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The rush hour traffic around the new Baylor building is going to be interesting. Thousands of people trying to get in or out of a building at the same time with two-lane streets on just two sides. No turn lanes and no signal lights, just a single 4-way stop. Oh, and a DART rail crossing blocking one...

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Actually the limestone in this area is one of the best materials for tunnelling. Soft enough for easy boring, but hard enough to be self supporting without lots of reinforcement. That's why they considered tunnels for the I-635 express lanes -- the price of tunnelling was competitive with other opti...

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^ Dallas has substantially more tech workers than Seattle (or Austin for that matter). But they're a smaller percentage of our much larger total workforce, so they don't get the press. UT Dallas, UTA and SMU can hold their own against U of W. The DC metro area has a lot more tech workers, but most o...

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Welcome to DFW Urbanist logic - every bad thing that happens is the result of not throwing enough money at whatever hodgepodge of policy proposals they personally support :roll: :roll: Setting aside the ridiculousness of a random power outage as a compelling reason to spend $1.2 billion on a subway...

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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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I would say spending that money on a rail corridor is 1.2 billion times more efficient than spending it on single occupant car lanes. And I would say you need to learn the difference between theoretical and actual. That one mile highway handles as many people each day as the entire DART system -- t...

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^ And if someone said we needed to spend $1.2 billion dollars to widen I-345 for the extra State Fair Traffic three weekends a year you would say?

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Surely that merry go round is just a cut and past place holder until they figure out what to do there. It looks ridiculous. I heard the sky bridge connecting the Perot all the way to the Arts District would be a phase 3 project at a later date. Separated from the main park by two busy streets I jus...

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Great news! Let us know when you put it up for sale and/or the city of Dallas condemns it for being unlivable. Want to make sure I can get 1st shot at it! :D Another unit in the building, currently for sale. Except for all the (staged) furniture it's not as nice as mine. It's under contract, but go...

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I'd love for the city to condemn it. There's an old saying in real estate: The highest and best use of any property is eminent domain. The funny thing is that if the city were to ever daylight Mill Creek -- which will never happen -- they would pretty much have to acquire this building. The existing...

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Does anyone actually visit a city visitor center? I mean this as an honest question. I can't recall any time that I ever have.

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In this era of TSA goons, airside amenities and private lounges in every terminal no experienced traveler is going to leave an airport in this country unless they've got an overnight layover. The only time I've ever left an airport between flights was in the Middle East. It took a 16 hour layover an...

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Converting neighborhood infrastructure to the benefit of neighborhood residents rather than non-residents improves cost/benefit of city living. Tam, sometimes I wonder if you're just trolling to get attention. I think you'll find very few thoroughfares in Dallas that are more dedicated to residents...

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Don't worry, this is just a formality. The decision is already made to screw up the street. They'll take out two lanes and replace them with bike lanes. The 99% will once again get hosed to placate the 1%.

(I say this as someone who uses these streets to bike to White Rock Lake).

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^ They could have scraped it at any time. There's no requirement the keep any part of the old building.

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So much for "no tax dollars".

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^ Hotel. The new building that the city is giving them millions in historic preservation dollars to build.

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Matt777 wrote:Please get off your soapboax and be realistic.

Pot, meet Kettle.

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Second crane, not second building. There was another crane on the other side of the office building, removed in August. Was mainly used for the parking garage.

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Second office building crane is gone. Hotel crane is up.

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Thanks. It's good to know that I have until 5/11/2020 to sell my place on Commerce Street and move, before they render it unlivable.

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^ May I suggest you propose rezoning that property MF to the folks who live in that neighborhood. Then come back and tell us their thoughts on the matter.

After you get out of the hospital.

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^ Sounds just like Vickery in 1986.

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Matt777 wrote:Geez okay, but the bank better not be tearing down the building and sure as hell better not be putting in a bank drive thru.

It's a small property without much parking. I'm wondering if they're buying an adjacent property, too. They're going to have to have a drive thru somewhere to be competitive.

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That has been a whole issue since Spring. Terry Black's bought the building along with the existing lease to Dallas Comedy House, and then has been trying every trick under the sun to intimidate and threaten DCH to end their lease early. It's pretty gross what they're doing, actually, and I know th...

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Tivo_Kenevil wrote:There's already a New Texas Based Bank on Gaston...So whatever. This better not year down the Baker's building.

This is Texas Brand Bank. Not the same.

Ironically, one block away the NE corner of Hall and Elm was a drive-thru for many years for one of the big downtown banks.

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I45Tex wrote:About four more pages of that brochure are gone now. I don't know the year. But google image searching Surtran taxis turns up interesting NYT and architectural articles about DFW opening and Dallas in general.

