / Knox Park
- Replies: 814
- Views: 617688
Re: Knox District / Knox Park
No doubt Berkley Market is counting on foot traffic from Katy Trail. I walk the trail most days and have long wished for a place where I can easily pop in and grab something (Knox Starbucks is always a mess, long lines and I can't go in with my dogs). And I will say that Foxtrot has been packed ever...
- 31 Oct 2022 13:36
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Knox District / Knox Park
- Replies: 814
- Views: 617688
Re: Knox District / Knox Park
On the heels of Foxtrot Market opening less than a week ago....I'm not sure if we knew this already? A sign is up for Berkley's Market, just steps away from Foxtrot. Going in next to Pegasus Bank where the garden center used to be. I'm pleased that this little neglected corner of Knox is getting som...
- 25 Apr 2022 13:40
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Henderson Avenue Corridor
- Replies: 361
- Views: 300621
Re: Henderson Avenue Corridor
Also good to see that Masinter and team are still involved and reinvesting in the project. Makes the line that the project will start soon more believable. That being said, wont get my hopes up too high until we see some dirt moving. Been waiting for this since I bought my house in the area more th...
- 23 Apr 2022 08:50
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Henderson Avenue Corridor
- Replies: 361
- Views: 300621
Re: Henderson Avenue Corridor
https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2022/04/22/new-york-investor-bets-on-dallas-popular-henderson-avenue-retail-district/ Looks like this tract has finally changed hands. New owners seem promising. Hoping for some movement soon While ownership is new. I don't know of the neighborhood NI...
- 15 Apr 2022 13:33
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Knox District / Knox Park
- Replies: 814
- Views: 617688
Re: Knox / Henderson - Knox Street Side
R1070 wrote:Those mattress shops are so lame.
Funny you should say that; I noticed one of them is now for lease. Good!
- 08 Oct 2021 17:53
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Henderson Avenue Corridor
- Replies: 361
- Views: 300621
Re: Henderson Avenue Corridor
The detail that always sticks in my mind about 77 Degrees is that the staircases were, apparently, extremely narrow and made of some kind of meshed metal that caused women's heels to get stuck in them, which caused human traffic jams. Plus the odd decorative bars that started falling off immediately...
- 08 Oct 2021 13:38
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Henderson Avenue Corridor
- Replies: 361
- Views: 300621
Re: Henderson Avenue Corridor
On that note, anybody know what's going on at the former Capitol Pub? Please let it not be another...pub. Or if it must be a drinking establishment, not another dive-y, rowdy bar. Also I'm morbidly delighted to see that the unbearably stupid building which houses 77 Degrees and that Irish pub, Jack ...
- 07 Oct 2021 17:09
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Henderson Avenue Corridor
- Replies: 361
- Views: 300621
Re: Henderson Avenue Corridor
I think this space couldn't possibly transform into something on Klyde Warren's scale. It's simply not that big, and rather narrow. My neighborhood has been begging me to fence off a small portion of Cochran Park for a dog park (can't do it, too small) or add infrastructure for Solar Prep kids to pl...
- 07 Oct 2021 15:15
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Henderson Avenue Corridor
- Replies: 361
- Views: 300621
Re: Henderson Avenue Corridor
I'm unofficially in charge of developing Cochran Park on behalf of my neighborhood group (I sit on the board as well). I can tell you that the vocal members of my group would LOVE this area, or part of it, to be a structured park. We are desperate for more functional greenspace, including event spac...
- 21 Sep 2021 19:23
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Knox District / Knox Park
- Replies: 814
- Views: 617688
Re: Knox / Henderson - Knox Street Side
Well, it seems that the neighborhood gossips were wrong, because Village Bakery is moving into the ground floor of Weir's, not Res Ipsa--the signage went up today. So I wouldn't put any stock in the Four Seasons rumor either. Although the bakery building is certainly getting demo'd ASAP for something.
- 19 Sep 2021 08:35
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Knox District / Knox Park
- Replies: 814
- Views: 617688
Re: Knox / Henderson - Knox Street Side
I have some answers to some questions: Yes to Yeti moving, and yes, Vince is already open (I went inside). The justification for the Four Seasons rumor is that the law offices moving into Weir's are requesting a nice boutique hotel in the neighborhood for clients. And apparently the bakery move is k...
- 18 Sep 2021 20:13
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Knox District / Knox Park
- Replies: 814
- Views: 617688
Re: Knox / Henderson - Knox Street Side
I went to several shops in Knox today and the current rumor is that Village Bakery is soon moving into the former Res Ipsa space, the freestanding bakery building will be demo'ed, and the Four Seasons Hotel built in its place, across the street from the new Weirs tower. I think that sounds completel...
- 07 Sep 2021 10:35
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown/Victory Park: NorthEnd
- Replies: 809
- Views: 382492
Re: Uptown Dallas - Field Street Development [North End Apartments Site]
"Just to make my point clear, I think relocating 1000 miles away from home to a place you are at best ambivalent about just so you can sit at a desk in a cubicle while working in a computer application that's accessible anywhere that has internet seems so 1998." You are absolutely not wron...
- 05 Sep 2021 15:29
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown/Victory Park: NorthEnd
- Replies: 809
- Views: 382492
Re: Uptown Dallas - Field Street Development [North End Apartments Site]
I am reluctant to get political here, but I'll add that many people move to Texas FOR a job--as opposed to moving for a particular culture, or for family, or some other reason. They move for the job. Because Texas cities are growing so quickly, many industries need to continue staffing up, and monet...
