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tamtagon wrote:$4,000,000,000?

Don't worry, it's just the taxpayer's money.

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Unanimous Dallas Approval of Big Homeless Housing Plan Many area cities, including Dallas, as well as Dallas County, are putting together more than $70 million for a new push to overcome much of the local homeless situation. Three Dallas-area hotels and motels have already been purchased to house h...

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Phase 2 of Standard City of Dallas operating procedures. Ignore any problems until they make front page news, then go full-scale stormtrooper mode and drive all the legitimate customers and businesses away so there's nobody left to complain. Repeat every 10-15 years as necessary. Notice how until la...

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"Airport has amazing new way to build passenger gates"

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/dall ... index.html

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So if/when it goes belly up the taxpayers get left holding the bag.

Until now I've supported the project. Not anymore.

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Number 189 on the Fortune 500. Existing Dallas office is in the Galleria.

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Historical Preservation does not permeate city hall let alone our citizen culture. Judging by the number of members here that want to level Deep Ellum, arguably the most historic area remaining in Dallas, and replace it with apartments and crap like the Stack and the Assembly, I'd have to say that ...

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northsouth wrote:I thought the plan was to move the old bridge over a few feet and convert it to pedestrian use? So much for that I guess.

Someone asked about that. The DART rep said they couldn't do that because it was too narrow for emergency vehicles.

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The views of downtown will make south bank development an easy sell. I recently looked at a townhome on Greenbriar, just north of Zang. The property was directly adjacent to the Trinity corridor -- there was no way anyone could ever build between you and the river. Every level had windows and/or a ...

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How about a tired old concept called “build it and they will come?” Just a little, please. I won’t even be disappointed if it’s 15-25stori4s to test the water. We tried that back in the 80's. We all know how that worked out. Last I heard there still some buildings with shell space that has never be...

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The rooftop vegetation.

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I appreciate the fact that a ‘highway’ that consistently is moving at less than 40 MPH falls in the ‘nothing wrong’ category. During rush hour <> "consistently". I suggest before adding more lanes everywhere, it might be a great idea to first identify where the choke point is, and just ad...

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Can anyone tell me how popular the deep ellum urban garden is with folks? Because the way it splits Good Latimer up makes for some very weird intersections, land plots, unnecessarily large street medians. Functionally it is dead much like bark park central if it is cut off from deep ellum like that...

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I-345 Feasibility Study Virtual Public Meeting http://www.keepitmovingdallas.com/I345 The concepts: No Build/Leave I-345 As-Is: No additional improvements would occur to I-345 other than those already programmed. http://www.keepitmovingdallas.com/sites/default/files/docs/No%20Build_Leave%20I-345%20A...

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myelbow4 wrote:Not everyone will have their own personal car. The cars will just be driving around on stand by to pick up passengers.

So your alternative to cars sitting in parking spaces is that they're driving around in circles on the streets?

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Their universe is a lot cleaner and better maintained than ours.

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The city's modus operandi when it comes to problems in Deep Ellum is to just ignore them as long as possible, and hope they go away. When that doesn't happen and the press starts reporting on them, then the city goes to Plan B: Go after the folks who are complaining (i.e. paying customers) and drive...

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Eight stories, nice. Good addition for that immediate area. Hypothetically speaking, those views will be insane. Reunion, The Stack (mural side woo), The Epic, all the way north to Cityplace Tower. Judging from Google Earth, it looks like Reunion Tower will be blocked by the Novel Apts, and possibl...

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Also can we do something about these power lines? They ruin great views. Tom Leppert tried to talk the state PUC into charging all electric users statewide for the $130+ million cost of burying those power lines. You can guess how that went over. http://www3.dallascityhall.com/committee_briefings/b...

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Dwelling ownership in this area would be an outstanding investment. We looked at a several condos and townhomes for sale on Ross near downtown. For example: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3102-Ross-Ave-STE-7-Dallas-TX-75204/2091773817_zpid/ Two things stood out: the asking price per square foot...

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That's actually a fantastic idea! After recently visiting the Discovery District, I was just recently thinking how great it would be to have some sort of park/plaza in Deep Ellum for people to centrally gather. This rooftop idea would serve as just that! https://www.centraltrack.com/deep-ellums-cro...

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rono3849 wrote:That will be interesting to see how those do in this tough real estate market.

Was that supposed to be satirical?

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According to https://theretailconnection.net/properties/deep-ellum-good-e-ground-lease-opportunity-dallas-tx/ the Main Street side is available for a ground lease. So anything involving Main Street would appear to be TBD. https://theretailconnection.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Dallas-TX-Deep-Ellu...

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Was there even a proposal to have it capped? Not to my knowledge. The only reason it is trenched is because park cities ppl didn't wanna hear the highway. There's was never talk to have it trenched..and then capped later on. That's also the reason there will never be expansion. Wealthy ppl will not...

