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So this will take out the gas station, Pizza Hut, and Einstein Bros. spots? The artwork looks like it goes that far north.

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https://qtxasset.com/styles/breakpoint_xl_880px_w/s3/hotelmanagement/1555298510/Hyatt-Regency-Stonebriar.jpg/Hyatt-Regency-Stonebriar.jpg According to this hotel-industry magazine article, the Hyatt Regency at the mall is still set to open next year. The construction/skeleton has topped out, and wi...

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Apparently the DMN is just now realizing what we've known since February, about the angle of the upcoming Costco off of Park Lane.

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/ret ... -park-lane

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The Melissa location opened this week. The DMN got a photo-op. Now there are 4 in north TX, with 2 more (Ennis, Royse City) to come. A third has been locally talked-about in Waxahachie, but nothing very definite has come of it. https://www.guidelive.com/texas-yall/2019/04/23/bucees-melissa-tx-open-a...

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Half of Collin Creek Mall is coming down, and more plans for the $1 billion Plano redo

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/rea ... dying-mall

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Reimagine RedBird and Palladium USA will announce the development of Palladium RedBird Apartments, luxury residences with modern, upscale amenities, to the Oak Cliff community. "Luxury residences" and RedBird in the same sentence. My brain needs to Ctrl-Alt-Delete. Or find some flying pig...

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so, like, how does Durant compare to Shreveport as far as a destination for North Texas gamblers? IDK about current numbers comparing the 2 destinations. If you want your choice of 6 casinos, a horse race track, and being able to drink till 6am, then Shreveport is your answer. If you want a shorter...

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Supposedly, OkDOT is planning to improve US 69-US 75 in the Calera/Choctaw/south-of-Durant stretch into a more freeway-ish setup where there won't be stop lights at all through Calera. This will also include conversion of the dumb light on the north side of Choctaw where the smoke shops/travel cente...

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With the conditions over the years--especially in recent years--of the elevators and escalators at Cityplace/Uptown and at Mockingbird, DART will obviously need to budget more than they realize toward maintenance and upkeep of elevators and escalators once the stations and infrastructure of the D2 r...

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Second pediatric health care system announces new location in Prosper Cook Children's is planning a new complex at US 380/Windsong Pkwy. that will evoke the original Fort Worth complex down to the blue pyramid-shaped roof accents. It will open in phases between now and 2022. Meanwhile, nearby, Chil...

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Oklahoma's Choctaw resort and casino makes big play for business with new 1,000-room tower https://dallasnews.imgix.net/1556305259-CND---PORTE-COCHERE.jpg The expansion, which will come together in 2 years' time, will make the complex twice the size it is now, with more than 1650 rooms, pools (incl...

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New models of Dallas' Trinity Park show a sinuous landscape, rebut critics

https://www.dallasnews.com/arts/archite ... ut-critics

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That would be ironic, as Tenet was in one of the office buildings at Galleria North for a while before moving downtown to Fountain Place.

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Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones' Blue Star Land has the dirt flying in Prosper The Gates of Prosper, a project with an ultimate size of around 500 acres at Preston/US 380, has completed its first phase (retail including Walmart, DSW, T.J. Maxx, Burlington, Ross, Old Navy, and Dick's Sporting Goods...

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The Hotel Lumen, on Hillcrest across from SMU, has been sold. Tim Headington had been in on the ownership group of the property prior to the sale. As part of the transaction, the hotel will become a Graduate Hotel, a chain of mainly boutique hotels in college/university cities. It will reopen in spr...

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The W Hotel has gone on the market. The residential portion of the building is not included in the potential sale.

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/rea ... hotel-sale

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The DMN has an in-depth look at the Tom Thumb store at the Union complex. Apparently the chain was able to snag the former general manager of the ex-Albertsons in Uptown for the new store, so they have at least 1 person in-house that knows the neighborhood, traffic patterns, etc. The escalator that ...

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Well, I guess our Mr. Wilonsky did warn us about that one. At the rate we're going, the oldest thing in Dallas will be NorthPark.

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I just read not too long ago that Thompson Hotels has become part of the Hyatt universe. It will be interesting to see if the hotel portion of this project will still go to Thompson, and Hyatt would want a bigger DTD presence, or if another brand is being considered--if there still is a hotel being ...

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So, what was this? I don't recognize it with just the trees.

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Development woes at Wade Park force healthful Frisco restaurant to close

https://www.guidelive.com/food-and-drin ... rk-lebanon

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Cinépolis luxury theater opening in Plano's Shops at Willow Bend delayed to early 2020

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/ret ... early-2020

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Previously, Albertsons was the official grocery store of the Cowboys. Since the Albertsons-Safeway deal a while back, I guess TT has been included in Cowboys gear/merchandising.

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Also forgot: I checked the website, the store will be open daily, 6am-midnight. Groceries close to downtown till midnight. Amazing.

https://local.tomthumb.com/tx/dallas/2380-field-st.html

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Sure, it's a convention hotel, but so is the Omni, but at least the Omni tries to give guests a good selection of food/beverage, plus a nice art-filled atmosphere. Since I haven't seen the Sheraton's 'after' yet, I'm not sure what they didn't do from an appearance point. I still think with the hotel...

