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- 26 Mar 2021 13:01
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: Dallas High School
- Replies: 165
- Views: 117623
Re: Downtown Dallas: Dallas High School
Pompous would be the names of some of these poorly made buildings with their cheap and terrible looking architecture. I Feel free to criticize the architecture and the build quality and the names (wishing the Chole had not a mis-print), but the names you gave implicated the renters, not the archite...
- 22 Mar 2021 09:59
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: Dallas High School
- Replies: 165
- Views: 117623
Re: Downtown Dallas: Dallas High School
Corporate dorms. Corporate plantation. You choose your euphemism.
How about neither, because they both sound ridiculously pompous?
It's 51% affordable units, where affordable equals earning 30-60 percent of Dallas’ median household income.
- 01 Mar 2021 10:59
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Development
- Topic: McKinney: General Thread
- Replies: 28
- Views: 23360
Re: McKinney: General Thread
and apartments (much to the chagrin of NIMBYs).
And me, since living adjacent to a highway is really unhealthy, but we built so dang highways we pretty much have no choice.
- 01 Mar 2021 09:16
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Development
- Topic: McKinney: General Thread
- Replies: 28
- Views: 23360
Re: McKinney: General Thread
Since we are talking 10 years into the future and not say like 50, I personally don't think so. I think the suburban stand-alone linear office buildings with the primary decider being high freeway access is done. There are multiple locations even along the G Bush where office buildings have been bui...
- 24 Feb 2021 09:17
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: DFW Economy
- Replies: 462
- Views: 436628
Re: DFW Economy
Plano residents striking down the Plano Tomorrow plan will stand as one of the worst planning decisions that city has ever made and will impact the entire region for years to come. Nah. I've said my piece before about that (non)plan, but the bigger mistake Plano is currently making is not allowing ...
- 09 Feb 2021 09:25
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: New Census Population Estimates
- Replies: 307
- Views: 294343
Re: New Census Population Estimates
Is DFW really that different though? I personally know of 6 100+ unit age 55+ apartment complexes in Plano under or nearing construction, 3 in Richardson, 2 in Lewisville, and 1 in Far North Dallas. How many in Irving, or the rest of Dallas and Ft Worth? They basically fly under the radar so they ar...
- 01 Feb 2021 10:54
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Development
- Topic: Plano: Willow Bend Mall
- Replies: 323
- Views: 151537
Re: Plano: Willow Bend Mall
Plano has nothing even close to that. Frisco, Allen, Richardson, and others around it have more 'attractions'. So yeah, a mall-version of a Great Wolf Lodge would fill a city need.
- 18 Jan 2021 09:25
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: Uptown Dallas: Business Openings and Closings
- Replies: 636
- Views: 648250
Re: Uptown Dallas: Business Openings and Closings
These may seem like basic things but trust me they are not standard things for all apartments so yes they are luxury properties. So basically every apartment north of I30 is luxury, or everything that is not Section 8? Not sure I agree with that. I think they are just average apartments, neither ju...
- 17 Jan 2021 21:07
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Development
- Topic: Collin Creek Mall
- Replies: 84
- Views: 81128
Re: Collin Creek Mall
Agree. The new ChikFilA across the street is a trash development - it took down a more interesting building, Japan House, it has much much larger setbacks and even less interaction with the street than the adjacent ChickFilA it replaced. This part of Plano is lacking in a grocery store; the closest ...
- 14 Jan 2021 09:08
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: West Dallas: Trinity Groves
- Replies: 137
- Views: 106905
Re: West Dallas: Trinity Groves
I look it and I see a cruise ship or a barge.
- 08 Jan 2021 09:17
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Oaklawn: Old Parkland
- Replies: 148
- Views: 93424
Re: Oaklawn: Old Parkland
Per an article in D Magazine, the clock tower is also a bell tower, and home to the 4th largest bell in the US. It is a "bronze behemoth 9 feet in diameter, weighing a bit more than 30,000 pounds. " https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2021/january/old-parkland-harlan-crow-bel...
- 16 Dec 2020 16:04
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Development
- Topic: Plano: Willow Bend Mall
- Replies: 323
- Views: 151537
Re: Plano: Willow Bend Mall
Frisco is continuing to boom and doing more and more, and all 3 of those Plano developments I mentioned are on the Frisco border. The 'border' is a giant road, and on the Frisco side is what? Ikea and some car dealerships? I don't really find Plano & Frisco comparable in the mixed-use type of d...
- 15 Dec 2020 09:22
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Development
- Topic: Plano: Willow Bend Mall
- Replies: 323
- Views: 151537
Re: Plano: Willow Bend Mall
I don't have a membership so I didn't get the full list, but Stonebriar in Frisco was also down 50%, with NorthPark down 48%. Bet the Galleria got crushed as well, so that's all the close competition, each having a larger number of stores and customer base than Willow Bend, and therefore slightly le...
