Dallas City hall is ugly. I loathe any building build with concrete as an design feature. Burnett Tower in Ft. Worth is the same kind of ugly. They all look like Soviet buildings.
This whole are on the SW side of the CBD has the land and connections to really grow. If I were in sim city mode I'd make this area full of mid-rises with a tower or two. Make the streets very pedestrian/bike friendly. It's got good connections to intercity rail/Amtrak/ highways/ trails/ TRE/ and HS...
There was a transit oriented webcast by city on Monday. Sounds like they are working to increase walkablity in streets around Downtown & surrounding neighborhoods. They would like to make a few other stations into a Mockingbird Station development. Also finalizing plans at how to get the ugly su...
Jack & Ginger's opened today and I checked it out and had dinner there. I enjoyed the spot, the food was just alright, beer selection was good and it seemed like they had an extensive whiskey list as well. 77 Degrees was also open as well, but there weren't that many people there (then again, i...
I'd love to see more retail around Union Station. Make Union a real hub. Something like St. Louis did. Make it DART, Greyhound, HSR, Streetcar all connected. Have more mid rises and maybe make it a nice little neighborhood. connect N. Oak Cliff to Cedars and downtown.
I wish SW downtown had more development with Hunt. I do feel like it's got great potential. However, With new towers instead of the current apartments I think we can really fill a big hole in the skyline. I hope we can get 500' plus in height at least. Still waiting on Hillwood....
Clairvista is moving locations. From their current building to the retail location in the bottom of the new Magnolia property. Sign went in Friday and they’re looking to open next month at the new location.
The owner of Jack & Gingers/ 77 degrees had some code compliance "upgrades" to be made. They had a soft opening of Jack & Gingers, but nothing official. I don't remember exactly what the code issues were though. I will say that if the crowds at both places were anything to go by th...
I was apart of the engineering side of things. Some of the routes and station locations were made before I ever came on. Everything DART told us was they always wanted a two track line from DFW to at a minimum Wylie. They also said Plano and Richardson were putting pressure on them to put some of th...
I wonder how the Silver route will overlap with the Red/Orange line. There isn't much room between Cityline/Bush and 12th Street for 2 more parallel tracks, but on the other hand, the non-electric Silver trains can't run on the electrified Red/Orange line. I have seen recent work on the east-side e...
My bet is Matthews Southwest will also soon own the land currently proposed for that big retail and residential development between Woodall Rogers and Commerce around the jails and they will sit on that property too. I live in North Oak Cliff and everytime I cross the Trinity (almost daily) I daydr...
As a person of faith myself I can understand not agreeing with everything the church's leadership is saying. I live in N. Oak Cliff and commute to Munger Place Church, so the idea people drive outside their "area" is normal to me. My biggest issues aside from politics with FBD, and especia...
I hate to say it but sonic ice is a thing. I only will have ice in my drink if it is "sonic/QT" style ice. It sounds dumb I realize, but I don't care for ice in my drink. However, this type of ice has somehow been ok with me. Just about everyone I know prefers this type of ice as well.
When people say just make it a blvd. all I can think of is drunk people being hit at night or cars flying 30 mph too fast down the road. Tunnel 345. Toll it even and give people the option to use city streets for free or toll highway tunnel, but just don't make a boulevard.
Anyone have any idea when they will start work on the the "3 hole punch" railroad underpass between Beckley and Sylvan? I thought it was supposed to start this fall? With all the new town homes/apartments being built along W Main / Commerce/ Singleton the roads are getting annoyingly busy ...
Not sure what this says about anything but I live in North Oak Cliff. I can drive to Downtown Ft. Worth during Morning rush hour in 35 to 40 mins. It takes my wife almost the same amount of time to get from our place to Thanksgiving Tower most days. As I said before I'm in the buried I-345 crowd. I ...
I wish they would have put white lights on the trees like Alamo did. Looks nice and inviting. They need to fix Davis though. It's dark and the street is like driving in the Baja. I'm also wondering how long the owner of that old dingy apartment complex on Bishop and 10th will hold out?
Went to Jack & Ginger's last week (soft opening). Some very small kinks to work out but the place is nice! Feels for a lack of a better word cozy. Kind of the opposite from the place above. Lots of selection on drinks and food is good! Ghost Pepper dip was on the giant pretzel was good! Service ...
Yes Sprouts is a good everyday store. I think they will build it eventually, but I (and many others) feel like it's something we need now. We also need another Bolsa Mercado type restaurant. I miss that place!
As someone who lives in this neighborhood, and walks as much as we can to Bishop Arts, I don't know 1 person asking for this Royal Blue. We need a Sprouts or Central Market grocery store. The Tom Thumb on Hampton is not good. I can't understand why the Sprouts at El Fenix or the CM on Beckley/Davis ...
I forget are there any FAA height restrictions on this site. We need to get into the super tall club! I'd also like to see some more infill buildings (400'-800') on some of these empty parking lots downtown. If we are going to have a metro population bigger than Chicago soon we a downtown that at le...
I'd love to see the red line go to Cedar Hill. I know someone in their govt. and they still plan on having a dart stop there one day. I'd also like to see the blue line go to Rockwall. The green line should go to Balch Springs. Pipe Dream to see the red line go north to McKinney and a line from Carr...
I'd love for a super tall at this location. Right smack dab in the middle of downtown. It would look great at this location surrounded by all the other tall buildings. Maybe I've spent too much time in LA.
I hope this will spur growth among the sea of surface lots in the east part of Downtown. I feel like this area has great potential for some condo towers like in uptown. Just a dream though...
It might be just the thing the neighborhood has been missing. Everything there is so buttoned-up and scripted and planogrammed that a disorganized, thrown-together Double-D pretentious playground is prefect, and the views are apparently all that. This side of Knox-Henderson needs some shaking up fr...
Walked by a few times this weekend and just find everything about it obnoxious. Still have hope for the pub concept downstairs, but feel like that market point is already well served by the Old Monk and Skellig on this strip. Don't see this place lasting at all. It will have a nice flurry of people...
I wish the parking lot across the street where he street car stops had some sort of residential. I sometimes dream of buying Union Station (anyone got any money? haha)and turning it into a food hall and small shops. It can be a place to grab a bite before getting on DART to the AAC, State Fair, Airp...
Drove by the future Central Market location yesterday. The sign on the gate is gone and there is a for sale sign up. I really hope they are still going to put a central market in. We need a decent grocery store in the neighborhood. Everyone who lives here all agree so more grab and go places and gro...
Ground level looks great. Definitely an improvement over the buildings currently there. I wish the other tower hadn’t fallen through where One Sette is located. Yeah, that is a bummer. I really liked the look of that tower and its impact on McKinney Ave. There will be atower there soon. I know the ...
635 Will take 4 to 5 years to complete. I do know also they will be closing the HOV lanes & reducing the # of lanes to 4 each way from 5 between Greenville Ave. & Galloway Ave. during construction. All I can say is thank goodness they decided not to build a depressed section for the HOV lanes.