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Screenshot of the site plan from the video that marks the Phase 1 plan in green lower level. I am guessing he just needs that one office tenant to sign a lease to get the office and hotel tower pictured in Phase 1.

They can barely take care of their existing exhibits I am not looking forward to an expansion anytime soon to the Perot. Last I visited the Museum 3 months ago, the place was pretty beat up by kids' use. Anything interactive was very obviously barely working or not at all. I am sure that's normal fo...

My only problem with it is its parking garage ground floor. While it's somewhat architecturally covered better than some projects, it's still a huge empty expanse of not active use between McKinney Ave and Cedar Springs Rd. To be honest, the suburban design of the Crescent added to this, not to ment...

That's the problem we wanted Deep Ellum to stay original to its alternative roots but it's had such a constant up and down cycle of success and then crime and drops off then success again crowds return and then a crash again. I am in my 30s and I worked in Deep Ellum during one of the empty periods ...

This has Trammel Crow and CBRE involved all pretty sturdy developers. The question is the Maple Ave road work getting in the way of this starting at all? They have had Maple ave along the southern edge of this site for months now. Plus the apartment building further down Maple. DId this site maybe n...

Yeah, I saw some articles claiming the HQ moved as well but here is what Tucy means. https://www.chron.com/business/article/chevron-bay-area-headquarters-houston-17271643.php Chevron paying for employees to relocate to Houston for Bay Area When Chevron vacates the 100-acre campus in 2023, freeing up...

Another local developer that buys land in downtown and does nothing .. That reminds me - what ever became of Turkish Mike? City Hall got tired of his empty promises and turned a cold shoulder to his proposals. Plus all his investors got smart and required an additional signature on his expenditures.

And the Hillwood banners have been down for months...DCAD shows it is still under the same Hillwood ownership though so they haven't quietly offloaded it yet according to public record. Knowing Hillwood they will sit on it until the next boom cycle. They built the Victory Park office project on spec...

Tnexster wrote:So the hotel in the rending is already built?

Yes, Google Maps shows groundwork but Streetview has more recently updated pics...

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I love how in this article Hoque Global has more experience? Sure Hoque Global has a tower planned Downtown (NewPark 1) and owns an old office building Downtown (Adolphus tower) but not seeing what extra experience Hoque Global has over Centurion. Centurion has Plano Collin Creek going well for now....

Just look at the NorthEnd website it's residents only now. (https://northenddallas.com) They also are refusing to report occupancy percentage. I am not sure if they even have leasing agents anymore. Leasing staff get paid based on closing on new leases and small bonuses for renewing leases. They hav...

Yes, underground parking so this one will take a while but the existing buildings are coming down slowly so it will be forever before we see anything above ground or even the construction crane. They are fully vacated and being demoed.

Well, it was already given a fresh new paint job this year and since warehouse space is still a hot market I don't doubt they will spend the money to renovate as they are touting. Maybe one day it can be part of a large urban mixed-use project but I don't mind that for now it's getting a redo for th...

They aren't talking about putting a school in this tower. The whole school thing is meant for other parcels in later phases of the NewPark development in smaller buildings meant just for education. There is already a Dallas ISD school nearby already and it is a school that targets planning and archi...

Well, let's hope this entry into the DFW market means they are looking at other Dallas neighborhoods for projects.

It's easy to flash renderings it's hard to get anyone to sign on the dotted line for your vision. Lord knows with one paycheck I could order some renderings of a proposed redevelopment of any site in Dallas and try to cheer it from the mountain top as a possibility if someone would just give me the ...

Oh, I don't doubt the site will include the other elements like the hotel and some residential but I seriously doubt anything will climb above 20 stores on the site. GS will get something akin to what the Harwood District has for office towers. A hotel tower/residential will be flushed out within th...

And Craig Hall still has a giant parking lot near this one next to formerly Chase Tower so he could one day launch something of a similar scale. I imagine he will let Portman improve the value of his site and build up his Frisco project long before he considers another phase on the large parking lot...

And Hunt does seem to be moving quickly and earnestly. Offering residents money to move out now so they can start demolition.

While I may have done the comparison with Hall Arts cause Craig Hall was so negative on the Arts District demand for so many years lets not drag GoldmanS/Hunt Realty unconfirmed towers into this thread lol. Portman certainly seems like the Urby developers they rolled in bought land, made an announce...

My complaint was always that the media jumped on the clickbait part of the project a fictional 80-story tower. Fictional in that for now that part of the project is not yet confirmed. The only thing we have in hand is an office tower for GS. If any media company had chosen to just look at the concep...

Well to be honest they appear to have a wall facing the street as well. Encasing the garden in two walls to make the space more private and walling off access to Thanksgiving Square too. Probably will help keep residents from the Mosaic from bringing their dogs over to poop and piss in the new "...

They did tear down a significant amount of office/retail space here so no doubt. Plus the city is desperate for park space in North Dallas so the city is more than willing to trade parking ratio requirements for park land.

Traffic is a nightmare at 6 pm everywhere and it's not at 11 pm in most places that will never go away.

It will be taller than Hall Arts District for sure but they had preexisting buried parking to build on. Here its all above ground so above-ground parking gets you lots of extra height to get that ego boost many of you want for Downtown by height.