- 13 Dec 2020 05:35
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: North Dallas: Midtown
- Replies: 385
- Views: 825156
Re: North Dallas: Midtown
On-demand transportation so far has not been particularly successful at scale as replacement for public transport. There is no way underground on-demand transportation that you describe would ever work at even moderate passenger volume without basically recreating a wide highway underground.
- 03 Dec 2020 16:36
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Fort Worth: misc. developments
- Replies: 107
- Views: 70220
Re: Fort Worth: misc. developments
acquire the Pier 1 building on the west side of downtown
Ooooh maybe they can dig through the closets and decorate city hall very chic.
- 02 Dec 2020 11:35
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Development
- Topic: Richardson: CityLine
- Replies: 46
- Views: 38243
Re: Richardson: CityLine
There's a small courtyard in front of the Aloft. It's way too small to kick a ball around, like a lawn section of KWP, and too small for a decent sized concert.
- 30 Nov 2020 10:41
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Development
- Topic: Richardson: CityLine
- Replies: 46
- Views: 38243
Re: Richardson: CityLine
If you go early in the morning the trails around there are jammed, so I think it's just a different crowd. Also I don't think there is a true night spot (no real bar, or club) for late-night action. The design is also kind of weird -just really a single street through the middle of the high-rise off...
- 17 Nov 2020 12:55
- Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
- Topic: DART D2 Subway
- Replies: 508
- Views: 417989
Re: DART D2 Subway
How do you make the existing stations fair controlled? I don't think the fare-controlled access is to prevent free-riders, more to prevent opportunists from taking the escalator directly to the lower-level and loitering. The stations at the top will control loitering in the at-ground parts. If peop...
- 16 Nov 2020 09:14
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Development
- Topic: Red Oak Development
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8698
Re: Red Oak Development
If you mean downtown Dallas, then yes, but Dallas is a big sprawly city and the northern border is only about 6 miles from Frisco.
Red Oak to downtown is 18 miles vs 23 miles downtown Dallas to Frisco.
Red Oak to downtown is 18 miles vs 23 miles downtown Dallas to Frisco.
- 05 Nov 2020 12:24
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Issues/News
- Topic: Legacy West Retail
- Replies: 517
- Views: 493248
Re: Legacy West
I don't get the feeling Legacy is stalled at all. Plans for more Granite Park towers are in the works, the JC Penny campus stuff is moving forward, and plans for additional residential towers on the east side of DNT & Legacy are still underway. Just be patient. This one is not tall, but for exam...
- 30 Oct 2020 10:46
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Development
- Topic: Plano: misc. developments
- Replies: 88
- Views: 63954
Re: Plano: misc. developments
A few months ago, the Plano City Council rejected a proposal by the Plano Housing Authority to sale/leaseback the land east of the Parker Road Dart Station to build low-income and market-rate housing. They did put the land up for sale, and Plano Housing Authority has decided to purchase it instead f...
- 28 Oct 2020 09:12
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: West Dallas Developments
- Replies: 185
- Views: 144586
Re: West Dallas Developments
Even Wylie H Dallas is a NIMBY now? Someone guessed that the ownership of that account changed, I guess they were right. Jon Anderson's complaints are as high-rise suburbia as they get - not enough parking, 'looming', 'ugly' blah blah blah. It's taller and will house more people? Good. It's nice to ...
- 19 Oct 2020 09:25
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Development
- Topic: Richardson Telecom Corridor Development Updates
- Replies: 49
- Views: 41793
Re: Richardson Telecom Corridor Development Updates
This is just proposed, but a company has proposed a 5 story apartment block and a 16 story apartment building adjacent to the G Bush Tollway and the SilverLine near UTD in Richardson. I think both will be student housing, mostly 4-bedrooms rented by the room instead of by the unit. The 16 story will...
- 14 Oct 2020 11:08
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: Downtown Progress
- Replies: 359
- Views: 243710
Re: Downtown Progress
My reading of the report says the only outcome you could derive is 'pandemic'. Every submarket they track except West Plano/Frisco lost, and West Plano/Frisco's gain was small (110k sq ft). Rest of Plano, Richardson, Las Colinas, Irving, Denton, Garland, Allen all negative and if you are trying to m...
- 14 Sep 2020 09:12
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Development
- Topic: Plano: Willow Bend Mall
- Replies: 323
- Views: 151537
Re: Plano: Willow Bend Mall
Collin Creek only lasted from 1981 to about 2005. 2005-and beyond it was kind of a half-empty shell. So Willow Bend opened in 2001, so the 2020s are going to be it's dark period. It's too bad because I think the architecture is actually pretty solid and the parking garages are good. It's just too cl...
