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Here you go. I'm trying to find a picture of that building before the original façade was scrapped off and replaced with glass... That's a nice view! On a somewhat related note, with the rest of the EQ getting spruced up, I wonder if we'll ever see Salazar Center remove the ugly glass skin which was...

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Trust me the Salazar building has been gaining value real quick since Uber/Deep Ellum exploded and now the East Quarter. I imagine its just waiting on the right buyer and I am sure the price has gone up. I doubt too much will be done to the glass exterior but I imagine some work could be done to th...

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KDC's webcam for the new Uber tower also has a good view of the Loco Meletio site and the East Quarter neighborhood: https://app.oxblue.com/open/kdc/EpicII https://i.postimg.cc/CMcBVVw6/Capture.jpg If only someone could slap some brick on that giant black glass Salazar building. It stands out sooo ...

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This is the wall I was referencing btw. Its giant and gray. Perfect for a mural, window cutouts aside. Being that it faces an alley, I understand why they wouldnt put money in it. But it is so visible from miles away. They'd be better served to making use of that space advertising, a cool mural. Peo...

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Park Lane the shopping complex completely ignores Park Lane the DART station. There was no attempt at all to make the train be a convenient option to go there. CityLine at least somewhat tries to integrate its DART station into its streetscape and built environment. Neither one is transit-oriented ...

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^ I visited the area one week day evening and while it has everything you would expect to make things a bigger success; a grocery store lots of walkable sidewalks, plenty of office workers, decent restaurants with customers, hotels and a nearby walking trail it still seems so lifeless. Like it seem...

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There are plans to place a mural ah i see. well that's great! But i meant the wall opposite to the faux windows. the other long side of the building. It is completely blank It would have made sense to continue the brick work to that side as well. Although i understand given that it is basically an ...

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Yeah, I have to agree. Why not just put up the fake brickwork on all sides? I think there are plans to build condos adjacent to the Adam Hat factory and that development will face a concrete wall. Not a great view at all, IMO. Maybe they can authorize a mural? Idk. Either way a blank wall is ripe f...

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But will there be LEDs? That's the key here. It better have LED's we're leaving in the future here. :mrgreen: Given all the greenery they expect to have. IT would even be advantageous to incorporate them. I know some of the greenhouses around DFW have LED growlights that give this interesting purpl...

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So far, DART has retained bus access to the remaining (JCPenney) part of Collin Creek. The #870 goes out/back from the Downtown Plano station, to Collin Creek westbound, and neighborhoods along 14th, 18th, and Shiloh eastbound. So there is still connection there, but it will interesting to see how ...

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A makeover for the ugliest building in Dallas The latest reason for concern is the selection, announced Thursday, of the architecture firms Weiss/Manfredi and Malone Maxwell Dennehy for the remaking of the decommissioned Jesse R. Dawson State Jail. New York-based Weiss/Manfredi will be the lead des...

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Urbandreamer wrote:https://kluv.radio.com/blogs/sybil/the-leaning-tower-of-dallas-former-site-becomes-a-theater

Opening in 10 days!

How dare they desecrate our holy land.

RIP Leaning tower of Dallas

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dfwcre8tive wrote:
They just updated the existing Jos A Bank sign with the new tenant name.

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That building is just dripping with Art Deco. Its good that they have a new tenant.

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Update on Plano Collin Creek Mall Incase you haven’t seen it. http://planomagazine.com/collin-creek-redevelopment-one-year-into-the-project/ Thanks! Hopefully it is succesful. Even if it isnt next to a rail, hopefully they have a bus shuttle to the nearby GWB train station. Or bike lines or somethi...

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drove by yesterday after work and they put up the new pegasus city brewery sign.. looks really good and was lit up nicely. Commerce street really improving with all of this and will only get better with hawthorn and pegasus city opening soon. Wow, gorgeous. Reminds me of old theatre row down elm st...

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Posted this on deep ellum forum, but fits here too. Another one bites the dust. Dallas Comedy House Closing After 11 Years of Shows, Festivals and Laughs A Dallas comedy institution just announced it will be closing its red doors for the last time. Amanda Austin, the owner and founder of The Dallas ...

