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The idea that people fleeing north to escape heat will stop in Dallas is hilarious. They may stop in Dallas until June, and then say, what the hell, they said it would be cooler here! ;) Well some Texans are incredibly stubborn! :lol: Hell or high water they'll keep their boots on Texas soil, but t...

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I notice d/t has more people walking around and living their life than ever before. Instead of office workers and buildings, d/t should be striving to create areas like Austin, San Antonio, and OKC have... walkable spaces with transit and activities. Continue to demolish or convert old office build...

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Total Office Space Occupied in these Central Dallas Submarkets: 4th Q 2012: 74,968,987 square feet 3rd Q 2020: 70,217,225 square feet. 1st Q 2023: 56,930,726 square feet 2nd Q 2923 : 56,665,868 -- 24.4% less occupied office space than in 2012. 19.3% drop in the past 2 3/4 years. Dallas office occup...

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I'm curious as well, because, in related Centurion news... they're putting the Statler up for sale. The non-movement on this Harwood park property, putting the cabana hotel property up for sale, I wonder if they're wanting to stick with suburban projects from now on. And after watching that drone fo...

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This has finally broken ground: " Apartment project breaks ground at Carrollton’s Trinity Mills Station " Atlanta-based Integral Group is developing the 436-unit apartment portion of the project, being built just east of DART’s Green Line commuter station. The Eviva Trinity Mills apartment...

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Project is likely dead. Figured I'd share here what was passed down the grapevine a couple months ago: usl1.JPG https://twitter.com/3rdDegreeNet/status/1658503753744408579?s=20 Short update on Bold (USL-C) move to Ft Worth. Stadium deal is dead after election loss by it's champion. Donnie Co. still ...

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Taking the "signature park" out of the floodway is the best thing that could have happened. It needs to be accessible wilderness. Easy fix: Seed-bomb inside the levees with milkweed and create an unparalleled oasis for the Monarch butterflies that already migrate through Dallas. Guarantee...

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Yep, it's been a big hit as far as local attendance goes, which is incredible given the weather. Understandably, the weekday afternoon scorcher games have been pretty empty, but the opener was a sell-out. The final game is sold out. Tonight's game is being aired on CBS Sports and it's filling up so ...

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Edit: nah these are old lol, carry on Might be a dumb question, but are these renderings new(ish)? I was randomly browsing the Gensler site and some of these renderings didn't look familiar to me. It's entirely possible I've forgotten seeing them, but they seem different (smaller) than the rendering...

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Way hotter places than DFW have sustained populations for thousands of years. I'm sure climate change will suck for TX, but it's not even comparable to Florida, and it seems people all over the world would rather sweat than freeze. Of course I don't believe any 100 year projections, but I also don'...

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DFW is in a peculiar position that makes it very difficult to even guess about its future. Climate change is going to hit Texas like a hammer. It's a problem that it won't be able to air condition itself out of. So the question becomes, if people begin moving northward away from the coast and to coo...

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There are physical models of all the entries in the DMA. If any of yall get there before I do this summer, some pictures would be great. Finished looking over all of the documentation provided and if I had to rank them by personal preference I would say 1. Johnston Marklee (LA, USA) 2. Nieto Sobejan...

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Wow wow wow. It will take some time to really dig into all the details of each of them, but I will say I think they are all significant improvements so I will be happy regardless of the winner. Edit: lol after looking at them for a while I take it back. I really don't like the Diller Scofidio + Renf...

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I don't think the outdoor component is necessary. The one implemented at Willow Bend was always odd and forgotten. The thing about that outdoor section is that it connects to just nothing . I remember this even in the 90s when malls were thriving with basically no vacancies: some malls just have wa...

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Glad to see this area growing.
A bummer they won't keep the groovy rounded windows ahah.

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Got the new seats in. The work has been cutting it pretty close when the first match is set for just little over a month from now. Still, I'm excited to roast in that July sun and see this sport take off here.

https://twitter.com/MLCricket/status/16 ... 41029?s=20

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An exclusive look at what we'll inevitably get:

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https://dallasvoice.com/the-new-jw-marr ... ional-art/

How very kind of the developer to provide the world with a new version of the old rendering so that we can see just how much of a downgrade this exterior is

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Before we know it it will be time to revive the Texas Electric Railway.

Could even see it being revived as a novelty sort thing thing, between McKinney and Denison. Something not unlike the Grapevine vintage train.

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...They say they won't put out the metro numbers until May ... And here May is: "Large Southern Cities Lead Nation in Population Growth" - https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2023/subcounty-metro-micro-estimates.html It seems I did all my math right because all my metro area po...

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If this is indeed skylink-dependent there's no way they'll end up calling this Terminal F. Surely it will be "Terminal D Satellite" and the gates will be D41-D56, or something like that. That way there would be no room for doubt as to what terminal people need to be driving into/getting dr...

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This article has a non-photo version of the rendering: https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/dallas-fort-worth/news/2023/05/16/-4-8b-dfw-airport-expansion-plan-includes-construction-of-6th-terminal- It definitely looks like they plan to use the modular construction method they have been using at Terminal...

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All these decades of holding on to that space I was half expecting Terminal F to be a new centerpiece of the airport when this is clearly just the new overflow terminal. Looks about as barebones and disposable as could possibly be.

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dallaz wrote:This was posted today. They’re saying that the Field St District could start this year. I highly doubt it, but I thought I should share.

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/dalla ... g/3238403/

I will eat my stetson if this breaks ground in the year twenty twenty three.

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"Arlington planning transit system as entertainment district continues massive growth" - WFAA

There's really not much to chew on here so who knows, but hopefully they're serious enough to have a bus system in place by 2026 for the world cup.