- 02 Sep 2020 16:34
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: Downtown Progress
- Replies: 359
- Views: 243710
Re: Downtown Progress
Can you summarize? The link isn't working for me.
- 02 Sep 2020 14:53
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: Downtown Progress
- Replies: 359
- Views: 243710
Re: Downtown Progress
We can be worried about downtown (and DFW in general) when projects start getting cancelled, the pipeline dries up, rent prices drop, and so on. Right now, none of that is happening. Individual text messages are not indicators of anything other than personal drama, and the texts are less severe than...
- 02 Sep 2020 13:25
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Development
- Topic: Plano: misc. developments
- Replies: 88
- Views: 63954
Re: Plano: misc. developments
IDK, that route might make the cut. The apartment to the south was on the UTD bus routes taken over by DART a few years ago and is regularly stated as one of the busiest on the UTD list. If that route was extended to 15th Street to the North it might survive. Maybe they could add a bus stop on the c...
- 01 Sep 2020 09:10
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: The Link at Uptown
- Replies: 215
- Views: 168718
Re: The Link at Uptown
Seriously, imagine having to traverse that, back and forth, to get to a top floor parking spot each day. Could easily eat up 5 minutes if you're doing it during a congested time.
They can put a drive-thru shop on the first floor that only sells Dramamine.
- 31 Aug 2020 15:42
- Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
- Topic: Silver Line
- Replies: 402
- Views: 442531
Re: Silver Line
I personally would think they would want to downplay the fact that an electric substation is across from a rail station, instead of things that people riding a train might want to go to.
- 24 Aug 2020 13:55
- Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
- Topic: Mill Creek Drainage Relief Tunnel
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3850
Mill Creek Drainage Relief Tunnel
Article about the tunnel being dug to stop flooding around Baylor. "On April 24, 2020, the largest hard rock TBM ever to bore in the United States began to operate." https://tunnelingonline.com/texas-mettle-tbm-and-team-are-making-progress-and-overcoming-challenges-at-mill-creek/ They shou...
- 13 Aug 2020 16:00
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Development
- Topic: Plano: misc. developments
- Replies: 88
- Views: 63954
Re: Plano: misc. developments
but I'm having a tough time envisioning this as something other than a slightly further south version of Watters Creek.
I think Watters Creek might be the among the 'nicest' urban villages/TOD without any transit connections in the US. If that's what they achieve, then it's basically a win.
- 06 Aug 2020 17:47
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Development
- Topic: Richardson Telecom Corridor Development Updates
- Replies: 49
- Views: 41793
Re: Richardson Telecom Corridor Development Updates
Completely agree. The bridge isn't even old; they should have known better. I've actually seen bikers (crazy) and joggers (insane!!) crossing it. Campbell Road needs a dedicated pedestrian crossing as well; there are tons of restaurants in walkable distance if crossing 75 was easier. There are dedic...
- 06 Aug 2020 11:30
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Development
- Topic: Plano: misc. developments
- Replies: 88
- Views: 63954
Re: Plano: misc. developments
The website is the plan. You probably were looking at the correct thing.
http://www.planotomorrow.org/150/Land-U ... ity-Design
Here are some maps:
http://www.planotomorrow.org/229/Maps-of-Plano-Tomorrow
http://www.planotomorrow.org/150/Land-U ... ity-Design
Here are some maps:
http://www.planotomorrow.org/229/Maps-of-Plano-Tomorrow
- 05 Aug 2020 09:51
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Development
- Topic: Plano: misc. developments
- Replies: 88
- Views: 63954
Re: Plano: misc. developments
I'm not at all a NIMBY, but this plan was total nonsense, and I'm surprised citizens or the city fought it that long. Plano was not in any way 'planned', this 'plan' did not change that, and though the P&Z fought hard for the 'plan', they don't even follow it. Plano is arbitrarily spot zoned (ie...
- 04 Aug 2020 11:17
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Development
- Topic: Plano: misc. developments
- Replies: 88
- Views: 63954
Re: Plano: misc. developments
That's the plan. I wish the 'flythrough' video was playable as a first-person-shooter or driving game. I'd love to simulate the battle of Beacon Square.
- 04 Aug 2020 09:30
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Development
- Topic: Plano: misc. developments
- Replies: 88
- Views: 63954
Re: Plano: misc. developments
Billingsly is finally ready to kick off Beacon Square (mixed use across from WalMart on Coit Road). Not surprisingly, they want the amount of retail decreased. More interesting is that they suggest that restaurants in these so-so mixed-use complexes around DFW and located away from major highway cor...
