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joshua.dodd

I don't think parking garages have high enough clearance for RVs

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The Butler's parking garage has been there for over 40 years, so it has a good excuse. Everything else, agree. I also find it hilarious that we have a thread dedicated to parking garages. This thread alone epitomizes the cultural significance of Dallas' carcentric mentality. On another note, aren't ...

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Dunhill is keeping too tight a reign on the DD. I find it very telling that while new projects are being floated in almost every other neighborhood, very little is even on the drawing board here. They risk missing the market, at which point they become another Spire/Midtown. For as long as they hav...

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Design District office tower will become new Hilton hotel https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2018/11/28/design-district-office-tower-will-become-new-hilton-hotel The 9-story Feizy Center building on Stemmons Freeway just across the highway from the Infomart is being converted into a ho...

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Office demand seems to favor Uptown and the northern burbs over Downtown.

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I disagree. While this project is heavily car oriented with its pedestal parking garage and a massive parking garage next door--which is still in need of the cladding we were promised--the projects are essentially centered around the water gardens in front of Fountain Place. The plan is to have reta...

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It's ironic that there is literally a big tech bubble bursting on the stock market right now as we speak, Amazon included. Bezos has personally lost 42 billion as the big tech names have lost 20% in value, nearly a trillion dollars, in less than a month.

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I believe it would be behind Fountain Place from that angle. So no.

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I bet this is going to end up being one of the strongest structures ever built in the city of Dallas.

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Jesus Christ! This is a horrible deal for New York. Thank goodness azon didn't choose Dallas. I'd say we've dodged a bullet.

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The real historic architecture doesn't exist anymore. Theater Row and the old Medical Arts Building are long long gone. I hope they have historic photos for the exhibit. Probably the biggest loss, besides the Medical Arts Building, was the giant Coca Cola signage that used to light up the area like ...

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Well, this debate is officially over.

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To be fair--and I say this as someone who hates buildings built on parking garage pedestals--it is very difficult and expensive to build parking underground since you hit limestone after going 10 feet underground.

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I think that project is dead.

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Got some bad news for Fort Worth. Panther Island has been placed on hold.

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^^ This

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itsjrd1964 wrote:
joshua.dodd wrote:Hopefully, this will incentive the redevelopment of the former Renaissance Arena lot.

I would guess you mean *Reunion* Arena.

That's it.

joshua.dodd

Hopefully, this will incentive the redevelopment of the former Renaissance Arena lot.

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@JeffBrown2002 -Some argue heavy rail has large segments underground but the heavy rail metro in Miami is exclusively above ground just like several segments of DART rail. Keep in mind that Miami cannot build underground due to its water table. I would actually argue that DART light rail is, indeed,...

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For me what is really the urban issue is that there is no presence through the uptown area from Victory up to the southern border of Highland Park. If there was a line that cut up through there and then went up the tollway to Frisco and all of that development then I think it could be a fairly robu...

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That is an obvious puddle from the recent rains we have been blessed with.

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Many of those ditches are the original Trinity River bed.

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I knew this building wasn't going to disappoint. It's exceeding my expectations, which is unusual for Dallas.

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Tivo_Kenevil wrote:
ContriveDallasite wrote:It's a small step forward, but no way this parking garage would have retail 5+ years ago.

The exposed garage with no masking is atrocious. Absolutely cheap, kills the charm of the historical buildings nearby.

It really does. Parking garages are the Apex of brutalism. Without even trying.

joshua.dodd

Say what you will about streetcars; but Dallas' MATA street car ridership is actually quite decent. The Oak Cliff Street Car ridership is actually not that bad considering it's not connected to anything. Once the Downtown Lines connect MATA and Oak Cliff; ridership should bump up for these lines. L...

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Dallas needs to build a real subway system in the city. DART rail simply does not do the job. It's inconvenient and the system was designed to accommodate the suburbs, not the actual city itself. Dallas needs to build a subway system around the core and densest neighborhoods that is entirely separat...

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Someone call CVS and tell them how much they suck again. HEB understood what they had the opportunity to do here. I would have preferred a firework stand over the BS CVS built. Just like Soho.jpg LOL. Even with the landscaping they chose, they made it so random with trees placed oddly, differing tr...

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The Harwoods don't care about what the plebs think. The Harwoods build for a specific clientele. A very elite clientele.

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Got to be honest, there is a better use for the land than a museum that lets be honest, most people wont go to and is a little too niche of a market. I just want to see this built as originally proposed for the site in the 80's....lol https://dallasnews.imgix.net/Field-Plaza-130x300.jpg?q=30&w=...

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I hate the name: The Drever. Just call it Elm Place, like it rightfully should. These superficial names for the sake of gentrification are hollow as hell.

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LongonBigD wrote:
cowboyeagle05 wrote:The sheer number of steakhouses back then downtown is funny as well.

Like the sheer number of steakhouses currently in Uptown?

Likely ten times better and less expensive.

joshua.dodd

"A dialogue with the office tower."

Why must they use such unnecessarily cheesy language like this?

Overall, I'm loving the presence it is invoking on the skyline. It really does serve well as a compliment to Fountain Place.

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Haven't seen this posted yet. Too bad it's only 20 stories. I'd love to see this design tall enough to stand out in the skyline https://www.cmbeb5visa.com/cms/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Harwood-hotel.jpg https://www.cmbeb5visa.com/project/group-66-harwood-hotel/ Now this is the kind of unique archi...

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I don't know what was originally proposed. But that's irrelevant. This building has put the city in the red and was mismanagement of pension funds for first responders.

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This building should have never been built.

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This is so damn typical of the asswipes in Dallas. Destroy the city and erase more of it's history and uniqueness! This is why Dallas will never feel like a proper city.

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If we have more independent retail and less corporate generic retail that would be great. But it seems the latter of the two is always inevitable when it comes to gentrification.

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Yeah, Downtown was a vibrant center back in those days. And it actually looked like a real city with real pedestrian activity and connectivity. No matter how developers try to rebuild, we will never be able to achieve the quality of that era.

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I heard really great things about Cafe Express. Indeed. The food, at least in my opinion, was as great as anything fast food, and just as greasy. Their teas are okay, though.

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It is really sad to think that all of those parking lots were once historic brick buildings. The city of Dallas sure is a let down.

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This building used to be blue.

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The lacework is very aesthetically pleasing.

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What they need is mass transit. Rail lines and buses. More highways isn't going to help.

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What's the lifespan of those brackets? Seems like they would need to be replaced every two decades.

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itsjrd1964 wrote:Is the cladding a mesh or a more solid kind of material?

It's glass.

joshua.dodd

The Southland Life building used to be even brighter.

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Dallas needs to build a subway system. Not a DART light rail subway. We need an actual subway system for our most dense neighborhoods. Otherwise, we will become like another LA.

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how many cars will that garage be able to accommodate? I can imagine the traffic congestion all these cars will bring will turn Olive and Ross into an absolute nightmare. The cladding looks really nice up close.

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But all these dumbasses from California don't seem to have an ounce of common sense. -___- really... Leave it to a Texan to blame Californians for homelessness in Texas. Who is the majority of people moving to Dallas? Californians. Btw, San Francisco sure is looking great these days with all the hu...

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Also, I would like to point out when I worked in Deep Ellum after the 90's crime wave that turned into a police state then everyone left the area and bars closed there was almost no crime because there was no one to rob/mame etc. Crime has increased because of the demographics and the number of thi...

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