Dallas Fort Worth Urban Forum

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From articles I've read (nothing official), I think they're essentially just extending the design of that southern portion of Cesar Chavez northward.

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The Wall Street Journal names Dallas its #1 pick. http://www.wsj.com/graphics/amazon-headquarters/ I bet that's a cool article but unfortunately I'm not a WSJ subscriber. Subscribers: you don't have to post the full article here, but it'd be a lot cooler if you did. :) Oops, sorry! Here's a twitter...

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The Wall Street Journal names Dallas its #1 pick.

http://www.wsj.com/graphics/amazon-headquarters/

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And by the way you did agree at one point with me about the differences in the scenarios... And by the way, I'm not saying that anyone is trying to pull a fast one. What I'm saying is that for each option to have basically the same traffic impact, per the report: **Modify - you remove some ramps fo...

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TxDOT and HNTB/Kimley-Horn's traffic engineers, for instance, found a limited overall increase in congestion, if you rebuild the entire Dallas freeway system around it, compared to sinking it below grade and doing virtually nothing else, in their preliminary study" Fixed it for you. Ugh, I'm j...

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TxDOT and HNTB/Kimley-Horn's traffic engineers, for instance, found a limited overall increase in congestion compared to sinking it below grade in their preliminary study. This is the statement we went round and round for 2 pages about. I completely disagree with this statement. Its apples to orang...

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There's more height with this but less density. How do you figure? It's about 5x as dense (120k sf vs 600k sf). Agree that the street level interaction is much much worse, though. That needs to be reconceptualized. I probably don't have the vocabulary to adequately say what I'm trying to say. Maybe...

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eburress wrote: There's more height with this but less density.

How do you figure? It's about 5x as dense (120k sf vs 600k sf). Agree that the street level interaction is much much worse, though. That needs to be reconceptualized.

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Tnexster wrote:
Tivo_Kenevil wrote:Heritage village is under appreciated

True, I have lived here for 27 years and have never been.

I appreciate you, Tnexster. Which cabin are you in?

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Real talk, though, it's sad how tall of buildings we get built and it still isn't really that dense because so much is taken up by parking. A 33 story building ultimately being just 6.3 FAR because most of the lot is a parking garage is lol-sad. Places like Skyhouse and M+O are just 4.0, i.e. the sa...

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This building just seems odd with that lot next to it being so low density. The low density gives this tower such great views... perfect for sales, weird for city planning. It's not a "city planning" thing, really. The Bleu Ciel lot is allowed 6.5 FAR, the same as what allowed immediately...

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I would bet that a decent part of it is their strong development restrictions. They have little construction, which leads to high land and housing prices, and then strict zoning compared to that demand, which leads to those very high prices being in expressed in a relatively small structure. So it m...

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A road like this would be acceptable for an I-345 teardown because of the whole regional transportation bit, but Cesar Chavez doesn't play that role. The con man leading the I-345 fight and his idiot followers try to justify the removal economically by saying the ROW would be used for billions of d...

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Okay then, what is an abject failure? Park Cities are the epitome of white flight, does that tarnish the abject success of the neighborhood? Of course, but it's not on a dollars and cents spreadsheet. I guess the Texas Rangers are also failure since they've never won the World Series? not abject si...

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Hate to burst your bubble but, WHAT IS THE MUSEUM’S ANNUAL ATTENDANCE? More than 385,000 people visit The Sixth Floor Museum on average every year. Why can't you answer my question. Define visitor - another city, state, country. Shopping is ALWAYS one of the top visitor attractions of any big city....

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This is false. There are a ton of people advocating this. Maybe not your group, but the old 50 page thread I'd say nearly half of them advocated "lets close the road and see what happens," or "just tear it down, people will figure it out/reroute." Ok, well not doing traffic impa...

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Since only 3.5% of Dallasites bothered to vote in the $1.05 billion bond election, maybe it's no surprise that there isn't a post on here about it. Still! It's a notable thing, particularly Prop A, which passed with around 80% of the vote. Most excitingly, it's funded the Complete Streets project on...

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This is a win for those of us that argue that you can't just remove I-345 without understanding the ramifications to the rest of the street/freeway system. Also that you can't remove I-345 without major upgrades to the rest of the street/freeway system, in advance of tear-down. Literally no one thi...

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If I remember Angela Hunt fought to make sure the project included pedestrian design elements including crosswalks that actually work. You can only fight against the car driven model so much at once. She was also still fighting the good fight on multiple other projects including things like the Moc...

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Not very pedestrian friendly, but, then again, this area is pretty much right up against I-345 anyway, and wasn't pedestrian friendly to begin with. Maybe the silver lining is, is that it might encourage some dense development between Cesar Chavez and I-345. I think this sliver of land won't be ped...

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words It was more of an existential why than a literal one. It's cute that they're including benches on the seven-lane road. The wider sidewalks are nice, if width is a given. But it would have been nicer to just make the existing four-lane road into a two-way street and not add the additional thre...

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I always think those townhomes would be really nice places to live.. except that you'd be living on a seven-lane highway. Thanks but no thanks. And now we want to extend it?

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Wait why are we widening Cesar Chavez. What fresh hell is this?

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I've also read that TxDOT has gone as far as to propose a twenty year plan of completely rerouting the 30 corridor away from Downtown, which would connect the Cedars back to the CBD. If they follow through with that plan, 45 would T near the Trinity River. I wouldn't call it a plan. They included i...

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That mess from Cesar Chavez to St Paul is precisely why this needs to be done. Doesn't TxDOT have a plan for this corridor that already involves reworking these ramps? I'm not talking about the full relocation plan either... I don't think that current configuration is long for this world. Ahhh durr...