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Another one bites the dust. Dallas Comedy House Closing After 11 Years of Shows, Festivals and Laughs A Dallas comedy institution just announced it will be closing its red doors for the last time. Amanda Austin, the owner and founder of The Dallas Comedy House (DCH) in Deep Ellum, announced on her F...

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I wish downtown dallas had a vision similar to this of seattle for the decade. https://youtu.be/mxc-J1oqhsQ Their renderings need more homeless people. :D Jk. We have alot going for us here too, but we can't seem to get out of our own way. The Trinity river park or whatever its called now, should h...

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They def need to light up the Republic again. The Sheraton would be nice too. Found both of these in one oldie. If i'm correct. They should definitely light up the republic tower again. The sheraton if properly done with LED's would give major blade runner vibes. https://flashbackdallas.com/2018/10...

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It's freaking awful. So bright. All night long. Don’t really think it’s bright at all. Here’s a suggestion; maybe spend some money on curtains... blackout curtains might be your best option if you think it’s bright lol beautiful is more like it .... Thanks, I hadn't even thought of any practical so...

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The website is the plan. You probably were looking at the correct thing. http://www.planotomorrow.org/150/Land-Use-Community-Design Here are some maps: http://www.planotomorrow.org/229/Maps-of-Plano-Tomorrow Thanks! I guess I expected something different. Most plans are one PDF. As it is, its a ser...

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I'm not at all a NIMBY, but this plan was total nonsense, and I'm surprised citizens or the city fought it that long. Plano was not in any way 'planned', this 'plan' did not change that, and though the P&Z fought hard for the 'plan', they don't even follow it. Plano is arbitrarily spot zoned (i...

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This area really turned out nice! Good work, AT&T. (Although, I did drop you for T-Mobile) http://www.samclarkjr.com/images/discovery_01.jpg Unfortunately, Golden Boy was under a shroud. Wow looks great. Imagine if we had this during the superbowl. Would have made for a good equivalent to Sunda...

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I dont mind the color of the new glass (it is more efficient!!) just wish they exposed the concrete beams. so the overall design of the building made more sense, and didnt looks like a standard rectangle box. IF they wanted to, they could even paint the concrete a different color so it would look mo...

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Yuck. I don't like the "refresh." It looks outdated. The original design is sleek and cool. Just clean it up and replace materials, but don't change the original architectural vision. The original architectural vision was already destroyed decades ago in the previous refresh which left it...

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Congratulations guys. we did it! :? The State Fair of Texas is officially canceled The State Fair of Texas, which has been canceled only eight times during its 134 years, and even then primarily because of two world wars, will not take place during 2020, fair officials announced Tuesday. https://www...

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Nice catch!
Its for the homeless? Austin has a similar thing going on. Called Community First! run by Mobile Loaves and Fish. Hopefully it works out well for the area.

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Not to mention that whatever they build is highly visible from arguably the most visited pedestrian spot in Dallas. Their old tower made a statement. This one needs some work.

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The whole reason the Boring Co.'s tunnels are cheaper is the fact that they don't have to be designed to accommodate specialized electrical equipment or meet the relatively more precise tolerances for rail. Battery-powered rubber-tired vehicles don't need much besides the tunnel bore and a reasonab...

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Phase one plans will turn the historic 1940s Dallas Morning News building, designed by architect George Dahl, into a 130-room boutique hotel with 250 apartments on top, a 2,000-2,500-seat concert facility in the former press room, and 12-15 bars and restaurants along the street. Washburne hopes to ...

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D Magazine tells us that the Citymap study says that if we do nothing with I-345, congestion increases by 272,500 hours but that if we tear down I-345 congestion magically only increases 163,000 hours. As they petulantly tell us, perhaps they should "have a look" at the study. Their repor...

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Southern Dallas residents need I-345. Why is a wealthy consortium trying to tear it down? https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/2020/05/29/southern-dallas-residents-need-i-345-why-is-a-wealthy-consortium-trying-to-tear-it-down/ Didnt know that Dmagazine CEO was the one who founded the group...

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Was it phase 2 of carpenter park that they were voting for? or all of it? Because It doesnt make sense why TxDOT needs to be involved since only phase 2 is under the highway.