- 15 Jun 2021 14:00
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Henderson Avenue Corridor
- Replies: 361
- Views: 300621
Re: Henderson Avenue Corridor
If anybody still had doubts about Henderson Avenue becoming a fully-gentrified little playground for the upwardly mobile: a small real estate office flipped over and will now be a medspa (Botox, fillers, facials, that kind of thing). It opens next month. There are also rumors of an upscale teashop a...
- 10 May 2021 13:34
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Henderson Avenue Corridor
- Replies: 361
- Views: 300621
Re: Henderson Avenue Corridor
Found out from looking on shopcompanies.com that Jake's on Henderson has apparently sold, and thank God, because I loathe that tacky suburban-style building (it's always looked like an Applebee's...) and it being abandoned is a real blight. All the website says is that it's leased and a new "re...
- 19 Apr 2021 09:34
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Henderson Avenue Corridor
- Replies: 361
- Views: 300621
Re: Henderson Avenue Corridor
Unfortunately, Cochran Heights doesn't wield much political clout because we're a super small neighborhood with low civic participation, because we have a lot of SMU renters (although I'm trying to change this). To my knowledge, there were a few extra loud voices in CH opposing this development, but...
- 02 Apr 2021 11:19
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Deep Ellum: The Stack - 2700 Commerce
- Replies: 173
- Views: 132205
Re: Deep Ellum: The Stack - 2700 Commerce
I love it. More, please.
- 10 Feb 2021 11:49
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Knox District / Knox Park
- Replies: 814
- Views: 617688
Re: Knox / Henderson - Knox Street Side
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...
- 14 Jan 2021 12:36
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Knox District / Knox Park
- Replies: 814
- Views: 617688
Re: Knox / Henderson - Knox Street Side
Village Bakery is already open; I went today and it was jumping. This area will be really great once the construction is over.
- 05 Oct 2020 13:43
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Henderson Avenue Corridor
- Replies: 361
- Views: 300621
Re: Henderson Avenue Corridor
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...
- 04 Sep 2020 16:43
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Most Exciting Projects of 2020
- Replies: 44
- Views: 31771
Re: Most Exciting Projects of 2020
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...
- 04 Sep 2020 16:32
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Uptown Dallas: Central Market at McKinney and Lemmon
- Replies: 426
- Views: 444496
Re: Uptown Dallas: Central Market at McKinney and Lemmon
yaaaaaaaaay! This might be a Top 3 project for me. Very happy to see it's alive!
- 04 Sep 2020 16:27
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Most Exciting Projects of 2020
- Replies: 44
- Views: 31771
Re: Most Exciting Projects of 2020
...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...
- 12 Aug 2020 13:28
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Arts District: Flora & Olive Tower (~441 FT / ~39 ST)
- Replies: 543
- Views: 506026
Re: Arts District: Flora & Olive Tower (~441 FT / ~39 ST)
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.
- 27 Jul 2020 20:09
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: AT&T Discovery District
- Replies: 451
- Views: 396641
Re: AT&T Discovery District
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.
- 17 Jul 2020 15:09
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Knox District / Knox Park
- Replies: 814
- Views: 617688
Re: Knox / Henderson - Knox Street Side
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...
- 07 Jul 2020 14:12
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Henderson Avenue Corridor
- Replies: 361
- Views: 300621
Re: Henderson Avenue Corridor
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...
- 07 Jul 2020 09:08
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Henderson Avenue Corridor
- Replies: 361
- Views: 300621
Re: Henderson Avenue Corridor
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...
- 06 Jul 2020 19:13
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Henderson Avenue Corridor
- Replies: 361
- Views: 300621
Re: Henderson Avenue Corridor
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.
- 04 Jul 2020 14:36
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Henderson Avenue Corridor
- Replies: 361
- Views: 300621
Re: Henderson Avenue Corridor
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.
- 04 Jul 2020 10:01
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Henderson Avenue Corridor
- Replies: 361
- Views: 300621
Re: Henderson Avenue Corridor
I assume because it absorbs significantly less heat, thereby making the pedestrian experience more enjoyable?
- 02 Jul 2020 15:50
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Henderson Avenue Corridor
- Replies: 361
- Views: 300621
Re: Henderson Avenue Corridor
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.
- 04 Jun 2020 12:14
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Victory Park: The Victor (~453FT / 39ST)
- Replies: 177
- Views: 172117
Re: Victory Park: The Victor (~453FT / 39ST)
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.
- 01 Jun 2020 15:41
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas Retail
- Replies: 445
- Views: 398243
Re: Downtown Dallas Retail
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...
- 24 Mar 2020 18:32
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Lower Greenville Development
- Replies: 179
- Views: 166370
Re: Lower Greenville Development
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 ...
- 06 Mar 2020 12:53
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Henderson Avenue Corridor
- Replies: 361
- Views: 300621
Re: Henderson Avenue Corridor
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...
- 25 Feb 2020 14:16
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: The Christopher @The Union (31 ST) + The Union office tower (22 ST)
- Replies: 217
- Views: 236875
Re: The Christopher @The Union (31 ST) + The Union office tower (22 ST)
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.
- 13 Feb 2020 14:18
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Henderson Avenue Corridor
- Replies: 361
- Views: 300621
Re: Henderson Avenue Corridor
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.
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.
- 12 Feb 2020 12:24
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: East Dallas: Kroger
- Replies: 73
- Views: 53365
Re: East Dallas: Kroger
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...