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The Green Heart is an elevated park proposal covering the Harry Hines/Inwood intersection and branching out to form greem corridors in the district. It's part of the larger plan to improve pedestrian/bicycle connections and expand the tree canopy. The larger plan itself is quite ambitious, transform...

Excellent! I'm really impressed with that plan! It is excellently integrated. It's amazing how Downtown has transformed from a ghost town in the 90s to the life it has today, but this plan will truly bring life into Downtown. How long do you suppose it will be until this is finally realized? 100 ye...

Going back to the adopted Downtown Dallas 360 plan, Ross is envisioned to someday be a streetcar boulevard. Dallas360_FinalAdopted 2_Page_1.jpg Dallas360_FinalAdopted 2_Page_2.jpg Dallas360_FinalAdopted 2_Page_3.jpg Plan: https://dallascityhall.com/departments/pnv/strategic-planning/DCH%20Documents/...

With the explosion of development along Ross Avenue, both in Downtown and East, I think it would be a good idea to build a trolley line along it. If not a trolley line, maybe in the future a subway that runs parallel with it. Or just improve the bus service that exists. Nice bus stops (not a pole s...

Station plans from the TexRail website: http://www.texrail.com/station-images/ T&P Station: http://www.texrail.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/TP-Station.jpg ITC Station: http://www.texrail.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/ITC-Station.jpg North Side Station: http://www.texrail.com/wp-content/upload...

^ Looks like they have included more fake potted plants in this station too. The DART station plants are very dusty.

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Here are some images from that article. It appears they are leveling the tiered green amphitheater (currently underutilized) so the pedestrian plaza can be transformed into a parking/drive area. Angled walkways replace the curving postmodern garden beds and walls are removed. Interesting historical ...

Chase Tower's plaza is the next to go... being transformed into a driveway and reworked plaza with the goal of better connections to the Arts District. The transformation of Ross Avenue continues. Big changes on the way at downtown Dallas' Chase Tower http://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2...

Texas bullet train developer drops lawsuits against landowners, says negotiations are on track http://www.dallasnews.com/business/economy/2017/02/07/construction-north-texas-high-speed-rail-track-company-withdraws-land-lawsuits The private company behind a planned bullet train that would connect Da...

They could use a similar model to the Yelser Terrace development in Seattle. The prime spot adjacent to downtown for years only contained older subsidized housing. A streetcar line was added and it's being transformed into a denser mixed-income area with new services and better public access (it wil...

U.S. News and World Report puts Dallas at #15 in its latest Best Places to Live listing. Interesting data at the website:

http://realestate.usnews.com/places/tex ... fort-worth

Top Ten Records on Jefferson has attracted new owners with a new mission. The article also discusses plans for surrounding blocks. Texas Theatre's operators take a spin with another Oak Cliff landmark, Top Ten Records http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/02/02/texas-theatres-operators-t...

I think the scale is right for this location. A 3-4 story building on the Butler property site would also be appropriate. Fill in the the small parcels with shorter buildings that have storefronts activating the streets, and save the large (current) parking lots for bigger mixed-use developments. I'...

Ironically, this is the piece of property that was formerly planned to have permanent supportive housing for 150 residents (a development by Larry Hamilton). It was rejected by the neighborhood.

Here's an article I wrote about that in 2011: http://www.unvisiteddallas.com/archives/688

Tnexster wrote:Okay......how would that happen?

It may be connected to Thanksgiving Tower's renovation. I believe only one side of the block can be closed at one time. Thanksgiving Tower reworked their Pacific Avenue side before moving to the Elm Street side.

It seems to me that DART should integrate the line more into it's overall transit scheme... meaning that some busses that go to the transit mall should now drop people off to take the trolley into downtown. Busses could do a better job of feeding the Trolley at a better price then extending the tro...

From MATA's Facebook page: Did you know that we've been in the process of restoring a 7th car for our M-Line fleet? We cannot thank Trammell Crow and Radiant Outdoor enough for their funding support in 612's complete rebuild, because without it we wouldn't be able to make this addition to the fleet!...

