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R1070 wrote:It doesn’t look bad though. I think the final project will be nice.

Your prognostication seems unlikely at this point..

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...So did they not want to pay the architect their full rate to finish designing that last corner? This is supposed to be high end?

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I'll say it once and I'll say it again .. TxDOT Doesn't give a crap, about "traffic". They have never in their history relived traffic congestion. They just rehash expansion ideas. They're now more focused on creating jobs and Economic activity. They're going to tear down i345 and point to...

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Looks like they changed the design.

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The I-30 bridge over the Trinity has its arches lit now and looks a lot better. Damn it... I should've took a picture. It's not the first time they turn on the lights. They do it every so often. I guess to test them.. but I'd be shocked if they're on tomorrow. It's VERY rare. But the bridge looks g...

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R1070 wrote:Enough land to the North for Lexi some day.

Hahaha. Lexi will probably be 49 stories of parking.

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.-.-. but I would have preferred that any rework of freeways within a couple of miles of the CBD be trenched (similar to 75) allowing various points to be capped over time. US 75 has been trenched how long now, 20 plus years? Reconstruction started in 1992 and was finished in 1999. Has anyone propo...

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Trenching i35 and connecting to river front and design district would be huge.. just saying

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I35 should be trenched. It's awful what they with the expansion/pegasus project. So much worse now

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Style to bunk. Pimp it out w/ LEDs or somethin', you feel me?

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This would be the biggest office building in DT in quite a while .. cheers to that i suppose. But I'll believe it once dirt flies!

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Has Hillwood ever built any urban residential or mixed use? I think they built some of the Residential and Retail in Victory Park. But as far as a Hotel/Office and/or residential in one building.. nothing in their portfolio shows otherwise. They probably don't want to deal with residential and want...

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I feel nothing when I see it. It's so isolated from anything to actual make me feel like it's part of the urban fabric. It's an ivory tower.

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Man, what a height downgrade from the old cylinder design. Visually it looks... unoffensive? It's fine. I'm hard to please when it comes to glass towers though. It certainly looks nice from the klyde park point-of-view at least. The tower’s 16th floor would have a public “sky lobby,” 16 floors aint...

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If the DCC doesn't want to put the money into Fair Park, then focus solely on landing a professional baseball team in a stadium at Reunion Arena or I-45 @ I-30. *sigh* **GAWH** Why focus on building a baseball park when.no one has asked for one? Have the Rangers hinted they will leave Arlington? Ha...

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Wow 20 stories, that's a lot for the immediate area. But i like the potential for more these around the area

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Yeah I don't believe that to be true at all.

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I hope not. We don't need Dart serving Collin County. They already stink at serving Dallas County members ....

Also that presentation was it for the irving to celina corridor?... They're really trying to connect irving to celina..

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This is uglyyyyyyyyyy!

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I'm also wondering what will happen to the Community Brewery space now that they are moving to another location. Ask Cuban. He's bought up a lot of land around there including where community is currently. My guess is he's planning for a future arena on that side of the highway once AAC is deemed &...

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Great picture! What's amazing is this doesn't show all the growth that happened in Uptown as well. I'm expecting the Cedars and the southern portion of the CBD to see an even more drastic change in the next 20 years. If we ever see dirt fly w the Trinity river project..... I would expect the design...

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Tucy wrote:
Urbancowboy wrote:Downtown Dallas population will hit 20K in 5-7 years and not decades. That's non-sense!
Assuming we're at 12,000 now, that would require the addition of something like 900-1200 residential units per year.

There's a lot already u/c and or just opened..it's less than that.

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I took my family to the Farmer's Market later afternoon and the Discovery District in the evening on Saturday and (unsurprisingly) both areas were teeming with people. We popped into the Statler later in the night and the hotel as a whole seemed to be busy as did the rooftop and speakeasy, but Scou...

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Dallas is no. 4 in this most diverse cities list by WalletHub

https://wallethub.com/edu/most-diverse-cities/12690

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THRILLHO wrote:Is there an organization that tracks the number of residents in the Dallas core/loop? I would love to follow that data as it changes.

