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From my earlier post at the top of this page:

Trinity River at Flood stage: 30-50+ feet deep, 1+ miles wide.

Mill Creek Tunnel: 30 foot diameter

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And this popped up on the DMN website within the last hour:

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/ent ... eep-ellum/

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They've been working out of that building for awhile, but keeping a very low profile. I didn't really pay attention to it at the time, but driving by the building today there was a new construction trailer-type building on the parking lot across the street. Looks like they're getting started. https:...

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MC_ScattCat wrote:I don't fully understand why such a huge flood plain was built, but seems like an area ripe for a re-do.

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I remember driving through West Texas in the 1980's and the radio station was running a big contest for a weekend in Dallas.

Q: Why do so many New Mexico high school football players got to Texas Tech?

A: They want to see live in the big city!

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^ Are you sure they weren't talking about flanges?

https://www.reliance-foundry.com/blog/s ... rence#gref

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Mark Hamill orders takeout from this neighborhood eatery in Uber Eats commercial

https://lakewood.advocatemag.com/2021/0 ... lvet-taco/

"In Knox"????

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Tucy wrote:I think you meant to type 151K per year, not 15.

Typo corrected -- Thanks. The daily ridership figures were correct.

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My dude. How often do you minimize or dismiss others due to what part of town they live in? Unless you’re a Cliffie, then congratulations on the new place! Huh? How did my comment in anyway "minimize or dismiss others due to what part of town they live in"? The only thing I "dismisse...

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Remind me again, how many people use the streetcar on a daily basis? NOTE: Typo corrected. 151k, not 15k. The most recent figure I see is 151k/year trips from 2008. Source: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2018/04/25/get-your-wallets-out-bishop-arts-streetcar-will-no-longer-be-free/ At 365 days per ...

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^ Certainly can't have profitable, taxpaying businesses that service the people who actually live there, can we?

Ask yourself this: How many people a day use that boondoggle streetcar, and how many use that CVS and gas station?

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But energy is being exerted by the buses already regardless if people right them or not. More people riding buses that already exist and are already circulating would mean energy savings, right? I understand that buses only start to make sense after a certain number of people are riding it, but wha...

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A car expends 5,465 Btu per vehicle-mile. Four cars expend 21,860 Btu. A bus expends 16,509 Btu. Does that mean that a bus expends less energy than four cars? Am I understanding the data correctly? Using the table above, on a per vehicle mile basis a bus uses about as much energy as seven cars (39,...

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I really would like to see DART emphasize how much 'greener' and environmentally friendlier it is to take the bus. Except they're not. In the real world, unless a bus is packed (rare around here) private cars use less energy per passenger mile. BTU per passenger mile, from U.S. DOT: https://i.stack...

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rono3849 wrote:I still don't understand why an entire side of the tower is all concrete.

I'm not familiar with the parcel. Is that side built up against a property line, as opposed to a street? If so it's likely a fire code issue.

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That really surprises me. I wonder what Dallas is lacking that other markets or not? Do you have any insight as to how they determine this? As far as I can tell, nobody has really attempted to build a new condo development in Dallas in quite sometime (at least not the type we are referring to). I r...

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So you want to route traffic going from Woodall Rodgers to East Dallas and Deep Ellum along a winding path of downtown streets through downtown and the Arts District? You really want to dump all that thru traffic onto downtown streets? Actually, I've taken that route more than a few times. And it su...

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This will be the last year I get to see the tower fireworks from home. Next week the new East Quarter tower will block the dome.

The walls of the fishbowl are closing in.

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Plano receives 16,000 feet of additional rail for DART Silver Line construction Sixteen thousand feet of rail — 200 sections, each one 80 feet long — recently arrived in Plano for DART’s Silver. The rails were delivered Dec. 18 on a special train from Steel Dynamics of Indiana to an area east of Sh...

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What solutions have the tear down proponents offered other than "everything will just work out"?

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Two injured in DART derailment in downtown Dallas "According to a DART spokesman, a northbound Orange line train made contact with a southbound Green line train around 1:15 p.m. at St. Paul Station." https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2020/12/19/two-injured-in-dart-derailment-in-downtown-dal...

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^ Amen.

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^ $3.3 billion and ten years to complete.

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Tucy wrote:Nov 2020

Zero sold.

112 sold in 8 years. (1.17 per month) 1 remaining

It's time to put that one unit up for auction and be done with it.

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Austin55 wrote:Surprising they'd choose Houston over Dallas or Austin.

The Houston area is already their largest employment center, even ahead of Palo Alto. I suspect this dates back to their purchase of Compaq around 20 years ago.

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I agree that keeping the budget in the black is crucial. But watch the politicians yell and scream how the sky is falling and they need more money when so far things aren't that bad. From https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2020/11/sales-tax-revenue-in-dallas-has-dropped-less-than-a-percentage-poi...

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Build a tunnel similar to the $200 million Mill Creek project to allow the rapid movement of overfill beyond the levee zone, a nice string of wetland cells from Joppa to Wilmer to Ennis and beyond equivalent to an medium reservoir like Grapevine lake or even larger. Sequester the vernal flood in th...