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Tnexster wrote:Anybody go in there today?

I did, I posted about it earlier in the Grocery Store news/development thread.

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Here's the layout: 20190405_093212.jpg The Field St. side is along the right of the map. Ashland is along the bottom. There were *many* meal-replacement type of items, prepackaged and ready for lunching or grabbing on the way home from work. The lady at the checkstand asked while I was checking out ...

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I realized today was the day that the Tom Thumb on Field north of Cedar Springs at the Union complex would be opening, so on the way home from work, I thought I'd go at least stick my head in the door. Wow, there were lots of folks there. There were 2 tables of employees signing people up for Reward...

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Ch.11 weighed in as well, showing the mall and the City Council proceedings and a few schematics. They talked to a resident that spoke at the Council meeting. At the end of the video, the work on the Valley View/Midtown site and the Red Bird site was also mentioned. https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2019/04/...

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Now it looks like Lyft wants to get into the scooter biz in Dallas.

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/tec ... ay-scooter

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Recent bad weather in Collin County was damaging to the outlet center. 38 of the center's 115 stores were not on the center's website as being open. The article wasn't specific as to what exactly caused the damages at the center, but the area received hail and very windy conditions during the storms...

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Not sure what the building on Live Oak & Harwood houses, but that would be a good one to convert as well. IIRR, there was a DMN or DBJ article about it being originally an insurance company office building, but that the current owners are making it (or have already made it) into a data center b...

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The upcoming Live! by Loews hotel by the replacement Ballpark is reportedly taking reservations starting August 27. The hotel will have 302 rooms and 14 floors.

https://www.star-telegram.com/news/loca ... 28739.html

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Try, try again: Downtown grocery to open in new First on 7th shops in Fort Worth Neighbors House grocery, at 501 W. 6th, is going into a former bank lobby space later this year. https://www.star-telegram.com/entertainment/restaurants/eats-beat/article228455214.html https://www.facebook.com/Neighbor...

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More retail is coming to the area around the Ikea store and Epic Waters water park, including Burlington, HomeGoods, Ross, Michaels, and more. A Main Event location is also going up near the water park. The article says Epic Waters had more than 300,000 visitors last year, and is now in the process ...

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Drove by the park today, got a quick look and saw that lots of trees have been planted. Looked good from what I was able to see with some of the trees being fairly large. Can't wait to see how this looks once the trees leaf out. Good that they're planting larger trees and not a bunch of twigs. I gu...

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Shingle Mountain fight came to City Hall, just as Dallas moved to shut down asphalt recycler

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/dallas- ... t-recycler

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It would be good if they would work on the street crossings there, especially Pearl, Griffin, and Lamar. They are so rough.

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DART chief urges Congress to pass infrastructure bill, citing coming work on Cotton Belt and D2 lines

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/dart/20 ... t-d2-lines

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Emmitt Smith launches high-profile South Dallas mixed-use redevelopment Steve Brown still doesn't know South Dallas from Southern Dallas, but... Emmitt Smith's development firm has acquired the building that housed Urban League operations on South Lancaster near the VA Hospital. It is considered mi...

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Builder's Reboot Ross project is a a vision to spruce up old Dallas ISD buildings The new owner is recycling the buildings, on the NW corner of Ross/Washington, and marketing them for mainly office uses. Eventually the owner plans a bigger project there, but not now. https://www.dallasnews.com/busi...

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'There's enormous pressure': A behind-the-scenes look at restoring the Dallas Holocaust Museum boxcar

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm ... eum-boxcar

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Which intersection is getting the new signal light?

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Parks for Downtown Dallas' Facebook page just posted this link about Griggs Park, the first Dallas park to honor an African-American.

https://www.swagroup.com/projects/grigg ... velopment/

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'The best little ballpark in Dallas' strikes out on its 100th birthday after promised Reverchon redo goes nowhere

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/dallas- ... es-nowhere

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From a Facebook post I just saw from the Epic, past and future versions of the Knights of Pythias building: https://scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t45.1600-4/cp0/q90/spS444/p600x600/54590857_23843218779710182_4875803421682171904_n.png.jpg?_nc_cat=108&efg=eyJxZV9ncm91cHMiOlsibm9fc2FmZV9pbWFnZV9mb...

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Frisco Station 'lifestyle hotel campus' billed as first of its kind is set for summer opening This DMN article says 'summer opening' but some sources are saying that it will be later in the year before all the hotels in 'The Hub' section of Frisco Station open. A combo Residence Inn/AC Hotel, a Can...

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How did Dallas' Oak Lawn community get its start?

https://www.dallasnews.com/life/curious ... vestigates

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D Magazine thinks renderings of the upcoming Rangers ballpark make it look like Minute Maid Park, where the Houston Astros play.

https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2 ... nute-maid/

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Developer says $500 million Allen cricket stadium still on track

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/rea ... till-track

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