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The next time someone tells you that Dallas is booming... "The Dallas-Fort Worth area added nearly 120,000 people during the pandemic, mostly on the backs of booming suburban counties. In fact, Dallas had nothing to do with that growth: Dallas County added just 285 people while its neighbors sa...

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Density is like mass transit.

90% of the people want it...for someone else.

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Anyone got Cuban on speed dial? :D About 25 years ago my phone rang, and the caller ID showed "MARK CUBAN". Keep in mind that back then Caller ID spoofing wasn't nearly as big a thing as it is now. I answered, but to my disappointment it wasn't Mark. Instead it was someone I had business ...

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Yes, very puzzling given the lengths they went to to save the Pittman... Only because they were threatened with legal consequences if they let it deteriorate any further, and then awarded $2 millions in historic preservation tax credits to construct the new building adjacent to it. https://www.dall...

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^ Since they're developing a SoGood to the south, it's pretty obvious this area should be NoGood.

After all, many of their patrons are up to NoGood.

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Some pieces were kept. For instance, the robot at Good-Latimer and Gaston is leaning against a piece: https://goo.gl/maps/SfkYQrG5ewjzhsWK6 I understand that the concrete "1930" from the tunnel entrance was gifted to Preservation Dallas. DART filled in the tunnel because it was cheaper tha...

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Includes a great slideshow, with many historical pictures I've never seen before.

https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news ... uture.html

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The Deep Ellum community fought HARD to keep the Good-Latimer grade separation, especially the Gaston tunnel. The murals lining the tunnel were a beloved gateway to the area. Similarly, the vast majority of current residents are strongly opposed to replacing I-345 at grade. That effort, like so many...

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From a city government perspective, residential uses generally have a much lower revenue to expense ratio. Single family residential (which isn't proposed here) generally doesn't generate enough tax revenue to even cover costs. If you want low tax rates as a way to attract businesses you want as lit...

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Rather than claiming things will "just work out" - let's have a public referendum where all the stakeholders who vote "yes" on removal get put on a list, and should the referendum pass, they'll be assessed a special "transportation impact fee" in the ballpark of $5-10k...

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1) You might not agree with the solution, but they've shown many examples of how many comparable highway tearouts have been done elsewhere . OK, so provide an example of "comparable highway tearouts" -- because nothing at that link is comparable. One thing I learned a long time ago is tha...

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Matthews Southwest has a long track record of sticking their hands in the taxpayers' pocket. https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2019/02/26/new-downtown-dallas-apartment-high-rise-includes-affordable-units/ Part of the new apartment project will be funded with low-income housing tax cred...

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^ The ultimate irony being that there are probably more construction cranes right now within three blocks of I-345 -- where Kennedy said no one would build -- than any similar sized area in Dallas County.

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Tucy wrote:It will not provide any meaningful transportation service.

So nothing has changed?

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Downtown Dallas block sells for new garage and retail project

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/rea ... l-project/

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^ Have you seen how they've reduced the footprint of I-30 through the canyon in the redesign?

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https://www.papercitymag.com/culture/da ... ntibodies/

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Developers reboot plans for huge project north of downtown Dallas

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/rea ... wn-dallas/

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^ It's not comeback, it's a hostile takeover from Uptown. The "renovated" Serious Pizza has all the ambience of a Denny's. The other restaurants/bars owned by the same company serve up canned music and cardboard food to plastic people. The ultimate insult is The Stack. As another poster sa...

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SoGood project would transform Dallas’ near south side

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/rea ... outh-side/

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The question is whether it's worthwhile to spend $50-100 billion to be ready for a once per 40-100 year event.

It's like the concept of the 100-year flood plain. Society picks the balance between cost and safety that it's willing to live with.

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Dallas County’s talent problem: Collin, Denton and others are poaching workers Collin and Denton counties are some of the best places in the U.S. to attract and develop talent, a trait crucial to growing businesses and strengthening the economy. Both counties score high on net migration, education,...

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I can understand why local businesses like on-street parking, but if I lived within walking distance to a place, I don't quite get why I would prefer on-street parking over a bike lane? Three part answer: 1) Visitors: Friends, family, deliveries, clients (lots of residents work at home). 2) Some of...

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By the way, if anyone here ever goes to the 7-Eleven at Elm & Good Latimer in the evenings, please give my young-old daughter a warm DFWU Forum hello. She's been there for over a year and loves it. If she's who I think she is, she has sold the good doctor more than a few lottery tickets. I'll s...

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CTroyMathis wrote:Does Mark Cuban (or associated) own the next building over (with the Mavericks logo on the roof and other Mavs stuff on the exterior walls) and the parking lot? Just curious. Seems like he/"they" do.

Team HQ: https://www.facebook.com/MavsGG/

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It's sad how many people here are out of touch with the reality of urban living. This isn't Sim City. Real people in a real neighborhood need real the same real businesses and services that everyone else does. Not another dozen Thai-Inspired Ice Cream Shops and Surf Board Fitness Studios. The new 7-...

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