Some of the renderings seem to suggest that the fire station become a ground-floor business of some sort like a bar or restaurant. I think they want to eventually move out of the fire station from the existing building into something brand new and moved to another part of the NewPark district.

Yeah well like I said before I don't think he will build anything unless he gets a tenant. This is just the city showing public support the developer can take to potential tenants and the bank and ask for the construction loan. The bank isn't going to write the construction loan unless he has a tena...

Yeah, the headlines are click bait most of the jobs are already in DFW. Half of them are in Downtown CBD and are already in Trammel Crow tower. So we will steal some from Richardson and if they hold up their end of the bargain they will add some. It's not a terrible deal to retain most of those jobs...

^Yeah, those are claims that the developer wants to do in later phases most likely with further city money. This money is solely for this one tower which the city is hoping will kick off development on this site despite Hoque Global not having any lead tenant yet. NorthEnd has Goldmann and Mike is h...

At least so far its just Love Field and not Southwest Love Dallas Field Airport

Well I would imagine this is one of those if they get good use out of the current site and need more space they will invest more money in more buildings but if this online course stuff holds longer and makes a bigger impact in well-off communities like Frisco/Plano./Addison you could see these satel...

Personally, I live on Oak Lawn Ave and buy gas at the QT near Love Field or the Race Trac on Lemmon but since I work from home I do not move my car that much. I can see how my friends will appreciate this gas station though despite it going against everything that I wanted to see this neighborhood g...

Oh, I do not doubt they have tenants they are making deals with behind the scenes it was just new for me to see so much blank storefronts that for now have NorthPark generic branding on them. I don't shop that often anymore to be honest so the last time I was at NorthPark was May of 2021 before all ...

Last I saw the Oak Lawn committee said no cause they felt while burying the parking was a good plan that such a busy hotel with two flags on such small streets was too much they weren't willing to approve. The committee liked the project overall but supposedly Hall and Oak Grove are too small for su...

Those are concept renderings at the least meant to attract a tenant for office space and influence city staff and city council to approve of zoning and exclusive tax incentives. Once they get a tenant like Goldman Sachs in a meeting they discuss what will it take to get Goldmann Sachs to sign on the...

I went to the mall over the weekend and I was surprised, I am not sure why I haven't lived under a rock for that long to not know but the sheer number of spots that appear to be open for lease without any store opening branding was noticeable. At least Eatly was packed with people eating and shoppin...

This seems like the best way forward for WRR and it does seem like they should eventually move out of Fair Park but I will let KERA make that decision when it comes. For now, it's not necessary for them to vacate a building that doesn't have an obvious use if they were to leave tomorrow.

Ultimately this is what really matters with the Trinity despite all the vanity park projects and misguided transportation projects. Flood Control is the most necessary focus and keeping the water from flooding Downtown and surrounding neighborhoods of all demographics is and should be no 1 priority....

I would also agree to leave it the way it is until something more concrete happens. The sale of the land is good progress but until the project has more news to report I don't see the need to break out the Portman project into its own thread. It has basically one news cycle of articles. Once we get ...

Can we pay them to close the Downtown store and they can move anywhere cause I am all for it at this point? That building is vastly dated and Neimans is still a dinosaur trying to figure out how to be a world fashion icon while being chained to Downtown Dallas(main street district) which is just one...

Hmm, I hope it's not a Texas donut style 400 rental unit project. The article framing the convo with the developer suggests it will be a looker but I am concerned it's just the usual cheerleading and development bloat. While I am not expecting a 60-story tower here since they only have 20-story zoni...

The question is how quickly will Goldman Sachs move forward on moving to Dallas before 2028. If they and the city are happy with a deal Goldman could easily move more and more employees towards the area as the tower plans continue to become actual construction using existing space for even short ter...

Except that the building they own is already decades old and needs major renovation. I am sure their office space in the Old HQ is dusty divided and full of asbestos and a few renovations they have done over the years have probably made some maintenance issues a nightmare. Not to mention it's histor...

The businesses already moved. Have you seen Downtown the office space is mostly empty and continuing to empty while we dump money turning dead parking lots into parks to try to recover some benefit. Even though the Dallas skyline is legendary offices keep moving away. Office occupancy is very low an...

Yeah, it doesn't load for me either and I am a moderator so not sure what's up.

That Colin County mistake is odd I would have thought the database software wouldn't allow that kind of mistake to even be possible.

Anyone know what they Intend to do with the Kroger? The suburban strip mall store seems really out of place. This is probably Kroger's #1 store in the D/FW market, so I'd expect they'll resist any changes to the store or it's location. I would be interested to know high-volume Kroger stores in DFW....

Maybe a staging site for something else nearby? Like maybe the Central Market project?

Traffic is a good thing but when it's mostly people sitting in it not going anywhere causing pollution and passing by the city center and not working there, living there or shopping there it is eroding the tax base. Traffic that moves to the burbs without being slowed down because it's on a high-spe...

That I am not surprised by at all. We all know the Trinity Project has always been about owning land next to the Trinity Tollway for profit by a select group of private interests.

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