- 04 Aug 2020 09:25
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Development
- Topic: Richardson Telecom Corridor Development Updates
- Replies: 49
- Views: 41793
Re: Richardson Telecom Corridor Development Updates
Now that the apartment near the Galatyn Train Station is almost complete, a builder wants to finish out the empty plot nearest the station with another complex. The zoning will need to change because it's set for a office building there, and they need a small increase in the max number of units in t...
- 29 Jul 2020 11:08
- Forum: Texas Town + City Issues/News
- Topic: Houston Highways
- Replies: 12
- Views: 23598
Re: Houston Highways
Looks like if they moved it to cover the northern suburbs, it would surround the entire DFW metroplex.
- 25 Jun 2020 10:58
- Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
- Topic: DART D2 Subway
- Replies: 508
- Views: 417989
Re: DART D2 Subway
Seems like that money would be better spent on planning TOD at outlying stations surrounded by big parking lots, as opposed to in the already-developed environs around the proposed D2 stations. A 'soft proposal' for selling city-owned land at a slight discount for affordable housing at the outlying...
- 23 Jun 2020 15:06
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Oaklawn: Old Parkland
- Replies: 148
- Views: 93424
Re: Oaklawn: Old Parkland
Dallas needs more church bell noise.
- 23 Jun 2020 12:26
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Bonton Village @Lake Highlands (12000 Greenville)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4915
Re: Bonton Village @Lake Highlands (12000 Greenville)
The article doesn't say, but the signs on the fence say the land is currently owned by Dallas Water Utilities, and there is a big water tank to the south east fronting Forrest Lane, but not on this particular property.
- 15 Jun 2020 11:14
- Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
- Topic: DCTA (Denton Co. Transportation Authority)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 27793
Re: DCTA (Denton Co. Transportation Authority)
That one mile from Willow Bend Mall will get a TOD but not the actual employment area in Legacy is kind of bizarre. Hebron High and Prestonwood Christian Academy take up a lot of land around there. Not sure it will ever amount to much. Doesn't really get to the Grandscape area either.
- 03 Jun 2020 14:25
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: East Dallas: Kroger
- Replies: 73
- Views: 52040
Re: East Dallas: Kroger
I think that is just their way of doing business. They are still sitting on a property in north Plano as well, where they have submitted design plans and changed zoning for a store more than two years ago.
- 07 Apr 2020 14:06
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: North Dallas: Galleria
- Replies: 629
- Views: 359577
Re: North Dallas: Galleria
It strikes me as extremely convoluted, like they know what people want changed, but they don't get how to do it. Like for example, "• Weak pedstrian entry experience for customers" is identified from the three different sections, but there are no changes to the garage entries, which is how...
- 02 Apr 2020 09:52
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: New Census Population Estimates
- Replies: 307
- Views: 294343
Re: New Census Population Estimates
Dallas County shrinking
It's 2000 people in 1 year. Most likely due to the tornado (and maybe a bit of a 500 unit apartment collapse).
- 25 Mar 2020 09:19
- Forum: Suburban + Exurban Issues/News
- Topic: Legacy West Retail
- Replies: 517
- Views: 493248
Re: Legacy West
This might be a case of troubles at Willow Bend.
Willow Bend is in trouble. There was an article a few weeks ago that they defaulted on their loans, and the subtext was that no-one else wanted to pick them up, so it will float in limbo for a while. If I was a decent store with options, I'd bail.
- 23 Mar 2020 11:12
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Arts District: Flora & Olive Tower (~441 FT / ~39 ST)
- Replies: 543
- Views: 496932
Re: Arts District: Flora & Olive Tower (~441 FT / ~39 ST)
I feel like this was a question companies were already asking, and now it's been answered. I see a lot more office-to-residential conversions in our future. My opinion: most companies did this pretty grudgingly, and f they are considering distributed workforces, then wider distribution than just ma...
- 02 Mar 2020 14:08
- Forum: The Bus + Roads/Highways/Bridges
- Topic: Dallas Public Works: street project list
- Replies: 11
- Views: 15725
Re: Dallas Public Works: street project list
Tried this. omar narvaez is the cc member. Sent 3 emails and have not heard anything back.
You have to catch them in person. Yeah, it sucks.
- 11 Feb 2020 15:27
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: AMLI Fountain Place (562 FT / 46 ST)
- Replies: 789
- Views: 820807
Re: Downtown Dallas: AMLI Fountain Place (562 FT / 46 ST)
The prices listed in the post about at The Star in Frisco are higher, even though The Star 1br is slightly larger at 850 sq ft vs 645 sq ft. $2700 vs $2100 starting for a 1 bedroom.