Here's a fun Jetrail video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q5T1_sUy1s

http://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2017/01/20/downtown-dallas-tower-garage-ready-start-construction A downtown Dallas skyscraper owner is weeks away from breaking ground on a major addition to the high-rise. New York-based Fortis Property Group is building a 10 and a half story garage to...

The new entrance plans look great, and there is a lot of space to better utilize around the base of the tower. I know the "light/bright" renovations are the trend right now, but the current interior with its layers and layers of dark wood, brass, and expensive marble are still very impress...

It's not just you. That design looks like a 60-40 grass to concrete ratio. What's wrong with a simple, green park? Counterpoint: whats wrong with plazas? I don't mind plazas if there are large, mature trees or shade structures. Without that, this place will be more like Dallas City Hall plaza. The ...

...similar to the grassy mound at St Paul/San Jacinto. The grassy mound I believe is called San Jacinto Plaza, and it's just begging to become a downtown LGBT monument similar to the one in Oak Lawn, except right there in front of First Baptist. http://www.dallasparks.org/Facilities/Facility/Detail...

Who designs this stuff? I don't understand what you're supposed to do here. SMH Probably whoever secured the contract and found a way to keep the rest. Honestly, this 'Park' would be better off razed and fenced off... Some of these pocket parks should be considered surplus property and sold to adja...

Does this look like the mosaic they are tearing down at Valley View? Pretty much, though they are custom. There is also one at Collin Creek Mall. These are one of those things I don't really get beyond nostalgia - they scream cheap lazy tiling pattern that looks vaguely Native American (or perhaps ...

So they removed all the grass and filled in the center with concrete? I wouldn't call that an improvement, although it probably will make the needles and glass easier to spot (a common problem when I lived across the street). I was hoping it would be incorporated into new development of the adjacent...

Glad they plan to keep the exterior of the Macy's with the mosaic! With a new park in front it will make a great entrance. I expect good work from Omniplan.

I heard a rumor that the DART line right there may be buried underground at some point in the distant future and then TGS would be made into a Subway station! I would love for this to really happen... any idea if it's real? I haven't heard that rumor. Remember that originally a subway line was plan...

AOK I stand corrected! Glad to hear there is a plan and steps are being taken to get things moving. Are there any plans or renderings you all can share here on the Forum? Have some PR efforts been made to get this story out there? The perception of the Square is neglect and stagnation. As I said, I...

Given the history of neglect, one can only assume that the TGS Foundation is out of money and none the leadership has the resources or energy to replenish it. They need to find new leadership that will recapitalize the Foundation, hire an urban planner to update the design, and then fund a renovati...

Actually, I do. Remove the wall that was built around it. Though it may be fairly short, it is still a wall that cuts the park off from the streets. Remove that ugly 70s era wall and you open the park up and make it more inviting from the streets. The wall makes it like a fortress meant to keep peo...

Thanksgiving Square seems overwhelmingly underutilized. Every time I venture about there, it's always a ghost town. Any suggestions for how to make it more lively? There are those that want to fill it with more activity (food trucks, concerts, etc) and those that want it to be a quiet reflective pl...

Thanks for sharing, Noah. We don't see a lot of color photos of Corrigan Tower before they painted the brick section. I found hundreds of slides of Dallas in the 1970s in the archives of Thanks-Giving Square. Since it was the first "modern park" downtown there were countless studies of th...

Thanks for sharing, Noah. We don't see a lot of color photos of Corrigan Tower before they painted the brick section. Did you notice the Medical Arts Building in the middle of the picture? It was gone within a year or so after this was taken. Yeah, Medical Arts is up there with the Kress and the Ba...

Why is TG square still, both figuretively and literally, a dump? I see no work being done there. The renovation plan (which required some coordination with PJAR Architects) is pretty much finished, and now the private funds need to be raised to make the improvements. It's all privately operated and...

After looking closer at that diagram, it appears that the only habitable portion of this long structure is the western end (beige in the diagram). The rest of the structure is a parking garage masked as a building. Why build Harwood Park at all if the highest use for this adjacent lot is only parking?

My bigger concern is for the existing buildings along Commerce (Doug's Gym, 7/11). I've always had a soft spot for those little buildings along that stretch. Would this garage wipe those out :(, or simply wrap around them? Isn't there some historic protections in this area? Those two building are &...

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