Yes, Downtown Dallas inc.
https://downtowndallas.com/

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For comparison, per the 2020 Houston Downtown Organization report. There's 10.4K residents in their core. So slightly less than Dallas. https://www.downtownhouston.org/media/uploads/attachments/2020-09-21/Downtown_At_a_Glance_2020_FINAL.pdf The Downtown Austin alliance state of Downtown 2021 shows t...

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Is the land downtown priced so that only something like 300 Pearl or the Atelier can get built? Or can someone still do 5 story stick wraps? I would be happy to see the vacant surface lots turned into mid-rise residential, That would bring in the residents. That’s what happened in State Thomas, and...

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I've worked downtown for the past few years, and the daily office foot traffic along Ross Ave is encouraging. Even in the past few months. New / upcoming downtown residential projects: AMLI Fountain Place, Hall Arts, Atelier, Thompson, 300 Pearl, The Galbraith (Dallas High School). Like the momentu...

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"Downtown has so far to go - it seems to always be on the edge of greatness, or despair, depending on the day of the week." Exactly. You never know which downtown you're going to get. I was out there this past Sunday afternoon and it felt like a real city. Went running last night, and it ...

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Hannibal Lecter wrote:^ 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.

Hahaha. I actually like that... SoGood is SoCringe. I can't believe they want to go through with obnoxious, try-hard name.

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What is so terribly wrong with the existing I-345 viaduct? TXDOT should refurbish it and use it for another 50 years as is, imho. It's over engineered imo and needlessly large. Why can't TxDOT at least try to make good designs? Go Look up how elegantly Urban overpasses are done elsewhere. And how t...

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A feel-good story about a downtown restaurant. https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/thanks-to-a-loving-grandson-and-a-viral-tiktok-video-a-dallas-restaurant-facing-hard-times-has-new-life/287-d1ce137b-698b-4e52-b613-012409b6efbf It is sad that it took something like this to actually get the down...

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The quality of the homes is nice. Not gonna lie. At least they appear nice from the outside

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The lagoon is so extra. It's almost comical. Lol

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Tragic. What a great concept it is.

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Agreed. Something's not right about this and what's particularly concerning is that with Open Realty owning most of Henderson Ave, if this development isn't happening then one should assume practically nothing will be happening (from a development standpoint) along Henderson. Well the project is st...

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willyk wrote: Benefit of the doubt— hard to get a retail and restaurant development financed in the pandemic?

I suppose that's what happened. But my only problem with that is that this particular development got approved late 2019. So, was the financing not in place? And it's been two years now almost..

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This one was just approved. Screen Shot 2018-04-11 at 2.42.57 PM.jpg https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2019/07/lets-check-in-on-that-planned-mixed-use-development-on-henderson-ave/ Safe to say this is dead right? Just passed by the neighborhood... Absolutely no progress.What a shame. Edit: well...

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They care about their jobs.. so I could see them going with tearing it down just to have something else to do and they can point to created jobs/ economic impact! look we did something! Fair is fair, I am not a traffic engineer, and I did just use an anecdote to present my case. :mrgreen: Morris an...

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I'm a long term Dallasite :D , that while not being a traffic engineer, I am an engineer used to reading long technical reports that hide flaws in fluffy renderings and emotional pandering. Perhaps, your fluff reading abilities are good. But perhaps your road progrnasatcations are shite too. You're...

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Were the deck park plans abandoned? I hadn't heard anything so I just assumed it was going to happen eventually. Well, this is better than it was before that's for sure. The Legacy developments are so inward facing that it will be difficult to glue them together without a deck park. I don't see why...

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Tacos, good luck. They'll have some very stiff competition!

Food aside, great design.

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Not exactly my definition of a plaza given that it's mostly grass. But nonetheless, it can serve as a nice pocket park for the neighborhood

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mdg109 wrote:Awesome. Anyone have an update on the damaged property next door?

I forget about that accident. Any word ??

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Must we allow all parking monoliths to not even try to cover up their buttholes?

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Great addition, totally agree. Make downtown a Brickell^^

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Cranes a'comin'

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Something Unreported is about to go down on greenbriar st. with direct access to the Trinity... More affordable 1M townhomes i presume..

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How affordable!

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Tnexster wrote:I have never been in there, are those donuts any good?

Yes, highly recommend. The donuts are really loaded up with toppings. And they have lots of baked goods on sale other than donuts. They even sell popcorn!

Their hours of operation are good for a donut shop too. They close at 6!

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