Thanks for posting!

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IMG_0495.jpgAm about to recycle this old paper but thought that some of you will certainly enjoy a look at it: I would love to see the rest of the article if you could upload a full scan. What's the date on the article? I remember the day DFW opened all too well. I was a newspaper carrier, and the ...

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Stretching out a development over years increases the risks by an order of magnitude.

Just ask the original developers behind One Main Place, One Dallas Centre, BOA Tower, Fountain Place and (ironically) Cityplace how well their second towers worked out.

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I think you'll see more of this as long as Trump is in the White House. I work with several multinational companies, and they're running into all kinds of problems with their employees not being able to get into the United States.

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^ The "door was unlocked" narrative seems somewhat fishy, as multiple neighbors report hearing banging and someone yelling "open up".

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The trains at Northpark.

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^ I know you're trying to be funny, but it's not. Perhaps you should meet some of the folks who've been assaulted, raped and robbed in Deep Ellum. It's no joke...every other news story about these incidents ends with practically the same last sentence: "The suspects were last seen headed toward...

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"...staff encouraged the applicant to consider offering a minimum amount of mixed-income housing."

In other words, blackmail.

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^ I believe there's a little bit of wiggle room between not attracting/encouraging/enabling/subsidizing and euthanasia.

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Tnexster wrote:Don't those gold Campbell Center towers pretty much mark the area pretty well?

In the movie "Drive-In" (1976) they had a cameo as "the world's tallest buildings" in the movie-within-the-movie.

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While there homeless people I've Never seen them camp out on sidewalks or go in public. The downtown patrol is good about policing that. Only the stew pot and the presbyteryian church has that problem. I'm in DT all-day everyday. Your experience seems anecdotal. Admittedly I'm on the Deep Ellum sid...

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tamtagon wrote:Maybe the city should put all the homeless people on a bus to California, would that help?

I've been saying that for years.

The Bridge needs to be put out of OUR misery. All it does it attract problems and enable their behaviour. And yes, I meant that exactly as written.

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When I was at Bellini's a few days ago, I was told that the lot would be redeveloped as a CVS location. They were fairly confident about this development, but the location seems too small. According to Candy's Dirt it is Total Wine. They're having to get a variance due to proximity to a church. htt...

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Garland Road and Gaston were part of the Bankhead Highway, one of the earliest transcontinental highways. It stretched from Washington DC to San Diego. The highway was there before the development. To complain that people use it to pass through the neighborhood is like the people who move next an ai...

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10-story assisted living. Seems like they got carried away filing for 589 feet.

Sounds like they used AMSL.

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What the corp approved isn't what they city eventually went with: https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/dallas-city-council-pushes-trinity-lakes-plan-says-toll-road-opponents-wasted-millions-7119188 "The Trinity River lakes were never going to be humongous. Seventy-five or 80 acres each, accordin...

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Ah, the mythical lakes. There's never been a plan to build lakes. The so-called lakes were what we in Texas call stock ponds. Say "lake" and people think White Rock. In actuality all the proposed ponds total about 1/3 the size of Bachman. Combined. Puddles with delusions of grandeur. Becau...

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I managed that center back in the 80's (yes, before most of you were born). It was the original location of Chiquita's restaurant. When they moved the space became Jugs, which was a hit. I read somewhere that when it closed it was the oldest operating lesbian bar in the country.

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^ There is/was a picture hanging on their wall of their very first customer -- my son. As DPatel mentioned, their hours sucked. They were never open when we were hungry. But a bigger issue is that their food just wasn't very good. We would walk right past them to get much better ice cream at Bobaddi...

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By the way, most probably knew this, but the low-rise 1987 building between Landry Park and N. Washington at the corner of Race just got heavily renovated last year. It is owned by Baylor U. in Waco and called the LHSON Building (Louise Herrington School of Nursing). Baylor bought it from the Bapti...

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Hopefully the bus will stay and be reconfigured to shuttle employees around the campus area and Deep Ellum. It would be a nice daytime boost to the restaurants there. They do have an intra-campus shuttle. It used to have a stop in Deep Ellum, but dropped it when they closed that office (it's now th...

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NIMBYism at it's finest.

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I'm beginning to wonder if the Tom Landry property on the north side of Race Street is just going to be used as a construction staging area, with the actual building and parking garage going on the south side. Dallas Trivia: Race Street is so named because that's where kids took their horses to race...

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how, or in what way? You can Google https://www.google.com/search?q=are+paper+or+plastic+bags+more+environmentally+friendly, but to summarize: paper bags take a LOT more energy to create and transport, and their production involves some nasty chemicals, some of which are released into the environme...

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