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Like everything else, if it's not broken ground, this won't be happening anytime soon. Money is frozen. Yeah, the current building phase is done. Projects already financed/started will finish up and things will be quiet for a while but eventually all these nebulous proposals around Dallas will spri...

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It was hella tedious but I dug more into MSA growth using the same method. Texas MSAs: Texas_MSAs.JPG United States MSAs: us_msas1.JPG If I ever feel bothered to do it I'll tackle the next 20 largest MSAs as well. And just as a thought experiment (not as an actual expectation), here is when we would...

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Well I went ahead and did the same for every Texas metropolitan area; added up their respective counties. So if I'm making any mistake I'm making the same mistake across all of them, therefore the relative differences between them all should be accurate lol. Metropolitan Area 2021-2022 Dallas: 7,943...

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Glad to see a rebound for Dallas County. I really think COVID hit a lot of communities pretty hard which lead to that decline. We can prob add up the counties to see what the metro population is as well. Good idea. They say they won't put out the metro numbers until May but presumably we can add ou...

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New county numbers are out: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2023/population-estimates-counties.html Dallas rebounded but has not fully recovered from 2020-2021. Tarrant still remains strong. Kaufman and Rockwall rates continue to be bonkers. Collin and Denton continue to be Collin and...

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What could've been...Sigh 100 story Field Plaza 1980s Deco Revival 100 story-Field-Plaza-proposed for Dallas in the Eighties.jpg As goofy as it is to think about, I'm 100% serious that adding just this one building would have completely changed Dallas's popular perception for half a century at leas...

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I get that they're doing it to tap into existing fan bases for the IPL teams, but personally I really wish they went with unique team names instead of borrowing them. The dallas, new york, and LA team names/brands are all borrowed. As the league grows I have no doubt Houston will get a team, and by ...

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They didn't have to. The fix was already in from the get go. The City of Frisco wouldn't had made such a big splashy announcement about the project if it wasn't. The whole charade with the public comments and delaying the vote was all performative / procedural. It's such a goofy procedure for citie...

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After a month long delay, Frisco city council voted on this and gave it the final greenlight. " Frisco’s Universal theme park becomes a reality " - Dallas Morning News The Planning and Zoning Commission recommended a special use permit Tuesday night, then it was approved by City Council in...

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" A North Texas city is getting the nation’s second Peppa Pig Theme Park " - Dallas Morning News Merlin Entertainments, the company behind the Legoland Discovery Center and Sea Life Aquarium in Grapevine, said Tuesday it will open North America’s second Peppa Pig Theme Park in North Richla...

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I assume the 3 billion convention center is doing a lot of the heavy lifting in that 6 billion number.

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City Manager comment on design changes: Interesting design element here is that the park will be constructed in four separate sections while leaving the current street bridges intact that currently exist over the highway there already. https://twitter.com/briandavidplatt/status/1629493899747115009?...

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The article mentions adding underground parking. If that also includes the small staff lot that would be incredible. I do wonder if they'll consider D2 in the design process when that's so far off from materializing. The Perot Museum is planning to convert its 4 acre parking lot into a park. It’ll c...

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The project keeps getting shorter with each iteration. The next update will have it reduced to a QT and CVS. lol As it should. There's no reason for these buildings to be as tall as they are except for wishful thinking on Hoque Global's part. They could easily build something modest with modest ren...

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Historic Dallas Braniff building hits the market again https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2023/02/20/historic-dallas-braniff-building-is-up-for-grabs/?fbclid=IwAR1fbESvKqqoH_jGtvir1Apa5cAMl4eFvDiaWrQpB5z3E8TJ0-QEhzMx7Ec Davidson Bogel Real Estate’s Jake Milner said potential buyers are...

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Thanks Mike Here's another link about it: "Dallas Museum of Art launches design competition for campus expansion project" https://www.archpaper.com/2023/02/dallas-museum-of-art-launches-design-competition-for-campus-expansion-project/ ‘This will be a fascinating architectural challenge fo...

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" Valley View mall site is a disaster, and City Hall is responsible " - Dallas Morning News In November, the city told developer Beck Ventures it had until July 28 to have the structure completely torn down and removed, or face going back to court. But after 50 firefighters spent four hour...

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This has been coming along.

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I believe there are restrictions on how much of a highway can be covered before ventilation equipment has to be installed. I guess leaving that gap open is a cost-saving measure to avoid having to do that.

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The PowerPoint presentation https://dallascityhall.com/government/citymanager/Documents/Council%20Materials/B.%20KBHCCD%20Master%20Plan%20-%20Next%20Steps_02072023.pdf Thanks for the link dallaz. One takeaway seems to be they're choosing to keep Union station as the multimodal hub, hence the skybri...

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News clip from CBS 11 https://youtu.be/cZMiwAZC9c4 Omg they even imagined grass on top of Union station :lol: unionstation4.jpg I completely get wanting to turn union station into what other cities have done with their union stations (a retail/dining mini mall), and funneling people into it from th...

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Why does this not resemble the 3C option the DCC Master Plan chose? :| How did it go from this, which wisely puts a significant portion of the building over the highway, which is otherwise unusable space conv2.JPG To this, which doesn't cover the highway at all except with an embarrassingly small d...

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It at least speaks to the city's and Universal's foresight to have this info ready :lol:. And the park layout suggests Universal knew the kind of pushback to expect and planned accordingly. The annoying part of traffic handwringing--in general, but particularly around DFW--is the majority of Frisco'...

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" Frisco traffic study shows Universal Studios will draw less traffic than H-E-B " - Dallas Morning News Universal Studios in Frisco is expected to draw less weekday traffic than H-E-B, Stonebriar Centre and Collin College, according to a traffic comparison city officials posted online. Th...

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Aerial construction progress:
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