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So basically it's too wide to deck? I have seen that there are a lot of weird on-ramps, but, potentially those could be reconfigured to make this more feasible? But you're right, this is a pretty ugly stretch of highway, and this project would be much harder than KWP. I guess my original point was ...

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Mm as far as I know, there hasn't been any money put towards an extension yet, I don't think? There was a request to NCTCOG earlier this year for $1mil for a study, but I don't know what the status of that is.

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^Good post I'd say a major way CA got to that innovative frontier has been investment in higher education. If you look at the Times Higher Ed World Uni Rankings (a ranking that is much more research and citation based, rather than prestige a la US News), CA has all of these public unis in the top 10...

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Decking over I-30 in downtown isn't really feasible for most of it, except for perhaps between Akard and Ervay. Even that stretch would be quite a bit trickier (and wider) than places that are typically considered ripe for decking, such as KWP (see before pic below) or the one being planned for the ...

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Right now they're using the money to support the Knox Complete Streets project. The MATA extension would be the next logical project (assuming they re-up the district this year). The PID gets $300k a year for a quite small area.

http://www.dallasecodev.org/429/Knox-Street-PID

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Many of those companies are now relocating to Texas because of the regulatory constraints. Just because they favor a few big businesses does not mean they are business friendly. Just look at Toyota relocating from California to Texas, the massive growth of tech industry in Texas that has seen sever...

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It's funny to me when I head California described as not "business-friendly." Somehow 3 of the 4 largest companies in the world managed to be born there, 2 of which in the last 20 years. Source for this? (According to Forbes' list of the largest public companies in the world, California h...

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Tivo_Kenevil wrote: Study names New York No. 1 contender for Amazon HQ2, with San Francisco and Seattle close behind My point of view from San Francisco: No Thanks. We are over capacity in all aspects already. Move along! https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4464/37131770814_51d7e7f45a_h.jpg Don't worry,...

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It's funny to me when I head California described as not "business-friendly." Somehow 3 of the 4 largest companies in the world managed to be born there, 2 of which in the last 20 years. Plus, developing the center of innovation that presumably drives future growth. Sounds pretty business-...

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It’s all about timing with developments. This site is being developed to generate revenue. When the time is right, it will be prime for a higher and better use. A big mixed-use for this neighborhood doesn’t seem imminent. Right off of Northwest Highway, a mile from 75 and a mile from White Rock... ...

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Yeah, I figured as much. I'm just wondering even if we take out cost as a factor, if this is even feasible. Most things are possible if you take out cost as a factor (we put a man on the moon, remember). It's just the cost/benefit is so far out of whack for a tunnel that it's not within the reasona...

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Ugh.

Also, their target retailers are Ross and Marshall's? Lol. That's what you're building a brand-new development to house?

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Is tunneling an option seeing as how the D2 will be passing underneath I-345? I believe all alignments have the D2 coming above ground right where I-345 is, so I'm curious to know if tunneling is still an option with this in mind. Tunneling is not being considered because it would be exorbitantly e...

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dfwtransplant189 wrote:for FREE.

Well, not exactly free. You're just not paying for it at the margin.

The High Cost of Free Parking, and all that.

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The whole time I was thinking more the residential/commercial area on the north side of the station. Aka the land between Harry Hines and Maple. Which has slowly started to see some land buy-ups. I wonder if they will end up replacing those single family homes with the same 5-6 story apartment bloc...

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For whatever it's worth, I have also lived in both Seattle and Boston and used transit to commute. While their systems are unequivocally better than Dallas', it's still no piece of cake to commute in or out from the suburbs. Their systems are very much focused on getting around the core. This is tr...

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Not every property owner will want to spend more money on their buildings to turn it into a mixed zoning building. And governments shouldn’t force them into spending more money to do so. What government should do is allow landowners the ability to do so if they wish and the surrounding neighbors do...

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I am glad to know that my coming of age period coincided with a cultural phenomenon ("Hipsters") so powerful that its ghost apparently will live on for years after it has ceased to be a thing, kind of like "Hippies".

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It’s easy to propose redeveloping a low density neighborhood into a high density neighborhood when you don’t live there. It’s not so easy on the citizens living there. There will be some who can’t afford to move away from the home they own and move into a new home, there will be some who will refus...

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That said, I'm glad they're making the case for Dallas in here:

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The Bay Area's submission has been posted: http://documents.bayareacouncil.org/amazonbid.pdf

The utter banality and expansiveness of this document makes me think that they're not going to read a single one.

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Of course more than just DFW schools feed graduates to DFW. The same is true for Atlanta, which is the capital of the South. It's even more true to a ridiculous extent once we're talking Philly, which is an hour train ride to NYC and Baltimore, and an hour and a half to DC. That is a truly massive t...

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That said, Dallas does not have the kind of top tier universities that attract the kind of world class talent Amazon wants. And what top tier University does Amazon have at it's current HQ location? .. The University of Washington?..That's not exactly Harvard either. Do you really think a company l...

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And don't get me wrong, I've spent the better part of 2 full days reading CityMap, it is super interesting stuff. Just don't think it gets you across the finish line to make a tear-down/trench decision. I'm a road geek obviously, so giving me 450 pages of road geekiness is 100% great with me. It do...

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Although you obviously disagree, I've already shot the dang Citymap thing full of holes, from the nebulous $100-499M number that obviously doesn't include $600 Million for I-30/Project Pegasus/The Canyon. Which by the way is a completely different project from the graphic you keep posting which is ...

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