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https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2018/11/26/dallas-landmark-masonic-temple-is-the-newest-downtown-office-address/ https://dallascityhall.com/departments/sustainabledevelopment/historicpreservation/Pages/federal_reserve_bank.aspx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_Petroleum_Building h...

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"This idea morphed into a two-step setup where water is pumped from the Trinity into a set of totes and these totes are used to irrigate the garden totes. Great." At the risk of being Debbie Downer, I wonder about the legality of that. Water rights can be very valuable in this state. I rec...

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Looks like a restaurant space may go in at 2820 Commerce late next year after renovations, potentially called EllumEx. https://www.tdlr.texas.gov/TABS/Search/Project/TABS2021004185 I believe that's the old Bay Leaf space. One of my two favorite restaurants in DE twenty years ago. In the unlikely ev...

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electricron wrote:Number of polls in Dallas = more than 456

Just FYI, I think that's the number for Dallas County, not the city. Obviously a lot of the county is not in the city, and the city extends into five counties (which I believe is the most in the U.S.).

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Apparently someone read the comment I posted to the article. Because now... Editor’s note: This story has been edited to include a visual comparison between Atlanta’s day-of polling locations and San Francisco’s, and remove a comparison of Dallas’s and San Francisco’s. An earlier version of this sto...

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TNWE wrote:San Francisco has 4 times the population of Dallas, but only 60% of land area.

Huh? SF population = 883k. Dallas = 1.345M.

The big problem is that the map for Dallas only shows the early voting locations. There were a lot more open on election day.

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^ Very few in-town developments are built on empty lots. Older complexes are torn town to build the new ones. This development is, of course, a perfect example.

If you drive through East Dallas you see a lot of old rental properties being torn down to build new condos and townhomes.

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eburress wrote:Indeed! Has there been mention of how many positions would be relocated from LA?

They're saying they won't be moving a significant number of jobs from LA, but new positions will be created over time. The CEO already has a house here and has been commuting between the offices.

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Yeah, you'd assume adding supply would decrease cost. The thing is with as many proposed residential projects as there are, there are far more people moving to Dallas (around 300+ per day) so the demand may still be rising faster than all the new projects. That's 300+ people a day moving to DFW. Th...

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Dallas is 2020’s top commercial real estate market https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2020/10/22/dallas-is-2020s-top-commercial-real-estate-market/ Even with the pandemic, Dallas is leading the country in commercial real estate deals. North Texas topped much larger markets — including ...

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I'd like to see commodities like oil, natural gas, electricity, cotton, soybeans, wheat, beef, pork traded in Dallas. Everything's electronic now. The old trading floors remain only for show and nostalgia. The biggest strike against DFW in this is that we're about 1370 miles from NYC. That's around...

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Honestly, I have always thought that what was attracting people to the new residential in DE was proximity and walkability to the bars and restaurants. That attracts a lot of people to live here. But relatively few people who live here work here, and few people who work here live here. It's a high-...

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mdg109 wrote:Drove by Deep Ellum last night, and looks like Punch Bowl Social is open again.

Re-opened a couple weeks back. I walk by it frequently, and have seen almost zero customers in it.

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Which leads to a question for anyone who can answer the Deep Ellum Foundation what do they do and does that org allow membership from just residents or is it just property owners. The DEF board is dominated by the large property owners like Westdale, 42 and Madison. https://www.deepellum-foundation...

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Commuter traffic isn't really an issue. Most of it already uses Canton, Live Oak and Gaston. And the "tourists" from the suburbs can fend for themselves. For them, going to Deep Ellum is an experience like going to a ball game or Six Flags -- you wait in line for 20 minutes to pay $10 to p...

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This thread reminds me of 2008, when the city spent $375,000 in bond money to re-do the curbs and sidewalks along Good-Latimer north of Elm Street -- six months before DART tore everything out to build the Green Line.

I think the bonds will be paid off around 2033.

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The updated plans for the city's efforts to devastate Deep Ellum by converting Elm and Commerce to two-way operation: https://dallastxgov-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/andrew_velasquez_dallascityhall_com/EVrK0s8lyhJNsodyrDtSXPABZUh48ONc3bHnNuzKE70GHw?e=iwxPjh I know most of the folks here think t...

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Topped off. Also, it appears that they're only putting the fake brickwork on two or three sides of the parking garage. The south side is plain old concrete. Another FU to the neighborhood. Can't tell yet what their going to do with the west side, but I'm not optimistic since they haven't shown any d...

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Gee. What a surprise.

Uber is looking for tenants to fill its offices in Dallas’ Deep Ellum

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/rea ... eep-ellum/

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If that is a logical thought process, then was it really a good idea to buy a jet from a bankrupt Russia airline and turn it into Airforce One?

Not quite accurate. The aircraft (two of them) were built for Transaero, but never delivered. They're being purchased from Boeing, not Transaero.

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Dallas firm targets Deep Ellum building for its second redo

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/rea ... cond-redo/

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^ LOL

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^ The current residents be damned?

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