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Hopefully during the delay, they reconsider this building. The way it is designed relative to its placement is obstructive IMO. if they were going to put anything that big anywhere, it should have been at the opposite end of the park near the opera house. Ideally it should have been part of one of t...

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Uh oh. Looks like they still plan on finishing the building though. So at least there's that. :D Uber wants two-year extension from Dallas on its Deep Ellum incentives Uber Technologies is asking Dallas for a two-year extension on economic incentives approved for the tech giant’s planned corporate h...

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So the basketball and skate park will be in a later phase ? Looks like it. According to the article: its a small triangular portion underneath the highway, its in the first picture, upper right. Should phase two of the park’s expansion be approved by the city in the coming years, the park will expa...

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Hadn't seen this update elsewhere. Figured itd fit here. First Look: The Redesign of Downtown Dallas’ Carpenter Park ...A new green space in Dallas’ urban core is expected to spark more development in Deep Ellum, a neighborhood that has emerged in recent months as an office, residential, and retail ...

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tamtagon wrote:^Belo mansion should be morphed into a museum of modern art.

Yes!. A retrofit. Like how IM PEI put the louve pyramid amidst the older Louvre buildings.
Or somehow keep the shell of the mansion and build underground.

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Hannibal Lecter wrote:It's been lit up for months.

I guess I've only driven by it during the day and never noticed.
Regardless, the lack of symmetry bugs me. I was hoping theyd light up the other concrete column to.

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Dont know if anyone posted this. But it looks like theyre slapping some LED's on it.

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Punch Bowl Social Closes In these hard COVID-19 times, closures of bars and restaurants around Dallas are coming fast and furious. But this closure has its own sad tale: Punch Bowl Social, the restaurant and game chain that opened in Deep Ellum in June 2019, has shuttered possibly not just on a tem...

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Looks like its starting. Headington Companies Lays Off Hundreds of Employees Across Its Dallas Operations In shuttering more than a dozen concepts, billionaire Tim Headington’s company reduces its staff, from fitness instructors at Vital to bartenders at Midnight Rambler. https://www.dmagazine.com/f...

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Wouldn’t it be cool if somehow the developer could incorporate this Learning Tower of Dallas Into it’s development. Well it would draw more tourists to it and mean more business. LOL That would be ideal, an intentional leaning tower incorporate into the design. Great tourist attraction. Would it be...

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THRILLHO wrote:
Tnexster wrote:Once one of these things is operational, people will be like....we need more of these. Planes suck!

This is the dream. I want to take these everywhere!
That might put buc-ee's out of business though.

This might motivate Buc-ee's build them right next to the stations!!!

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DMN Buries the Lead on Uber’s Hiring Failures Last fall, on the heels of the announcement, Uber projected it would have 400 people in Dallas by the start of 2020. It has about 150. Rest assured that a spokesperson says this has nothing to do with finances. https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2020...

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The burbs here aren't "cheap" when compared to land in the south /West Texas. The Giga Factory is huge keep in mind. Perhaps, it could work in South Dallas or Southern Dallas County... Secondly, Elon is interested in Space Exploration and lowering cost for cars. A factory near a border to...

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It'll be in West or south Texas. Definitely won't be in a large metro. Any insight behind this statement? My observation is that theyve learned their lesson from the first Giga factory. Its harder to hire people, low housing availability, overwhelms infrastructure. https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth...

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the original article says 150-300K feet. I know the Stack is at 200K feet, anyone else know what other properties are within this scope? Given how tech companies like to agglomerate, it wouldnt be surprising if they picked Deep Ellum. That being said, a few "hundred" workers doesnt seem li...

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Oh boy. Here we go again. https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/is-amazon-pursuing-an-office-in-dfw-that-could-employ-hundreds/287-805800c8-022e-4073-8d59-d73dafcf29b3?fbclid=IwAR2NCDdytZi5Um4PraEwLHUweo0b5ld87Amp8HXpUuO-kxcAOJr5XerAmU4 According to sources familiar with the matter, the online ret...

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I still think DART's big mistake was not making the GoPass Tap cards a touch on/touch off system and going to zone-based fares (since, as many here have noted, the rail system is effectively Commuter Rail running LRT stock). The app is good and all, but basically everyone who uses it just keeps an ...

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