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That whole area needs to build up and create more density. To many disparate lots and old buildings. Needs to connect more to Uptown and be walkable. Area really needed that Central Market mixed use project to center area as a destination.

Cbdallas

A coup here would be to convince Target to move across the street and open a large urban store in this development other retail would follow and build out more residential towers. Then you could finally redevelop around the Cityplace tower.

Cbdallas

The Galleria is quickly becoming just a business park with a hotel component. Time to redevelop all the way from tollway to Preston and make it one cohesive area.

Cbdallas

That article is so flawed. We have limitations here in height due to FAA restrictions due to being under Love Field flight path. Neither Austin or Houston have that. Also we have a much more urban experience surrounding downtown with much more density and more to come. I love a tall building but I w...

Cbdallas

If you are going to be gone for more than one day does anyone want their car in an open lot exposed to weather and crime for an extended period of time.

Cbdallas

I really like this for downtown!

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I thought the tall towers were supposed to be hotel condo mixed use towers not the actual office building for Goldman. I guess this is better than seeing them consolidate in Irving, Southlake or Frisco.

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McD's on first floor of 10 story mid-rise.

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Finally something on Lemmon. I hope this starts a trend all the way down to the Tollway and get rid of all of those individual plots and old ugly strip centers and fast food places.

Cbdallas

Is there any reason that we should give up on this? I never expected this to be a quick in and out project. Anytime you do mixed use and high profile high end it takes much longer to see any dirt move. Plan 3 times build once. I still think this is a go just not tomorrow.

Cbdallas

I agree it may be a slow go for anything not permitted and moving dirt.

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Drove by Energy Plaza on Sunday and I noticed a large black boarding across the entire street side on the building lower 2 stories looks like they are or getting ready for construction.

Cbdallas

I just wish one developer would put together a Mid-rise Apartment development between Oak Lawn and the Tollway somewhere along Lemmon. The land usage density along there is abysmal.

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What really sucked the wind out of Downtown Dallas was Las Colinas in the 1980's and beyond, then Plano, then Frisco.....and the beat goes on. Imagine if we could have kept the center and heart of big business in Downtown Dallas and not let the suburbs capture what they have over the last 5 decades....

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So phase one will just be the parking garage.

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I think the question these days is not about the developer but why can't we find any tenants to open offices downtown instead they go to the burbs. The biggest news for the last several years has been about converting unused office space in building into apartments and hotels yet no business use. I ...

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Could be fun to turn them into Branniff themed/styled apartments in the spirit of the TWA Hotel at JFK.

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Wishing Godspeed for this project.

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Sometimes I wonder if in the developer offices for all of these projects in Dallas open up this site and laugh and take bets on what is said all the while knowing what is really going on that we the public won't know until they are ready for us to know.

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So that is where it is going. Glad to see the high rise tower buildings going up the hill towards Oak Lawn.

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A lawyer friend always said don't ever buy a condo high rise when it opens wait at least 5 years to see how many problems and money will be asked from the 1st time owners to pay. This has played out in many buildings not only in Dallas but around the world with such examples of the leaning tower in ...

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I noticed a couple of nights ago that the LED lights on the building had some kind of diffuser put on them although most but not all had them probably still covering them. They seemed to have a much more finished and subtle look.

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Somebody get out there checkbook and lets get these and expand our system. How cool to have original Dallas cars on our lines again. If I win Powerball tomorrow night I am doing this!

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The best thing that could happen to the DART system is for all of the urban stations to get built out with high density urban use developments. The fact that CItyplace subway station is surrounded on one side with a suburban Target strip center and mostly around there is very low density use. Even t...

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I think the issue with this is that the surrounding areas to get to this mall are either empty lots or run down strip centers. The whole area needs cohesive redevelopment not just the Galleria itself. It feels a bit like an island because of the general area.

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I wonder how much usage in the urban parts of Dallas possible DART riders gets siphoned off to Uber due to demographics that would use the rail otherwise if ride share were not available. I think this affects cities like Dallas, Atlanta, LA, but not New York or Chicago as much due to their greater d...

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Based on that angle the OLC has no reason to exist. Developers should be able to go start directly with the city to get approval and build and speed up the process instead of start at a committee and waste time trying to please them by lowering building heights and traffic concerns and what plants a...

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I don't understand the use of any palms in Dallas area as they seem really out of place with the climate and nature scape that exist here. I think it started as a trend at some point like country french or tuscan style and really should end.

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OLC keeping inner Dallas like Plano.

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We need a ton more density built around all of the Dallas urban stations. For instance the Cityplace station on both sides of Central should have a ton more density and if you lived there you could ride the system to another Station with density to shop eat or work. It seems we built out a system th...

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Does anyone have good history on the OLC - its mandate, its purview, its ability to bind parties to its conclusions? I'd love to understand better how it works and what the genesis of the organization is. Why is this non-governmental body of citizens able to hamstring growth, investment, and densit...

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I'll second the vote for Target there I already shop at the Tom Thumb across the street. Would be a game changer for that part of town.

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I see this only benefiting Fort Worth and Arlington for future growth away from Dallas. Not for it.

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60 story pencil thin high rise LOL

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Meanwhile in Austin a smaller city and metro is getting an 80 story super tall the tallest in the state.
https://austin.towers.net/austins-next- ... d-trinity/

Ugh and sigh.

Cbdallas

The lincoln site seems like they could have captured so much more density and profit even going up just a few more floors. I don't get it surely that property was expensive to purchase.

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It does have a great city view looking back towards downtown but it is not really near or connected to anything and sits up on that island like piece of land. They seem to only build condo buildings in Dallas to appeal to a large sq. footage high dollar buyer so it is a limited pool of buyers.

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The developer also has not moved on the Klyde Warren Park building as well so maybe financing?, timing? who know at this point. I guess for the foreseeable future this will be an empty block and I will have to keep driving up to Lover Lane.

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To those of us who have lived in Dallas for most of our lives we call it and always will Central Expressway.

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Sadly I could see loosing the tower on this one due to Oak Lawn Committee and Nimby's.

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I wonder how they could parlay that property they own along Lemmon into a store. It might have to be a midrise mixed use with parking underneath like the Tom Thumb near Victory. We are still waiting and waiting and waiting for the Central Market mixed use to start un Uptown at Lemmon and McKinney ave.

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One of those larger areas underground could be turned into a fun bowling alley bar theme place with other games. Let all of it be turned into nightclubs underground with restuarants and stores moved to street level.

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Glad these are gone. Would love to see a tower at that parking lot across from Tom Thumb and also the El Fenix properties go up.

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I wish they would go heavier on apartment towers maybe two or three instead of one. That would help with sustainability of the stores and restaurants.

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This feels like such a strange fit for both entities but I guess rent is rent.

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Perhaps struggling in not right word. What I am trying to say is that compared to everything as you say in all directions is developed and nice. That area now feels empty and undeveloped which is strange for that part of Dallas. I think it is important to get that area developed with something rathe...

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The nighttime picture looks like a real building and looks good. The early photos look more like generic place holders cut and paste. would love to see more towers cross over into this area.

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From Preston to Tollway to Spring Valley to LBJ

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The stub out for the DART rail station seems more plausible with every new tower announced.

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I would classify that whole area as a struggling area of Dallas

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